eunuchoid

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adjective

Resembling a eunuch.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveeunuchoid (comparative more eunuchoid, superlative most eunuchoid)

comparative more eunuchoid · superlative most eunuchoid

  1. Resembling a eunuch.

    Some we already knew, like Casimir Ava the tragic actor with his pale eunuchoid-velvet complexion and studied poses.

    1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 105
    1 more example

    Frontiersmen were never afraid of poetry. It was Big Business with its fear of femininity, it was the eunuchoid clergy capitulating to vulgar masculinity that made religion and art sissy things.

    1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 26
nouneunuchoid (plural eunuchoids)

plural eunuchoids

  1. An organism exhibiting eunuchoidism.

Origin

Translations

Finnish eunukoidi
  • eunukoidiorganism exhibiting eunuchoidism
Polish eunuchoid
  • eunuchoidorganism exhibiting eunuchoidism
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