morning glory

English

Plant

Alternative forms

• morning-glory

Pronunciation

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Noun

morning glory (plural morning glories)

1. Several members of the family Convolvulaceae; climbing plants with trumpet shaped flowers.

   Synonym: bindweed

2. (UK, informal) An involuntary erection present upon waking.

   Synonym: morning wood

   • 1995, “Morning Glory”, performed by Oasis:

     What's the story morning glory? Well? / You need a little time to wake up wake up

   • 2003, Ray Puxley, Britslang: An Uncensored A-Z of the People's Language, Including Rhyming Slang, Robson, published 2003, page 326:

     Morning Glory (Penis) Would appear to refer to one that stands tall and erect on waking.

   • 2011, Michael Kantor, Now That You're Out‎^[1], page 64:

     Like any man he wakes up with a morning glory. He precums.

3. A morning bout of love-making.
4. A rolling cloud in the shape of a cylinder; a roll cloud.

Derived terms

plants

• beach morning glory (Ipomoea pes-caprae)
• bigroot morning glory (Ipomoea pandurata)
• blue morning glory (Ipomoea indica, Ipomoea nil)
• common morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea)
• cypressvine morning glory (Ipomoea quamoclit)
• ivy morning glory (Ipomoea nil)
• Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil)
• Mexican morning glory (Ipomoea tricolor)
• perennial common morning glory (Ipomoea indica)
• purple morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea)
• shaggy dwarf morning glory (Evolvulus nuttallianus)
• tall morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea)
• water morning glory (Ipomoea aquatica)
• white-edge morning glory (Ipomoea nil)
• woolly morning glory (Argyreia nervosa)
• yellow morning glory (Merremia tuberosa)

 

Translations

plant

• Bulgarian: грамофонче n (gramofonče)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牽牛花／牵牛花 (hin¹ ngau⁴ faa¹), 喇叭花 (laa³ baa¹ faa¹), , 哬哚花 (hoe⁴ doe¹ faa¹)

  Hokkien: a-sá-gá-o͘h

  Mandarin: 牽牛花／牵牛花 (zh) (qiānniúhuā), 喇叭花 (zh) (lǎbahuā), 牽牛／牵牛 (zh) (qiānniú)

• Esperanto: aŭrorofloro
• Estonian: lehtertapp
• Finnish: kiertokasvi (fi), päivänsini (fi)
• French: ipomée (fr), volubilis (fr), belle-de-jour (fr) f, gloire du matin (fr) f
• German: die Trichterwinde f, Prunkwinde f
• Hawaiian: koali
• Hungarian: hajnalka (hu)
• Japanese: 朝顔 (ja) (asagao)
• Korean: 나팔꽃 (ko) (napalkkot), 견우화(牽牛花) (ko) (gyeonuhwa)
• Maori: pōwhiwhi
• Palauan: chasagao
• Polish: powój (pl) m
• Portuguese: convolvulácea f, glória matutina f, glória-da-manhã f
• Romanian: volbură (ro) f, rochița-rândunelei f, rochița-rândunicii (ro) f
• Russian: ипоме́я (ru) f (ipoméja), у́треннее сия́ние n (útrenneje sijánije)
• Spanish: gloria de la mañana f, campanilla morada f
• Swahili: ipomea
• Tagalog: luwalhati sa umaga
• Zhuang: valwgbaenq

erection present on waking — see morning wood

References

• Nocturnal Penile Tumescence

Further reading

• morning glory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia