do the deed
verbEtymology Earliest attested usage is from Middle English: 1340, Ayenbite of Inwyt "Ȝete þai ben al clene; Haue þai no dede y-done" ("Yet they are all clean; They have not had intercourse"); and in 1443, Reginald Pecock, The Rule of Christian Religion: "By force hath he..don that dede, That he hath reft hire of hire maydenhede." (By force he has done that deed, That he has deprived her of her virginity.)
1
Euphemistic, Slang To have sex.
2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to do a given deed.
- Synonyms
- copulate
- Derived terms
- deedworthy