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to do the nasty

to do the nasty

4 9.5
To have sex with someone
  • phrasal verb
  • NSFW
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  • But no one told him to do the nasty with her; that was by his own doing, so there is no one here to blame it on but Billy Boy ...
  • people doing the nasty

They get in and they start, you know, doing the nasty sex to me.

Examples

  • I will... ...if you say we did the nasty.

    Good Luck Chuck (2007)

  • Yes, you silly johns, many of you are now on tape doing the nasty somewhere in the digisphere.

    Blog text (9)

  • - You did the nasty.

    Fury (2014)

  • And perhaps they're down below as we speak, doing the nasty.

    Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

  • And presumably she was doing the nasty with Horace Junior.

    Camouflage (2001)

  • Are you going to do the nasty with your partner this weekend?

  • They laughed and whispered about how they planned to do the nasty at the party.

  • During the movie night, she hinted that they might do the nasty if things went well.

Synonyms

to do it
vsto do the nasty
  • NSFW
999 9.8

To have sex with someone

is more playful and euphemistic in tone
to get into one's pants
vsto do the nasty
  • Offensive
3 9.9

To try to have sex with someone in a rude or selfish way

expresses the act itself without implying crude intent or pursuit
to have it off
vsto do the nasty
  • NSFW
1 9.9

To have sex with someone, used in informal British English

is more playful and euphemistic in tone
to have a go at it
vsto do the nasty
  • Offensive
1 9.9

To have sex with someone

is humorous and less literal than that phrase
to fuck someone's brains out
vsto do the nasty
  • Offensive
1 9.9

To have very strong sex with someone, said in rude language

describes the act without emphasizing extreme intensity or vulgarity
to roll in the hay
vsto do the nasty
  • NSFW
9.2

To have sex briefly in a casual way

is more neutral and can mean any partnered sexual intercourse

Antonyms

to avoid
∞ 1.0

To stay away from something or not do it to stop something bad from happening

to abstain
18 5.0

To choose not to take something, often for health or religious reasons

How Explicit

to fuck
  • Offensive
∞ 9.9
to have sex
  • NSFW
∞ 3.0
to sleep with
  • NSFW
652 7.4
to do the nasty
  • NSFW
4 9.5
to make love
  • NSFW
296 5.3

Surface Forms

do the nasty infinitive
did the nasty past
done the nasty past participle
doing the nasty present participle
does the nasty third person singular

Morphology

do + the + nasty

The phrase combines 'do' (perform) with 'nasty' (indecent), so a learner who knows the words can infer it refers to performing something indecent; however the specific interpretation as 'have sexual intercourse' is euphemistic and culturally conventional rather than strictly compositional. Because the precise sexual sense and its register/humorous nuance require pragmatic or cultural knowledge beyond literal meanings, this is only partially predictable.

Etymology

Do the nasty likely comes from calling sex nasty, meaning dirty or taboo, so people began to use do the nasty as a joking or less direct way to talk about it. That's why the phrase is a playful or euphemistic way to say 'to have sex'.