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spadoes

spadoes is the plural of spado.

Meaning of spado

Noun

spado (plural spados or spadoes or spadones)

  1. (archaic) Someone who has been castrated; a eunuch or castrato.
    • an impotency, or total privation thereof, prolongeth life; and they live longest in every kind that exercise it not at all. And this is true, not only in eunuchs by nature, but spadoes by art […]1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.9

Questions about spadoes

What is spadoes the plural of?
Spadoes is the plural of spado.

Words near spadoes in the dictionary

  1. spadinners
  2. spadish
  3. spadix
  4. spadixes
  5. spado
  6. spadoes
  7. spadona
  8. spadonas
  9. spadone
  10. spadones
  11. Spadoni

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