Dictionaries:
venereal:
1. Of or relating to sexual love or intercourse ; pertaining to sexual pleasure or indulgence. Venereal vocabulary ; a lexicon of words pertaining to sexuality.2. Of or pertaining to the genitals . Synonym: genital.
3. Transmitted through sexual contact or intercourse .
4. Of or pertaining to a sexually-transmitted-disease . Related terms : gonorrheal; gonorrheic; sexual; social; syphilitic .
5. Serving to excite sexual-desire . Synonym: aphrodisiac.
ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin venereus, venerius , derived from Venus , the goddess of love .
See Also: African toothache, antaphroditic, antivenereal, bad blood, bad disease, bend a pipe on the pisser, blood disease, blue balls, blue boar, blueballs, bone ache, bone ague, brothel sprout, brothel sprouts, bube, bubo, bulldog dose, canoe inspection, chancre mechanic, chancroid, Christian disease, coachman on the box, cock corpsman, cock-rot, coitus venenatus, cold in the dong, condyloma (acuminata), Covent Garden ague, crinkum(s), crotch rot, crud, cundum, Cupid's itch, cyprianophobia, dangle-parade, dick doc, dirty barrel, diseases, disgraceful disease, dose, dose of drip, dose of the drip, dose, a, Drury Lane ague, dumb watch, enviable disease, forget-me-not, foul disease, foul disorder, French ache(s), French crown, French disease, French fever, French goods, French gout, French measles, French pig, French pox, frenchified, galloping crud, galloping knob rot, GC, genital warts, gentleman's complaint, get VD, great pox, the, had'em, HPV, human papilloma virus, Jack in the box, jacked up, jungle rot, lock, lock hospital, malady of France, nap, Naples canker, Neapolitan bone ache, Neapolitan consolation, Neapolitan favour, Neopolitan disease, nimgimmer, old dose, pecker checker, penis machinist, peppered, peter machinist, pintle fever, piss pins and needles, plaquet stung, Polish disease, pox, pox-ridden, prick parade, pricksmith, punk, scalder, scrud, secret disease, shanker, short-arm inspection, shot betwixt wind and water, social disease, social infection, soft chancre, souvenir, Spanish gout, Spanish needle, Spanish pip, Spanish pox, spring a leak, take French lessons, taking precautions, token, torch of Venus, unmentionable disease, V-girl, VD, venereal, venereal disease, venereology, venereophobia, vice disease, warts, Winchester goose, women's disease
Quotes Containing venereal:
Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins) in Bram Stoker''s Dracula (1993): ''Blood and the diseases of the blood, such as syphilis , which concerns us here. The very name venereal-diseases, the diseases of Venus , imputes to them a divine origin.''
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