akuŝi

eo-head

akuŝi (present akuŝas, past akuŝis, future akuŝos, conditional akuŝus, volitive akuŝu)

akuŝas (present)
akuŝis (past)
akuŝos (future)
akuŝus (conditional)
akuŝu (volitive)
akuŝas (present)
akuŝis (past)
akuŝos (future)
akuŝanta (active participle present singular)
akuŝantaj (active participle plural present)
akuŝinta (active participle past singular)
akuŝintaj (active participle past plural)
akuŝonta (active future participle singular)
akuŝontaj (active future participle plural)
akuŝantan (accusative active participle present singular)
akuŝantajn (accusative active participle plural present)
akuŝintan (accusative active participle past singular)
akuŝintajn (accusative active participle past plural)
akuŝontan (accusative active future participle singular)
akuŝontajn (accusative active future participle plural)
akuŝata (participle passive present singular)
akuŝataj (participle passive plural present)
akuŝita (participle passive past singular)
akuŝitaj (participle passive past plural)
akuŝota (future participle passive singular)
akuŝotaj (future participle passive plural)
akuŝatan (accusative participle passive present singular)
akuŝatajn (accusative participle passive plural present)
akuŝitan (accusative participle passive past singular)
akuŝitajn (accusative participle passive past plural)
akuŝotan (accusative future participle passive singular)
akuŝotajn (accusative future participle passive plural)
akuŝanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
akuŝantoj (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
akuŝinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
akuŝintoj (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
akuŝonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
akuŝontoj (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
akuŝanton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
akuŝantojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
akuŝinton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
akuŝintojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
akuŝonton (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
akuŝontojn (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
akuŝato (noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
akuŝatoj (noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
akuŝito (noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
akuŝitoj (noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
akuŝoto (future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
akuŝotoj (future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
akuŝaton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
akuŝatojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
akuŝiton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
akuŝitojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
akuŝoton (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
akuŝotojn (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
akuŝante (active adverbial participle present)
akuŝinte (active adverbial participle past)
akuŝonte (active adverbial future participle)
akuŝate (adverbial participle passive present)
akuŝite (adverbial participle passive past)
akuŝote (adverbial future participle passive)
akuŝi (infinitive)
akuŝu (imperative)
akuŝus (conditional)

akuŝigi

to assist (a woman) with the birthing process


moașă

moașe (plural)
moașă (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
moașa (accusative definite nominative singular)
moașe (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
moașele (accusative definite nominative plural)
moașe (indefinite singular)
moașei (definite singular)
moașe (indefinite plural)
moașelor (definite plural)
moașă (singular vocative)
moașo (singular vocative)
moașelor (plural vocative)

Synchronically the feminine of moș, q.v.


gran

(informal, usually affectionate) A grandmother.


babka

babka (nominative singular)
babky (nominative plural)
babky (genitive singular)
babek (genitive plural)
babce (dative singular)
babkám (dative plural)
babku (accusative singular)
babky (accusative plural)
babko (singular vocative)
babky (plural vocative)
babce (locative singular)
babkách (locative plural)
babkou (instrumental singular)
babkami (instrumental plural)


babka

babka (nominative singular)
babce (dual nominative)
babki (nominative plural)
babki (genitive singular)
babkowu (dual genitive)
babkow (genitive plural)
babce (dative singular)
babkoma (dative dual)
babkam (dative plural)
babku (accusative singular)
babce (accusative dual)
babki (accusative plural)
babku (instrumental singular)
babkoma (dual instrumental)
babkami (instrumental plural)
babce (locative singular)
babkoma (dual locative)
babkach (locative plural)


babka

babeczka (diminutive)
babka (nominative singular)
babki (nominative plural)
babki (genitive singular)
babek (genitive plural)
babce (dative singular)
babkom (dative plural)
babkę (accusative singular)
babki (accusative plural)
babką (instrumental singular)
babkami (instrumental plural)
babce (locative singular)
babkach (locative plural)
babko (singular vocative)
babki (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish babka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka.


babka

Inherited from Old Polish ka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka.

(forging) small anvil for striking a scythe or a sickle

Pyrus communis
Pyrus communis#Translingual


Gattin

de-noun

Gattin f (genitive Gattin, plural Gattinnen)

Gattin (genitive)
Gattinnen (plural)
Gattin (nominative singular)
Gattinnen (definite nominative plural)
Gattin (genitive singular)
Gattinnen (definite genitive plural)
Gattin (dative singular)
Gattinnen (dative definite plural)
Gattin (accusative singular)
Gattinnen (accusative definite plural)

married woman, wife; female form of Gatte


Ehefrau

Ehefrau f (genitive Ehefrau, plural Ehefrauen, diminutive Ehefrauchen n, masculine Ehemann)

Ehefrau (genitive)
Ehefrauen (plural)
Ehefrauchen (diminutive neuter)
Ehemann (masculine)
Ehefrau (nominative singular)
Ehefrauen (definite nominative plural)
Ehefrau (genitive singular)
Ehefrauen (definite genitive plural)
Ehefrau (dative singular)
Ehefrauen (dative definite plural)
Ehefrau (accusative singular)
Ehefrauen (accusative definite plural)

/ˈeːəˌfʁaʊ̯/


emmenagogue

From Ancient Greek ἔμμηνα (émmēna, “menses”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “leading”).

Take of the emmenagogue decoction, six ounces; borax, fifteen grains; troches of myrrh, two scruples; dittany of Crete, finely powdered, ten grains; […]

1775, The practice of the British and French hospitals:

The term emmenagogue is applied to any remedy or indeed any resource whatever which normalizes the menses.

1914, Albert Henry Buck, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences:

Because of its phenolic ether content (methyl chavicol), which varies within wide limits, depending on the species, the origin and the time of harvesting, basil is often cited as an emmenagogue.

2007, Shirley Price, Aromatherapy for Health Professionals, page 71:

(medicine) An herb that stimulates blood flow in the pelvic area and uterus, causing menstruation.


wagon

→ Dutch: wagon

→ French: wagon (see there for further descendants)

→ German: Waggon

→ Japanese: わごん, ワゴン (wagon)

→ Polish: wagon

→ Spanish: vagón

Borrowed from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos (“wagon, primitive carriage”), from *weǵʰ- (“to transport”). Doublet of wain. Related also to way, weigh.
Sense 8 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a woman being “ridden”, that is, mounted for the purpose of sexual intercourse.
The verb is derived from the noun.

wa

four-wheeled cart for hauling loads — see also cart

[…] [Debra] Van Ausdale transcribes an exchange among two white girls (both aged four) and one Asian girl (age three) who are playing with a wagon. One of the white girls is pulling the other children. When the wagon gets stuck the Asian girl jumps out to help pull. The white girl responds, "No, no. You can't pull this wagon. Only white Americans can pull this wagon." […] Here, a four-year-old is using a construction that joins race and perceptions of citizenship to exclude in her play.

2017, Jennifer Harvey, “From Color-blindness to Race-conscious Parenting”, in Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America, Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, →ISBN:

In all placs and ages children have played with things, some found by children, some fabricated by them, and some provided by parents or other adults. Today these might include a just-emptied rolled-oats carton salvaged from the kitchen, a knocked together wooden wagon set on cast-off baby buggy wheels, or a gaudy heavy plastic gm set of Chinese manufacture.

