sixty-nine

English

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Cardinal: sixty-nine     Ordinal: sixty-ninth     Adverbial: sixty-nine times

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: sĭks'tē-nīnʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌsɪkstiˈnaɪn/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Hyphenation: six‧ty-nine
• Rhymes: -aɪn

Etymology 1

Number

sixty-nine

1. The cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.

Synonyms

• Arabic numerals: 69
• Roman numerals: LXIX

Derived terms

• sixty-niner, sixtyniner
• sixty-ninth

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: nege-en-sestig (af)
• Arabic: تِسْعَة وَسِتُّون (tisʕa(t) wasittūn)
• Armenian: վաթսուն ինը (vatʻsun inə)
• Azerbaijani: altmış doqquz (az)
• Basque: hirurogeita bederatzi (eu)
• Belarusian: шэ́сцьдзесят дзе́вяць (šéscʹdzjesjat dzjévjacʹ)
• Bengali: উনসত্তর (bn) (unośottor)
• Breton: nav ha tri-ugent
• Catalan: seixanta-nou (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏑᏓᎵᏍᎪ ᏐᏁᎳ (sudalisgo sonela)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 六十九 (luk⁶ sap⁶ gau²)

  Mandarin: 六十九 (liùshíjiǔ)

• Danish: niogtres
• Dutch: negenenzestig (nl)
• Esperanto: sesdek naŭ
• Finnish: kuusikymmentäyhdeksän
• French: soixante-neuf (fr) m
• Galician: sesenta e nove (gl)
• Georgian: სამოცდაცხრა (samocdacxra)
• German: neunundsechzig (de)
• Greek: εξήντα εννέα n (exínta ennéa)
• Hebrew: ששים־ותשעה (shishím və-téysha)
• Hindi: उनहत्तर (hi) (unhattar)
• Hungarian: hatvankilenc (hu)
• Icelandic: sextíu og níu (is)
• Italian: sessantanove (it)
• Japanese: 六十九 (ろくじゅうきゅう, rokujūkyū)
• Korean: 예순아홉 (yesunahop), 육십구 (ko) (yuksipgu)
• Lao: ຫົກສິບເກົ້າ (hok sip kao)
• Latin: sexaginta novem
• Lombard: sessanta-neuv
• Macedonian: шеесет и девет (šeeset i devet)
• Malay: enam puluh sembilan
• Malayalam: അറുപത്തൊമ്പത് (aṟupattompatŭ), അറുപത്തി ഒൻപത് (aṟupatti oṉpatŭ)
• Manchu: ᠨᡳᠨᠵᡠ
  ᡠᠶᡠᠨ (ninju uyun)
• Navajo: hastą́diin dóó baʼąą náhástʼéí
• Norwegian: niogseksti
• Old English: nigon and sixtiġ
• Pashto: نه شپېتۀ (nəh špetə)
• Persian: شصت و نه (šast va noh)
• Polish: sześćdziesiąt dziewięć
• Portuguese: sessenta e nove (pt)
• Romanian: șaizeci și nouă
• Russian: шестьдеся́т де́вять (ru) (šestʹdesját dévjatʹ)
• Sanskrit: एकोनाशीतितम (ekonāśītitama)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrilli: шездесет девет

  Roman: šezdeset devet

• Spanish: sesenta y nueve
• Swahili: sitini na tisa
• Swedish: sextionio (sv)
• Thai: หกสิบเก้า
• Tok Pisin: sikispela ten nain
• Turkish: altmış dokuz (tr)
• Ukrainian: шістдеся́т де́в'ять (šistdesját dévʺjatʹ)
• Yup'ik: yuinaat pingayun qulngunritaraan

Etymology 2

Calque of French soixante-neuf, from the rotational symmetry of the numeral 69 — if rotated a half-turn (by 180°), the numeral remains the same, and a couple both giving oral sex at once have, in principle, a similar rotational symmetry.

Noun

sixty-nine (countable and uncountable, plural sixty-nines)

1. (sexuality) A sex position where two people give each other oral sex at the same time.

   Synonym: soixante-neuf

   Coordinate terms: cunnilingus, fellatio, clusterfuck

Translations

sex position

• Breton: nav ha tri-ugent
• Catalan: seixanta-nou (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 69式 (zh) (liùjiǔ shì), 六十九式 (liùshíjiǔ shì)

• Danish: niogtres, 69'er
• Dutch: standje 69
• Esperanto: sesdeknaŭo
• Finnish: kuusysi, 69-asento
• French: soixante-neuf (fr) m
• Galician: sesenta e nove (gl)
• German: Neunundsechzig (de) f
• Greek: εξήντα εννέα n (exínta ennéa)
• Hungarian: hatvankilences, hatvankilenc (hu), 69-es
• Italian : sessantanove (it)
• Japanese: シックスナイン (shikkusunain)
• Korean: 69, 육구 (yukgu)
• Macedonian: по́за ше́есет и де́вет f (póza šéeset i dévet)
• Maltese: maqlubin
• Portuguese: meia-nove
• Russian: по́за 69 f (póza 69), по́за шестьдеся́т де́вять f (póza šestʹdesját dévjatʹ)
• Spanish: sesenta y nueve
• Thai: 69 (69), หกเก้า
• Turkish: altmış dokuz (tr)
• Welsh: chwedeg naw m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} تِسْعَة وَسِتُّون (tisʕa wa-sittūn)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} negenenzestig (nl)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} ששים־ותשעה (šiším və-téyša)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} sextíu og níu (is)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} sessantanove (it)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} sexaginta novem
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} شصت و نه (šast o noh)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} șaizeci și nouă
• Sanskrit: ^{(please verify)} नवषष्टि (sa) (návaṣaṣṭi), ^{(please verify)} एकोनसप्तति (ekonasaptatí)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} sesenta y nueve

Verb

sixty-nine (third-person singular simple present sixty-nines, present participle sixty-nining, simple past and past participle sixty-nined)

1. (slang) To have sex in the sixty-nine position: to engage in mutual oral sex.
   • 1976, Marilyn Gayle, What Lesbians Do, Amazon Reality Collective:

     One of my old lovers liked to sixty-nine because the distraction of what she was doing kept her mind off what she was feeling so that her anxieties about what right she had to feel so good could not as easily keep her from feeling it.

   • 1995, Alanis Morissette (lyrics and music), “Right Through You”, in Jagged Little Pill:

     You pat me on the head / You took me out to wine, dine, sixty-nine me / But didn't hear a damn word I said

Further reading

• sixty-nine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 69 (sex position) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• *69
• 69

Anagrams

• ninety-six