uncastrated
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]uncastrated (not comparable)
- (of a male person or animal) Not castrated; possessing testicles.
- 2000 May 24, Jon Nordheimer, “Hunting for Pigs, And Florida's Past”, in The New York Times[1]:
- "Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone.
- (figuratively) Not weakened, censored, or the like.
- 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Translator’s Foreword”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
- We agreed to collaborate and produce a full, complete, unvarnished, uncastrated copy of the great original.
Translations
[edit]not castrated
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References
[edit]- uncastrated in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “uncastrated”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.