Meanings
plural cunning linguists
- colloquialeuphemistichumorousvulgarOne who performs cunnilingus.
Become a Cunning Linguist – She Loves Oral Sex!
2003, April Masini, Date Out of Your League, page 1564 more examples
Then he wrote: "God is Dead" and "I Am a Cunning Linguist." McLean walked over and asked the man why he was writing these things. "Can't ya read, mister?" snarled the little man.
1968, Norton Mockridge, The scrawl of the wild: what people write on walls and why, page 11My love's a cunning linguist. His tongue's my greatest treasure. With "tu bella" and "liebe dich" He bends me to his pleasure.
1970, John Boyd, The Organ Bank Farm, page 190An obvious choice to endorse ChapStick, Mr. Smith knows that ladies love a cunning linguist and a moist mouth.
2005, Vibe, volume 13, number 9, page 107Frank Sewell, the most gifted poet of a new generation of Northern Ireland poets stated that the translator goes down on history; a cunning linguist.
2009, Pat Boran, Flowing, Still: Irish poets on Irish poetry, page 69 - Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cunning, linguist.
You should hire/Some cunning linguist/To help you distinguish/What's proper English
2014, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Word Crimes”, in Mandatory Fun1 more example
An enormous oak shelf holds a rich and choice library; […] Martial, the cunning linguist and wit; […]
1894, Benito Pérez Galdós, translated by Mary Wharton, Lady Perfecta, page 206
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From use in bawdy puns with the near-homophone cunnilingus.
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