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"spay" is pronounced "spade", as in, "They had the dog spaded last week."
Too true and it annoys the hell out of me, or I could say, it gives me agita! One must strive to maintain standards! (sigh)
To spay means to remove the ovaries of an animal therefore if I say "I had my dog spayed" you may deduce the dog is a female (bitch).
OTOH, if I had a male dog I would have had him neutered. (Made neither male or female)
A spay is not a spade
Or have I been haging out with "Dog People" too long?
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Bob, do you mean to tell me that people actually say that the vet is going to spade their dog??? How weird.
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Spay/spade
Yes, Jackie, they do say exactly that, and I gather it's not just a Baltimore locution. Of course, technically speaking they ought to be saying they are going to spade their bitch, since "dog" technically refers to a male, but the people who would say "spade" in this context either don't know that or don't want to use the word "bitch".
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BobY wrote : they ought to be saying they are going to spade their bitch
Well, yes and no.
The might want to say they are going to have the dog spayed and the listener could deduce the animal was a bitch.
On no account is spaded or spade the correct term whether you use dog or cat or whatever for a female animal.
Of course you could get past it by saying your having the Vet do a hysterectomy on your animal.
Is there a male equivalent to hysterectomy? I know men who are somewhat hysterical and even a few given to fits of hysteria!
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"hysteria" has an interesting etymology. I do not have a reference to document it, but in a psychiatry lecture it was said that the Greeks thought women were emotionally unstable at times because the uterus was "wandering" around inside them. So it is an amusing twist of meaning to call a man "hysterical".
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Knew I could depend on you, wwh.
And, now and then, I have found some of your posts pretty hysterical (as in funny!)!
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Is there a male equivalent to hysterectomy?
For an equivalent, vasectomy essentially does the trick, doesn't it? The only other words around that are close are along the lines of "castration" and "unman"....
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hysterectomy? For an equivalent, vasectomy essentially does the trick,
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Not really, Seian, in a hysterectomy the uterus is removed and sometimes also one or both ovaries.
As I understand it, tubes are tied but nothing's removed in a vasectomy so my inclination would be that castration is the equivalent.
Discussion, anyone?
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Discussion, anyone?
No! Yikes!
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hysterectomy/male
The word for the equivalent procedure on a man is 'orchidectomy'= removal of the testes, or castration.
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