# In any language, is there a vulgar noun for "cunnilingus?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 9, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551 "2013-06-09T15:06:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/1 "2013-06-09T15:06:33Z")
See subject. Vulgar as in used commonly, like “blowjob.” Not a contrived one, like, I don’t know, a “rug-munch.” ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/2 "2013-06-09T15:12:17Z")
I took a look at the Wikipedia page on it, and it says at the top: “`Eating pussy’ redirects here.” ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/3 "2013-06-09T15:15:15Z")
I edited the title to say “there” rather than “the,” assuming that’s what you meant? ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/4 "2013-06-09T15:18:40Z")
Going down would be the most common I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/5 "2013-06-09T15:22:43Z")
Those aren’t nouns. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/6 "2013-06-09T15:26:22Z")
Dining at the Y. Mustache ride ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/7 "2013-06-09T15:34:30Z")
Oh, the OP was asking specifically for nouns? I think the common term in Japanese is _kunni_, which is just short for cunnilingus. It’s a noun. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/8 "2013-06-09T16:38:47Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > I edited the title to say “there” rather than “the,” assuming that’s what you meant? Yes, thanks. And thanks for taking care of my misposting. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/9 "2013-06-09T17:01:32Z")
Scarf. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/10 "2013-06-09T17:02:51Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Dining at the Y. > Mustache ride And “Box Lunch at the Y” ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/11 "2013-06-09T17:11:50Z")
> [@Jake](#): > > Scarf. 😕 That’s not even a back-form of “scarfing” in _English_. So far, none of suggestions are common nouns. Even the made-up ones, which would sound even more contrived with an adjective, which go fine with “blowjob.” Great, incredible, long, most scumptilicious (not really), etc. etc. Is the Japanese one used commonly in the way “blowjob” is? ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/12 "2013-06-09T17:43:24Z")
> [@Jake](#): > > And “Box Lunch at the Y” Or just Box Lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/13 "2013-06-09T18:22:01Z")
I’ve heard taste, as in “may have a taste?” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/14 "2013-06-09T18:43:19Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > So far, none of suggestions are common nouns. Even the made-up ones, which would sound even more contrived with an adjective, which go fine with “blowjob.” Great, incredible, long, most scumptilicious (not really), etc. etc. It seems to me that by your own standard, “blowjob” wouldn’t count either, since it’s a compound word. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/15 "2013-06-09T21:47:35Z")
To play pop-psychologist, I think the fundamental, cultural difference between the two explains why one is considered more vulgar than the other. Namely a blowjob is often considered an act of power and domination that a guy almost always wants from any woman totally regardless of how he feels about her or she feels about him, whether it’s pleasurable or humiliating or merely a chore. A man going down on a woman is almost universally viewed as completely the opposite, something positive & caring and wanted & enjoyed equally by both partners. In other words, cause us men are pigs! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Apollon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@Apollon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-any-language-is-there-a-vulgar-noun-for-cunnilingus/660551/16 "2013-06-09T23:53:46Z")
In Greek there is “Γλειφομούνι” (gleifomoúni / ghlee-foh-MOON-ee), literally: “lickcunt”.