family jewels
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈfæmɪli dʒuːəlz/
- Offensive
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huevos (informal, vulgar)
- The word is that you actually had a conversation with the guy before he bounced you on the sidewalk and walked away with your family jewels.
- right in the family jewels
Manscaped offers precision engineered tools for your family jewels, your nuts.
- Manscaped offers precision engineered tools for your family jewels, your nuts.
Examples
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You don't wake up one morning and say, "Shoot, the family jewels have gone on the blink."
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Gotta protect the family jewels.
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Thought I'd check out the family jewels.
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After all, after death, breasts and family jewels go the way of all flesh.
Fiction book (1992) -
Do family jewels hang as soft and tender as breasts?
Fiction book (1992) -
Manscaped offers precision engineered tools for your family jewels, your nuts.
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The way Morgan, Rock, and Carnegie bankrolled McKinley then, to their collective chagrin, got a whack of Theo's stick in the old family jewels, hence a dose of accountability?
Blog text (19) -
Always protect your family jewels when playing rough sports.
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He joked that he needed to wear a cup to safeguard his family jewels.
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During the discussion, he mentioned the importance of keeping an eye on his family jewels.
Synonyms
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5.8
Parts on the outside of a man's body that are used to have children
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3.5
The outside sexual parts of a male, like the penis and scrotum
Surface Forms
Morphology
family + jewels
The slang meaning 'male sex organs' is not transparently derived from the literal senses of 'family' (relatives) and 'jewels' (valued ornaments); the phrase is a euphemistic metaphor whose referent cannot be predicted from the parts. This is a culture-specific, colloquial usage that requires pragmatic or cultural exposure rather than knowledge of the constituent words, so a B1 learner who only knows the words would not reliably infer the idiomatic meaning.
Etymology
Family jewels may come from a joking image of a man's private parts as a family's precious treasure, with family and jewels giving the idea of something to protect. So it is used as a humorous or softer way to say 'the male sex organs' or 'testicles'.