podex

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noun

The anus, rectum, or buttocks of a human.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounpodex (plural podexes or podices)

plural podexes · plural podices

  1. rareanatomyThe anus, rectum, or buttocks of a human.

    If these native babes went around with their podexes exposed they wouldn't have any because the mosquitoes would eat them off.

    1953, Jack Woodford, Writer's Cramp, page 35
  2. rarebiologyThe rear end of any animal.

    Ligament which stretches over the surface of the uterus, running obliquely from the podex to the raceme.

    1942, Fabricius (ab Aquapendente), Howard Bernhardt Adelmann (translator), The Embryological Treatises of Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (page 229)

Origin

  1. Latinpōdex
  2. Latinpōdex
  3. Englishpodex

Borrowed from Latin pōdex.

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APA

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Chicago

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