yin-yang en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 陰陽／阴阳 (yīnyáng), from Middle Chinese 陰陽 (MC 'im yang), from Old Chinese 陰陽 (OC *qrɯm laŋ), from 陰 (“dark” → “negative force”) + 陽 (“bright” → “positive force”).
Meanings
- Yin and yang.
- A circular symbol with white and black sections (☯), representing the fusion of the concepts of yin and yang.
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(colloquial, vulgar) The vulva or vagina.
"So I took off my apron and told her she could shove the job up her yin-yang."
2009, Stanley William Rogal, What Passes for Love, page 76:U.S.S. Millicent asked Mario if he'd ever seen a girl's yin-yang before.
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 124:
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(colloquial, vulgar) The anus or rectum.
He thought he could smuggle the drugs over the border by putting them in capsules and stuffing them up his yin-yang. Not a good idea!
"... I'd be on that phone call every single day. I'd be up that guy's yin-yang so far with a firecracker he wouldn't know what hit him," the Ontario premier said of Pfizer's executives.
2021 January 19, CBC News, “Saskatchewan will run out of COVID-19 vaccine in the next few days, Moe says”, in Saskatchewan:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ying-yang | alternative | lexicographic | |
| ying yang | alternative | lexicographic | |
| yin-yangs | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| yin and yang | alternative | lexicographic | |
| yin yang | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
up the yin-yang · yin-yang fish
Relateds
Translations (25)
fr yin-yang (yin and yang) · aho 𑜑𑜃𑜫 𑜆𑜥 (yin and yang) · ru инь-я́н (yin and yang) · es yin-yang (yin and yang) · cmn 陰陽 /阴阳 (yin and yang) · ja 陰陽 (yin and yang) · cmn 太極圖 /太极图 (symbol) · nan-hbl 陰陽 /阴阳 (yin and yang) · fi jin-jang (yin and yang) · de Yin und Yang (yin and yang) · fa یین و یانگ (yin and yang) · pt yin-yang (yin and yang) · ur ین یانگ (yin and yang) · ru инь-ян (symbol) · pt yin-yang (symbol) · ru инь и ян (yin and yang) · fi jin-jang (symbol) · ar يِين وَيَانْغ (yin and yang) · ug يىن ياڭ (yin and yang) · vi âm dương (yin and yang) · ko 음양 (yin and yang) · hu jin-jang (yin and yang) · uk їнь-ян (yin and yang) · hi यिन यांग (yin and yang) · th หยินหยาง (yin and yang)