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poon⋅tang

[poon-tang]
–noun Slang: Vulgar.
1. sexual intercourse with a woman.
2. Offensive. a woman regarded as a sexual object.

Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; said to be < Limba (West Atlantic language of Sierra Leone) puntuŋ vagina, though the late documentation of the E word makes such an orig. questionable; F putain prostitute, often cited as the source, accounts precisely for neither the phonetics nor the sense
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poon·tang   (pōōn'tāng')   
n.  
  1. Vulgar Slang Sexual intercourse with a woman.

  2. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a woman.


[Perhaps from French putain, prostitute, from Old French, from pute, feminine of put, foul, stinking, from Latin pūtidus, from pūtēre, to be rotten, stink; see p- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

poontang 
c.1910, probably via New Orleans Creole, from Fr. putain "prostitute," from O.Fr. pute "whore," probably from fem. of V.L. *puttus (cf. O.It. putta "girl"), from L. putus, with derogatory sense. But also possibly from O.Fr. put, from L. putidus "stinking" on notion of the "foulness" of harlotry, or for more literal reasons (among the 16c.-17c. slang terms for "whore" in Eng. were polecat and fling-stink). Shortened form poon is recorded from 1969.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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