fellate

verb

fel·​late ˈfe-ˌlāt How to pronounce fellate (audio) fə-ˈlāt How to pronounce fellate (audio)
fellated; fellating

transitive verb

: to perform fellatio on

intransitive verb

: to fellate someone
fellator
ˈfe-ˌlā-tər How to pronounce fellate (audio)
fə-ˈlā-tər
noun

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During the workshop that followed, a fellow participant—a straight man—looks deep into my eyes and asks me to fellate him. — Nicholas Clairmont, Air Mail, 10 Oct. 2026 There are some mini love triangles in Succession, like Roman dating the woman who fellated-and-then-some his brother-in-law to be, and the Swedish Viking Lukas’s interest in Shiv as more than a potential business partner. — John Ortved, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2025 This awestruck fervor was a little too much, given that, in the source material, Aykroyd famously dreams about being fellated by a ghost and Murray spends nearly every minute on-screen rolling his eyes. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2024 In recent months, those online debates have grown coarse and self-righteous, thanks to an unfortunate lyrical shift towards fellating his own male id on Her Loss, his pathetically execrable collaboration from last year with 21 Savage. — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023

Word History

Etymology

back-formation from fellatio

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

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The first known use of fellate was in 1941

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