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"Play nug-a-nug" and 30 other terms for sex from the last 600 years

swingersMental Floss has a list of the 31 “most adorable” terms for sexual intercourse from the last 600 years, complied from the massive Green’s Dictionary of Slang. Some make sense, others are cryptic, at least to me. “Give someone a green gown.” Huh?

[UPDATE: In the comments, PGT explains the “green gown” term: “‘Give someone a green gown’ is actually one of the better known ones — it refers to acquiring grass stains on one’s undergarments from vigorous exercise while lying in the grass. ‘She has a green petticoat’ was Victorian for ‘she’s a slut,’ and even into the 20th century green woman’s underwear remained unpopular.”]

1. Give someone a green gown (1351)

2. Play nug-a-nug (1505)

3. Play the pyrdewy (1512)

4. Play at couch quail (1521)

5. Ride below the crupper (1578)

6. Board a land carrack (1604)

7. Fadoodling (1611)

8. Put the devil into hell (1616)

9. Night physic (1621)

10. Princum-prancum (1630)

11. Culbatizing exercise (1653)

12. Join paunches (1656)

13. Dance the Paphian jig (1656)

14. Play at tray trip of a die (1660)

15. Dance Barnaby (1664)

16. Shot twixt wind and water (1665)

17. Play at rantum-scantum (1667)

18. Blow off the groundsills (1674)

19. Play hey gammer cook (1674)

20. Join giblets (1680)

21. Play at rumpscuttle and clapperdepouch (1684)

22. Lerricompoop (1694)

23. Ride a dragon upon St. George (1698)

24. Houghmagandy (1700)

25. Pogue the hone (1719)

26. Make feet for children’s stockings (1785)

27. Dance the kipples (1796)

28. Have one’s corn ground (1800)

29. Horizontal refreshment (1863)

30. Arrive at the end of the sentimental journey (1896)

31. Get one’s ashes hauled (1910)

31 Adorable Slang Terms for Sexual Intercourse from the Last 600 Years

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