# Is there a word for performing cunnilingus? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 22, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103 "2003-07-22T07:40:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103/41 "2003-12-15T08:11:32Z")
I would expect to be pronounced as in “meringue” - it just sounds right - but can anyone confirm? ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103/42 "2003-12-15T13:24:01Z")
what about “plating” ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103/43 "2003-12-15T15:02:04Z")
Spelunking. ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103/44 "2003-12-15T16:03:17Z")
cunnilingue, cunnilingus…sounds like that old joke about Latin plurals, IIRC, “filiculum, filicula, filiculae, filiculie” (sp?) 😃 Shame one me, but I couldn’t resist! - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103/45 "2003-12-15T17:12:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brad Amundsen \* > \*\*To quote the Greatest Rapper of all Kid Rock > Yodeling In The Valley > Yodeladyhoo!!! \*\* Kid Rock is not the originator, he’s about 30 years too late. Rent a copy of _The Last Detail_ and you’ll be treated to Jack Nicholson describing yodeling at it’s best. My word for the act has been “Mmmmmm!” 😉 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hyjyljyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/0ea827/32.png) [@hyjyljyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyjyljyj)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103/46 "2003-12-15T17:57:19Z")
One of my favorite single-panel cartoons ever was in a men’s magazine. It depicted a fully clothed, smiling lady receiving this thread’s topic, in a courtroom atop the tall bench of a black-robed judge, who momentarily lifts his head to opine with a hearty grin, “Counsel for the defense is right! This definitely is NOT an obscene, lewd or perverted act!” * * * Wonder what pronunciation the OED itself provided for cunnilingue? It looks like a tough word to wrap your tongue around, but I’m hazarding a guess that it gets the same treatment as the -ngue at the tip of your “tongue”. So to speak. (Sorry about the puns, but you know the old saying…if you can’t lick 'em, join 'em.) ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103/47 "2003-12-15T18:47:52Z")
_in flagrante delicto_ Oh yes. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103/48 "2003-12-15T19:21:18Z")
In the same spirit of **hyjyljyj** I saw a cartoon once where the setting was a grocery store giving out free samples of “Condeleeza Rice”. She was spread out on her back getting cunnilingued while a line was forming. She seemed pretty happy about the whole thing. **KGS** – Maybe its called “giving head” where you come from, but if I told a buddy I’d just given a girl head they’d ask me if it was the girl from “The Crying Game”. ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103/49 "2003-12-15T19:28:41Z")
**FUN !** ---
**Author:** ![Fat\_Marrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ebca7d/32.png) [@Fat\_Marrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fat_Marrow)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103/50 "2003-12-15T19:32:48Z")
How about “Drinking from the furry cup”. Check out [www.urbandictionary.com](http://www.urbandictionary.com) for more or VIZ Profanisaurus. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103/51 "2003-12-16T00:49:29Z")
Cunnilick? Cunnilunge? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-word-for-performing-cunnilingus/190103.md?page=2)