private parts

private parts

English

Noun

private parts pl (plural only)

1. (euphemistic) Genitals and female nipples.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:

     And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.

Synonyms

• (genitals and female nipples): privates

See also: Thesaurus:genitalia

Translations

genitals or sex organs — see genitalia

intimate parts of the human body

Arabic: عُضْو حَمِيم‎ m (ʿuḍw ḥamīm), أَعْضَاء حَمِيمَة‎ pl (ʾaʿḍāʾ ḥamīma) Armenian: Old Armenian: ամօթոյք (amōtʿoykʿ) Chinese: Mandarin: 私處 (zh), 私处 (zh) (sīchù), 陰部 (zh), 阴部 (zh) (yīnbù) (genitalia) Estonian: suguelundid Finnish: sukuelimet pl French: parties intimes f pl

German: Scham (de) f, Geschlechtsteile (de) n pl, Schamteile n pl Italian: parti intime f pl Japanese: 恥部 (ちぶ, chibu), 陰部 (いんぶ, inbu) (genitalia) Latin: pudenda n pl, inguen n Portuguese: partes (pt) f pl Romanian: părți intime f pl, zone intime f pl Russian: инти́мные ча́сти те́ла f pl (intímnyje části téla), срамны́е места́ n pl (sramnýje mestá) Swedish: privata delar c pl