uncastrated

English

Etymology

un- + castrated

Adjective

uncastrated (not comparable)

  1. (of a male person or animal) Not castrated; possessing testicles.
  2. (figuratively) Not weakened, censored, or the like.
    • 1885, Sir Richard Francis Burton, "The Translator's Foreword" of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments,
      We agreed to collaborate and produce a full, complete, unvarnished, uncastrated copy of the great original.

Translations

References

  • uncastrated in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
  • uncastrated” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
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