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polish the pearl

polish the pearl verb: to masturbate by stimulating one's clitoris.

Verb

polish the pearl (third-person singular simple present polishes the pearl, present participle polishing the pearl, simple past and past participle polished the pearl)

  1. (slang, vulgar) To masturbate by stimulating one's clitoris.
    • Women sometimes tell us that part of the reason they settle for not coming during intercourse is because they're terrified their partner would be offended if they reached down to polish the pearl while they're having sex.2007, Dorian Solot, Marshall Miller, I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide, Da Capo Press, →ISBN
    • Both “whittling the whalebone” and “polishing the pearl” are so ingrained in our DNA that infants have been known to handle their business long before it's open for business.2010, Kristen Schaal, Rich Blomquist, The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 64

Forms of polish the pearl

third-person singular presentpolishes the pearl
present participlepolishing the pearl
past participlepolished the pearl
pastpolished the pearl

Questions about polish the pearl

What does polish the pearl mean?
Polish the pearl means to masturbate by stimulating one's clitoris.
What part of speech is polish the pearl?
Polish the pearl is a verb.
What is the past tense of polish the pearl?
The past tense of polish the pearl is polished the pearl.

Words near polish the pearl in the dictionary

  1. Polish sausage
  2. Polish sausages
  3. Polish space
  4. Polish spaces
  5. Polish studies
  6. polish the pearl
  7. polish up
  8. polish up on
  9. Polish victory lap
  10. Polish-Lithuanian
  11. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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