graft the forked tree

verb

To have sex.

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Meanings

verbgraft the forked tree (third-person singular simple present grafts the forked tree, present participle grafting the forked tree, simple past and past participle grafted the forked tree)

present singular third person grafts the forked tree · participle present grafting the forked tree · participle past grafted the forked tree · past grafted the forked tree

  1. euphemisticobsoleterareTo have sex.

    ’Fore Venus, Fawn, I have been shaling of peascods; upon four great madonnas have I this afternoon grafted the forked tree.

    1604, John Marston, Parasitaster, act IV
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    He would hardly have perswaded Calisthenes to refuse his faire daughter Agarista to Hippoclides, because he had seen him graft the forked tree [translating faire l'arbre fourché] in her upon a table.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: discuss Uganda, haul one's ashes, someone's etchings

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo have sex.

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