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Definition: Prepuce |
PrepuceNoun1. A fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris. 2. A fold of skin covering the tip of the penis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prepuce" was first used: sometime around 1400. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A covering fold of skin; often used alone to designate the preputium penis. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Note: For historical and cultural reasons, there are two articles on the male and female human prepuce, respectively. Please see the talk page for a discussion of this topic.
This article should only contain material about the prepuce which is common to both sexes.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prepuce."
Synonym: PrepuceSynonym: foreskin (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Prepuce |
| English words defined with "prepuce": Paraphimosis, Preputial. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prepuce": Posthetomy. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Women | Indonesia | More invasive FGM practices--removal of the clitoral prepuce, partial removal of the sensitive tip of the clitoris, and even total removal--reportedly occur in Madura, South Sulawesi, and parts of East Java. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Prepuce" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prepuce" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
prepuce | 127 |
foreskin prepuce | 7 |
circumcision prepuce | 5 |
photo prepuce | 3 |
picture prepuce | 3 |
prepuce teen | 3 |
garçon prepuce | 2 |
clitoral prepuce | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prepuce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lafshë (comb, crest, dewlap, pectination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قلفة, غفلة (inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, negligence), غرلة, جلدة عضو التناسل. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | препуциум (foreskin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 包皮. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | předkožka (foreskin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | preputium (foreskin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | preputium (foreskin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پوست ختنه گاه , غلفه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | preputium (foreskin), praeputium (foreskin), esinahka (foreskin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prépuce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vorhaut (foreskin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πόσθη (foreskin), ακροβυστία (foreskin), ακροποσθία (foreskin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ערל" (foreskin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fityma (foreskin), elõbõr (foreskin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prepuzio (foreskin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 포". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | crackan chymmylt, chymmylt (around, foreskin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epucepray prepúcio (foreskin), prepúcio. (various references) prepuţ. (various references) крайняя плоть (foreskin). (various references) prepucijum (foreskin). (various references) prepucio (foreskin). (various references) förhud (foreskin). (various references) penis uç derisi, sünnet derisi (foreskin). (various references) крайня плоть (foreskin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | praeputia, praeputii, praeputio, Praeputium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prepuce": prepuces. (additional references) | |
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"Prepuce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paepecke, Pepusch, perduci, Perpich, Peruke, Pneupac, prepuse, probucol. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-p-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: cupper. | |
-2 letters: creep, crepe, puree, rupee, upper. | |
-3 letters: cepe, cere, cure, ecru, peep, peer, perp, pree, prep, puce, pure, repp. | |
-4 letters: cee, cep, cue, cup, cur, ecu, ere, pec, pee, pep, per, pup, pur, rec, ree, rep, rue. | |
-5 letters: er, pe, re, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-p-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: prepuces. | |
+2 letters: scuppered, uppercase. | |
+3 letters: perceptual, pluperfect, precompute, prepunched, prepunches, uppercased, uppercases. | |
+4 letters: pluperfects, precomputed, precomputer, precomputes, preoccupied, preoccupies, prepurchase. | |
+5 letters: appurtenance, perceptually, picturephone, precomputers, prepubescent, prepurchased, prepurchases, propaedeutic, prospectuses, pumpernickel, superspecial, unperceptive. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 70 75 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . .--. ..- -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01110000 01110101 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e p u c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0070 0075 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50847182876971 |
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