In the two last named passages pukku is a synonym of mekû, which from the general meaning of "enclosure" comes to be a euphemistic expression for the female organ.
A similar euphemistic form of expression is often used in regard to animals.
FN#216] This is one of the many euphemistic formulæ for such occasions: they usually begin "May thy head live.
FN#116] An euphemistic form to avoid mentioning the incestuous marriage.
They argued, from experience, that no trust was to be placed in those official assurances and euphemistic phrases which are generally belied by subsequent acts.
Yet, instead of candidly avowing this root-defect and remedying it, they were content to stretch the euphemistic terms until these covered conflicting conceptions and gratified the ears of every hearer.
The rise of the caste, and its euphemistic name, seem both of them to date from about the ninth and tenth centuries A.
To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions.
The great savage Baresark: he could write noeuphemistic Monarchy of Man; did not speak, did not work with glib regularity; had no straight story to tell for himself anywhere.
It was used as a euphemistic epithet to appease Rudra, the lord of tempests; and finally, the epithet developed into a distinct god.
This is the agathodemonic or heraldic Dragon, which has inherited the euphemistic characters of the treasure-guarding and crowned serpent.
It may have had a euphemistic origin, for the giants dreaded by primitive Europeans were too formidable to be lightly spoken of.
The separate functions must not be lost sight of because sometimes traceable to a single form, nor their practical character suffer disguise through their fair euphemistic or mythological names.
It is not quite certain that it may not have been through some euphemistic process that Fire-worship arose in Persia.
Its history, however, is very significant of the formidable character of the Hirpini, or Wolf-tribe, which could alone have given rise to such euphemistic celebrations of the wolf.
Defn: A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.
Defn: To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions.
These euphemistictitles for the deities of terror are common to all the mythologies.
Such a ghost is conciliated by being addressed by the euphemistic title of Mamduh, "the praised one.
FN#263] An euphemistic answer, unbernfen as the Germans say.
FN#333] An euphemistic form of questioning after absence: "Is all right with thee?
Now, I suppose, to most careful readers that clearly is intended as a gracious, and what they call a euphemistic way of speaking about death.
Mr. Maugham's euphemistic question, in his effort to find out for Mrs. Strickland if her husband has been faithful to his marriage vows.
That is a euphemistic way of saying he knows mob psychology and individual weakness, but his reputation in this respect has been injured by his failure to be generous and gracious to Congress.
Erinyes or Furies--the euphemistic name for these.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "euphemistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: elegant; euphemistic; exquisite; formalistic; mincing; pedantic; precious; simpering
