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harumfrodite Jocular slang.|hɛəˈrʌmfrədaɪt|
Also harumphrodite, herumfrodite.
[After hermaphrodite.]
= hermaphrodite n. and a. So haˌrumphroˈditic a., characteristic of an hermaphrodite.
1896[see giddy a. 3 b]. 1924Blackw. Mag. Aug. 235/1 Take the young Jot from the plough and turn him to Pope's ‘Rape of the Lock’ or Shelley's ‘Adonais’, and you will make a comfortless harumphroditic amphibian of him. 1953Essays & Studies VI. 103 A Welsh writer writes in Welsh..and those others who make articulate some two-thirds of the nation are, according to taste, ‘lost to the English’ or base harumphrodites. |