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come aloft

come aloft verb: to mount sexually; to have an erection.

Verb

come aloft (third-person singular simple present comes aloft, present participle coming aloft, simple past came aloft, past participle come aloft)

  1. (obsolete, slang) To mount sexually; to have an erection.
    • his louely wife emongst them lay, / Embraced of a Satyre rough and rude, / Who all the night did minde his ioyous play: / Nine times he heard him come aloft ere day, / That all his hart with gealosie did swell; / But yet that nights ensample did bewray, / That not for nought his wife them loued so...1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Fowler: I must kiss her:–(kisses her) – thou hast a down lip, and dost twang it handsomely; now to the business.
      Penelope: This is not all I look for.
      Fowler (aside): She will not tempt me to come aloft, will she?1633, James Shirley, The Witty Fair One, IV.iv

Forms of come aloft

third-person singular presentcomes aloft
present participlecoming aloft
pastcame aloft
past participlecome aloft

Questions about come aloft

What does come aloft mean?
Come aloft means to mount sexually; to have an erection.
What part of speech is come aloft?
Come aloft is a verb.
What is the past tense of come aloft?
The past tense of come aloft is came aloft.

Words near come aloft in the dictionary

  1. come across
  2. come across with
  3. come after
  4. come again
  5. come alive
  6. come aloft
  7. come along
  8. come alongs
  9. come and go
  10. come and gone
  11. come apart

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