Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A morning-glory, Ipomœa leptophylla, found on the dry plains of Colorado and in adjacent regions. It is a plant 2 or 3 feet high, with an immense root having some resemblance in shape and size to a man.
Wiktionary
- n. a flowering plant in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae),genus Marah, native to western North America
WordNet 3.0
- n. tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
Examples
“These wild cucumbers however have nothing to do with the wild cucumber of North America, known as manroot, which are shorter, rounder and spiky.”
“There have been some pretty silly metaphors used in romances in the past i.e. manroot and I wonder if that hasn’t led to a distrust of all use of metaphor among some romance readers.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘manroot’.
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The Penis Game
Euphemisms for the penis.
See also:
A Testicle by Any Other Name
Ward, I'm worried about the beavermale interfemoral..., penis, dick, cock, prick, willy, percy, peter, one-eyed trouser ..., piece of pork, wife's best friend, dong and 79 more...
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Putting down roots
root beer, crinkleroot, root canal, root cellar, roothold, rootlet, rootworm, Stephen Root, square root, snakeroot, arrowroot, scrootch and 64 more...
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Daily Show and Colbert Musings
They put the fake in fake news, and they're still more real than the real news. Go figure!
catastrofuck, gee whiz, looting, correspondent, precisely, reprisal, numbnuts, callous, terrestrial, capper, report, sociopath and 114 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
Tweets
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reesetee I'll never tell. Apr 4, 2011
Prolagus Hmmm... what's a reesetee, anyhow? Apr 1, 2011
reesetee I don't know about gay porn specifically. This word gets an awful lot of use in straight romance novels.
Not that I'd know firsthand. Oct 1, 2008
chained_bear Hmm. Maybe it goes through phases, vacillating between lascivious-old-man and coyness. Oct 1, 2008
rolig Yeah, Weirdnet somehow missed the usual gay-porn meaning of this word. Or maybe it didn't want to be too obvious. Oct 1, 2008
chained_bear This word has come up in conversation over on beetroot. Oct 1, 2008
reesetee Haha! I never knew that! Mar 24, 2008
chained_bear The first time I saw this word was in a romance novel (bodice-ripper) and I laughed until my sides hurt. How delightful that it's an actual plant! Mar 22, 2008