Copulate

  • 91cooter — name for some types of freshwater terrapin in southern U.S., 1835 (first attested 1827 in phrase drunk as a cooter, but this probably is a colloquial form of unrelated COOT (Cf. coot)), from obsolete verb coot to copulate (1660s), of unknown… …

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  • 92copula — linking verb, 1640s, from L. copula that which binds, rope, band, bond (see COPULATE (Cf. copulate)) …

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  • 93copulation — late 14c., coupling, from M.Fr. copulation mating, copulation (14c.), from L. copulationem (nom. copulatio), noun of action from copulat , pp. stem of copulare (see COPULATE (Cf. copulate)). Of the sex act from late 15c., and this became the main …

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  • 94board —    (of a male)    to copulate with    Usually outside marriage, and using naval imagery:     I am sure he is in the fleet. I would he had boarded me. (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing)    and in later use:     I tried to board her at Kiva, but …

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  • 95couple —    1. (with)    to copulate with    The standard meanings are to marry of humans and to copulate of animals:     Thou hast coupled this Hindoo slut. (Fraser, 1975, writing in archaic style)     Only ten minutes ago she had been coupling with me… …

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  • 96force yourself on —    to copulate with    The male usually does the forcing. Also as force your ardour or force your attentions on:     You are not the sort of man to force yourself on me against my will. (A. Massie, 1986)    This was the evening when the… …

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  • 97foul desire —    a wish to copulate    Where foul means disgusting it seems that linguistically only males are thus taken:     If foul desire has not conducted you. (Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus)    A man may also have foul designs on a woman who is not his… …

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  • 98free relationship —    licence within a heterosexual partnership to copulate with third parties    There is an implication perhaps that a normal union in which the parties copulate only with each other involves sexual servility:     Our marriage had broken up over… …

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  • 99pluck —    (of a male)    to copulate with    DAS says Rhyming euphem. for the taboo fuck . However, to pluck a rose was to copulate with a female virgin, and the imagery may come from the gathering of a flower …

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  • 100press conjugal rights on —    to copulate with (a reluctant wife)    See conjugal rights:     Some fear that he might have been pressing his conjugal rights could have accounted for it. (Kee, 1993 Parnell was afraid that Katie O Shea, with whom he lived as man and wife and …

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