eunuchoid
English
Etymology
From eunuch + -oid.
Adjective
eunuchoid (comparative more eunuchoid, superlative most eunuchoid)
- Resembling a eunuch.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 105:
- Some we already knew, like Casimir Ava the tragic actor with his pale eunuchoid-velvet complexion and studied poses.
- 1976, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 26:
- Frontiersmen were never afraid of poetry. It was Big Business with its fear of femininity, it was the eunuchoid clergy capitulating to vulgar masculinity that made religion and art sissy things.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 105:
Noun
eunuchoid (plural eunuchoids)
- An organism exhibiting eunuchoidism.
Translations
organism exhibiting eunuchoidism
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