anal
/ˈeɪ̯nəl/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun
Forms anals analing analling analed analled
- adjective (not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from 18th c.] “anal thermometer”
- adjective (psychoanalysis) Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region. [from 20th c.]
- adjective (psychology, also informal, mildly vulgar) Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy (usually in an egosyntonic way), supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage. [from 20th c.] “Please don't touch his furniture, as he can get very anal about things like that.”
- adjective (informal, vulgar) Of tasks, questions, subject matter, etc., obsessively fussy or precise. “This questionnaire goes into the most ridiculous amount of detail. It's totally anal.”
- adjective (entomology) Of a vein, proximate to the thorax.
- noun (countable) Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
- noun (uncountable, informal) Anal sex. “In the right mood, I'll accept anal.”
- verb (transitive, slang, rare, chiefly in pornography) To penetrate anally. “The man with the small cock analed the hot chick.”
- proper noun An ethnic group found in Manipur in India, and in Burma/Myanmar, closely related to the Kuki people.
- proper noun The Northern Kukish (Sino-Tibetan) language spoken by these people, sometimes called Namfau after the two largest villages it is spoken in.
- noun An individual member of that ethnic group.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ānālis. By surface analysis, anus + -al.
Psychological sense shortened from anal-retentive.
Webster’s 1913
Etymology [From Anus.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “anal”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details