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scrote

Pronunciation: /skɹoʊt/

The English word “scrote” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The scrotum.
  2. A worthless or contemptible person; a gobshite or toerag.
  3. A stereotypical inferior and obnoxious man.
  4. Courage, balls.

Etymology

Clipping of scrotum. The term may be related in some ways to North Germanic, as the senses are semantically identical to the similarly sounding Swedish skrutt and Icelandic skrjóður (“scrotum, scrap, old useless person”),

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