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「Slobbering, spitting, spewing」「one arrayed horizontally reciprocating in orifice」as a reason to SHOUT, or describes a set of orifices with internal fluids such as mouths with saliva, and so on. A dry orifice of any kind, even a mouth, does not create much sound per se, although it may be the cause of some painful shouting if unduly accessed.
「Swollen erection with tonguing mouth」refers to the Chinese euphemism of 'singing girls' as service providers in sexual slavery (see 声, 殸, and 㛺), not all of whom were always happy about being forced to perform in a job that sucks, with some NOISE SHOUTING as the tonguing mouth clenches down upon the penis, causing additional swelling for a long time to come.
Unruly disobedient slaves, those who clenched during fellatio, were punished in kind (that's a strange oxymoron) by reaming a metal spike through the tongue and twisting it so that it could not be removed by the slave, not solely as a punishment but more so as passing on the NEWS, INFORMATION to others as a warning to any future client that「this one clenches」therefore do not place anything one values highly into her mouth, such as a pecker. If this warning were nonetheless ignored by an ignoramus, the presence of the spike caused sufficient discomfort that the ignorant client would normally terminate the contract, or risk dire consequences. The tongue-spike would likely make the fellatrix dumb, thereafter able to generate only NOISE and SOUNDS with her larynx but not too many intelligible sentences.
Some sources say that in ancient China, an escaped slave (generally, someone with the ability to actually run, rather than merely hobble or shuffle away on a mauled foot set) who was recaptured had a needle forced through the tongue then twisted as branding to let others know that the person was a runaway…but the slave could obviate such notice simply by keeping her trap shut (more English idiom referring to a clenching fellatrix), and no mention is ever made of how the escapee was recaptured, highly unlikely in most circumstances. While the punishment also caused the recaptured slave's speech to be impaired somewhat, not to mention the abilities to chew meat and to whistle, what is also overlooked by this interpretation is that foot-dis-integrating at a young age prevented escape in the first place, so how could a slave run? Rather than the metal bar insertion, the scholars say that some recaptured slaves simply had the tongue chopped or torn out with a twisting motion, causing the same sort of swelling for a while and a permanent speech impediment and giving rise to the English expression「tongue twister」that refers to garbled speech. Note that not many owners in the early days would tear out or force a needle through the tongue of an expensive concubine, or leave it in there, someone highly trained from a very young age to use that tongue with exceptional skill and in whom a significant monetary investment was made: a rhetorical question to ask the scholars might be, why didn't owners simply resell the biters to recoup some cash (into an area far distant from his own neighborhood in order to preserve his reputation)?
Foot-dis-integrating became popular for the 'really good' sex slaves—as a preventative measure, feet were mauled at the outset rather than risk a runaway. Shamans soon figured out that they could offer the goods (品,「many orifices」) at a handsome profit in an already-no-longer-integrated condition as an added convenience for the owners to avoid that hassle and to provide the slave in a ready-to-use condition upon completion of the purchase. Nevertheless, once a slave tried to escape and any sort of physical torture or penalty was imposed, any prudent owner fearing defiant retribution (see 冐) often thought twice about reinserting anything into that slave's toothed mouth, which leads us again to the real interpretation of these elements,「penis swollen」in pain because of insertion into「tonguing mouth」and causing NOISE, SOUND, sustained HOLLERING at the top of one's lungs, caveat emptor for certain. Of course, any orifice containing mucous membranes (mouth, vagina, anus) could harbor a sexually transmissible disease or infection: all the risks of escape, clenching, and disease could be eliminated by using a no-longer-integrated foot instead…or so they thought initially.
CLENCHING and related problems and fears are present in these glyphs:
歯 and 齒 as teeth.
恨 regret, hate, resentment, rueful, hold a grudge, malice, bitter feeling, rancor, to curse and swear.
艮 chewing.
仡 being fed up with conditions and bravely doing something about it while unafraid of the consequences.
旡 suddenly choking on something in one's throat.
兂 clasped with teeth.
邪 wickedly demonic.
拑 pinning with clenched teeth.
音 loud noise.
既 and 既 too late, happened already, unchangeable.
茱 and 萸 bloody stump, dogwood.
飢 ravenously chomping meat.
啗 enticing lure, gnawing meat.
啖 threaten a superior, taunt and torment, reckless endangerment while tasting and eating.
猖 ferocious and insane, mad, reckless, not following the rules.
惕 healthy respect of danger.
𣇄 and 晣 biting off a chunk, bent by tonguing mouth.
惮 and 憚 fear, dread, shirking, shrunk.
喫 clenching with gasps.
吃 and 喫 extirpate, destroy utterly.
揕 bare-fisted jab, punch in the face.
意 long in thought, intent, concerns.
貇 tenaciously clenching jaw and not letting go.
虞 horror, terror, terrorism.
鉗 clamp and gag.
𪗱 and 齟 discord, broken teeth.
𪘚 and 齬 gritting one's teeth, great hatred.
齭 pain caused by teeth.
Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: sound; noise; note (of musical scale); tone; news; syllable; reading (phonetic value of a character)
Japanese: sound, noise, report, note, fame
Unihan extended: sound, tone, pitch, pronunciation
EDRDG: sound; noise
Used within names (nanori)
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Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that)
and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language.
If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system.
Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is!
Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up.
No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else.
This site describes glyph meanings, not people.
These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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Despite how bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only have been worse?
By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs,
you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any dictionary.
This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.
Primal elements
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Chinese usage: 468 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 93 entries
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