foreplay
pronunciation
How to pronounce foreplay in British English:
UK [ˈfɔ:pleɪ]
How to pronounce foreplay in American English:
US [ˈfɔrpleɪ]
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- Noun:
- mutual sexual stimulation prior to sexual intercourse
Word Origin
- foreplay (n.)
- by 1921 in sexual sense, from fore- + play (n.); Freud's Vorlust was translated earlier as fore-pleasure (Brill, 1910). A more direct translation from the German would be thwarted by the sense drift in English lust (n.). Earlier as a theatrical term: In fact the poem which Mr. Brooks has translated is but the "prologue to the swelling theme," the fore-play to the actual drama of Faust. ["The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany," Jan.-May 1857]
Example
- 1. There should be foreplay to get the girl ready .
- 2. So don 't skim on foreplay .
- 3. Think of it as fat-burning foreplay .
- 4. Orgasms are not all about foreplay .
- 5. Many men slip up during an intimate foreplay with their women .