{{Short description|Dutch sexual term}} {{Wiktionary|swaffelen}} '''{{Lang|nl|Swaffelen}}''' (or '''{{Lang|nl|zwaffelen}}''', similar to "dick-slap"<ref>{{cite news |title=Swaffelen, Shrimping & Co: Four strange sex terms that you can add to your vocabulary and bedroom |url=https://www.gq.co.za/sex-relationships/swaffelen-shrimping-and-co-four-strange-sex-terms-that-you-can-add-to-your-vocabulary-and-bedroom-cae486a7-55bc-43a5-8c57-202770434bfa |access-date=15 December 2024 |work=GQ |date=14 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref>) is to hit one's soft or semi-erect penis — often repeatedly — against an object or another person's body. {{Lang|nl|Swaffelen}} is Dutch and was named as the word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2008.
The act of {{Lang|nl|swaffelen}} often takes place in the form of teasing, crude humor, or a degrading context, but it can also be a sexual act. When the act is practiced on a person, it is often the person's cheek that is hit with the flaccid or semi-hard penis. Similar terms exist in other languages.
== Origin == The term "{{Lang|nl|swaffelen}}" is believed to have originated in English-speaking areas.<ref name="UPI">{{cite news |date=17 December 2008 |title=Dutch pick penis-shaking term as top word |url=http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/12/17/Dutch-pick-penis-shaking-term-as-top-word/UPI-73411229494794/ |access-date=18 May 2012 |newspaper=UPI}}</ref> It is believed to originate from Dutch words meaning swing, sway and swoop, as well as the German words for tail or penis ({{lang|de|Schweif}} and {{lang|de|Schwanz}}).<ref name=UPI /><ref name="Expatica">{{cite web |date=15 December 2008 |title=Swaffelen is Dutch word of the year |url=http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/local_news/Dutch-word-of-the-year-is-swaffelen.html |access-date=18 May 2012 |work=Dutch News |publisher=Expatica}}</ref>
== Australian English (''turkey-slap'') == '''''Turkey-slap''''' is another term for {{Lang|nl|swaffelen}}.{{cn|date=December 2024}} The phrase gained notoriety in Australia during 2006, after two male contestants, Ashley Cox and John Bric, in the ''Big Brother'' reality TV series performed the act on a female housemate, Camilla Severi. In the ensuing controversy, the male housemates were expelled from the house and contest for violating the show's terms of agreement.<ref>{{cite news|author=Darren Cartwright|date=April 27, 2007|title=Big Brother turkey-slap baby|work=The Daily Telegraph|publisher=News Limited|url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21630096-5012853,00.html|access-date=28 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318153323/http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21630096-5012853,00.html|archive-date=18 March 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Big Brother Turkey Slap Transcript|url=http://www.duncanriley.com/big-brother-turkey-slap-transcript/|website=duncanriley.com|access-date=18 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cunningham |first1=Katie |title='It was pretty scary': the Big Brother 'turkey slap' that rocked reality TV |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jan/31/it-was-pretty-scary-the-big-brother-turkey-slap-that-rocked-reality-tv |access-date=15 December 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=31 January 2020}}</ref>
== Dutch ({{lang|nl|swaffelen}}) == In April 2008, the term received wide media attention in the Netherlands and Belgium,<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 December 2008 |title=Swaffelen woord van het jaar |url=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf16122008_004 |access-date=2022-01-23 |website=Het Nieuwsblad |language=nl-BE}}</ref><ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1012/Binnenland/article/detail/303064/2008/04/14/Zaak-swaffelaar-erg-opgeblazen.dhtml ''Algemeen Dagblad, 14 april 2008: Zaak 'swaffelaar' erg opgeblazen."'']</ref> when a Dutch student committed the act on the Taj Mahal and uploaded the video to YouTube. The student was suspended for this action.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-04-09 |title=Student van school wegens 'swaffelen' |url=https://www.trouw.nl/gs-b558cdec |access-date=2022-01-23 |website=Trouw |language=nl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=9 April 2008 |title=Student van school wegens 'swaffelen' |url=http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1038/Rotterdam/article/detail/256983/2008/04/09/Student-van-school-wegens-swaffelen.dhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100408234501/http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1038/Rotterdam/article/detail/256983/2008/04/09/Student-van-school-wegens-swaffelen.dhtml |archive-date=2010-04-08 |access-date=8 April 2010 |work=Algemeen Dagblad |language=nl}}</ref>
In response, the BNN TV program ''Spuiten en Slikken'' invited viewers to make their own videos of other objects being swaffeled. They also called for a ''BNN Nationale Swaffeldag'' (''BNN National Swaffel Day'') to be declared.<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZS4LageGlQ BNN-uitzending over de ''BNN Nationale Swaffeldag'' op YouTube.]</ref> The Royal Palace of Amsterdam and the Basilica of Saint Servatius in Maastricht were among the objects swaffeled in the submissions.
