Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A loose fold of skin covering the glans clitoridis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The fold of skin over the glans penis; the foreskin.

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

  • noun (Anat.) The foreskin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun anatomy The foreskin, or retractable fold of tissue covering the tip (glans) of the penis.
  • noun anatomy The corresponding part of the clitoris.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris
  • noun a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praepūtium : possibly prae-, pre- + *pūtos, penis.]

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From Latin praeputium.

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