Description. Douglas Harper compiled the etymology dictionary to record the history and evolution of more than 30,000 words, including slang and technical terms. The core body of its etymology information stems from Ernest Weekley’s An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1921).
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May 15, 2018 · (uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier. 1900, H.G. Wells, Love & Mr. Lewisham, xvii, 144: We marry in fear and trembling, sex for a home is the woman’s traffic, and the man comes to his heart’s desire when his heart’s desire is dead.
Amphiuma Garden, 1821 AMPHIUMAS Gr. amphi on both sides and Gr. pneuma breathe — poss. misassumption that it breathed both air and water OD Amphiuma Garden, 1821 – in Smith’s Correspondence of Linnaeus, Vol. 1, p. 599 (descr. p. 333)
Uranian is a 19th-century term that referred to a person of a third sex—originally, someone with “a female psyche in a male body” who is sexually attracted to men, and later extended to cover homosexual gender variant females, and a …
The Etymology of Slang Sexual Terms. The word horny “sexually excited, lecherous” derives from an interesting yet not surprising source. As early as the mid-18th century, an erection was known as a horn or the horn, simply because it looked a bit like one.
Mar 24, 2018 · English [] Alternative forms []. rock-and-roll, rock’n’roll, rock ‘n’ roll, rock n roll, rock ‘n roll, rock-n-roll, rock-‘n’-roll, rock & roll; Etymology []. From rock (move back and forth) + and + roll; originally a verb phrase common among African Americans, meaning “to have sexual intercourse”; it was a euphemism that appeared in song titles
May 15, 2018 · (uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier. 1900, H.G. Wells, Love & Mr. Lewisham, xvii, 144: We marry in fear and trembling, sex for a home is the woman’s traffic, and the man comes to his heart’s desire when his heart’s desire is dead.
Description. Douglas Harper compiled the etymology dictionary to record the history and evolution of more than 30,000 words, including slang and technical terms. The core body of its etymology information stems from Ernest Weekley’s An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1921).
Uranian is a 19th-century term that referred to a person of a third sex—originally, someone with “a female psyche in a male body” who is sexually attracted to men, and later extended to cover homosexual gender variant females, and a …