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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sixty-nine

in sexual sense, 1888, as a translation of French faire soixante neuf, literally "to do 69." So called from the similarity of positions to the arrangement of the numerals.

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sixty-nine

Etymology 1 n. The cardinal number following sixty-eight and preceding seventy. Etymology 2

n. (qualifier: sexuality) A sex position where two people give each other oral sex at the same time. vb. To have sex in the sixty-nine position.

WordNet
sixty-nine
  1. adj. being nine more than sixty [syn: 69, ilxx]

  2. n. oral sex practiced simultaneously by two people [syn: soixante-neuf]

Usage examples of "sixty-nine".

Toward the end of the century it spread to the South of France, and since that time has appeared epidemically, 195 distinct outbreaks having been observed in the course of one hundred and sixty-nine years, from 1618 to 1787.

Instead of heading sixty-nine degrees true through a narrow straight passage, as would the ferries and any sane yachtsman, she held eighteen degrees true north and went to what would be considered the wrong side of Cliff Island.

Matthew Meadows, they said, was otherwise in remarkable physical condition for a man of sixty-nine.

Kennedy had said not to a press conference in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, nor to the sixty-nine million Americans who had voted, but to just one American that interested Tom Jefferson more when, on the ninth day of November 1960, he left his home in Miami Shores and drove to the safe house at 6312 Riviera Drive in Coral Gables to meet Frank Sorges and to hear that much-vaunted tape.

Currently, there were sixty-nine signatories to the Hansa Charter and a handful of satellite colonies and uncataloged camps.

Malcolm himself, rising sixty-nine, could bill and coo with the best, and with a suppressed shiver I found myself thinking for the first time about the sixth marriage, because certainly, in the future, if Malcolm survived, there would be one.

The thermometer read precisely twenty-one degrees Celsius: sixty-nine point eight degrees Fahrenheit.

There were no books on the subject, no X-rated videotapes, no guide to the mysteries of sex, but in some incredible instinctual way, they'd discovered oral sex, the sixty-nine position, the erogenous zones, erotic undressing, a dozen different positions, dirty talk, and playacting.

The man's name was Kenneth Murtaugh, he had invented a toaster oven, and he was sixty-nine when he crashed his Coupe de Ville into a palm tree along Perdido Boulevard.

The body is that of a well-developed Caucasian male measuring sixty-nine inches in length, weighing one hundred sixty-five pounds and appearing generally consistent with the stated age of forty years.

Tonight at 8:30 New Washington Time, President Barnes will address all us American folks, partly to silence the small, syndicate-inspired clamor at the outlawing of male-female wrestling and jukebox burlesque, but more to explain to an amazed citizenry the full reasons behind the charges brought this morning by the federal government against sixty-nine high officials, I predict ā€” and remember this is just my personal libel-free guess, fellow-folks ā€” that the president will reveal that Fun Incorporated has been peddling dream pills, temporary sterility tabs, and Iā€™m as shocked and disgusted as you are, folks, female robots equipped for obscene functioning.

Sixty-nine degrees of dive toward the big barn in the park, relative bearing broad on the port bow, approx-set!

Sixty-nine degrees of dive toward the big barn in the park, relative bearing broad on the port bow, approx - set!

Sixty-nine degrees of dive toward the big barn in the park, relative bearing broad on the port bow, approx -- set!

She sucked his dick (a little stubby for my taste, and with a distinct rightwards curve, but there you are), then they sixty-nined, then they fucked missionary position for a couple of minutes, without protection.