Meaning

2 senses
  1. The foreskin, or retractable fold of tissue covering the glans penis.

    a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis

  2. The clitoral hood.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Is your prepuce like a vagina?

  2. Your prepuce really bothers you. You think it's feminine.

Origin

From Middle English prepuce, prepuse, from Old French prepuce (“foreskin”), from Latin pra

From Middle English prepuce, prepuse, from Old French prepuce (“foreskin”), from Latin praepūtium (“prepuce, foreskin”), a combination of prae- (“fore-”) + Old Latin pūtos (“penis”).

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Forms

plural: prepuces
Singularprepuce
Pluralprepuces

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis:foreskin
  • a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris:foreskin

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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