beast with two backsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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beast with two backs (plural beasts with two backs)

1. (idiomatic, euphemistic) Two people united in sexual intercourse in the missionary position.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 4:

     I am one ſir, that come to tell you, your daughter, and the Moore, are now making the Beaſt with two backs.

   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 15:

     [H]e remained one of the few boys of his year with whom Adrian had never made the beast with two backs, or rather with whom he had never made the beast with one back and an interestingly shaped middle, […]

同意語

• double-backed beast
• two-backed beast
• See also Thesaurus:copulation

派生語

• make the beast with two backs