In 2015 a firefighter in Enkhuizen was fired for swaffeling a colleague.<ref name="ad.nl">{{cite news |last1=Kooijman |first1=Tim |date=January 12, 2015 |title=Ontslag voor brandweerman na swaffelen van collega |url=http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1012/Nederland/article/detail/3827964/2015/01/12/Ontslag-voor-brandweerman-na-swaffelen-van-collega.dhtml |access-date=8 March 2015 |work=AD}}</ref>
When the topic of swearing in various languages arose, in episode 4, series N, of the British panel show ''QI'', one of the show's panelists, Jeremy Clarkson, mentioned the word,<ref>{{Citation |last=rockattack |title=Jeremy Clarkson on Dutch swear words (BBC Qi) |date=2016-11-13 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2dhjDE2Ro |access-date=2017-01-03}}</ref> defining it as "...to bang your penis against the Taj Mahal."
=== Word of the year === {{Lang|nl|Swaffelen}} was voted as the word of the year in a 2008 competition organized by {{Lang|nl|Genootschap Onze Taal|italic=no}} ("Society for Our Language"), {{ill|Van Dale Uitgevers|nl}} (Van Dale Publishers) and the newspaper {{Lang|nl|De Pers}}.<ref name="UPI" /><ref name="Expatica" /><ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/article1108992.ece/Swaffelen_woord_van_het_jaar ''De Volkskrant'', 15 december 2008: "Swaffelen woord van het jaar."]</ref> The blog {{Lang|nl|GeenStijl|italic=no}} encouraged readers to vote for {{Lang|nl|swaffelen}}.<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.depers.nl/binnenland/270096/Swaffelen-is-de-favoriet.html {{Lang|nl|De Pers}}, 16 december 2008. Door Sjoerd de Vries. "{{Lang|nl|Swaffelen is de favoriet|italic=no}}."]</ref> {{Lang|nl|Swaffelen}} received 57% of the votes while {{lang|nl|wiiën}} ("play Wii") drew 12% and {{lang|nl|bankendomino}} (referring to credit crisis) received 6% of the votes. {{lang|nl|Gastroseksueel}} and {{lang|nl|smirten}} each received 5% of the vote.<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://woordvanhetjaar.vandale.nl/ ''Woordvanhetjaar.vandale.nl'', uitslag verkiezing]</ref>
== Swedish ({{lang|sv|ollning}}){{anchor|Ollning}} == In Swedish, a similar act is '''{{lang|sv|ollning}}''', which roughly translates to "glans-ing" ({{lang|sv|att olla}}, "to glans"; from noun {{lang|sv|ollon}}, "glans", and verb-building suffix {{lang|sv|-a}}), which is the act of touching or rubbing the penis tip against something, typically exotic places or places which others will touch.<ref name="Min kompis ollade Claes Månsson på nacken">{{cite news |last1=Jutbring |first1=Kitty |author1-link=Kitty Jutbring |date=9 July 2009 |title=Min kompis ollade Claes Månsson på nacken |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/kolumnister/a/VRxe74/min-kompis-ollade-claes-mansson-pa-nacken |access-date=13 December 2024 |work=Aftonbladet |language=sv}}</ref>
The act is said to be facetious but can be perceived as gross and sexual, and it can be prosecuted as molestation as a punishable offense.<ref name="Bloggande polisen får stöd av Polisförbundet">{{cite news |last1=Gunnars |first1=Lena |date=3 October 2011 |title=Bloggande polisen får stöd av Polisförbundet |url=https://www.lag-avtal.se/domsreferat/bloggande-polisen-far-stod-av-polisforbundet/1658207 |access-date=13 December 2024 |work=Lag & Avtal |language=sv-SE}}</ref><ref name="Anonymitet – orsaken till skitsnacket på internet?">{{cite news |last1=Granlund |first1=Fredrik |date=14 June 2010 |title=Anonymitet – orsaken till skitsnacket på internet? |url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/inloggad/anonymitet-orsaken-till-skitsnacket-pa-internet-9/ |access-date=13 December 2024 |work=Expressen |language=sv}}</ref>
== See also == * Erotic humiliation * Teabagging, term for the sexual act involving placing the scrotum into the mouth of a sexual partner
== References == {{reflist}}
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