roll in the hay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolls in the hay
Etymology: In the case of the euphemism, US origin, 1945.
Senses: examples: text: Don't disturb them. They're having a roll in the hay, I think.
text: The early aubades and tagelieder in particular are just full of noble knights who nonetheless are a rather randy lot and never pass up the chance for a good roll in the hay with an unhappily married noblewoman.
ref: 2009, Glenn Yeffeth, editor, James Bond in the 21st Century, BenBella Books, Inc., →ISBN:
text: “Amen to that. Our girl needs another employee, a car, and a roll in the hay. And not necessarily in that order.”
ref: 2013, Ellery Adams, Peach Pies and Alibis, Penguin, →ISBN, page 9:
text: According to an Oregon State University study of 159 employees, those who had a roll in hay reported they were in a more positive mood the next day, which led to higher job satisfaction and work engagement.
ref: 2017 September 2, Chelsea Peng, “5 *Scientific* Reasons to Have More Sex”, in Marie Claire:
synonyms: word: aphrodisia
word: carnal knowledge
word: coitus
word: coition
word: commerce
word: commixtion
word: congress
word: conjunction
word: connection
word: consummation
word: conversation
word: copulation
word: coupling
word: intercourse
word: intimacy
word: intimate relations
word: intromission
word: joining
word: lovemaking
word: lustmaking
word: marital embrace
word: mating
word: mounting
raw_tags: for animals
word: pareunia
word: penetration
word: relations
word: sex
word: sexual congress
word: sexual intercourse
word: sexual relation
word: sexual union
word: swiving
word: union
word: the beast with two backs
word: the birds and the bees
word: boom-boom
word: chesterfield rugby
word: horizontal dancing
word: horizontal hula
word: horizontal jogging
word: horizontal mambo
word: horizontal refreshments
word: how's your father
word: love
word: Netflix and chill
word: physical love
word: roll in the hay
word: Ugandan affairs
word: Ugandan discussions
word: action
word: ass
word: bang
word: barney-mugging
word: beef injection
word: bonking
word: cuntfuck
word: fucking
word: frig
word: fucky-fucky
word: hot beef injection
word: hump
word: humpa humpa
word: jig-jig
word: jiggy-jiggy
word: lay
word: legover
word: meat injection
word: nookie
word: old hat
word: pipe
word: plow
word: plough
word: poon
word: poontang
word: punani
word: pussy
word: ride
word: root
word: rumpo
word: rumpy-pumpy
word: seeing-to
word: sexy time
word: sexy times
word: screw
word: screwing
word: shag
word: skin
word: snu snu
word: tang
word: trim
word: hanky-panky
word: funny business
word: making whoopee
word: jiggery-pokery
word: monkey business
word: fooling about
word: fooling around
word: playing around
glosses: A session of sexual intercourse.
examples: text: But hay-makers would rather be without one [a rain fall], and if it were wet weather, that gay party of children would not be able to enjoy their roll in the hay. I think they are going to cover that little boy with hay, and then he will jump up and serve them the same. Their gambols do no harm, as the more the hay is scattered and shook about the better, and the hay-making, which began last month, is now to be finished.
ref: 1854, Maria Jacob, “July”, in The Days, Months, and Seasons of the Year, Explained to the Little People of England, Nathaniel Cooke, →OCLC:
text: Meta had been the whole morning long in the hayfield. Not the particular hayfield already mentioned; that one was cleared of hay now; but to some other hayfield, whose cocks were in full bloom—if such an expression may be used in regard to hay. There were few things Miss Meta liked so much as a roll in the hay; and, so long as cocks were to be found in the neighbourhood, Margery would be coaxed over to take her to them.
ref: 1863, Mrs. Henry Wood, “Chapter 19”, in The Shadow of Ashlydyat, Macmillan and Company, published 1907, →OCLC, page 307:
text: Nothing, seemingly, could exceed the delight of the young ones when, after a good game in the fields and a roll in the hay, which happened to be in a state in which they could not injure it, they were allowed, in regular order as marshalled by their teachers, to walk through the private gardens and the principal rooms of the mansion.
ref: 1865, Edward Spooner, Parson and People: Or, Incidents in the Every-day Life of a Clergyman, F.J. Huntington, →OCLC, pages 62–63:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see roll, in, the, hay.