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Testicle   /tˈɛstɪkəl/   Listen
Testicle

noun
1.
One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens.  Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testis.



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"Testicle" Quotes from Famous Books



... constantly rubbed with grease, and exposed to the sun, they grow by degrees quite brown, and almost black. When a woman brings forth twins, one of them is immediately condemned to death, and is tied to a tree, where it is left to expire. Some of them have a custom of extirpating one testicle in their male children, as soon as they are able to bear the operation, in hope of preventing them afterwards from begetting twins. They seem to have little or no religion; yet they frequently look with admiration at the heavenly bodies, saying, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 • Robert Kerr



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