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tonsil tennis
slang Open-mouthed kissing in which both partners' tongues touch. There's this area behind the school where lots of couples go to play tonsil tennis.
Tennis anyone?
A convention of British drawing room comedies and certain novels of the 1920s and '30s was a brainless but good-natured upper-class twit—think P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster—who would appear in white flannels (de rigeur for tennis in those days), brandish his racquet, and inquire among the other weekend house-party guests, “Anyone for tennis?” The phrase caught on, as such mindless clichés are wont to do, and decades of wannabe-clever young men on both sides of the Atlantic who felt obliged to say something—anything—would ask, “Tennis, anyone?” even if there weren't a court within miles . . . and then they wondered why no one laughed.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Ambroise | | - | French |
Metodij | | - | Macedonian |
Balthasar | | - | Judeo-Christian Legend |
Faith | | [feiθ] | |
Margarita | | mahr-gah-REE-tah (Spanish, Russian) | Spanish, Russian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Late Roman |
Apphia | | AF-ee-ə (English), AP-fee-ə (English) | Biblical |