drink from the furry cup

• enPR: drĭngk frəm thə fûr′ē kŭp, -frŭm-, -frŏm-, -fŭr′ē-
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɹɪŋk fɹəm ðə ˈfɜː.iː kʌp/, /-fɹʌm-/; /-fɹɒm-/, (older) /-fɹɔːm-/; /-ˈfʌɹ.iː/
• IPA^(key): /dɹɪŋk fɹəm ðə ˈfɜɹ.i kʌp/, /-fɹʌm-/; (cot–caught merger) /-fɹɑm-/; /-ˈfʌɹ.i/

  (without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): (General American) /-fɹɔm-/, (Canada) /-fɹɒm-/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɹɪŋk fɹəm ðə ˈfɜː.iː kɐp/, /-fɹɐm-/, /-fɹɔm-/, /-ˈfɐɹ.iː/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /dɹəŋk fɹəm ðə ˈføː.iː kɐp/, /-fɹɐm-/, /-fɹɒm-/, /-ˈfɐɹ.iː/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /dɹɪŋk fɹəm ðə ˈfʌɹ.i kʌp/, /-fɹʌm-/, /-fɹɔm-/, /-ˈfʌɹ.i/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ɖɾɪŋk fɾom d̪e ˈfəːʳiː kəp/, /-fɾəm-/, /-fɾɔm-/, /-ˈfəɾ.iː/
• Hyphenation: drink from the fur‧ry cup

drink from the furry cup (third-person singular simple present drinks from the furry cup, present participle drinking from the furry cup, simple past drank from the furry cup or (Southern US) drunk from the furry cup or (nonstandard) drinked from the furry cup, past participle drunk from the furry cup or (chiefly archaic) drunken from the furry cup or (dialectal) drank from the furry cup or (all nonstandard, archaic, or obsolete) drinked from the furry cup or drinken from the furry cup or dranken from the furry cup)

1. (intransitive, figurative, vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.

   Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:perform oral sex

   • 2001 October 5, Graham Joyce, Salon‎^[1]:

     In the U.K. there is a television comedian called Ali G who, confounding correctness, has made it his trademark to ask serious-minded lesbians if it is "good to drink from the furry cup." Surrealism has long since found its way into the music-hall joke.

   • 2006, Matt Lucas, David Walliams, “Episode four”, in Little Britain, The Complete Scripts and Stuff: Series Three, page 161:

     Oh yes. I'm all for Gay Rights. In fact I myself drink from the furry cup.

   • 2012 September 6, Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye‎^[2], Penguin UK, →ISBN:

     The sexual connotations of Object (Le Déjeuner en Fourrure) [ŏb′jĕkt′ (/lə de.ʒœ.ne ɑ̃ fu.ʁyʁ/)] are obvious: drinking from the furry cup is an explicit sexual reference.

   • 2019 March 20, Antony J Stowers, The Summer of '89‎^[3], Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 186:

     She was pretty but Willy took me aside and waved a warning finger not to fuck up the atmosphere in the house and only added
     ‘And she drinks from the furry cup,’ as a coda.

   • 2024 March 29, Joey Barton, Twitter‎^[4]:

     I have to take back what I’ve said on Lesbo-ball recently. Clearly they all don’t drink from the furry cup.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drink,‎ from,‎ the,‎ furry,‎ cup.