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Forficate For Fi Kit Kayt Adjective Deeply Forked Latin Forfex

Forficate means deeply forked.

Deeply forked.

Front forficate \FOR-fi-kit, kayt\
Back adjective
Deeply forked.

[From Latin forfex (scissors). Earliest documented use: 1816.]

"Now comes a heat from your forficate thighs." - Alexander Trocchi, ed.; Merlin; 1952.

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