lapidable
lapidable adjective: nubile, mature for sexual intercourse (of a woman).
Adjective
lapidable (not comparable)
- Nubile, mature for sexual intercourse (of a woman).
- I bought a wench yisterday, cost me 3 taies, for w’ch she must serve 5 yeares […] She is but 12 yeares ould, over small yet for trade, but yow wold littell thynke that I have another forthcominge that is mor lapedable, yet it is true, & I think a gentelwoman of your accoyntance.1614, Richard Cocks, letter to Richard Williams, quoted in 1991, Anthony Farrington, The English Factory in Japan 1613-1623, London: The British Library, page 140
- [T]he exspected long looked for houre […] was now come; for that she was lapidable and ripe for man, and that all the time thenceforth she should continue a forst chastity, would be little or no cost, except what was expended in oatmeal or loam: Ventricia cheared up her self, well contented with so...1660, anonymous author, The Practical Part of Love: Extracted out of the Extravagant and Lascivious Life of a Fair but Subtle Female, London
Origin of lapidable
From Latin lapis (“stone”). The sense "nubile" was an intellectual pun on the use of English stone to mean "testicle", potentially also influenced by lap (“female pudenda”).
Questions about lapidable
- What does lapidable mean?
- Lapidable means nubile, mature for sexual intercourse (of a woman).
- What part of speech is lapidable?
- Lapidable is an adjective.
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