down there

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Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /daʊn ðɛə(ɹ)/, /daʊn ðɛː(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /daʊn ðɛəɹ/
  • (Maine accent) IPA(key): /daʊn ˈðeɪə/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /daʊn ðeː(ɹ)/

Adverb

down there (not comparable)

  1. (euphemistic) In the (usually female) genital area.
    • 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Florence, Italy: [] Tipografia Giuntina, []], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 November 2020:
      And when I'd come and really finished, then she'd start on her own account, and I had to stop inside her till she brought herself off, wriggling and shouting, she'd clutch clutch[sic] with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy.
    • 2005, Annie Fox, Elizabeth Verdick, The Teen Survival Guide to Dating & Relating, page 44:
      Then she put her hand on my pants, you know, down there.
    • 2013, Erin MacPherson, The Christian Mama's Guide to Baby's First Year, page 15:
      It may seem a bit strange to squirt yourself with warm water from a squirt bottle every time you use the restroom for a few weeks, but I'm pretty sure we can all agree that getting an infection down there doesn't sound fun.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, there.

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