Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Urinating backward; characterized by or exhibiting retromingency.
- n. A retromingent animal.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete An animal that urinates backwards - such as the camel, hippo or raccoon.
- adj. not comparable That urinates backwards; also used of such urination.
- adj. slang cowardly
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Organized so as to discharge the urine backward.
Etymologies
- From retro- + past participle of Latin mingō ("I urinate"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Other Browne's neologisms which spring immediately to mind include - 'electrical' 'electricity' 'hallucination' 'caricature' 'pathology' 'ambidextrous' 'antediluvian' 'retromingent' 'callyphygae' , 'gymnastically' and many, many others.”
“Were he still in power, he would note the profound difference between Chairman Mao's retromingent Great Leap Forward and what Beijing's new entrepreneurial technocrats have in mind.”
Lawyers, engineers and scientists: comparing Chinese and American politician bakcground
“Today I learned that “retromingent” means urinating backwards.”
“The crustacea copulate like the retromingent quadrupeds, fitting their tails to one another, the one supine and the other prone.”
“Male animals differ from one another, as has been said, in this particular, but all female animals are retromingent: even the female elephant like other animals, though she has the privy part below the thighs.”
“They may have 2 seats in the European Parliament (a huge talking shop with no real power) but I'm counting the hours until OLAF start telling us how venal and shoite the incompetent misbegotten retromingent miscreants of the BNP really are.”
“As to Sproul, there is not much to say about a retromingent.11/16/2006 12:19:00 PM|W|P| 206isCancer.com|W|P|Senator Bee had told me once during the election cycle that it infurated him This might just be my word, I can't actually see Senator Bee mad when he would overhear staffers in the hallway talking about the need to push for their legislation.”
“Examination of reference-book illustrations is likely to confirm that all mammals are retromingent.)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘retromingent’.
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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Open List: Totally -Retro-
A list of terms containing the string -retro-.
Please feel free to help me populate this list!
retrolingual, retroversion, retrocession, retrocessional, retrograde, retrorse, retroflexion, retroflection, retrogradation, retrocede, retrospect, retrospection and 149 more...
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phrontistery-r
from phrontistery.info
raad, rabanna, rabbet, rabble, Rabelaisian, rabic, racemation, raceme, racemiferous, rach, rachidian, rachiometer and 514 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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slackagogo's Words
agelast, aggiornamento, zaftig, wowserism, vox barbara, verbigeration, tchotchke, tautology, sycophant, spoonerism, solipsism, sobriquet and 288 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1387 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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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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Descriptors one wouldn't wanted used ...
stigmata, rabid monkeys, bath house, botched vesectomy, hydrochloric acid, retromingent, skoptsy, anal asylum
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bookworm's bacchanal
a must for every word anaconda
goetic, kakodemon, agathodemon, aspergill, alcalde, ithyphallic, camorra, apozemical, paludal, subadar, sepoy, adytum and 11 more...
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apostropher's Words
crampon, diaphanous, perspicacious, callipygian, thwart, mung, retromingent, penetralia, foible, retronym, coprophage, strabismus and 46 more...
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johnwarren's Words
callipygian, solipsism, supremacy, inscrutable, privateer, cellar, starship, tenebrous, ullage, gnomon, selah, meretricious and 29 more...
Tweets
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bilby Next time, instead of saying "The shit has well and truly hit the fan", I'm going to say, "Utter hippodump, yanno." Jul 28, 2011
yarb "To mark territory, hippos spin their tails while defecating to distribute their excrement over a greater area. Likely for the same reason, hippos are retromingent-- that is, they urinate backwards."
- From the Wikipedia article on the hippo. Jul 28, 2011
oroboros It can be done by humans...if you can believe pictures on the back of a certain A Grumph (sp?) vinyl record album. Only by women, it appears (with no hands, anyway). Jun 1, 2007
reesetee One word: eeeew. May 31, 2007
gjmurphy Or a cat, I believe. I read a book about books about cats, and seem to recall learning that male domestic cats can micturate backwards, between the legs. May 31, 2007
trivet you've got to be plumbed like a raccoon or a camel... Feb 7, 2007
abraxaszugzwang whaaaa? Feb 7, 2007
uselessness Ouch. I'm not even going to ask. Feb 7, 2007
trivet urinating backwards Feb 7, 2007