Lewinsky

See also: Lewinský

English

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Lew‧in‧sky

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Etymology 1

From a Slavic language, which added a patronymic suffix to the ultimately Hebrew root לוי (leví, “priest”), an occupational surname.

Proper noun

Lewinsky

1. A surname.

Etymology 2

From a 1998 sex scandal between US President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Noun

Lewinsky (plural Lewinskys)

1. (slang) An instance of fellatio.

   Synonym: blowjob

   • 1999 October 16, 27:15, in Saturday Night Live, season 25, episode 2:

     Bill and Hillary Clinton spent last Monday together at Camp David, celebrating their 24th wedding anniversary. […] No word as of yet on what gifts the couple exchanged, but it's a good bet he did not receive a Lewinsky.

   • 2006 May 2, Dominic Lawson, “We expect no better of John Prescott”, in The Independent‎^[1], →ISSN:

     None more so than the incidents when Ms Temple gave the Deputy Prime Minister the full Lewinsky in his office, under the gaze of a portrait of Oliver Cromwell — although we are allowed to know that at such times "he would usually be going through his ministerial box, maybe something to do with regeneration, or the environment."

   • 2011 February 21, The Rush Limbaugh Show‎^[2] (Radio), Rush Limbaugh (actor):

     Doctors have called for boys to be vaccinated against HPV just like teenage girls to stop the spread of the disease" that is spread during Lewinskys.

Verb

Lewinsky (third-person singular simple present Lewinskys, present participle Lewinskying, simple past and past participle Lewinskyed)

1. (transitive, slang) To perform fellatio on.
   • 1998 September 21, Joel Rosenberg, “Re: Do Not Read This If You're Sick of the Clinton Crap”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom‎^[3] (Usenet), message-ID <36069FFB.64CB2091@winternet.com>:

     BTW, as long as we're talking about losing one's job over oral sex, should Newt be kicked out of the House for the, err, lewinskying he got from one of his female aides?

   • 1999 July, Will Hermes, “Rack Jobbing”, in Spin, →ISSN, page 137:

     The cartoon video for "Metal Fingers in My Body" is a girl's fantasy of Lewinskying R2D2.

   • 1999 October 4, “...Or Just Look Like One” (32:08), in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Nina Laszlo (Bebe Neuwirth):

     Jazmin said he made her — "Lewinsky" him, for his collection.

Anagrams

• Wilensky