Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To urinate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To pass urine; urinate.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive, physiology, formal to urinate
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Medical to pass urine through the ureter; to urinate.
WordNet 3.0
- v. eliminate urine
Etymologies
- From Latin micturīre ("to have the urge to urinate"), form of meiō ("urinate"), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵʰ-, *miǵʰ- (“to urinate”). Though borrowed from Latin in Modern English (in the mid 19th century), the root of this word was present in Old English in the word mīgan, which simply meant “to urinate”. See: w:Latin profanity#Mingere and meiere: urination. (Wiktionary)
- From Latin micturīre, to want to urinate, desiderative of meiere, to urinate; see meigh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“One hates to as the British say micturate on your french fries, but the answer to the first is "no" and to the second is "duh".”
The Guardian: South Carolina Republican debate: Stopping Mitt Romney - as it happened
“We spend our entire careers in this region and we have to swim in the waters in which they micturate.”
The Huffington Post: C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle
“Made me laugh and micturate all over my expensive cuban heeled wincklepicker boots.”
The Guardian: Stations and poets: Poetry in Motion | Editorial
“I doubt I ever see this board again in my life, so I might as well take my one opportunity to micturate on all of you.”
“In Pandora the Na'vi never eat, they kill with kindness, never defecate, micturate, burp, shave, use deodorant or tweeze their eyebrows.”
“The idea is to provide a real public option -- the dreaded "government-run healthcare" which causes Republicans to micturate in their unmentionables -- but one that only operates on a state level.”
“If you don't have the balls to argue openly, then micturate off back to your Wii will you.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Well, pot heads are well known for their penchant to micturate all over themselves, and hence speeches by A. Lieberman are just one more excuse to prove themselves incontinenet in public!”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Ai doan membur peepz goze “micturate” but de froggeez we cutted up er miesez. dint noze catamainya needur.”
yesh mom - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Every major character in the Simpson’s has undergone some form of hallucinogenic trip, some more than once, and they refuse to micturate in a can and sell it as Duff?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘micturate’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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wallace
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Joycean Vocab
You ain't read no English til you read Joyce.
rasher, cygnet, usquebaugh, ephebe, entelechy, kish, caul, vicereine, atelier, daguerreotype, communard, connubial and 99 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
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Worse Than They Sound
fistula, cryptosporidium, debride, donnybrook, decerebrate, pillory, flagellate, disembogue, minatory, micturate, coprolite, nosocomial and 160 more...
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bkerr's Words
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Pale Fire
Words gathered while reading Pale Fire.
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
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azd's Words
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A Mini-Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words
This mini-dictionary was inspired by the novel and imaginative use of language in the following publications:
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown; The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart; Lullaby by...abase, anomie, antediluvium, aphorism, apropos, armoire, ascetic, atrium, austere, balustrade, bordello, catechism and 107 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
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daleshipley's Words
brinksmanship, contravene, teleological, sartorial, conventicle, habiliment, tendentious, acrimonious, ontology, epistemology, impugn, dysphasia and 219 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
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lee_d's Words
neologism, epicaricacy, chillax, arrears, locution, ressentiment, facticity, glib, escritoire, epicurian, alacrity, arbitrageur and 150 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
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Tweets
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arby It is pretty great. I have a cow orker who always says this, it cracks me up.
For some reason this word makes me think of rabbits. Jul 18, 2007
gjmurphy Mihi mingendum est! May 31, 2007
brandelion kudos to the wordie who remembered this gem! :D Dec 13, 2006