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noun
Performance of oral sex upon the penis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: blowjob, cocksucking, French, gobby, hummer, head, nosh, penilingus, neck, brain, Kirk, dome, mouth music
Antonyms: none provided
noun
oral stimulation of the penis
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: fellation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: oral sex, head
Narrower terms: cock sucking, blowjob
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dheh1(y)- Latin fellō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fellātiōlbor. English fellatio Learned borrowing from Latin fellātiō, from fellātus, perfect participle of fellō (“to suck, to fellate”). The word started to appear in medical literature in the 19th century but it was still treated as Latin. In 1919, the California Supreme Court struck down a law criminalizing fellatio because the state constitution required laws to be written in English. By the late 20th century, fellatio was treated as an English word.
Across languages
59 source translations are retained for this English entry.
