poontang
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Etymology
Origin uncertain. Likely from French putain (“prostitute”).[1][2] Compare Jamaican Creole punani (“female genitalia”); also Tagalog putang ina (“contemptible person”, literally “prostitute-mother”) from Spanish puta (“prostitute”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpuːntæŋ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
poontang (countable and uncountable, plural poontangs)
- (US, colloquial, vulgar) Female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
- (US, slang, vulgar, uncountable) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 193:
- That must have been some poontang you got last night.
- (US, slang, vulgar, dated, derogatory, offensive) A woman, especially when discussed from a heavily sexualized, sexist, and misogynist perspective.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:poontang.
Synonyms
- (vulgar: female genitalia): poon, tang, punani, cooch, coochie, clam; See Thesaurus:vagina and Thesaurus:vulva
- (vulgar: sex with a woman): poon, tang, pussy, punani, ass, tail
References
- ^ Eric Partridge (2005) “poontang”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1522: “[…] it almost certainly comes from the French putain (prostitute).”
- ^ “poontang n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
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