2015, Carroll Pursell, “Toys for Girls and Boys”, in From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

Abbreviation of toy wagon; A child's riding toy, with the same structure as a wagon (sense 1), pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.


anti

(informal) A form of address to a woman.


anti

aunt (polite term for any woman a generation older than oneself)


preggers

Michael's troubles may be over soon, except that Christal claims to be preggers with triplets.

2007-07-14, Kyrie O'Connor, “Bluff the Listener”, in Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me, National Public Radio:

(informal) Pregnant; carrying developing offspring within one's body.


בת

he-noun

בַּת • (bat) f (plural indefinite בָּנוֹת, singular construct בַּת־, plural construct בְּנוֹת־, masculine counterpart בֵּן)

בַּת (canonical)
bat (romanization)
בָּנוֹת (indefinite plural)
בַּת־ (construct singular)
בְּנוֹת־ (construct plural)
בֵּן (masculine)
בַּת (indefinite singular)
בִּתִּי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
בִּתֵּנוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הַבַּת (definite singular)
בִּתְּךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
בִּתֵּךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
בִּתְּכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
בִּתְּכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
בַּת־ (construct singular)
בִּתּוֹ (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
בִּתָּהּ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
בִּתָּם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
בִּתָּן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)
בָּנוֹת (indefinite plural)
בנותיי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
בְּנוֹתַי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
בְּנוֹתֵינוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הַבָּנוֹת (definite plural)
בְּנוֹתֶיךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
בנותייך (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
בְּנוֹתַיִךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
בְּנוֹתֵיכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
בְּנוֹתֵיכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
בְּנוֹת־ (construct plural)
בְּנוֹתָיו (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
בְּנוֹתֶיהָ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
בְּנוֹתָם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
בְּנוֹתָן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *bint-, the /i/ changing to /a/ through Philippi's Law and /n/ assimilating to the following /t/.
Cognate with Arabic بنت (bint).

בת חוה

(by analogy with בן) a direct female descendant


PMS

en-noun

PMS (countable and uncountable, plural PMSs)

Coordinate term: PMDD

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) takes a lot of bashing in the media. It is true that many women become more aggressive during this period, though they are rarely out of control...Therefore, any PMS symptoms that are perceived as unstable are due to the fact that women act more like men during this phase than at any other time in their cycles.

1951, Edain McCoy, Celtic Women's Spirituality:

By recognising PMS as a clinical entity women are allowed to Indulge In socially disapproved behaviours, and thus have a safety valve for their resentment.

1980, British Social Biology Council, Social Biology and Human Affairs:

Holden, Banky, this pile of PMS is Alyssa Jones.

1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Hooper:

By internalizing ideational valuations of PMS, men and women reinforce the appearance of a psychosomatic constitution of PMS.

2006, Kristen Brown, Nietzsche And Embodiment: Discerning Bodies and Non-Dualism:

This is called premenstrual syndrome, or PMS. It is not well defined, and more than 100 different symptoms have been attributed to PMS

2006, Phyllis Greenberger, Jennifer Wider, editors, The Savvy Woman Patient: How and Why Sex Difference Affect Your Health:

premenstrual syndrome
premenstrual syndrome#English

(medicine, uncountable) Initialism of premenstrual syndrome or premenstrual stress.

package management system
package management system#English

(computing, countable) Initialism of package management system.

PMS: Performance-management system

2006, Organisation for Economic Co-operation, “Survey on Harmonisation and Alignment of Donor Practices: Measuring Aid Harmonisation and Alignment in 14 Partner Countries”, in Development, list of acronyms:

performance management system
performance management system#English

Initialism of performance management system.

A more comprehensive system now being marketed by IBM, PMS (Project Management System), includes resource allocation.

1971, Boyd C. Paulson, Man-computer Concepts for Project Management:

Mr. Tiernan. ...You have [a chart of] performance based on average design and construction performance before PMS. What is PMS? Mr. Starobin. Project Management System.

1974, United States. Congress. House. Appropriations, District of Columbia Appropriations for 1974:

We see many changes needed, and IS/IT solutions include executive information system (ElS), project management system (PMS), research library system (RLS), customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resources planning (ERP), electronic market places (EMS), and knowledge management system (KMS).

2006, Petter Gottschalk, E-Business Strategy, Sourcing And Governance:

project management system
w:project management system

Initialism of project management system.


PMS

en-verb

PMS (third-person singular simple present PMSes, present participle PMSing, simple past and past participle PMSed)

PMSes (present singular third-person)
PMSing (participle present)
PMSed (participle past)
PMSed (past)

Clarice raised an eyebrow. “I think I'm getting my period, so there's no guarantees it won't happen again.”.[…]“I'm feeling a little PMSed myself. Let's take it out on the cops next time.” “Deal.” Clarice smiled, feeling in control once more.

2019, Henry Roi, With Her Fists, Next Chapter:

premenstrual syndrome
premenstrual syndrome

(informal, intransitive) To experience premenstrual syndrome or premenstrual stress.


PMS

(astronomy, of a star) Initialism of pre-main sequence.


PMS

premenstruelt syndrom
premenstruelt syndrom#Norwegian_Nynorsk

(medicine) Initialism of premenstruelt syndrom (“premenstrual syndrome”).


reine

Rennes (may be short in length-distinguishing accents)

Inherited from Old French reïne, reyne, royne, from Latin rēgīna.

Je ferai un domaine où l’amour sera roi, où l’amour sera loi, où tu seras reine

I will create a realm where love will be king, where love will be law, where you will be queen

queen (a reproductive female animal in a hive)


harridan

Perhaps a modification of French haridelle (“old horse, nag”).

Why is that tattling old harridan, Peggy O'Dowd, to make free with my name at her d—d supper-table, and advertise my engagement over the three kingdoms?

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 13, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

Well there was one old lady, and a drunken old harridan she was surely, that paid all her attention to me.

1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 37:

A vicious and scolding woman, especially an older one.


up the duff

Unknown; the OED states that the phrase was originally Australian. Possibly related to in the pudding club (duff is a type of pudding) and thus related to dough.

Lynda up the duff—what odds do you put on that, eh, Mr Clever Dick, eh? That's shut his gob. That's put a crease in his brand-new suit.

1987, David Leland, Wish You Were Here, spoken by Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd):

At 19, he was married (‘only because she was up the duff’ he explains gallantly).

1994, The Daily Telegraph, quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, page 88, 2nd edition, 2005:

“Well, when he found out that my gran was up the duff, he went back to his native Norway (or it might have been Sweden)[…].”

1998, Tracey Ullman, Tracey Takes On..., page 98:

It just means that some daft wee hairy that gets knocked up the duff has tae get oan the bus tae Carlisle tae get cleaned oot.

1998, Irvine Welsh, Filth, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 191:

The great coalface of fuckwits; the fly-by-nighters, who do their five years in Bondi, befriend a Roosters player, get a good coke dealer, meet some tight westie bitch who′s moved here while she works a job in PR, they fall in love, she gets up the duff and then they have to buy a house in Condell Park and they′re gone[…].

