orifice

English edit

From Middle French, from Old French, from Late Latin orificium (“an opening, literally the making of a mouth”), compound of os (“mouth”) + facio (“to make”).

orifice (plural orifices)

A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.
the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound; the vagina and other orifices
(slang, derogatory) A stupid or objectionable person.
- 2016, Niels Saunders, Mervyn Vs. Dennis:
  “Peanuts aren't nuts, you orifice. They're legumes.”

mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe

Armenian: բացվածք (hy) (bacʻvackʻ), անցք (hy) (ancʻkʻ), ծակ (hy) (cak)
Bulgarian: отвор (bg) m (otvor), отверстие (bg) n (otverstie), устие (bg) n (ustie), проход (bg) m (prohod), дюза (bg) f (djuza), жигльор (bg) m (žigljor), щуцер (bg) m (štucer)
Catalan: orifici (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 孔 (zh) (kǒng), 口 (zh) (kǒu), 洞 (zh) (dòng), 開口／开口 (zh) (kāi kǒu)
Danish: åbning c
Faroese: op n, opilsi
Finnish: aukko (fi), reikä (fi)
French: orifice (fr) m
German: Öffnung (de) f
Icelandic: (an opening) op (is) n, (a mouth) munnur (is) m
Indonesian: mulut (id)
Irish: poll m, oscailt f, béal (ga) m
Italian: orifizio (it) m, orificio m
Japanese: 口 (ja) (くち, kuchi), 開口部 (かいこうぶ, kaikōbu), 孔 (ja) (あな, ana)
Luxembourgish: Ëffnung f
Macedonian: о́твор m (ótvor)
Malay: mulut (ms)
Malayalam: രന്ധ്രം (ml) (randhraṁ)
Maori: wenewene (of a wound), pūaha, mānawanawa
Portuguese: orifício (pt) m
Russian: отве́рстие (ru) n (otvérstije)
Scottish Gaelic: beul m, fosgladh m
Spanish: orificio (es) m
Swedish: öppning (sv) c, mynning (sv) c
Tagalog: bukasan

orifice (see anus etc. for specific body cavities) — see hole

(stupid or objectionable person): Tony Thorne (2014) “orifice”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London, […]: Bloomsbury

orifice m (plural orifices)