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chamber-work

chamber-work noun: sex; fornication.

Noun

chamber-work (uncountable)

  1. (euphemistic, obsolete) Sex; fornication.
    • Jacchinus […] instanceth in a patient of his, that married a young wife in a hot summer, “and so dried himself with chamber-work, that he became in short space, from melancholy, mad”: he cured him by moistening remedies., vol.I, New York, 2001, p.235
  2. The work of a chambermaid.

Questions about chamber-work

What does chamber-work mean?
Chamber-work means sex; fornication.
What part of speech is chamber-work?
Chamber-work is a noun.

Words near chamber-work in the dictionary

  1. chamber pot
  2. chamber pots
  3. chamber tomb
  4. chamber tombs
  5. chamber utensil
  6. chamber-work
  7. chamberbitter
  8. chamberbitters
  9. chambered
  10. chambered nautili
  11. chambered nautilus

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