private parts

English

Noun

private parts pl (plural only)

1. (euphemistic) Those parts of the human body commonly expected to be covered by clothing when in public.
   • 1908, anonymous, The Way of a Man with a Maid, Volume 2 Chapter 9

     Lady Betty now had her daughter's freshly violated cunt right under her eyes and only a few inches off. Right above Molly's eyes, and also only a few inches off, hung her mother's cunt. Neither could avoid seeing what was being done to each other's private parts! Were ever a mother and a daughter so cruelly placed?

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.

Synonyms

• privy parts
• privates
• parts

See also: Thesaurus:genitalia

Translations

genitals or sex organs — see genitalia

intimate parts of the human body

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: ամօթոյք (amōtʻoykʻ)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 私處／私处 (zh) (sīchù), 陰部／阴部 (zh) (yīnbù) (genitalia)

• Danish: private dele c pl
• Estonian: suguelundid
• Finnish: sukuelimet pl
• French: parties intimes (fr) f pl
• German: Scham (de) f, Geschlechtsteile (de) n pl, Schamteile n pl
• Italian: parti intime f pl
• Japanese: 恥部 (ja) (ちぶ, chibu), 陰部 (ja) (いんぶ, inbu) (genitalia)
• Korean: 음부(陰部) (ko) (eumbu)
• Latin: pudenda n pl, inguen n
• Portuguese: partes (pt) f pl
• Romanian: părți intime f pl, zone intime f pl
• Russian: инти́мные ча́сти те́ла f pl (intímnyje části téla), срамны́е места́ n pl (sramnýje mestá)
• Swedish: privata delar c pl