Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which emasculates.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, emasculates.

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  • noun One who, or that which, emasculates.

Etymologies

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Examples

  • One catalog that was spared that fate was Barnston & Sons, which featured pure copper branding irons, capsules for eliminating bots, docking pincers, teat oil, louse killer, ear-notching punches, bull rings, and a frightening gadget called an emasculator.

    Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

  • One catalog that was spared that fate was Barnston & Sons, which featured pure copper branding irons, capsules for eliminating bots, docking pincers, teat oil, louse killer, ear-notching punches, bull rings, and a frightening gadget called an emasculator.

    Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

  • One catalog that was spared that fate was Barnston & Sons, which featured pure copper branding irons, capsules for eliminating bots, docking pincers, teat oil, louse killer, ear-notching punches, bull rings, and a frightening gadget called an emasculator.

    Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

  • One catalog that was spared that fate was Barnston & Sons, which featured pure copper branding irons, capsules for eliminating bots, docking pincers, teat oil, louse killer, ear-notching punches, bull rings, and a frightening gadget called an emasculator.

    Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

  • Sapphire, the sharp-tongued, tough-talking emasculator, is usually found in the stereotype of a black woman with a finger-wagging, neck-rolling swagger.

    Don’t Bring Home a White Boy KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN 2010

  • McCain joins the fray in white cape and arms in casts whacking the O's followed by a smiling Cindy, Todd holding a baby, a shotgun and a bagged moose as they eventually all tumble out the door to a cadre of tv camera with news reporters brandishing headlines denouncning Palin as a stalker and emasculator.

    Lisa Nova's second go at her Sarah Palin impersonation. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Tunc emasculator, vinculis sericis sapone illitis, genitalia comprimit, et cum cultro tonsorio (dum puer pro dolore animo deficit) quam celerrime rescindit.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • "It seems that before we can foist this rejuvenator upon the world, we must also discover an antidote for it — a sort of emasculator to reduce the friskiness attendant upon the return to youth, you know."

    THE REJUVENATION OF MAJOR RATHBONE 1993

  • The latter method is to be preferred in large lambs if the operator does not have an emasculator.

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

  • A spaying emasculator, or ecraseur, are the special instruments need for removing the ovaries.

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

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