orifice

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity

   The orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart.

2. 2
   noun

   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; he entered the cave's gaping orifice.

3. 3
   noun

   One of the natural external openings of the human or animal body.

   The vagina and other orifices.

4. 4
   noun

   A stupid or objectionable person.

   “Peanuts aren't nuts, you orifice. They're legumes.”.

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

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