2008, Sam de Brito, The Lost Boys, page 14:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial, slang) Pregnant.


termagant

/ˈtɜɹməɡənt/

PIE word
 *tréyes
The noun is derived from Termagant (“fictitious deity with a violent temperament represented as being worshipped by Muslims or other non-Christians”), from Middle English Termagaunt (“fictitious deity represented as being worshipped by Muslims; any pagan god”), from Anglo-Norman Tervagant, Tervagaunt, Tervagan, and Old French Tervagant, Tervagan (possibly with the addition of Anglo-Norman -aunt, Old French -ant (suffix forming past participles of verbs, some of which were used as nouns); modern French Tervagant (historical)); further etymology uncertain, one common suggestion being that it is from Latin ter (“three times, thrice”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)) + vagāns (“rambling, wandering”) (the present active participle of vagor (“to ramble, roam, wander”), from vagus (“rambling, roaming, wandering”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hwogos) + -or (inflected form of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). Medieval French chansons de geste named Termagant as one of three deities supposedly worshipped by Muslims, the others being Apollin and Mahound, and the name may allude to the wandering of the moon (the crescent moon being a common symbol of Islam) in the form of the mythological goddesses Selene in heaven, Diana on earth, and Proserpina in the underworld.
The reason for the shift in meaning from the fictitious deity to a brawling and turbulent person is unclear.
The adjective is derived from the noun.

der

They [authors] would not suffer the stout'st Dame, / To swear by Hercules his Name, / Make feeble Ladies, in their Works, / To fight like Termagants and Turks; […]

1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 38:

This Girl is ſo exceſſively ill-bred, and ſuch an arrant Termagant, that I cou'd as ſoon fall in love vvith a Tigreſs. She hath a handſom Face, 'tis true, but in her Temper ſhe is a very Fury.

a. 1733 (date written), [John] Gay, Achilles. An Opera. […], London: […] J[ohn] Watts […], published 1733, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 27:

[T]he Widow Chupin […] poured forth a torrent of invective upon Gevrol and his agents, accusing them of persecuting her family […] At first the General tried to impose silence upon the terrible termagant; but he soon discovered that he was powerless; besides all his subordinates were laughing.

1894, Émile Gaboriau, chapter 1, in Laura E. Kendall, transl., Monsieur Lecoq […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Peter Fenelon Collier, →OCLC, page 15:

The name of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become proverbial for a termagant.

1907, Plato, “[Index] Σωκράτης, -ους”, in edited by Isaac Flagg, The Apology and Crito, New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Oh.: American Book Company, →OCLC, page 196, column 2:

Easier divorce, equal pay for equal work as between men and women, no discrimination between the sexes in employment—these were her causes, and in promoting them she was no comic-strip feminist termagant, but reasonable, logical, and untiring.

1970, Robertson Davies, “The Soirée of Illusions”, in Fifth Business […], Toronto, Ont.: Macmillan of Canada, →ISBN, section 3, page 282:

(specifically, derogatory) A censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman; a scold, a shrew.

fúria

censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman — see also shrew

老虎乸 (lou⁵ fu² naa², literally “tigress”)


thealogy

en-noun

thealogy (countable and uncountable, plural thealogies)

From Ancient Greek θεά (theá, “goddess”) + -logy.

The study of or reflection upon the or a goddess, or the feminine divine, e.g. from a feminist viewpoint.


heifer

Inherited from Middle English heyfre, hayfre, heyfer, from Old English hēahfore, hēahfru, of disputed origin; see the Old English entry for more discussion.

And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 19:1–2:

The breath of the mountain heifer was fragrant as the gales of Sirendiep, by feeding on ſpicy herbs.

1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:

A young female cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.


mor

mora (definite singular)
mødrer (indefinite plural)
mødrene (definite plural)

From Old Norse móðir. Akin to English mother.

Han elskar mora si.


mor

mor (indefinite nominative singular)
mors (genitive indefinite singular)
modern (definite nominative singular)
moderns (definite genitive singular)
mödrar (indefinite nominative plural)
mödrars (genitive indefinite plural)
mödrarna (definite nominative plural)
mödrarnas (definite genitive plural)

Short form of moder, from Old Norse móðir, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.


fjortis

fjortisen (definite singular)
fjortiser (indefinite plural)
fjortisene (definite plural)

Borrowed from Swedish fjortis (“immature teenager”), from fjorton (“fourteen”) (with the suffix -is, from Latin -is), from Old Swedish fiughertān, fiughurtan (“fourteen”), from Old Norse fjugurtán, fjugrtán, of fjórtán (“fourteen”), from Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun (“fourteen”), from both *fedwōr (“four”), from *petwṓr, from *kʷetwṓr of Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”) + and from *tehun (“ten”), from *tehunt, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t (“ten”). Equivalent to fjorten + -is.

bor+

de tre [intervjuede 17-åringene] forteller at de unngår disko hvor det vanker «fjortiser»

the three [interviewed 17-year-olds] say that they avoid discos where "fourteen-year-olds" are common

[han] kom til å dø av ecstasy mens han stirra på en navlebar fjortis

1997, Morten Jørgensen, Kongen av København, page 126:

[he] would die of ecstasy while staring at a bare-bellied teenybopper

trøst deg med at den dagen det blir hipt å være fjortis med briller og kviser vil du bli sett på som en trendsetter

2004, Frode Øverli, Pondus. Flar firer, page 135:

take comfort in the fact that the day it gets hip to be a teenybopper with glasses and pimples you will be seen as a trendsetter

(colloquial, slang) a (more often female) teenager prone to immature or shallow behavior, a teenybopper


suffragette

/ˌsʌf.ɹəˈd͡ʒɛt/

From suffrage + -ette, first used as a derisive label by the Daily Mail in 1906, but eventually adopted by the WSPU itself.

Perhaps no single location resonates for women’s rights campaigners today as much as Holloway, the first female-only prison, where militant suffragettes were incarcerated, went on hunger strike and were savagely force-fed.

2018 February 2, “Smashed windows, broken rules: the dark suffragette sites of London”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2021-07-11:

(historical) A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.

sufražetka

female supporter of women's right to vote


PBA

partial-birth abortion
partial-birth abortion#English


aviatrix

en-noun

aviatrix (plural aviatrices or aviatrixes)

“... — Did you know that she was an aviatrix?” he interjected.

1969, William Dana Orcutt, Celebrities Off Parade: Pen-and-ink Portrait Sketches, →ISBN, page 111:

The Women Flyers: From Aviatrix to Astronaut

1987, Pat Browne, Heroines of Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 54:

Hariet Quimby, a writer for Leslie's Weekly, in 1911 became the first American aviatrix and won international accalim in 1912 as the first woman to pilot a plan across the English Channel.

2001, Roger E. Bilstein, Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts, →ISBN, page 22:

In 1929 she turned an ide that she ‘stole’ from her son into a screenplay, Wings in the Dark, featuring a protagonist based on Ameria Earhart, the famous aviatrix with whom Shipman was acquainted...

2002, Deena Mandrell, Deadbeat Dads: Subjectivity and Social Construction, →ISBN, page 307:

2018 summary of 2009 film Amelia
From the time she first sits in the pilot's seat, aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) feels destined to achieve great things.


misogyny

misogyny (usually uncountable, plural misogynies)

From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”). By surface analysis, miso- + -gyny.

Although she argues against a simplistic conflation of types of prejudice, she suggests that misogyny is typically present in both narcissistic and obsessive forms of anti-Semitic prejudice.

