The beast with two backs
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Illustration: Fashionable Contrasts (1792) by James Gillray.
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The beast with two backs is a euphemism for two people engaged in sexual intercourse.
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Etymology
First attested in English by Shakespeare in Othello, 1603. The phrase was first used in French ("la beste à deux doz") in Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534) by François Rabelais.
The full passage reads:
- En son eage virile, espousa Gargamelle, fille du roy des Parpaillos, belle gouge et de bonne troigne, et faisoient eux deux souvent ensemble la beste à deux doz, joyeusement se frotans leur lard, tant qu’elle engroissa d’un beau filz et le porta jusques à l’unziesme moys.
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