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1721 Etymology dictionary, p. naughty (adj.).3
… meaning "sexually promiscuous" is from 1869. The mitigated sense of "disobedient, bad in conduct or speech, improper, mischievous" (especially of the delinquencies …
1722 Etymology dictionary, p. navel (n.).3
… feminine sexual center since ancient times, and still in parts of the Middle East, India, and Japan. In medieval Europe, it was averred that "[t]he seat of wantonness …
1723 Etymology dictionary, p. neck (v.).2
… fondle sexually," from hals (n.) "neck." Earlier, neck as a verb meant "to kill by a strike on the neck" (mid-15c.). Related: Necked .
1724 Etymology dictionary, p. need (n.).5
… meaning "sexual intercourse"); niedling "slave."
1725 Etymology dictionary, p. nephridium (n.).2
(plural nephridia ), "sexual or renal organ of mollusks," 1848, Modern Latin, from Greek diminutive of nephros "kidney" (see nephro- ).
1726 Etymology dictionary, p. non-access (n.).2
… for sexual intercourse," as when a husband is out of the country in military service or at sea longer than the time of gestation of a child. "[W]hen a husband could …
1727 Etymology dictionary, p. nookie (n.).2
… nooky, "sexual activity," slang, generally used by men, by 1928, perhaps from Dutch neuken "to copulate with," but it is not impossible to connect it to nook (n.) on the …
1728 Etymology dictionary, p. nubile (adj.).2
… and sexually attractive" (of women) is by 1973. Related: Nubility .
1729 Etymology dictionary, p. nymphette (n.).2
… , nymphete, "sexually attractive young girl," 1955, introduced by Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) in his novel "Lolita" to describe an alluring (in the minds of some …
1730 Etymology dictionary, p. nymphomania (n.).2
… uncontrollable sexual desire in women," 1775, in English translation of "Nymphomania, or a Dissertation Concerning the Furor Uterinus" (1771) by French doctor …
1731 Etymology dictionary, p. occupy (v.).3
… "have sexual intercourse with" (a sense attested from early 15c.), which caused it to fall from polite usage.
1732 Etymology dictionary, p. omnisexual (adj.).2
"pansexual; sexually, romantically, or emotionally attracted to people regardless of their sex or gender," by 1959, from omni- "all, every" + sexual. Earliest application is to Walt Whitman.
1733 Etymology dictionary, p. one (pron., num.).5
… in sexual sense. One of the boys "ordinary amiable fellow" is from 1893. One-track mind "mind capable of only one line of thought or action" is by 1915. Drinking expression …
1734 Etymology dictionary, p. oomph (n.).2
"sexual attractiveness," 1937 ( umph ), suggestive visceral physical sound. Ann Sheridan (1915—1967) was the original Hollywood oomph girl (1939).
1735 Etymology dictionary, p. oral (adj.).4
… infantile sexual energy" (as in oral fixation ) is attested from 1910. The sex-act sense is first recorded 1948, in Kinsey. As a noun, "oral examination," attested …
1736 Etymology dictionary, p. orgasm (v.).2
1973, originally and usually in reference to a woman's sexual climax, from orgasm (n.). Related: Orgasmed; orgasming .
1737 Etymology dictionary, p. orgasm (n.).2
1680s, "sexual climax, the acme of venereal excitement," from French orgasme or Modern Latin orgasmus, from Greek orgasmos "excitement, swelling," from organ …
1738 Etymology dictionary, p. orgasmic (adj.).2
1935, "of or pertaining to sexual orgasm," from orgasm (n.) + -ic. Orgastic "characterized by or exhibiting orgasm" is attested by 1834.
1739 Etymology dictionary, p. overlie (v.).2
… have sexual intercourse" (c. 1400). "In use from 12th to 16th c.; in 17-18th displaced by overlay; reintroduced in 19th c., chiefly in geological use" [OED] in reference …
1740 Etymology dictionary, p. oversexed (adj.).2
also over-sexed, "inordinately desirous of sex; having sexual properties or tendencies in an excessive degree," 1898; see over- + sex (n.).