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Retromingent

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Urinating backwards.

Also an animal such as a raccoon that urinates backwards.

As in: 'You have revealed yourself as a miserable, carping, retromingent vigilante, and I for one am sick of wasting my time communicating with you' (Benjamin C.

Bradlee, Editor, The Washington Post).

From the Latin retro- (back) + mingent from mingere (to urinate)

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