prepuce

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

Noun

  1. The foreskin, or retractable fold of tissue covering the glans penis.
    • Jehovah, collector of prepuces, is no more. - 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
    • But there are a fair number of halfway Jews – you know, those who want God without having to have their prepuces torn off to get him. - 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

    Synonyms: penile foreskin

  2. The clitoral hood.

    Synonyms: clitoral hood clitoral foreskin

Origin

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

Forms

prepuces præpuce

Synonyms

foreskin preputium

Related

akroposthion circumcision

Derived

clitoral prepuce Holy Prepuce megaprepuce prepuceless preputial preputioplasty preputiotomy