anal
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Definition of anal
11 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
“anal thermometer”
“an anal examination”
“anal sex”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus.
“anal thermometer”
“an anal examination”
“anal sex”
- Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region.
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(also, informal, vulgar)Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy (usually in an egosyntonic way), supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage.
“Please don't touch his furniture, as he can get very anal about things like that.”
“He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.”
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(informal, vulgar)Of tasks, questions, subject matter, etc., obsessively fussy or precise.
“This questionnaire goes into the most ridiculous amount of detail. It's totally anal.”
- Of a vein, proximate to the thorax.
noun
- (countable)Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
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(informal, uncountable)Anal sex.
“In the right mood, I'll accept anal.”
“I'll do anything except anal.”
- An individual member of that ethnic group.
verb
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(rare, slang, transitive)To penetrate anally.
“The man with the small cock analed the hot chick.”
“Analling anyone is the plan for the evening / I'm kidding, stop”
name
- An ethnic group found in Manipur in India, and in Burma/Myanmar, closely related to the Kuki people.
- The Northern Kukish (Sino-Tibetan) language spoken by these people, sometimes called Namfau after the two largest villages it is spoken in.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ānālis. By surface analysis, anus + -al. Psychological sense shortened from anal-retentive.
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