1999, Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 29:

His misogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice; […]

1999, Ethel Spector Person, The Sexual Century, →ISBN, page 84:

[…] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny. By envying Sue, as the man he cannot become, he projects his self-loathing onto her, trying to diminish what he actually admires.

2005, Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender, →ISBN, page 122:

2006, Jack Holland, Misogyny: the world's oldest prejudice, →ISBN:

[…] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. When I played him, I could find reasons for the misogyny but half-ignored the murders.

2014 April 12, Simon Russell Beale, “Why Shakespeare always says something new: As the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth approaches, the great Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale explains his secrets [print version: The king and I]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R7:

Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.


bean sí

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bean sí f (genitive singular mná sí, nominative plural mná sí)

mná sí (genitive singular)
mná sí (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
bean sí (indefinite singular)
mná sí (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a bhean sí (indefinite singular)
a mhná sí (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
mná sí (indefinite singular)
ban sí (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
mnaoi shí (archaic dialectal indefinite singular)
mnáibh sí (archaic indefinite plural)
nominative (definite)
an bhean sí (definite singular)
na mná sí (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na mná sí (definite singular)
na mban sí (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an mbean sí (definite singular)
don bhean sí (definite singular)
leis an mnaoi shí (archaic definite dialectal singular)
don mhnaoi shí (archaic definite dialectal singular)
leis na mná sí (definite plural)
leis na mnáibh sí (archaic definite plural)
bean sí
bhean sí
mbean sí

→ English: banshee (see there for further descendants)

→ Scots: banshee

From Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). By surface analysis, bean + sí.


obstetric

From Medical Latin obstetricus (“belonging to a midwife”), from Latin obstētrīx (“midwife”).

bor

obstetric clinic

For Wenham, the most striking statistic from Sierra Leone, one of the countries worst affected by Ebola, was that from 2013 to 2016, during the outbreak, more women died of obstetric complications than the infectious disease itself.

2020 March 19, Helen Lewis, “The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism”, in The Atlantic:

Of or relating to obstetrics (the care of women during and after pregnancy).


obstetrics

Coordinate term: gynecology

(medicine) The care of women during and after pregnancy.


amniotic fluid embolism

en-noun

amniotic fluid embolism (plural amniotic fluid embolisms)

(pathology) A complication of pregnancy characterized by movement of amniotic fluid past the placenta


missus

Representing a typical pronunciation of Mrs, a corrupted form of Mistress.

Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because his missus wanted to go shopping.

The missus has a list of chores for me to do this weekend.

Sometimes I find myself sitting back and reminiscing / Especially when I have to watch other people kissing / And I remember when you started calling me your missus / All the play fighting, all the flirtatious disses

2006, “Littlest Things”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen:

Imagine you have driven past a restaurant and thought to yourself, 'That would be a nice place to take the missus for an evening out,' and in no time at all you have found yourself flicking through the Yellow Pages in search of the phonenumber.

2013, Jeff Jenkins, Watching The World, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:


dek

deke̩ (masculine)
deke̩ (feminine)
deke̩r (comparative)
dekste̩ (superlative)

From Middle Dutch dicke, from Old Dutch *thicki, from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).

dik

Veldeke spelling, Rheinische Dokumenta form


bridezilla

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bridezilla.wav

(usually humorous) A woman who, in the course of planning her wedding, exercises or attempts to exercise a high degree of control over all major and minor details of the ceremony and reception, and makes unrealistic or outrageous demands.


damsel

From Middle English dameisele, from Old French damoisele, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella, a diminutive from Classical Latin domina (“mistress, lady”), from dominus, from *demh₂-. Doublet of demoiselle, doncella, and donzella.


cailín

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cailín m (genitive singular cailín, nominative plural cailíní)

cailín (genitive singular)
cailíní (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
cailín (indefinite singular)
cailíní (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a chailín (indefinite singular)
a chailíní (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an cailín (definite singular)
na cailíní (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an chailín (definite singular)
na gcailíní (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an gcailín (definite singular)
don chailín (definite singular)
leis na cailíní (definite plural)
cailín
chailín
gcailín

→ English: colleen

Shelta: lakeen

From caile (“maid”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).


patrino

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patrino (accusative singular patrinon, plural patrinoj, accusative plural patrinojn)

patrinon (accusative singular)
patrinoj (plural)
patrinojn (accusative plural)

From patro (“father”) + -ino (“female”).

1915, L. L. Zamenhof (translator), Malnova Testamento, Genezo 3:20.
Kaj Adam donis al sia edzino la nomon Eva, ĉar ŝi estis patrino de ĉiuj vivantoj.

And Adam gave his wife the name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.


óinseach

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óinseach f (genitive singular óinsí, nominative plural óinseacha)

óinsí (genitive singular)
óinseacha (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
óinseach (indefinite singular)
óinseacha (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a óinseach (indefinite singular)
a óinseacha (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
óinsí (indefinite singular)
óinseach (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
óinsigh (archaic dialectal indefinite singular)
nominative (definite)
an óinseach (definite singular)
na hóinseacha (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na hóinsí (definite singular)
na n-óinseach (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an óinseach (definite singular)
leis an óinsigh (archaic definite dialectal singular)
don óinseach (definite singular)
don óinsigh (archaic definite dialectal singular)
leis na hóinseacha (definite plural)
óinseach
n-óinseach
hóinseach

From Old Irish óinsech (“foolish or giddy woman”).


fag hag

From fag + hag. First use appears c. 1965 in the publication The Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms.

Susan "Suki" Eagan, manager of the Boston bar Chaps, describes her own personal odyssey as "local debutante to fag hag to fag bar owner."

1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 8:

Becoming a glam fag hag was not about money or privilege. Au contraire. Any working-class girl was eligible. All she had to do was get a job in a fag-rich environment, be it a hair salon or a department store.

2012, Simon Doonan, Gay Men Don't Get Fat, Penguin, →ISBN:

(sometimes derogatory, slang, LGBTQ) A woman who enjoys the company of gay men.


gal

→ Icelandic: gella

desctree

→ Japanese: ギャル (gyaru)
→ English: gyaru

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole gyal (“girl”), from English girl.

bor+

Coordinate term: guy


matro

eo-head

matro (accusative singular matron, plural matroj, accusative plural matrojn)

matron (accusative singular)
matroj (plural)
matrojn (accusative plural)

Borrowed from Ido matro, from Latin māter (“mother”).

Coordinate term: patro (“father”)


matro

→ Esperanto: matro

Borrowed from Italian madre, Spanish madre, from Latin māter, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.


minx

PIE word
 *ǵʰmṓ
The origin of the noun is uncertain. The following possible derivations have been suggested:
* A variation of minikin (“(obsolete) young person, especially a young woman; small or insignificant person, thing, or amount”) + a variation of -s (suffix forming hypocoristic nouns (nicknames)) (compare minckins, a variant of minikin).
* From Dutch mens, mensch (“human being, person; (derogatory, informal) woman”) (obsolete), Middle Dutch minsc, minsce, minsch; or from German Low German minsch, minsk, Middle Low German minsche (“hussy, wench”), all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz (“human”, adjective), from *mann- (“human being, person; man”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”), *men- (“to mind; to think; spiritual activity”), or *mon- (“human being; man”)) + *-iskaz (suffix meaning ‘characteristic of, pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
The verb is derived from the noun.

