unclipped
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English unclipped, equivalent to un- + clipped.
Adjective
unclipped (not comparable)
- Not clipped.
- unclipped toenails
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 91–92:
- The thick growth of the fine old trees, and the unclipped shrubs, shut out all but the small portion of shrubbery, which was like one bright and blooming spot in a wilderness.
- (informal) uncircumcised
- 2005, Charlotte Boyett-Compo, Passion's Mistral, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 12:
- […] Men who are unclipped make love better than men who've been snipped.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unclipped.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:uncircumcised.
References
- “unclipped, ppl.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Unclipped”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes X, Part 1 (Ti–U), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 89, column 1.
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