girth
pronunciation
How to pronounce girth in British English:
UK [gɜ:θ]
How to pronounce girth in American English:
US [gɜrθ]
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- Noun:
- the distance around a person's body
- stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place
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- Verb:
- encircle or bind
- tie a cinch around
Word Origin
- girth (n.)
- c. 1300, "belt around a horse's body," from Old Norse gjorð "girdle, belt, hoop," from Proto-Germanic *gertu- (cf Gothic gairda "girdle"), from the same source as girdle and gird. Sense of "measurement around an object" first recorded 1640s.
Synonym
Example
- 1. So women who felt penis girth mattered may have different ideas of what the ideal penis girth is .
- 2. Avoid : horizontal stripes and larger motifs that accentuate girth .
- 3. A survey of 556 women between the ages of 19-49 asked participants whether penis length and girth matter .
- 4. His visit to the munich hofbr uhaus mostly described the enormous girth and appetite of ordinary bavarians , barely mentioning the black-clad ss men in another room .
- 5. While there have been other surveys that have asked women about the importance of penis length and girth , and most report that where this is a preference , girth is reported as more important then length , there doesn 't seem to be any academic research that actually addresses what size is preferable .