sixty-nine
Syllables: six·ty-nineUS/ˌsɪkstiˈnaɪn/
sixty-nine numeral: the cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.
Numeral
sixty-nine
- The cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.
- Synonyms:
- 69, LXIX
Noun
sixty-nine (countable and uncountable, plural sixty-nines)
- A sex position where two people perform oral sex on each other simultaneously.
- Dearest Annabelle,
Having a splendid time! Last night I did a sixty-nine with Antonio that went on for HOURS. Later I even let him go in my back door, if you know what I mean, wink wink. I love that man’s tool so much!
Much Love,
Aunt Ruth2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Introduction: How this book came to be”, in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 10
- Synonyms:
- soixante-neuf
- Dearest Annabelle,
Verb
sixty-nine (third-person singular simple present sixty-nines, present participle sixty-nining, simple past and past participle sixty-nined)
- To have sex in the sixty-nine position: to engage in mutual oral sex.
- One of my old lovers liked to sixty-nine because the distraction of what she was doing kept her mind off what she was feeling so that her anxieties about what right she had to feel so good could not as easily keep her from feeling it.1976, Marilyn Gayle, What Lesbians Do, Amazon Reality Collective
- You pat me on the head / You took me out to wine, dine, sixty-nine me / But didn't hear a damn word I said1995, Alanis Morissette, “Right Through You”, in Jagged Little Pill
sixty-nine meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
sixty-nine in Hindi
- cardinal number
- उनहत्तर unhattar
- sex position
- ६९
sixty-nine in Tamil
- அறுபத்து ஒன்பது
sixty-nine in Urdu
- cardinal number
- انہتر unhattar
sixty-nine in Bengali
- cardinal number
- উনসত্তর unośottor
More languagesFewer languages
- sixty-nine in Malayalam
- അറുപത്തൊമ്പത് aṟupattompatŭ, അറുപത്തി ഒൻപത് aṟupatti oṉpatŭ
- sixty-nine in Punjabi
- ਉਣ੍ਹੱਤਰ uṇhattar
- sixty-nine in Gujarati
- અગણોસિત્તેર agṇositter
- sixty-nine in Sanskrit
- एकोनाशीतितम ekonāśītitama
- sixty-nine in Assamese
- ঊনসত্তৰ unoxottor
- sixty-nine in Nepali
- उन्सत्तरी unsattarī, उनन्सत्तरी unansattarī
- sixty-nine in Pashto
- نه شپېتۀ nəh špetə
- sixty-nine in Arabic
- تِسْعَة وَسِتُّون
- sixty-nine in Malay
- enam puluh sembilan
- sixty-nine in Persian
- شصت و نه šast va noh
- sixty-nine in Thai
- หกสิบเก้า, หกเก้า
Synonyms of sixty-nine
- 69
- LXIX
- soixante-neuf
Forms of sixty-nine
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sixty-nines |
| alternative form | 69 |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sixty-nines |
| present participle | sixty-nining |
| past participle | sixty-nined |
| past | sixty-nined |
Origin of sixty-nine
Calque of French soixante-neuf, from the rotational symmetry of the numeral 69 — if rotated a half-turn (by 180°), the numeral remains the same, and a couple both giving oral sex at once have, in principle, a similar rotational symmetry.
Words formed from sixty-nine
- sixty-niner
- sixtyniner
- sixty-ninth
- star sixty-nine
Words that rhyme with sixty-nine
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- design
- divine
- combine
- pine
- spline
- swine
- consign
- frankenstein
- nine
- refine
- vine
- whine
- benign
- chine
- in line
- intertwine
- recline
- resign
- rine
- undermine
- wine
- affine
- anodyne
- dine
- gold mine
- incline
- malign
- opine
- outshine
- propine
- red line
- shrine
- syne
- tine
- trunk line
- tyne
- atrine
- berine
- bine
- brine
- cline
- confine
- disentwine
- einstein
- equine
- offline
- quine
- repine
Questions about sixty-nine
- What does sixty-nine mean?
- Sixty-nine means the cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.
- What is sixty-nine in Hindi?
- Sixty-nine in Hindi is उनहत्तर (unhattar), ६९. See Sixty-nine meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sixty-nine?
- Sixty-nine can be a numeral, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce sixty-nine?
- Sixty-nine is pronounced /ˌsɪkstiˈnaɪn/ (US).
Words near sixty-nine in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sixty-nine (page history and authors); sixty-nine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); અગણોસિત્તેર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ঊনসত্তৰ (Assamese) (page history and authors); उनन्सत्तरी (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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