The story
- Latin · borrowed fromcunnilingus
- English todaycunnilingus
From Latin cunnilingus (literally “cuntlicker”). The meaning shift, not yet complete in the early twentieth century, perhaps derives from figurative uses where the name for a person stands for the name of a practice. Doublet of cunnilingue.
Words from the same roots
Latincunnilingus all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.