scrotumn.
/ˈskrəʊtəm/, U.S. /ˈskroʊdəm/ Anatomy.
The pouch-like tegument enclosing the testicles.
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1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 21/2 The Scrotum, which we call the bagg wherin the testicles are contayned.
1690 R. Davies Jrnl. (1857) 114 He was shot through the scrotum, and thereby forced to retire.
1772 D. Lysons Pract. Ess. 66 His neck, abdomen, scrotum, legs, and all parts of his body were greatly tumified.
1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. i. 46 Where much cellular tissue exists oedema will rapidly show itself, as in the eyelids or scrotum.
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scrotum-tightening adj. (now with allusion to Joyce's use).
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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 5 Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton.
1935 E. E. Cummings Let. 3 Oct. (1969) 145 & jump you out right inwardly at the Isful..quote scrotumtightening unquote omnivorously eternal thalassa pelagas or Ocean.
1976 Listener 22 July 80/1 The English do not like the sea unless it happens to be blue and smooth and warm... No scrotum-tightening sea, to borrow James Joyce's heroic adjective.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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