Noun: foreskin
| Singular | foreskin |
| Plural | foreskins |
Sample Sentences
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In the female genitalia, the clitoral hood is homologous to the foreskin.
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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. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 17:14:]
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In primates, the foreskin is present in the genitalia of both sexes and likely has been present for millions of years of evolution. [1990, Robert D. Martin, Primate Origins and Evolution: A Phylogenetic Reconstruction, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:]
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the foreskin is a primary sensory part of the penis, containing some of the most sensitive areas of the penis [2010, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Circumcision of infant males:]
Nouns inflected like foreskin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From fore- + skin, a loose calque of Latin praepūtium. Compare German Vorhaut, etc. First attested in c. 1535. See: Latin Nouns '
praepūtium', German Nouns '
Vorhaut'.