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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

sidal en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • sīd-(ə)l
  • /ˈsaɪd(ə)l/

Etymology

From side + -al, in humorous reference to frontal. Used since at least the 1970s.

Meanings

  1. (especially, humorous, not-comparable, of nudity) Of or involving a person's side (rather than the front or back).
    • In television, the final refuge of Victorianism, eroticism is the great no-no. "I have coined the expression: 'At NBC, we don't show frontal, backal or sidal nudity,'" Traviesas says. 1977, New Times:
    • full sidal nudity

Coordinates

frontal · backal