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privy parts
Definition
Dated term for the female or male genitals dating back to Geoffrey Chaucer in his Wife of Bath (1387). See penis and vagina for synonyms.QUOTE: Lawrence Paros, The Erotic Tongue (1984): 'If sex be an act, we all have parts to play with.' Most of us know them as the carnal parts (early-18 th C), the natural parts (mid-16 th C), the naturals (17 th C), the parts below (17 th C), the underparts (mid-19 th C), the privy parts (c. 1565), the private parts (c. 1885), the privates (20 th C).'
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