"Root" (Verb) Means Sex

[+ Avalon]

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=root

 

I heard that used today on the British soap opera "Coronation Street". I like it.

[+ bashful]

I guess it could mean that. A Google definition is to establish firmly and deeply.

[mike carey]

Oh, it does mean that. Australians are constantly amused by Americans who root for football teams, and why they discuss that promiscuity so publicly.

[cany10011]

I guess the term “root” is similar to the idea of “boning” which is such a sexy descriptor of plunging deep inside a hot ass that your pelvic bone meets his fleshy bottom.

[Rudynate]

Oh, it does mean that. Australians are constantly amused by Americans who root for football teams, and why they discuss that promiscuity so publicly.

 

 

 

I was going to say, you hear it in Aussie TV shows and movies.

[Rudynate]

I guess the term “root” is similar to the idea of “boning” which is such a sexy descriptor of plunging deep inside a hot ass that your pelvic bone meets his fleshy bottom.

 

 

I've always imagined the bone in "boning" was a hard dick.

[+ tassojunior]

Have Brits picked up "Root". I thought it was just Aussie.

Anyway, I will use "root" in a sentence today.

 

And yes, "bone" is the American equivalent.

 

In the US we speak of "rooting around" as rummaging through things usually looking for something. She was rooting around in her drawer for a pencil.

Americans and Aussies have the best vernaculars but they are seldom similar.

Edited July 31, 2018 by tassojunior

[mike carey]

I guess the term “root” is similar to the idea of “boning” which is such a sexy descriptor of plunging deep inside a hot ass that your pelvic bone meets his fleshy bottom.

'Rooting' is far more general than that, it's generic slang for sexual intercourse. Here, boned has the connotation of being violated rather than just having sex. Boned is also used in a non-sexual context.

Have Brits picked up "Root". I thought it was just Aussie.

Anyway, I will use "root" in a sentence today.

 

And yes, "bone" is the American equivalent.

 

In the US we speak of "rooting around" as rummaging through things usually looking for something. She was rooting around in her drawer for a pencil.

I looked in the Oxford and it cites 'root' as Australian, NZ and Irish slang. Regardless of that, we tend to take up each other's slang more readily than we do American slang (although we generally understand that, so 'rooting' for a team doesn't always attract mirth as we know what you mean). We also use 'rooting around' in that sense. Perhaps as a derivative of its sexual meaning 'rooted' can mean exhausted (shagged and fucked can also be used that way).

Edited July 31, 2018 by mike carey

[gallahadesquire]

I first heard of this in some porn flick, where a guy is disappointed that his arranged meet up didn't happen.

 

"I was looking forward to a good root."

It was kind of obvious what he meant, as they then went ahead and had a good root.

[+ tassojunior]

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Perhaps as a derivative of its sexual meaning 'rooted' can mean exhausted (shagged and fucked can also be used that way).

 

and the first time I was ever in London a girl sat beside me and said she was naked and needed a fag.

[Rudynate]

and the first time I was ever in London a girl sat beside me and said she was naked and needed a fag.

 

When I was a kid, I remember people using the word "fag" for cigarette. When I was in the Army, guys who'd been to Vietnam occasionally called cigarettes "squares."

[+ Avalon]

When I was a kid, I remember people using the word "fag" for cigarette. When I was in the Army, guys who'd been to Vietnam occasionally called cigarettes "squares."

 

Thanks! I'd never heard of that.

 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smoke%20a%20square

[spider]

The OED traces it back to James Joyce in Ulysses.

 

1922. All the poking and rooting and ploughing he had me up in.

 

To me, that use of root(ing) is really describing an act of intercourse as being similar to what pigs do when they root in the ground.