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eunuchoid, a. (n.)|ˈjuːnəkɔɪd|
[See -oid.]
Resembling, or characteristic of, a eunuch. Also as n. Hence ˈeunuchoidism.
1906Rep. Brit. Assoc. 703 (heading) Observations made on an ‘Eunuchoid’ Subject in the Cambridge Anatomy School. 1925W. J. H. Sprott tr. Kretschmer's Physique & Char. 26 A growth in length which indicates eunuchoidism. Ibid. 73 Disposition of fat according to the eunuchoid plan. Ibid. 86 Schizophrenes and eunuchoids. 1928Cowdry's Spec. Cytology 1231 Eunuchoid conditions. 1959Times 3 Apr. 14/6 Farinelli..looks down..slightly eunuchoid in shape under his smart cerise frockcoat. 1970New Yorker 3 Oct. 36/1 The eunuchoid subtleties of a well-trained choirboy.
Add: spec. in Path., of a person of either sex: eunuchoidal. (Earlier and later examples.)
1894J. Griffiths in Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. XXVIII. 221, I have lately had an opportunity of examining two Eunuchoid persons; I mean persons in all respects like eunuchs except that in them the testes, though small, are in the scrotum. Ibid. 224 These peculiarities..in the structure of the body of the testes and the epididymis in the eunuchoid show that the condition is distinct from that of the young boy. 1923M. K. Meyers tr. Falta's Endocrine Dis. (ed. 3) x. 418 Eunuchoids of the male and female sex are always sterile. 1944Amer. Jrnl. Mental Deficiency XLVIII. 211/2 The only eunuchoid female who exhibited color blindness in addition to anosmia, diabetes mellitus, mental deficiency, and partial deafness, was the sister of two eunuchoid brothers. |