foreskin

plural foreskins

1. anatomyThe nerve-dense, retractable fold of skin which covers and protects the glans of the penis in humans and some other mammals.

   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

   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

   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

   Synonyms: penile foreskin

2. abbreviationellipsisanatomyEllipsis of clitoral foreskin.

   Synonyms: clitoral hood

present singular third person foreskins · participle present foreskinning · participle past foreskinned · past foreskinned

1. intransitivetransitiveTo remove the foreskin.

   What she meant, of course, was young initiated men, and any such would be in short supply until after the foreskinning ceremonies at Christmas.

   1976, Max Brown, The black Eureka, page 52

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   I always liked an open fire," an open wound, suppuration of silent words from somewhere, a long line of fathers foreskinning for all they were worth, unknown, unsaid, alone in ice-cold space as we're all alone in the absence of God with only His mother, the mother of God, out there in black face, alone herself, the queen of the world...

   1981, Exile - Volume 8, page 17

   An article in Instauration entitled “Foreskinning” exclaims that “slicing off babies' foreskins cannot be described as anything but forms of mutilation” performed by “savages.”

   2000, Peter Kivisto, Georganne Rundblad, Multiculturalism in the United States, →ISBN

2. intransitivetransitiveTo sexually stimulate by manipulating the foreskin.

   Sucking whiskey from a sagging breast/ Sipping the bitter cigar/ foreskinning up and down...

   2016, Marc Asanov Archibald, OF DOGS AND MEN - A myth therapy, →ISBN

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   According to Scotty, who should have played the accordion, and did he, Dr. Bowles now wonders, grow up to be Scotty Boy Potty and was all this merely a terribly tropish bit of biz foreskinning the man he would becum, nuntheless, according to Scott, if one waved bye-bye up and down, i.e. flapping, versus side to side, i.e. wiping, one was a fag.

   2008, Vanessa Place, La Medusa, →ISBN, page 356

   S'ter Penny started to go but stopped when she noticed Ivy was still standing with us. "Heh! Ivy Abankwah, jai foreskinning!" She told her to stop doing something -- I wasn't sure what "foreskinning" meant.

   2010, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Powder Necklace: A Novel, →ISBN, page 65