Cunnilingus

Cunnilingus is the act of using the mouth, lips, and tongue to stimulate the female genitals. The clitoris is particularly noted as the most sexually sensitive part of the female genitalia. Shere Hite notes that most women achieve orgasm easily from clitoral stimulation as part of cunnilingus. The term comes from an alternative Latin word for the vulva (cunnus) and from the Latin word for tongue (lingua). A person who performs cunnilingus may be referred to as a "cunnilinguist".

There are numerous slang terms for cunnilingus, including "drinking from the furry cup","dining at the Y", "licking out", "picking the daisies", "licking the peach", "going down" or "eating out", "smack clam", "munch rug", "dining at the pink taco stand", "muff-diving", "carpet-munching", "yodelling in the canyon/valley", "feasting", "harvesting the salmon", and "eating the flower". In lesbian culture, several common slang terms used are "giving lip", "lip service", or "tipping the velvet" (an expression that novelist Sarah Waters claims to have "plucked from the relative obscurity of Victorian porn"). Older erotic literature refers to it as "gamahuching", with some variation in the spelling.