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bobbitt

bobbitt verb: to cut off the penis of (a person).

Verb

bobbitt (third-person singular simple present bobbitts, present participle bobbitting, simple past and past participle bobbitted)

  1. (informal, transitive) To cut off the penis of (a person).
    • Watch out: she might bobbitt you as you sleep.
  2. (informal, transitive) To cut off (the penis).
    • […] penis should be Bobbitted by about seven feet, having been joined up to his navel in error […]1995, Fortean Times, numbers 78-83, page 8
    • The consensus was that the thing was indecent, and it had to be abridged, Bobbitted, turtled, so to speak.2007, Karen Kendall, Fit to be Tied, page 46

Proper noun capitalized: Bobbitt

Bobbitt

  1. A surname.

Forms of bobbitt

third-person singular presentbobbitts
present participlebobbitting
past participlebobbitted
pastbobbitted

Origin of bobbitt

From the surname of John Wayne Bobbitt, whose wife cut off his penis during his sleep.

From Bobb + -et.

Words formed from bobbitt

Phrases with bobbitt

Questions about bobbitt

What does bobbitt mean?
Bobbitt means to cut off the penis of (a person).
What part of speech is bobbitt?
Bobbitt can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of bobbitt?
The past tense of bobbitt is bobbitted.

Words near bobbitt in the dictionary

  1. bobbish
  2. bobbishly
  3. Bobbit worm
  4. bobbitise
  5. bobbitize
  6. bobbitt
  7. Bobbitt procedure
  8. bobbitted
  9. bobbitting
  10. bobbittise
  11. bobbittize

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