- put
- to copulateFrom the placement rather than any association with holing out at golf :... you been put-putting with blondie here, my wife. (Mailer, 1965)A put, a single act of copulation, may be had or done by a male. Put and take describes the mutual act of copulating.To put a man in a belly puns on the male ingress and the conception:So you may put a man in your belly. (Shakespeare, As You Like It)To put it in or put it up are explicit of male copulation:They thought it would save their kids or their daddies, letting me put it up them. (Allbeury, 1980 — a German guard explained the basis of his relationship with women prisoners)To put it about is to copulate promiscuously of a either sex:Certainly not some blonde tart who undoubtedly put it about if the mood took her. (C. Forbes, 1987)To put out is normally only of female promiscuity:Any g i r l . . . is caught in a sexual trap. If she won't put out the men will accuse her of being bourgeois. (Lodge, 1975)Put to, from the meaning, to start work, is obsolete:As rank as any flax-wench that puts-to, Before her troth-plight. (Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale)
How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. R. W. Holder. 2014.