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LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-minx.wav

In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]

1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC:

How Huſſie! was there ever ſuch a provoking Minx?

1695, [William] Congreve, Love for Love: A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, page 20:

Miſs Herbert. So good, Mr. gallant, gay Lothario of ſixty-five, a good morning to you. [Exit. Miſs Herbert. / Old Manly. A ſaucy minx.

1792, Joseph Richardson, The Fugitive: A Comedy. […], London: […] [John] Debrett, […], →OCLC, act IV, scene ii, page 56:

Miss Squeers made no more direct reply than surveying her former friend from top to toe, and elevating her nose in the air with ineffable disdain. But some indistinct allusions to a ‘puss,’ and a ‘minx,’ and a ‘contemptible creature,’ escaped her; and this, together with a severe biting of the lips, great difficulty in swallowing, and very frequent comings and goings of breath, seemed to imply that feelings were swelling in Miss Squeers’s bosom too great for utterance.

1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Illustrative of the Convivial Sentiment, that the Best of Friends Must Sometimes Part”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, pages 414–415:

"Thy own tongue blister the roof of thy mouth!" cried Mrs. Glendinning, in a half-stifled, whispering scream. "'Tis not for thee, hired one, to rail at my son, though he were Lucifer, simmering in Hell! Mend thy manners, minx!"

1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XII. Isabel, Mrs. Glendenning, the Portrait, and Lucy.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section IV, page 272:

Hopkins says she is a dressed-up little minx who runs after all the young men in the parish; but really, from what I see and hear from other persons, I think she is a good girl enough.

1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “The Long Vacation Letter-bag”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 2nd, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 105:

Others were pert little minxes, and were amusingly condescending to their friends and relatives; but when it came to the feast all the innocent little airs and graces were left aside, and the saucy tapo enjoyed her pig and yams as naturally as the hungriest boy there.

1895, Marie Fraser, “Tapos and Other ‘Fafines’”, in In Stevenson’s Samoa, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 111:

A widow with a child was at a disadvantage with these pretty little minxes, she thought. But in these exciting days her widowhood and her motherhood weighed less heavily upon her than ever before.

1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter XVIII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 317:

Single, and generally on the make, she was alternatively an angel, a devil and a minx.

1988, Barbara Delinsky, Commitments, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Grand Central Publishing, published October 2012, →ISBN, page 69:

As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

1996, Helen Fielding, “Wednesday, 4 January”, in Bridget Jones’s Diary, London: Penguin Books, published 1999 (2010 printing), →ISBN:

We're quite a powerful group, us wrinkly teenagers, us pre-menopausal minxes.

1999, Meera Syal, Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Black Swan edition, London: Transworld Publishers, published 2015, →ISBN, page 242:

Both girls [in Joseph Haydn's Le pescatrici] reveal themselves as minxes.

2009, Richard Wigmore, “Operas and Dramatic Music”, in The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 307:

A flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman.

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Well, yet at length the houre came that flattered him with grace, / Who all too haſtie hide him ſelfe to his appointed place. / Arrived there, a pretie minx (directed wel before) / Unto a lodging brought this lord, and locked faſt the dore. / When he was ſafe, awaye ſhe went, for joy Alberto hopt, / But ſee, a chaunge! too late he ſpyde he was in priſon popt. / The windowes made of yron barres, the walles of ſtone and clay, / A bed he found, but farre unfit he thought for Venus play.

1576, George Whetstone, “The Arbour of Vertue, […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, […] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], →OCLC, pages 164–165:

[W]hat did you meane by that ſame handkercher, you gaue mee euen now? […] this is ſome minxes token, and I muſt take out the worke; there, giue it the hobby horſe, whereſoeuer you had it, I'le take out no worke on't.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 65:

If thou be abſent long, thy wife then thinkes, / Th'art drunke, at eaſe, or with ſome pretty minkes, / 'Tis well with thee, or elſe beloued of ſome, / Whil'ſt ſhee poore ſoule doth fare full ill at home.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Causes of Iealousie, Who are Most Apt. […]”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 1, subsection 2, page 469:

They are a couple of alluring wanton Minxes.

1677 (date written), John Dryden, The Kind Keeper; or, Mr. Limberham: A Comedy: […], London: […] R[ichard] Bentley, and M[ary] Magnes, […], published 1680, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:

He to his ardent love ſhall win the fair, / From beauty's queen, to her who ſcrubs the ſtair, / From the Kept-miſtreſs, or the Counteſs vain, / Down to the tawdry Minx in Drury Lane.

1760, J. Copywell [pseudonym; William Woty], “Money. A Fragment of an Intended Parody.”, in The Shrubs of Parnassus. Consisting of a Variety of Poetical Essays, Moral and Comic, London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 142:

For my part, if I understand these sphinxes, / These living riddles called Olympian Gods, / I think they are in love with mortal minxes; / (It would not be the only time by odds;) […]

1864, England’s Bards, 1864; or, The Three Poems which were Awarded the One Hundred Guineas Offered as Prizes in the Advertisement “Ho! For a Shakespeare!” which Appeared about the Time of Shakespeare’s Tercentenary Anniversary, London: Day and Son, […], →OCLC, section I (Pallas Athené and Venus at Breakfast with Juno, in One of Her Apartments), page 12:

There wasn't an Archimandrite of Dane's Island and the townlands nor a minx from the Isle of Woman […] would come next or nigh him, […]

1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 496:

Tragically forgot to take drying washing down off rack over Aga and a pair of my very large knickers was perilously close to brushing the top of his hair as he came in. […] I quickly swapped them with a pair of ELDEST's teeny-weeny ones, so he thinks he might be marrying into a family of sex minxes who stay that way well into middle age.

2009, Judith Holder, “January”, in The Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman: AKA A Year in Big Knickers, London: Hachette UK, published 2011, →ISBN:

(derogatory, dated) A promiscuous woman; also, a mistress (“the other woman in an extramarital relationship”) or a prostitute.


minx

The Minx […] frequents the water like the Otter, and very much reſembles it in ſhape and color, but is leſs; will abide longer under the water than the muſk quaſh, muſk rat, or little beaver: […]

1771, Thomas Pennant, quoting John Bartram, “Otter”, in Synopsis of Quadrupeds, Chester, Cheshire: […] J. Monk, →OCLC, page 240:

Many of these birds are destroyed by Weasels and Minxes.

1831, John James Audubon, “The Great Carolina Wren. Troglodytes ludovicianus, Ch. Bonaparte. […]”, in Ornithological Biography, or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; […], Edinburgh: Adam Black, […], →OCLC, page 401:

2d. Carnivora, or flesh eaters. Of these we have […] the New York ermine, or ermine weasel; the mink, or minx otter; the common otter; […]

1847, J. H. Mather, L. P. Brockett, “Zoology. [Class I. Mammalia.]”, in Geography of the State of New York. […], Hartford, Conn.: J. H. Mather & Co. [et al.], →OCLC, page 39:

We next come to the mink or minx otter (Putorius Vison) which is the only animal of the genus mustela inhabiting the northern parts of America that can be said to live in the water, and the name of "fisher" could with much justice be transferred from its present bearer to the mink.

