Reverse Dictionary: LOVEMAKING

(also see SEX)

ADJECTIVES
► LOVERTINE addicted to or fond of making love → 1603  obs.

NOUNS
► AFTERGLOW the winding down period following lovemaking; often the bit before getting up to go home → Brit. sl.
► DRUERY love, especially sexual love; love-making, courtship; affection; often, illicit love → a1225 obs.
► LALLYGAG ► LOLLYGAG ► ► LOLLYGOG airs, affectations, love-making → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► MOOEY-MOOEY love; lovemaking; courting → 1942 US sl.
► OOTCHIMAGOOTCHI love-making → 1940s US sl.
► OUCHIMAGOOGA love-making → 1940s US sl.
► PASH SHOW enthusiastic love-making → 1950s Aust. sl.
► ROMP a little light-hearted love-making →  c1945 colloq.

VERBS
► BOOGIE to make love → 1979 sl.
► COME THE SPOON to make love, esp. if sentimental → c1865 sl.
► DANGLE to loiter, to hang about; to make love to → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GROUSE to engage in lovemaking → 1958 Amer. sl.
► GROVEL to engage in lovemaking, esp. petting → 1987 Amer. student sl.
► LALLY-GAG ► LOLLY-GAG to flirt, to court, to make love → 1868 US colloq.
► MAKE UP ► MAKE UP TO to make love to a person → c1820 colloq.
► VALENTINO to make love → 1960s sl.