AN INDEPENDENT LANGUAGE REFERENCE · EST. 2026
617 ways to say one word.
The Fellowship of the Dix is a sourced, cross-referenced encyclopaedia of anatomical slang, euphemism and idiom in eleven languages. It is exactly as serious as it needs to be, and not one bit more.
Content note: this site contains vulgar language throughout. That is rather the point.
The collection
English A–Z
315 entries, from acorn to zucchini, by way of a startling amount of weaponry.
Other Languages
248 terms in ten languages, from Catalan to Japanese. In one it’s a cicada, in another a demon, in a third a young gentleman.
Related Expressions
54 neighbours: erections, testicles, euphemisms for sex, and Spanish and Catalan idioms that use the vocabulary figuratively.
From the Archive
Sourced stories: the pencil, the orchid, King Lear, the Sex Pistols’ obscenity trial and the bone humans don’t have.
Did you know?
In 1977 a Nottingham court heard expert testimony from a professor of English on the history of the word bollocks, and acquitted. Read the case →
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Know one we haven’t got? Suggest an entry, correction or source. Every submission is reviewed by a human with standards before it goes anywhere near the encyclopaedia. Read the contribution guidelines →
Origins
The collection began with a community discussion on r/AO3, where fan-fiction writers compared notes on what to call it. Somebody had to write it all down properly. About the Fellowship →