[1876], Charles Henry Eden, chapter VII, in The Home of the Wolverene and Beaver; or, Fur-hunting in the Wilds of Canada, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York, N.Y.: Pott, Young & Co., →OCLC, page 153:

There is, however, scarcely any distinction in the other portions of the dress of the sexes [of southeastern Alaskan natives], except that the skin coats or tunics of the women and the facings of the bonnet or hood (worn by both sexes) are more elaborately decorated with minx, otter, or seal fur about the throat, and down the front, than those of the men.

1893 March, John H. Keatley, “Under the Arctic Circle”, in B[enjamin] O[range] Flower, editor, The Arena, volume VII, number XL, Boston, Mass.: Arena Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 491:

obsolete spelling of mink (“any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily”)..


knock up

en-verb

knock up (third-person singular simple present knocks up, present participle knocking up, simple past and past participle knocked up)

knocks up (present singular third-person)
knocking up (participle present)
knocked up (participle past)
knocked up (past)

I guess his summer plans are shot now that he knocked his girlfriend up.

“And how many other girls has he knocked up?” “Would you keep your voice down? Mom's home.” She pressed her hands to her head. “I just don't understand how you could ditch Rowan and get knocked up by Scott, like, right away.”

2015, Jaime Loren, Waiting for April, Pan, →ISBN:

(slang, chiefly US) To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up.


on the rag

From rag as a slang term for a menstrual pad. First use appears c. 1967. See cite below.

She herself had begun menstruation shortly after her eleventh birthday and had gone to the head of the stairs to yell down excitedly: "Hey, Mum, I'm on the rag!"

Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag.

(idiomatic, vulgar, slang, sometimes euphemistic) Menstruating.


menarche

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-menarche.wav

First attested 1900, from German Menarche, formed from meno- + -arche.

How old is she? Nine? Ten? The menarche is not far off – a hint of a bosom, poor child.

The most potent and indeed dangerous of all menstrual blood was the menarche, the first day's flow of the first menstruation of a virgin girl.

1978, Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine, Routledge, page 252:

Initiation is imagined, but the initiate is not the young girl in menarche, about to be wed to the moon, but a young man about to become a great hunter.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 102:

The onset of menstruation; a girl's first period.


yah

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yah (Sawndip forms 𫰈 or 𫰎 or 下 or 𡟺 or 𭑧 or 𫰫 or 吓, 1957–1982 spelling yaƅ)

𫰈 (Sawndip)
𫰎 (Sawndip)
下 (Sawndip)
𡟺 (Sawndip)
𭑧 (Sawndip)
𫰫 (Sawndip)
吓 (Sawndip)


busty

en-adj

busty (comparative bustier, superlative bustiest)

bustier (comparative)
bustiest (superlative)

I could see a busty blonde at the end of the boardwalk.

ثَدْيَاء

having large breasts (note some translations are in feminine gender only)


nymphomaniac

nymphomaniac (comparative more nymphomaniac, superlative most nymphomaniac)

more nymphomaniac (comparative)
most nymphomaniac (superlative)

From nymphomania + -ac; by surface analysis, nympho- + -maniac.

(of a woman) Having an excessive libido.

nymfoman

of woman: having excessive sexual desire


menstruate

en-verb

menstruate (third-person singular simple present menstruates, present participle menstruating, simple past and past participle menstruated)

menstruates (present singular third-person)
menstruating (participle present)
menstruated (participle past)
menstruated (past)

From menstruum + -ate (verb-forming suffix); sense 2 (“to undergo menstruation”) is possibly a back-formation from menstruation.

(transitive, obsolete, rare) To stain with or as if with menses.

A woman may have every quality or attribute of marriageableness who menstruates irregularly, or rarely, or even who has never menstruated at all.

1884, The Medical Age, volume 2, page 358:

Among the ancient Iranians, the puerpera, like the menstruating woman, was regarded as "unclean".

1885, Hermann Heinrich Ploss, Max Bartels, Paul Bartels, translated by Eric John Dingwall, Woman: an historical, gynæcological and anthropological compendium, page 150:

Fortunately, there’s early signs of a “wokelash” from institutions that won’t cower to this nonsense. When staff at publisher Hachette threatened to down tools because they regarded JK Rowling as a toxic transphobe for a tweet mocking “people” who menstruate instead of “women”, management pushed back saying they couldn’t refuse to work on a book because they disagree with the author’s views.

2021 November 20, Angela Mollard, “Gen Z cancelling musical Grease is disappointing”, in The Daily Telegraph, Surrey Hills, N.S.W:

(intransitive) To undergo menstruation, to have a period.


menstruate

From menstruum + -ate (adjective-forming usffix).


fille

Haitian Creole: fi

Louisiana Creole: fiy

* (daughter): From Middle French fille, from Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.
* (slang, prostitute): By ellipsis of the euphemisms fille des rues (“girl of the streets”), fille de joie (“girl of joy”), fille publique (“public girl”), and others like them that signify "prostitute".

Il buvait et courait les filles avant qu’il ne contracte la cirrhose et la blennorragie. ― He drank and consorted with hookers before contracting cirrhosis and gonorrhea.


fille

desctree

French: fille
Haitian Creole: fi
Louisiana Creole: fiy

From Old French fille, from Latin fīlia.


fille

fro-noun

fille oblique singular, f (oblique plural filles, nominative singular fille, nominative plural filles)

fille oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
filles (oblique plural)
fille (nominative singular)
filles (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: fille
French: fille
Haitian Creole: fi
Louisiana Creole: fiy

Norman: fille, fil'ye

Walloon: feye


demimonde

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione

Borrowed from French demi-monde (literally “half-world”), from demi (“half”) + monde (“world; people”); possibly coined by French author and playwright Alexandre Dumas fils as the title of a comedic play, Le Demi Monde (1855): see the 1864 quotation.

refn

From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, USA.

bor

A most remarkable instance of this was afforded in the play of Camille by the performance of the supper-scene. The stage in this scene is supposed to represent a supper-room, enlivened by the presence of a party of young Parisians, more gay, indeed, than respectable, but still Parisians, and Parisians of the demimonde, which, of the two halves that go to make up the whole of the monde, preserves the hemisphere of manners while it throws away the hemisphere of decorum.

1857 May, “The World of New York”, in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art, volume IX, number LIII, New York, N.Y.: Miller & Company, […]; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., →OCLC, page 560, column 1:

To give a good and solid education to the gentle sex would tend to double the army of progress, to draw closer the domestic relations, and to annihilate that extra-conjugal society (the demi[-]monde of [Alexandre] Dumas the younger) which is now so very prosperous.

1864 July, Edmond About, “Art. VII.—Edmond About on Progress. Le Progrès. Par Edmond About. Paris, 1864.”, in The Westminster Review, American edition, volume LXXXII, number CLXI, New York, N.Y.: Published by Leonard Scott & Co., […], →OCLC, page 74, column 1:

Paris society borrows fashions from the demi-monde, and the demi-monde borrows manners from the extravagant princesses, countesses, and viscountesses. All Parie has been stirred with the Sardanapalian entertainment, which a leader of the demi-monde gave on the eve of Lent to the best male society in the Empire. The ladies were all unquestionably from young [Alexandre] Dumas' panier à quinze sous; but their manners and their toilettes were, we are told, all that could be desired.

1867, W[illiam] Blanchard Jerrod, “Society under the Second Empire”, in On the Boulevards; or Memorable Men and Things Drawn on the Spot, 1853–1866. […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co.; London: W[illiam] H[oughton] Allen & Co., […], →OCLC, page 14:

Skating Rinks are chiefly patronised by members of the demi[-]monde.

