micturate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈmɪkt͡ʃəɹeɪt/

Definition of micturate

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (formal, intransitive)To urinate.
    “David Lynch himself uses the down-time between takes to confer with A.D.’s and producers and to drink coffee and/or micturate into the undergrowth, and to smoke American Spirits and walk pensively around the Mercedeses and camera truck’s technical fray, sometimes holding one hand to his cheek in a way that recalls Jack Benny.”
    “Jeffrey Lebowski: So every time -- I just want to understand this, sir -- every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the (owner) --?”

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Etymology

First attested in 1842; irregular back-formation from micturition on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from Latin micturiō (“to urinate”). Related to Old English mīgan (whence Early Middle English miȝen (“to urinate”) See also Mingere and meiere: urination.

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