foreskin
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Definition of foreskin
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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The nerve-dense, retractable fold of skin which covers and protects the glans of the penis in humans and some other mammals.
“In the female genitalia, the clitoral hood is homologous to the foreskin.”
“And the vncircumcised man-child, whose flesh of his foreskinne is not circumcised, that soule shall be cut off from his people: hee hath broken my couenant.”
“In primates, the foreskin is present in the genitalia of both sexes and likely has been present for millions of years of evolution.”
“the foreskin is a primary sensory part of the penis, containing some of the most sensitive areas of the penis”
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noun
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The nerve-dense, retractable fold of skin which covers and protects the glans of the penis in humans and some other mammals.
“In the female genitalia, the clitoral hood is homologous to the foreskin.”
“And the vncircumcised man-child, whose flesh of his foreskinne is not circumcised, that soule shall be cut off from his people: hee hath broken my couenant.”
“In primates, the foreskin is present in the genitalia of both sexes and likely has been present for millions of years of evolution.”
“the foreskin is a primary sensory part of the penis, containing some of the most sensitive areas of the penis”
- (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of clitoral foreskin.
verb
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(intransitive, transitive)To remove the foreskin.
“What she meant, of course, was young initiated men, and any such would be in short supply until after the foreskinning ceremonies at Christmas.”
“I always liked an open fire," an open wound, suppuration of silent words from somewhere, a long line of fathers foreskinning for all they were worth, unknown, unsaid, alone in ice-cold space as we're all alone in the absence of God with only His mother, the mother of God, out there in black face, alone herself, the queen of the world...”
“An article in Instauration entitled “Foreskinning” exclaims that “slicing off babies' foreskins cannot be described as anything but forms of mutilation” performed by “savages.””
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(intransitive, transitive)To sexually stimulate by manipulating the foreskin.
“According to Scotty, who should have played the accordion, and did he, Dr. Bowles now wonders, grow up to be Scotty Boy Potty and was all this merely a terribly tropish bit of biz foreskinning the man he would becum, nuntheless, according to Scott, if one waved bye-bye up and down, i.e. flapping, versus side to side, i.e. wiping, one was a fag.”
“S'ter Penny started to go but stopped when she noticed Ivy was still standing with us. "Heh! Ivy Abankwah, jai foreskinning!" She told her to stop doing something -- I wasn't sure what "foreskinning" meant.”
“Sucking whiskey from a sagging breast/ Sipping the bitter cigar/ foreskinning up and down...”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From fore- + skin, a loose calque of Latin praepūtium. Compare German Vorhaut, etc. First attested in c. 1535.
Words you can make from foreskin
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15 words5-letter words
64 words- FINKS 12 pts
- FORKS 12 pts
- FRISK 12 pts
- KEFIR 12 pts
- KERFS 12 pts
- KIEFS 12 pts
- KNIFE 12 pts
- EIKON 9 pts
- ENOKI 9 pts
- IKONS 9 pts
- INKER 9 pts
- KEIRS 9 pts
- KENOS 9 pts
- KERNS 9 pts
- KIERS 9 pts
- KINES 9 pts
- KINOS 9 pts
- KIRNS 9 pts
- KOINE 9 pts
- KORIS 9 pts
- KRONE 9 pts
- OINKS 9 pts
- REINK 9 pts
- RINKS 9 pts
- SIKER 9 pts
- SKEIN 9 pts
- SKIER 9 pts
- FERNS 8 pts
- FINER 8 pts
- FINES 8 pts
- FINOS 8 pts
- FIRES 8 pts
- FIRNS 8 pts
- FOINS 8 pts
- FORES 8 pts
- FREON 8 pts
- FRIES 8 pts
- FRISE 8 pts
- FROES 8 pts
- FRONS 8 pts
- INFER 8 pts
- INFOS 8 pts
- NEIFS 8 pts
- REIFS 8 pts
- SERIF 8 pts
- EOSIN 5 pts
- INROS 5 pts
- IRONE 5 pts
- IRONS 5 pts
- NOIRS 5 pts
- NOISE 5 pts
- NORIS 5 pts
- ORNIS 5 pts
- OSIER 5 pts
- REINS 5 pts
- RENOS 5 pts
- RESIN 5 pts
- RINSE 5 pts
- RISEN 5 pts
- ROSIN 5 pts
- SENOR 5 pts
- SERIN 5 pts
- SIREN 5 pts
- SNORE 5 pts
4-letter words
80 words- FINK 11 pts
- FORK 11 pts
- KEFS 11 pts
- KERF 11 pts
- KIEF 11 pts
- KIFS 11 pts
- IKON 8 pts
- INKS 8 pts
- IRKS 8 pts
- KEIR 8 pts
- KENO 8 pts
- KENS 8 pts
- KERN 8 pts
- KIER 8 pts
- KINE 8 pts
- KINO 8 pts
- KINS 8 pts
- KIRN 8 pts
- KIRS 8 pts
- KOIS 8 pts
- KORE 8 pts
- KORI 8 pts
- KORS 8 pts
- KRIS 8 pts
- OIKS 8 pts
- OINK 8 pts
- OKES 8 pts
- RINK 8 pts
- RISK 8 pts
- SIKE 8 pts
- SINK 8 pts
- SKIN 8 pts
- SOKE 8 pts
- FENS 7 pts
- FERN 7 pts
- FINE 7 pts
- FINO 7 pts
- FINS 7 pts
- FIRE 7 pts
- FIRN 7 pts
- FIRS 7 pts
- FOES 7 pts
- FOIN 7 pts
- FONS 7 pts
- FORE 7 pts
- FROE 7 pts
- INFO 7 pts
- NEIF 7 pts
- REFS 7 pts
- REIF 7 pts
- RIFE 7 pts
- RIFS 7 pts
- SEIF 7 pts
- SERF 7 pts
- EONS 4 pts
- ERNS 4 pts
- EROS 4 pts
- INRO 4 pts
- IONS 4 pts
- IRES 4 pts
- IRON 4 pts
- NOES 4 pts
- NOIR 4 pts
- NORI 4 pts
- NOSE 4 pts
- ONES 4 pts
- ORES 4 pts
- REIN 4 pts
- REIS 4 pts
- RENO 4 pts
- RINS 4 pts
- RISE 4 pts
- ROES 4 pts
- ROSE 4 pts
- SINE 4 pts
- SIRE 4 pts
- SONE 4 pts
- SORE 4 pts
- SORI 4 pts
- SORN 4 pts
3-letter words
40 words- KEF 10 pts
- KIF 10 pts
- INK 7 pts
- IRK 7 pts
- KEN 7 pts
- KIN 7 pts
- KIR 7 pts
- KIS 7 pts
- KOI 7 pts
- KOR 7 pts
- KOS 7 pts
- OIK 7 pts
- OKE 7 pts
- EFS 6 pts
- FEN 6 pts
- FER 6 pts
- FES 6 pts
- FIE 6 pts
- FIN 6 pts
- FIR 6 pts
- FOE 6 pts
- FON 6 pts
- FOR 6 pts
- FRO 6 pts
- IFS 6 pts
- ENS 3 pts
- EON 3 pts
- ERN 3 pts
- ERS 3 pts
- INS 3 pts
- ION 3 pts
- IRE 3 pts
- NOR 3 pts
- NOS 3 pts
- OES 3 pts
- ONE 3 pts
- ONS 3 pts
- ORE 3 pts
- ORS 3 pts
- OSE 3 pts
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