1878, K[arl] Baedeker, “Paris. Preliminary Information.”, in Paris and Its Environs: […], 6th revised and augmented edition, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker; London: Dulau and Co., […], →OCLC, section 17 (Concerts and Balls), page 57:

Racing is confined almost exclusively to the upper and middle classes in Hungary, though it is always attended by numbers of the demi[-]monde.

1897, H. Ellen Browning, chapter III, in A Girl’s Wanderings in Hungary, 2nd edition, London, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 56:

This is the last straw. In your infatuation for this man—a man who is notorious for his excesses, a man your father would not have allowed to so much as mention your name—you have reflected the demi-monde rather than the circles in which you have presumably grown up.

1920 May 27, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published September 1920, →OCLC, part I, page 6:

The ballet offered another way up for daughters, maybe not through marriage, but through training for a world that didn't need marriage to be glorious—the Petersburg demimonde with its parties, restaurans, hothouse flowers in witner, chinovniki, and officers entertaining mistresses and setting them up with children in apartments. The demimonde was an alternate, semi-hidden social world, to which ballet was firmly linked.

2013, Elizabeth Kendall, “Georgi”, in Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 38:

(chiefly historical (19th-century France)) A class of women maintained by wealthy protectors; female courtesans or prostitutes as a group.


menstruation

en-noun

menstruation (countable and uncountable, plural menstruations)

/ˌmɛnstɹʊˈeɪʃən/

From menstruum + -ation, modelled after Late Latin menstruatio. The word is cognate with French menstruation, Spanish menstruación, displaced Old English mōnaþblōd (literally “monthblood”)).

inh

An instance of menstruation, the part of each month during which a fertile woman menstruates.


menstruation

head

menstruation c (singular definite menstruationen, plural indefinite menstruationer)

menstruationen (definite singular)
menstruationer (indefinite plural)
menstruation (indefinite nominative singular)
menstruationen (definite nominative singular)
menstruationer (indefinite nominative plural)
menstruationerne (definite nominative plural)
menstruations (genitive indefinite singular)
menstruationens (definite genitive singular)
menstruationers (genitive indefinite plural)
menstruationernes (definite genitive plural)


menstruation

menstruation (indefinite nominative singular)
menstruations (genitive indefinite singular)
menstruationen (definite nominative singular)
menstruationens (definite genitive singular)
menstruationer (indefinite nominative plural)
menstruationers (genitive indefinite plural)
menstruationerna (definite nominative plural)
menstruationernas (definite genitive plural)

menstruum + -ation, modelled after Late Latin menstruatio. The word is cognate with French menstruation, English menstruation, Spanish menstruación.


vestal virgin

From Latin; virgines Vestales referred to the priestesses in charge of the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta in Rome.

(literally) A virgin dedicated to the service of the goddess Vesta.


menopause

en-noun

menopause (countable and uncountable, plural menopauses)

From French ménopause, from Latin menopausis, from Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn, “month”) + παῦσις (paûsis, “pause”). Equivalent to meno- + -pause.

The final menstrual period of a woman after which ovulation no longer occurs.


menopause

id-noun

ménopausê (first-person possessive menopauseku, second-person possessive menopausemu, third-person possessive menopausenya)

ménopausê (canonical)
menopauseku (first-person possessive)
menopausemu (possessive second-person)
menopausenya (possessive third-person)

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch menopauze, from French ménopause, from Latin menopausis.

(gynaecology) menopause: The period in a woman's life when menstruation becomes irregular and less frequent before eventually stopping altogether, usually accompanied by a range of unpleasant symptoms; the period spanning perimenopause up to postmenopause; The final menstrual period of a woman after which ovulation no longer occurs.


seanbhean

head

seanbhean f (genitive singular seanmhná, nominative plural seanmhná)

seanmhná (genitive singular)
seanmhná (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
seanbhean (indefinite singular)
seanmhná (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a sheanbhean (indefinite singular)
a sheanmhná (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
seanmhná (indefinite singular)
seanbhan (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an tseanbhean (definite singular)
na seanmhná (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na seanmhná (definite singular)
na seanbhan (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an tseanbhean (definite singular)
don tseanbhean (definite singular)
leis na seanmhná (definite plural)
seanbhean
sheanbhean
tseanbhean

/ˈʃan̪ˠəˌvʲan̪ˠ/

PIE word
 *sénos
 PIE word
 *gʷḗn
sean- + bean


contraceptive

en-adj

contraceptive (comparative more contraceptive, superlative most contraceptive)

more contraceptive (comparative)
most contraceptive (superlative)

Coined in the 20th century from contra- + conceptive; compare the related contraception.

She was careful to take her contraceptive pill at the same time every day.

This has led to the selection of 4-guanidinobenzoates with either acetamenophen or ethylparaben as the phenol moiety for clinical evaluation, because they are orders of magnitude more contraceptive than nonoxynol-9 and less irritating to the vagina.

1994, P. F. A. Van Look, Gregorio Pérez-Palacios, World Health Organization, Contraceptive Research and Development, 1984-1994: The Road from Mexico City to Cairo and Beyond:

That acts to prevent conception as a result of sexual intercourse.


contraceptive

Putting a pig's bladder over one's penis before intercourse is not a good contraceptive.

The document covers the following family planning methods: combined oral contraceptives (COCs), combined injectable contraceptives (CICs), progestogen-only pills (POPs), depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), norethisterone enantate (NET-EN), levonorgestrel implants, emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs), copper-bearing interuterine devices, levonorgestrel-releasing interuterine devices (LNG IUDs), fertility awareness-based methods, and sterilization.

2004, Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2nd edition, World Health Organization:

A mechanism or means by which conception as a result of sexual intercourse can be prevented or made less likely.

супрацьзача́ткавы сро́дак

means by which impregnating a woman can be prevented


womanhood

en-noun

womanhood (countable and uncountable, plural womanhoods)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-womanhood.wav

From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of wommanhede. By surface analysis, woman + -hood.

же́нственост

qualities considered typical for a woman

Easing down to her panties slowly as if investigating a carrier of a dangerous plague, both hands were quivering like it was contagious while feeling extraordinarily alarmed, he commenced to inspect her womanhood.

2007, Mark A. Cherpak, Circle of Fear: Uncharted Worlds, page 264:

(euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.


schoolgirl

Coordinate term: schoolboy

That he married the wrong sister (as is sometimes suggested) is scarcely a feasible explanation, for Mary was hardly more than a schoolgirl when Dickens first came into the Hogarth family.

1975, John Greaves, Dickens at Doughty Street, page 33:

Jessica expected to find her mother in her office, talking to Norm. Lydia had been on the phone a lot lately, off whispering in a corner, like a schoolgirl with a secret crush.

2006, Porter Shreve, Drives Like a Dream:


wet nurse

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wet nurse.wav

Coordinate term: dry nurse

A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.

乳母

うば, uba, おんば, onba, ちうば, chiuba, ちおも, chiomo, にゅうぼ, nyūbo, まま, mama, めのと, menoto


froe

Abbreviation of obsolete frower, from froward (“turned away”), referring to the orientation of the blade, at right angles to the handle. From late 16th century.

Patch shingles on the barn roof: do we have a maul and froe?

