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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

serpent à un œil

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sɛʁ.pɑ̃ t‿a.n‿œj

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
One-eyed trouser snake/ˌwʌn.aɪd ˈtraʊ.zɚ sneɪk/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #95400 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"C'est une expression argotique pour désigner le membre viril."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A humorous or vulgar slang term for the human penis.

    "He made a crude joke about feeding his one-eyed trouser snake."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in late 20th-century colloquial English, this humorous idiom blends visual imagery with anatomical euphemism. The term relies on compound metaphors comparing the human male genitalia to a snake, referencing its cylindrical shape and movement, with the 'one eye' acting as a crude reference to the urethral opening.

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