tip someone's velvet en · VERB
Etymology
A faux-Victorian expression invented by novelist Sarah Waters in Tipping the Velvet (1998). Perhaps relatedly, John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) gives velvet as a slang term for the tongue.
Meanings
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(euphemistic, slang) To give oral sex to a female.
Then we fell to kissing furiously and I tipped her velvet […]
1999, Ferdinand Mount, Jem (and Sam), page 181:[…] not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.
2007, Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tipped someone's velvet | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| tipped someone's velvet | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| tipping someone's velvet | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| tips someone's velvet | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |