smegma

From Latin, borrowed from Ancient Greek σμῆγμα (smêgma), alternative form of σμῆμα (smêma, “soap, detergent”), from σμάω (smáō, “I wipe, clean”).

• enPR: smĕgʹmə, IPA^(key): /ˈsmɛɡmə/

smegma (countable and uncountable, plural smegmas)

1. A whitish sebaceous secretion that collects between the glans penis and foreskin or in the vulva.
   • 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30:

     I saw Mrs St Cloud wander happily through the flower-filled streets, her belly smeared with smegma, breasts bruised by the hands of boys.

• cheese (slang), cock cheese (vulgar), dick cheese (vulgar), knob cheese (slang)

• “smegma” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

smegma n (singular definite smegmaet, not used in plural form)

1. smegma

• nakkeost

Borrowed from Latin smēgma, from Ancient Greek σμῆγμα (smêgma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɛx.maː/

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• Hyphenation: smeg‧ma

smegma n (uncountable)

1. smegma

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmeɡmɑ/, [ˈs̠me̞ɡmɑ]
• Hyphenation: smeg‧ma

smegma

1. smegma

• esinahkatali

• IPA^(key): /smɛɡ.ma/

smegma m (plural smegmas)

1. smegma

• smectique

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

• gammes

From Ancient Greek σμῆγμα (smêgma), alternative spelling of σμῆμα (smêma, “soap, detergent”), from σμάω (smáō, “I wipe, clean”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsmeːɡ.ma/

smēgma n (genitive smēgmatis); third declension

1. ointment

Third declension neuter.

• smegma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• smegma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)