fellate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from fellatio, from Latin fellō (“suck”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, to suckle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈleɪt/, /ˈfɛleɪt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪt, -ɛleɪt

Verb

fellate (third-person singular simple present fellates, present participle fellating, simple past and past participle fellated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth.
   • 1997, Henning Bech, When Men Meet: Homosexuality and Modernity, page 11:

     […] semen is a gift, and the relation between the one who is fellated and the one who fellates is a relation between one who gives and one who receives.

   • Paragraph 14, Public Prosecutor v Jeffrey Pe ([2023] SGHC 313)

     At trial, the precise content of the sexual activity which subsequently occurred, as well as the Complainant’s state of consciousness at the material time, were matters of dispute between the Prosecution and the Defence. What was not disputed was that sometime between 4.02am and 5.43am, the Accused fellated the Complainant.

2. (transitive, by extension) To suck (something) in a manner suggestive of fellatio.
   • 1995, Lynne Pearce, Jackie Stacey, Romance Revisited - Volume 1995, part 2, page 186:

     Can she only come when a White woman kneels before her fellating her dildo? Or does the Black woman just see another dyke she fancies, who fancies her? I'm attracted to White women because my White lover is Other to me […]

   • 2004, Edmund White, Don Weise, FRESH MEN (tr), →ISBN, page 66:

     Leina went on fellating her finger, making faces of exquisite ecstasy.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To suck up to, to flatter or be shamefully subservient to.
   • 2010, Karl Denninger, The German Government Has Had Enough‎^[1]:

     If you thought the German government was going to be a lapdog for Sarcozy, or worse, was going to fellate Brussels and the ECB, you got a rude shock today.

Synonyms

• suck off
• blow
• See also Thesaurus:give head

Hypernyms

• go down on

Derived terms

Derived terms

• autofellate
• fellatio
• fellator
• fellatrix

Related terms

• fellator

Translations

to perform oral sex on a man

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口交 (zh) (kǒujiāo), 吹簫／吹箫 (zh) (chuīxiāo)

• Dutch: fellatio doen, pijpen (nl)
• Esperanto: midzi (eo)
• Finnish: ottaa suihin (fi), tehdä fellaatio
• German: fellationieren, fellieren (de), blasen (de), lutschen (de)
• Greek: πεολείχω (peoleícho)
• Japanese: フェラチオをやる (ferachio o yaru), フェラをやる (fera o yaru)
• Latin: fēllō
• Persian: کیر مکیدن (kir mekidan)
• Polish: ssać (pl) impf, robić loda (pl), obciągać (pl), ciągnąć druta (pl) (vulgar), ssać pałę impf (vulgar), robić dobrze (pl) (colloquial), opierdalać (pl) (vulgar), ojebać pf (vulgar), robić laskę (pl) impf (vulgar), obrabiać (pl) impf (vulgar), dmuchać w puzon impf, chapać dzidę (vulgar), robić gałę (vulgar)
• Portuguese: chupar (pt)
• Russian: соса́ть (ru) impf (sosátʹ), отса́сывать (ru) impf (otsásyvatʹ), отсоса́ть (ru) pf (otsosátʹ), де́лать мине́т impf (délatʹ minét), сде́лать мине́т pf (sdélatʹ minét), соса́ть хуй impf (sosátʹ xuj), отсоса́ть хуй pf (otsosátʹ xuj) (vulgar)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: радити фелацио, пушити

  Roman: raditi felacio, pušiti (sh)

• Spanish: felar (es)

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• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} totta

See also

• blowjob

Anagrams

• leaflet

Latin

Verb

fēllāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of fēllō