bodily functions

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bodily functions

Euph. anything the body does automatically or as a normal occurrence, especially urinating and defecating. The dog needed to go outside and perform her bodily functions. It is not polite to discuss bodily functions at the dinner table.

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She had a genteel refinement which shuddered at the facts of life, she looked upon the bodily functions as indecent, she had all sorts of euphemisms for common objects, she always chose an elaborate word as more becoming than a simple one: the brutality of these men was like a whip on her thin white shoulders, and she shuddered with voluptuous pain. Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context			blown blue blue blood blue collar blue in the face blue-collar blues bluff bluff into bluff out bluff way bluff way out blurt out blush blush with board board out board up board with boast boast about boat bob Bob's your uncle! bode somehow for bodily functions body body and soul body politic bog bog down bog standard bogged down boggle boggle at boggle mind boggle the mind boil boil away boil down boil down to boil out of boil over boil up boil with boiling bold bold as brass bollix up bolster up bolt			bodies bodies Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus bodies of Arantius bodies of Arantius bodies of Arantius bodies of Arantius bodies of Arantius Bodies of Dead Animals Act Bodies Of Revolution Bodies of water Bodies Without Organs bodikin bodiless bodiless bodilessness Bodiliness Bodiliness Bodilis-Plougar Football Club bodily bodily bodily bodily cavity bodily deviation from health bodily existence Bodily fear bodily fluid bodily fluid Bodily fluids bodily function bodily functions Bodily harm Bodily harm Bodily Injuries Bodily Injuries Bodily injury Bodily injury Bodily injury Bodily Injury and Property Damage Bodily Injury Coverage Bodily Injury Coverage Bodily Injury Index Bodily Injury Insurance Bodily Injury Liability Insurance bodily movement bodily movement bodily movement bodily movement bodily presentation bodily process bodily property bodily representation Bodily secretions Bodily secretions Bodily secretions Bodily secretions bodily structure bodily tide Bodin, Jean Bodinayakkanur Bodine State Fish Hatchery

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