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uncastrated en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English castrated English uncastrated From un- + castrated.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a male person or animal) Not castrated; possessing testicles.
    • "Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone. 2000 May 24, Jon Nordheimer, “Hunting for Pigs, And Florida's Past”, in The New York Times:
  2. (figuratively, not-comparable) Not weakened, censored, or the like.
    • We agreed to collaborate and produce a full, complete, unvarnished, uncastrated copy of the great original. 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Translator’s Foreword”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

Translations (3)

izh naittamatoin (not castrated) · el αμουνούχιστος (not castrated) · gv neuspoiyt (not castrated)