Male and female pedophiles. Most sexual offenders against children are male, although female offenders may account for 0.4% to 4% of convicted sexual offenders.6,7 On the basis of a range of published reports, McConaghy8 estimates a 10 to 1 ratio of male-to-female child molesters.
shuttlecock (plural shuttlecocks) ( 1 badminton) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games. ( 2 dated) The game of badminton.
a male chicken; rooster. 2. the male of any bird, especially of the gallinaceous kind. 3. Also called stopcock. a hand-operated valve or faucet, especially one opened or closed by rotating a cylindrical or tapered plug having part of the passage pierced through it from side to side. 4. the part of the lock that, by its fall or action, causes the discharge; hammer.