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Q.
What are some of the euphemisms that polite – or seemingly polite – society have used to describe love (or lust) making over the centuries?
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A.
. Amorous congress
. Basket-making
. Behind door work
. A bit of summer cabbage
. Blanket hornpipe
. Boil the cabbage
. Bread and butter
. Brush (a one-time fling)
. Clicket
. Convivial society
. Dance the kipples
. Engagement
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. Fadoodling
. Funny business
. Houghmagandy (adulterous fadoodling)
. Jollity
. Nooky
. Play couch quail
. Play nug a nug
. Princum-prancum
. Rantum-scantum
. Shaking the sheets
. Take a turn amidst the cabbages
. Wifthing
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Header painting: Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The Stolen Kiss. late 1780s
Painting #2: Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The Swing.