![]() ![]() It comes from the beginning of the Bible in Genesis 4 when “the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived …” Throughout the Old Testament the word know is used synonymously with copulate. Today, that word is often used in the phrase to know in a biblical sense. You’ve probably heard one of the oldest ones, too : to know. The most commonly used sexual euphemisms today are sleep with, make love, and the simple do. Sex is simultaneously very taboo and very common, so it’s no wonder that countless words have been used to stand in for carnal knowledge. ![]() In fact, many words in common parlance have shed their sexual implications over time. Learn more about the origins of euphemisms here. When occupy was used in that sense, it was a euphemism, in this case also called a dysphemism. From the early 1500s to the 1800s, occupy was used to refer to sexual relations, as in “to occupy a woman” as defined in the Lexicon Balatronicum in 1811. The term occupy formerly meant something very different than its current common meaning. We found an unexpected obsolete definition. Recently, we looked up the etymology of the word occupy. ![]()
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