cum grano salis
With a grain of salt; with a bit of common sense and skepticism.
This observation, taken cum grano salis, applies more or less to all who are daily exposed to the temptations of a superfluous table.
cum
/kʌm/
noun 4verb 3prep 1adj 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
anal, covered, early, faint, inside, medium
VERB + CUM
didn't, don't, graduated, learned, licking, love, makes, swallow
CUM + NOUN
calves, friday, friend's, laude, nickels, sex, socks
PREP.
about, from, in, off, on, until, up, with
ADV.
seriously
Definitions
prep
1
Used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or which has changed from one to another.
He is too good an actor to need that sort of tomfoolery: the effect will be far better if he is a credible mining camp elder-cum-publican.
One driver-cum-fireman-cum-fitter looks after the three locomotives, [...].
noun
1
Semen.
Jim descends into the murky tunnel; the faint odor of cum permeates the air.
Licking a friend's cum off another friend's belly.
2
Female ejaculatory discharge.
3
An ejaculation.
verb
1
To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
Despite claims to the contrary, a woman can cum from anal sex alone.
2
To ejaculate.
Some men cum as much as 10 milliliters.
I got no sensation down there, so I don't know when I'm hard, I don't know when I cum. My wife's gotta tell me.
3
Eye dialect spelling of come (“move from further to nearer; arrive”).
“Where'd he cum from?” the bowman inquired. “That's what we'd like ter know, yer see; where he cum from, and how he happen'd to cum,” responded the steersman. “But he's a jolly good feller, strong as a lion, […]”
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He is too good an actor to need that sort of tomfoolery: the effect will be far better if he is a credible mining camp elder-cum-publican.
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One driver-cum-fireman-cum-fitter looks after the three locomotives, [...].
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The banner shows a yellowed silhouette of a boy (possibly Calvin, of Calvin & Hobbes) urinating on an EU flag. Sites such as this show the full power of the Internet as a propaganda medium cum travel
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Jim descends into the murky tunnel; the faint odor of cum permeates the air.
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Licking a friend's cum off another friend's belly.
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This week I learned that cum tastes like nickels.
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In some senses, cum is marked as vulgar, slang, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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