kiki

In the sense "lesbian who is neither butch nor femme", sometimes said to mean "neither-nor" in some language; related to kai kai (“sexual activity between drag queens”); see that entry for more. In the sense "a gathering for gossiping and chit-chat", perhaps imitative of giggling.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːkiː/

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• Rhymes: -iːkiː

kiki (plural kikis)

1. (LGBT, slang, US) A gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat.
   • 2012 September 11, Scissor Sisters (lyrics and music), “Let's Have a Kiki”, in Magic Hour‎, track 6:

     Let's have a kiki / I wanna have a kiki / Lock the doors tight / Let's have a kiki

   • 2016 April 22, Lucian Piane (lyrics and music), “Pray & Slay”, in RuPaul’s Drag Race: The Rusical‎:

     Get on my knees and have a kiki with Jesus

2. (LGBT, US, derogatory, dated or historical) A lesbian who is neither butch nor femme. [from the 1940s through the 1970s]
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:kiki.

• ki-ki

kiki (third-person singular simple present kikis, present participle kiki-ing, simple past and past participle kikied)

1. (LGBT, slang, US) To meet with friends without any agenda or goals.
   • 2010, David Carter, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, page 130:

     We spent a whole lot of time kiki'ing around—fooling around.

   • 2016, Andy Cohen, Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries:

     Went home, changed for my show, kikied with Bruce and walked over to the apartment for my weekly meeting and Sally was just walking into the building from Sirius.

   • 2019 September 5, Ana Colón, “How Two Women Turned $12 Into the Curvy Con, the Biggest Plus-Size Event at Fashion Week”, in Glamour:

     “I still had my corporate job, so we would talk on GChat all day while I was at work,” says Olisa. (She’s still based in New York; Garner Valentine has since relocated to Georgia. Both are in their 30s.) “To the outside world, I was working diligently, but I was really kiki-ing with my friend.”

kiki

1. small

• Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 158

Unknown.

kiki

1. tartar; calculus

Reduplication of ki, from puki.

kiki

1. the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina

Reduplication of ki, from lalaki.

kiki

1. a boy or man

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ki.ki/

kiki m (plural kikis)

1. (dated) throat
2. (childish) penis
   • 1966, La facture du diable, Francis L. Séjour-Magloire, page 73:

     Il regarda son kiki bander comme un arc.

     He watched his willy go hard like an arch.

   • 1986, Mustapha Raïth, Palpitations intra-muros, →ISBN, page 194:

     Il en pleura longtemps parce qu’il avait l’impression que ce monsieur lui avait volé un bout de son kiki.

     He cried over it for a long time because he had the impression that this man had stolen a part of his willy.

   • 2002, Gilles Antonowicz, Agressions sexuelles: la réponse judiciaire, →ISBN, page 133:

     C’est ce qu’il faisait avec son kiki, il le mettait partout, dans la bouche, c’était pas bon, berk […]

     That's what he did with his willy, he put it everywhere, in his mouth, it wasn't good, yuck

• (childish, a penis): zizi m

• c’est parti mon kiki

• “kiki”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

kiki

1. plug

kiki

1. to sting

• Pukui-Elbert: Hawaiian Dictionary 1985

kiki

1. (Banawá) to look to the side

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

kiki

1. Rōmaji transcription of きき

kiki

1. (pronominal) oneself, same, equal, identical

• kikin

Borrowed from English kick.

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kiki (n class, plural kiki)

1. (sports) kick (football)

   Synonym: mkwaju

Reduplication of the last syllable of puki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkikiʔ/, [ˈki.xɪʔ]
• Hyphenation: ki‧ki

kikì (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜃᜒ)

1. (informal, anatomy) vulva

   Synonym: puke

From Chinese, according to Panganiban (1972).

• IPA^(key): /kiˈki/, [kɪˈxi]
• Hyphenation: ki‧ki

kikí (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜃᜒ)

1. expulsion from the mouth by pushing out with the tongue

• “kiki”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, David Paul (1981) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 2, page 85

• Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles, Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 283

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiskis, compare Malay kikis.

kiki

1. to scale (remove scales of fish)

Said by Voorhoeve to be from Malay gigit.

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.ki/

kiki

1. (transitive) to bite

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics