A playful, euphemistic slang term for the clitoris, drawing on the visual metaphor of a small figure nestled within a surrounding structure. The phrase has been in circulation in English-language slang for well over a century and sits in the tradition of whimsical anatomical nicknames. It's more old-fashioned than clinical, carrying a winking, knowing humor. The term surfaces in sexual health conversations, comedy, and literary references to informal bodily vocabulary.
The sexual health class got briefly derailed when someone asked the teacher whether the boy in the boat was a medical term.
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(slang, idiomatic) The human clitoris.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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