fellate

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fellātus (“sucked”), past participle of fellō (“suck”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *dhe- (“to suck, to suckle”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To perform oral sex on (a man); to stimulate (a penis or testicles) using the mouth.
   • 1997, Henning Bech, When Men Meet: Homosexuality and Modernity, page 11:

     […] semen is a gift, and the relation between the one who is fellated and the one who fellates is a relation between one who gives and one who receives.

2. (transitive, by extension) To suck (something) in a manner suggestive of fellatio.
   • 1995, Lynne Pearce, Jackie Stacey, Romance Revisited - Volume 1995, part 2, page 186

     Can she only come when a White woman kneels before her fellating her dildo? Or does the Black woman just see another dyke she fancies, who fancies her? I'm attracted to White women because my White lover is Other to me […]

   • 2004, Edmund White, Don Weise, FRESH MEN (tr) →ISBN, page 66:

     Leina went on fellating her finger, making faces of exquisite ecstasy.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To suck up to, to flatter or be shamefully subservient to.
   • 2010, Karl Denninger, The German Government Has Had Enough:

     If you thought the German government was going to be a lapdog for Sarcozy, or worse, was going to fellate Brussels and the ECB, you got a rude shock today.

Synonyms

• suck off
• blow
• See also Thesaurus:give head

Hypernyms

• go down on

Derived terms

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Derived terms

• autofellate
• fellatio

• fellator
• fellatrix

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Translations

to perform oral sex on a man

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口交 (zh) (kǒujiāo), 吹簫 / 吹箫 (zh) (chuīxiāo), 吹箫 (zh) (chuīxiāo)

• Dutch: fellatio doen, pijpen (nl)
• Finnish: tehdä fellaatio
• German: fellatieren, fellieren (de), blasen (de), lutschen (de)
• Greek: πεολείχω (peoleícho)
• Japanese: フェラチオをやる (ferachio o yaru), フェラをやる (fera o yaru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: کیر مکیدن (kir mekidan)
• Portuguese: chupar (pt)
• Russian: соса́ть (ru) impf (sosátʹ), отса́сывать (ru) impf (otsásyvatʹ), отсоса́ть (ru) pf (otsosátʹ), де́лать мине́т impf (délatʹ minét), сде́лать мине́т pf (sdélatʹ minét), соса́ть хуй impf (sosátʹ xuj), отсоса́ть хуй pf (otsosátʹ xuj) (vulgar)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: радити фелацио, пушити

  Roman: raditi felacio, pušiti (sh)

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Translations to be checked

• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} totta
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See also

• blowjob

Anagrams

• leaflet

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) fēllāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of fēllō