Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who performs circumcision.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who performs circumcision
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who performs circumcision.
Etymologies
- circumcise + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“These include the day that 5-year-old Hirsi Ali and her 6-year-old brother and 4-year-old sister underwent circumcisions arranged by their grandmother, with the job done in the author’s case by a man with scissors “who was probably an itinerant traditional circumciser from the blacksmith clan.””
“Zigua kungwi, ma - "one who has had a certain illness previously"; Bondei (Seuta) kungwi, plus same term in Swahili and Ruvu, as well as in Nyanja namkungwi; Proto-Kaskazi * mkunga "midwife/birth attendant"; also in Lambya and Mabia; Gogo munkunga "circumciser," "sponsor of girl initiates.”
“Like all her female relatives, Dirie was circumcised as a small girl, by a traditional female circumciser, an event the film dramatizes.”
Voice of America: Film Tracks Woman's Path from Desert Nomad to Supermodel Activist
“The surgeon was so inspired that he went out and studied to become a certified mohel ritual Jewish circumciser.”
The Huffington Post: Joshua Stanton: Making Male Circumcision Humane: A Jewish Moral Imperative
“In 2001 when it enacted a draconian law requiring a medical doctor or an anesthesia nurse to accompany a registered circumciser and for an anesthetic to be applied to a baby beforehand.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: San Francisco's Curious Attachment to the Male Foreskin
“The young woman who lies unflinching while the circumciser grinds her clitoris off between two stones is proving that she will make a good wife, equal to all the anguish of child-bearing and daily toil. ...”
“Note 98: Some accounts attribute the origin of circumcision to a woman, who was the first circumciser of male hunters.”
“But we nevertheless had the mohel the circumciser come on the ninth day.”
“A professional female circumciser or a traditional midwife usually performs FGM, though a healer, barber, nurse or doctor trained in Western medicine occasionally performs it.”
The Huffington Post: Margie Goldsmith: Help End Female Genital Mutlilation in Somalia and Everywhere
“During the trial in Paris of a Gambian woman whose infant daughter bled to death after being cut by a “circumciser” she met in the park, the ongoing, increasingly global nature of the struggle impressed itself upon me.”
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bilby "The endurance of pain, especially in poor communities where pain and discomfort are daily realities, is another important aspect of beautification/mutilation. Scarification is valued not only because it is symmetrically placed about the body and not only because it implies the achievement of new status, but because it hurts. Where survival is only achieved by constant effort, stoicism and willpower are immensely important. The young woman who lies unflinching while the circumciser grinds her clitoris between two stones is proving that she will make a good wife, equal to all the anguish of child-bearing and daily toil, not only to the witnesses of her bravery, more importantly, to herself."
- 'One man's mutilation is another man's beautification', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes. Sep 1, 2008