retromingent

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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.

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  1. Urinating backward; characterized by or exhibiting retromingency. The long penis has a mushroom-shaped glans, and the animal [rhinoceros] is retromingent. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 362.
  2. A retromingent animal. Except it be in retromingents, and such as couple backward. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 17.

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  • 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. —  Army Rumour Service
 

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  1. from Latin retro, back, behind, + mingen(t-)s, present participle of mingere, urinate: see micturition.
 

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