different between scrotum vs dingus

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin scr?tum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: skr??t?m
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk???.t?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk?o?.t?m/

Noun

scrotum (plural scrotums or scrota)

1. (anatomy) The bag of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in mammals.

   The female labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum.

Synonyms

• ballbag, ballsack (both vulgar)
• See also Thesaurus:scrotum

Hypernyms

• genitals

Derived terms

• scrotal

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scr?tum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skro?.t?m/
• Hyphenation: scro?tum
• Rhymes: -o?t?m

Noun

scrotum n (plural scrota or scrotums)

1. (anatomy, medicine) scrotum

   Synonym: balzak

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin scr?tum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??.t?m/, /sk?o.t?m/

Noun

scrotum m (plural scrotums)

1. scrotum

Derived terms

• scrotal

Further reading

• “scrotum” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). See also Latin scortum, scrautum, corium, Proto-Germanic *skeran? (whence English shear), Ancient Greek ????? (keír?, “I cut off”), Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”), Old Armenian ????? (k?erem, “to scrape, scratch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?skro?.tum/, [?s?k?o?t????]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?skro?.tu/, [?skro?tu]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?skro.tum/, [?sk???t?um]

Noun

scr?tum n (genitive scr?t?); second declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin, New Latin)

1. (anatomy) scrotum

   Scr?tum est membrum gignend? hominis et anim?lis in f?rmam sacc?, quod test?s continet et pr?tegit.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• ? Albanian: skrotum
• ? Aragonese: escroto
• ? Asturian: escrotu
• ? Catalan: escrot
• ? Galician: escroto
• ? Danish: skrotum
• ? Dutch: scrotum
• ? English: scrotum
• ? French: scrotum
• ? German: Skrotum
• ? Italian: scroto
• ? Macedonian: ??????? (skrotum)
• ? Norwegian: skrotum
• ? Portuguese: escroto
• ? Romanian: scrot
• ? Sicilian: scrotu
• ? Spanish: escroto
  • ? Tagalog: eskroto
• ? Slovak: skrótum
• ? Slovene: skrotum
• ? Swedish: scrotum, skrotum
• ? Turkish: skrotum
• ? Welsh: sgrotwm

References

• scrotum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scrotum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1407
• scrotum in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 2547

English

Alternative forms

• dinges

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch dinges, ding (“thing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d????s/

Noun

dingus (plural dinguses)

1. (informal, Canada, US) A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor.

   Synonyms: thingamajig; see also Thesaurus:thingy

   • 1879, George Wilbur Peck, Peck's Fun, Being Extracts from the "La Crosse Sun," and "Peck's Sun," Milwaukee:

     "If anybody should come in, and catch you with your breeches, as it were, down on the floor, all you have to do is to drink the water, wrap the rubber dingus around you, and tell them to “lay on Macduff.”

   • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest:

     "He took the this-is-unheard-of-but-not-really-serious-of-course attitude of a street fakir whose mechanical dingus flops during a demonstration."

   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 29:

     I wet the rod and measured the stuff into the top and by that time the water was steaming. I filled the lower half of the dingus and set it on the flame.

   • 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin 2001, p. 241:

     ‘Say, what’s that dingus you Britishers wear when you’re playing cricket?

   • c. 2010, Van's Aircraft, RV-12 Plans, p. 5-30:

     "Drill #40 the .094 [2.4 mm] holes in the dingus. Dimple the #40 holes.”

2. (informal, Canada, US) A fool or incompetent person.

   Synonym: doofus

3. (slang, vulgar) penis

   Synonyms: dink; see also Thesaurus:penis

   • 1970, Don Tracy, The Last Boat Out of Cincinnati, Trident Press (1970), ?ISBN, page 74:

     "He got mad at me because his dingus wouldn’t come up for him — too drunk, I guess. […]

Anagrams

• gnudis, gundis, undigs