Noun: testicle
| Singular | testicle |
| Plural | testicles |
Sample Sentences
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In France, Mme. de Pompadour was induced by Louis XV to eat such testicles in order to break down her frigidity. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 232:]
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Despite your jogging and the hairiness of your legs, the shoe of aging is beginning to pinch. Soon you'll regret all that sun-tanning. Your face will look like a testicle. [2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 372:]
Nouns inflected like testicle
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
Borrowed from Latin testiculus, diminutive of testis. See: Latin Nouns '
testiculus'.