Noun: prepuce
| Singular | prepuce |
| Plural | prepuces |
Sample Sentences
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Jehovah, collector of prepuces, is no more. [1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:]
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But there are a fair number of halfway Jews – you know, those who want God without having to have their prepuces torn off to get him. [1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:]
Nouns inflected like prepuce
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 Middle English prepuce, prepuse, from Old French prepuce (“foreskin”), from Latin praepūtium (“prepuce, foreskin”), a combination of prae- (“fore-”) + Old Latin pūtos (“penis”). See: Middle English Nouns '
prepuce', Latin Nouns '
praepūtium'.