Definitions

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  • noun hypocoristic, slang The vagina.
  • noun US, Canada, slang, derogatory The female equivalent of a gino.

Etymologies

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Abbreviation of vagina, either by children's mispronunciation or adults' need for a sensible euphemism.

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From the Italian forename.

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Examples

  • The next zones there will be called gina, after Gina Krog who was another important person in the civil rights movement, and katti, after Katti Anker Møller, an early women's health activist.

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  • + 'Brothers in Arms' [ 'Mark Knopler'/'Knopler, Mark'/'Neil Dorfsman'/'Dorfsman, Neil'] [ 'Monday, thirteen May 1985'] + 'gina':

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  • + 'Brothers in Arms' [ 'Mark Knopler'/'Knopler, Mark'/'Neil Dorfsman'/'Dorfsman, Neil'] [ 'Monday, thirteen May 1985'] + 'gina':

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  • Good luck and for 'gina's sake, please keep posting on this.

    Mary Shelley Had NO IDEA 2008

  • I can't wait until I no longer have to hear about her "gina" and all is fascinating attributes...

    Bank Of VaJayJay 2008

  • My son always seems to think that a "gina" is just another version of a tushy, so I bet he'll be awfully surprised some day when he's seven and he plays doctor.

    If Truth Is A Woman, She Wears A Skort 2007

  • My gal has been exploring and discussing her "'gina" for a while.

    Where Dora Don't Go 2007

  • ¤ 2002-07-10 ¤ 10: 32 a.m. ¤ coulda been one of those nights i guess last night as i was deleting people from my phone i came across a "gina". i dont know any ginas. who is she and how did she get in my phone? am i losing it? am i nuts? who is gina!

    sillybitch Diary Entry sillybitch 2002

  • Priest, we lost jobs because of legislation, we can gina jobs by legislation.

    Dave Johnson: Erie, PA Town Hall: "No Country Ever Went Broke Investing in Its Own People" Dave Johnson 2010

  • Write to Anupreeta Das at anupreeta.das@wsj.com and Gina Chon at gina.chon@wsj.com

    Investors Warm to Big Deals Anupreeta Das 2011

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  • Gina, 1962, Johnny Mathis

    February 9, 2008

  • Also a song by the Stray Cats (but not a particularly good one).

    February 9, 2008