smegma

1. 1.

   a white secretion of the sebaceous glands of the foreskin

   Broadersebum

Other forms of smegma

plural

smegmas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about smegma

What does smegma mean?

smegma means "a white secretion of the sebaceous glands of the foreskin".

How many syllables are in smegma?

smegma has 2 syllables: smeg-ma. The stress falls on "smeg".

Is smegma a common word?

smegma is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.