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- n. An animal that urinates backwards - such as the camel, hippo or raccoon.
- adj. That urinates backwards; also used of such urination.
- adj. cowardly
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Organized so as to discharge the urine backward.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Urinating backward; characterized by or exhibiting retromingency.
- n. A retromingent animal.
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.
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.)