testicle

Borrowed from Latin testiculus, diminutive of testis.

• enPR: tĕsʹtĭ-kəl, IPA^(key): /ˈtɛstɪkəl/

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testicle (plural testicles)

2. A testis: the male sex and endocrine gland, found in most types of animals, that produces sperm and male sex hormones, including the steroid testosterone.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 232:

     In France, Mme. de Pompadour was induced by Louis XV to eat such testicles in order to break down her frigidity.

   • 2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 372:

     Despite your jogging and the hairiness of your legs, the shoe of aging is beginning to pinch. Soon you'll regret all that sun-tanning. Your face will look like a testicle.

3. (more commonly) Either half of the structure that contains the testes: one side of the scrotum and its contents, considered as one object (one half of the ballsack, including its ball).

• See Thesaurus:testicles

• internal genitalia

• scrotum
• bulla
• bull
• bullock

• telestic

Borrowed from Latin testiculus, diminutive of testis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təsˈti.klə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tesˈti.kle]

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testicle m (plural testicles)

1. testicle

• testicular

• “testicle”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “testicle”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “testicle” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “testicle”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)