uncastratedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

uncastrated (not comparable)

1. (of a male person or animal) Not castrated; possessing testicles.
   • 2000 May 24, Jon Nordheimer, “Hunting for Pigs, And Florida's Past”, in The New York Times‎:

     "Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone.

2. (figuratively) Not weakened, censored, or the like.
   • 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Translator’s Foreword”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

     We agreed to collaborate and produce a full, complete, unvarnished, uncastrated copy of the great original.

参照

• uncastrated in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• “uncastrated”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.