eunuchoid

English edit

From eunuch +‎ -oid.

eunuchoid (comparative more eunuchoid, superlative most eunuchoid)

Resembling a eunuch.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 105:
  Some we already knew, like Casimir Ava the tragic actor with his pale eunuchoid-velvet complexion and studied poses.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 26:
  Frontiersmen were never afraid of poetry. It was Big Business with its fear of femininity, it was the eunuchoid clergy capitulating to vulgar masculinity that made religion and art sissy things.

eunuchoid (plural eunuchoids)

organism exhibiting eunuchoidism