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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

show someone one's etchings en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) A clichéd innuendo used to offer to bring someone to a private location in order to have sex, to show a place where people can engage in sexual intercourse (alternatively replacing "someone" with a phrase starting with to)
    • “Never wanted to show off my etchings before. I only show my etchings to redheads,” he said with a grin. ”Now that you've come, I can't wait to show them to you.[…]” 1988, Ruth Seamands, Pearls in the Rain, Bristol Books, →ISBN, page 47:
    • Let me show you my etchings.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
shown someone one's etchings Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
showed someone one's etchings Tense=Past lexicographic
showing someone one's etchings Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shows someone one's etchings Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

graft the forked tree · discuss Uganda · someone's etchings