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1621 Etymology dictionary, p. fox (n.).4
… , for sexual intercourse without irritation, "the extremest end of a foxes tail hung upon the arm." Rubbing a fox's testicles on warts was supposed a means to …
1622 Etymology dictionary, p. free (adj.).5
… love "sexual liberation" attested from 1822 (the doctrine itself is much older), American English. Free and easy "unrestrained" is from 1690s.
1623 Etymology dictionary, p. French (adj.).3
… and sexual sophistication, a sense first recorded 1749 in the phrase French novel. (In late 19c.-early 20c., a French kiss was a kiss on each cheek.) French-Canadian …
1624 Etymology dictionary, p. french (v.).2
"perform oral sex on," c. 1917, from French (adj.), reflecting Anglo-Saxon equation of Gallic culture and sexual sophistication. Related: Frenched; frenching .
1625 Etymology dictionary, p. Freya.2
goddess of sexual love and beauty in Norse mythology, from Old Norse Freyja, which is related to Old English frea "lord;" Old Saxon frua, Middle Dutch vrouwe "woman, wife," German Frau; see frau ).
1626 Etymology dictionary, p. frigid (adj.).2
… in sexual heat" is attested from 1650s, originally of males. Related: Frigidly; frigidness .
1627 Etymology dictionary, p. frigidity (n.).2
… to sexual impotence, 1580s, originally of men; by 1903 of women.
1628 Etymology dictionary, p. frottage (n.).2
… a sexual perversion, from French frottage "rubbing, friction," from frotter "to rub," from Old French froter "to rub, wipe; beat, thrash" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *frictare …
1629 Etymology dictionary, p. fuck (n.).2
… of sexual intercourse," from fuck (v.). From 1874 in coarse slang sense "a woman (considered in sexual terms);" from 1929 as something one doesn't give when one doesn't …
1630 Etymology dictionary, p. fuck (v.).2
… have sexual intercourse with" (transitive), until recently a difficult word to trace in usage, in part because it was omitted as taboo by the editors of the original …
1631 Etymology dictionary, p. fuck (v.).5
… "have sexual intercourse," swive, from Old English swifan "to move lightly over, sweep" (see swivel ). But OED remarks that these "cannot be shown to be related" to the …
1632 Etymology dictionary, p. fuck (v.).6
… the sexual application of violent action" [Shipley; compare the sexual slang use of bang, etc.].
1633 Etymology dictionary, p. gay (adj.).9
As a teen slang word meaning "bad, inferior, undesirable," without reference to sexuality, from 2000.
1634 Etymology dictionary, p. gamer (n.).2
… Game "sexual intercourse" (by 1930s), probably from the first game ever played "copulation"). From 1550s as "a gambler." Gamesman is from 1947.
1635 Etymology dictionary, p. gamete (n.).2
"sexual protoplasmic body," 1880, coined 1878 by German cytologist Eduard Strasburger (1844-1912), the widespread attribution of the word's coinage to Mendel …
1636 Etymology dictionary, p. gang-bang (n.).2
… , "perform sexual intercourse" sense. Earlier was gang-shag (1927). Sense of "participate in a street gang" is by 1968. Related: Gang-banger; gang-banging .
1637 Etymology dictionary, p. generation (n.).3
From late 14c. as "act or process of procreation; process of being formed; state of being procreated; reproduction; sexual intercourse;" also "that which is produced, fruit, crop; children; descendants, offspring of the same parent."
1638 Etymology dictionary, p. genital (adj.).2
… to (sexual) reproduction," in membres genytal "the genitals," from Latin genitalis "pertaining to generation or birth; fruitful" (also a by-name of the goddess Diana …
1639 Etymology dictionary, p. genitals (n.).2
"reproductive organs," especially the external sexual organs, late 14c., from genital (adj.). Compare genitalia .
1640 Etymology dictionary, p. get off (v.).2
"escape," c. 1600, from get (v.) + off (adv.). Sexual sense attested by 1973.