1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 4, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 88:

A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood.


froe

1630, Michael Drayton, Nymphal IV, [from The Muses Elizium], 1793, The Works of the British Poets, Volume 3: Drayton, Carew & Suckling, page 618,
Like to thoſe raging frantic froes / For Bacchus' feaſts prepared;

(obsolete) A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.


morning-after pill

morning-after pill (plural morning-after pills)

Dr. Morris and his colleagues have reported on one experimental compound designed specifically to be a morning-after pill.

1967 October 7, “Estrogens' Double Life”, in Science News, volume 92, number 15, →JSTOR, page 343:

These policy efforts confuse the public into thinking that the morning-after pill, which is simply a super-dose of the regular pill, is the same as mifepristone, the abortion pill.

2010 October 12, Faith Agostinone-Wilson, Marxism and Education Beyond Identity: Sexuality and Schooling, Palgrave Macmillan, page 172:

Even after a girl has sex, it's not too late to prevent her from dropping an egg. That's what the morning-after pill does.

2013 March 5, Bronwen Pardes, Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe, and Satisfying Choices About Sex, →ISBN:

A federal judge on Friday ordered that the most common morning-after pill be made available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and younger.

2013 April 15, Pam Belluck, “Judge Strikes Down Age Limits on Morning-After Pill”, in The New York Times:

A contraceptive in the form of a pill taken shortly after sexual intercourse.


vasectomy

From vas (short for vas deferens) + -ectomy (“surgery involving the excision or removal of a body part”).

af

short for <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">vas deferens</i>

Coordinate term: tubal ligation (analogous procedure for female anatomy)

The experimental vasectomy operation was performed under sodium pentobarbital (50 mg/kg body weight, i.p) anesthesia via a lower midabdominal incision as described elsewhere.

2015 July 10, “Abnormal Accumulation of Collagen Type I Due to the Loss of Discoidin Domain Receptor 2 (Ddr2) Promotes Testicular Interstitial Dysfunction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

In fact, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., so many men sign up for vasectomies during March Madness that appointments reach “max capacity,” said Dr. Tobias S. Kohler, a urologist and men’s health expert at the medical center who has observed this phenomenon ever since he was an attending physician a decade ago.

2019 March 28, Christina Caron, “Why Don’t More American Men Get Vasectomies?”, in The New York Times:

Middle-aged, married fathers make up the bulk of those who have gotten vasectomies, with less than two percent of unmarried men relying on vasectomy for contraception, according to one analysis of data between 2002 and 2015 by the Department of Health and Human Services.

2022 August 12, Alisha Haridasani Gupta, “‘Snip Snip Hooray’: Vasectomies Among the Young and Child-Free May Be Rising”, in The New York Times:

(surgery) The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization.


pill

* From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula.
* (persuade or convince): Generalized from red pill.

Jane went on the pill when she left for college.

She got pregnant one month after going off the pill.

I'm tearing down your brooder house / 'Cause now I've got the pill

1975, “The Pill”, in Back to the Country, performed by Loretta Lynn:

Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed.

1986, Jurriaan Plesman, Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders Through Body and Mind:

(informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.


spinster

From Middle English spynnestere (“woman who spins fibre”), from c. 1350; equivalent to spin + -ster. The semantic development is from a historical notion of unmarried women spinning thread for a living.

inh

One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spinmeister.


male-to-female

(LGBTQ) Transitioning or having transitioned (in gender identity or presentation, physically, etc) from being male to being female.


sister-wife

Coordinate term: brother-husband

My Grecians shall victorious prove, By me led on to War, the Sister-Wife of Jove.

1743, trans. Philip Francis, “Odes”, in Horace, volume III, iii, page 64:

Ptolemy VII […] married Cleopatra, the sister-wife of his predecessor.

1853, Henry N. Humphreys, The coin collector's manual, page 118:

Anat as sister-wife of Baal, Isis as mother of Horos and sister-wife of Osiris, Hera as sister-wife of Zeus

1974, Joseph Fontenrose, Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins, page 257:

A woman who is simultaneously sister and wife to her spouse.

zuster-vrouw

a woman who is simultaneously sister and wife to her spouse

Enmities between sister-wives will [be,] from their having known each other too intimately all their lives, more unmannerly than where they are strangers to each other

1853, quoted in Robert Cox, Sabbath Laws and Sabbath Duties, page 194:

In a polygamous marriage, a woman who is simultaneously the sister and co-wife of another.

Yüeh-niang and her sister-wives, all dressed in formal gowns, came out from inside to greet them and ushered them into the rear reception hall

2006, Xiaoxiaosheng, trans. David Tod Roy, The plum in the golden vase, or, Chin P'ing Mei, page 21:

The concept of 'sisterhood' was popularly applied to the official organizations for Mormon women, and Mormon co-wives were and are still known as 'sister-wives'

2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, page 97:


umbilical cord

(anatomy) The flexible structure connecting a foetus with the placenta; it transports nourishment to the foetus and removes waste.


ancilla

la-noun

ancilla f (genitive ancillae); first declension

ancillae (genitive)
ancilla (nominative singular)
ancillae (nominative plural)
ancillae (genitive singular)
ancillārum (genitive plural)
ancillae (dative singular)
ancillīs (dative plural)
ancillam (accusative singular)
ancillās (accusative plural)
ancillā (ablative singular)
ancillīs (ablative plural)
ancilla (singular vocative)
ancillae (plural vocative)

[än̠ʲˈt͡ʃilːä]

From ancula (“maid”) + -lus (diminutive form).


cowgirl

A woman who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.


widow

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂, possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic въдова (vŭdova), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā) and Persian بیوه (bive, bêva), Middle Persian wēwag, Avestan viðavā- "widow" .

Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).


bleeding

en-noun

bleeding (countable and uncountable, plural bleedings)

Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.

1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 24:


muliebrity

muliebrity (countable and uncountable, plural muliebrities)

From Late Latin muliebritās (“womanhood; womanliness”), from Latin muliēbris (“feminine, womanly”) + -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being); or from muliēbris + -ity; compare Middle French muliebrité. Muliēbris is derived from mulier (“woman; wife”) (from mollior (“softer; milder; weaker”), comparative form of mollis (“soft; mild, tender; weak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft; tender; weak”)) + -brīs (noun suffix denoting a person).

der

(physiology) The state of puberty in a female.


abadesa

[ʔɐ.bɐˈd̪ɛː.sɐ]

Borrowed from Spanish abadesa, from Old Spanish abbadesa, from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbatissa, from Latin abbas (“abbot”).


episiotomy

/ˌɛpəsaɪˈɒtəmiː/

From episio- + -tomy (“surgical incision”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσιον (epísion, “pubic region”) + τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”)).

The following eight hours were the worst of my life that haven't ended in an episiotomy.

(medicine) A surgical incision through the perineum made to enlarge the vagina and assist childbirth.


少女

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (少女):
* → Japanese: 少(しょう)女(じょ) (shōjo)
* → Korean: 소녀(少女) (sonyeo)
* → Vietnamese: thiếu nữ (少女)

/ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/siːu̯³³ nɵy̯¹³/

/seu̯⁵⁵ ŋ̍³¹/

/siau⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ lɯ⁵⁵⁴/

/ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/siːu̯³³ nɵy̯¹³/

/seu̯⁵⁵ ŋ̍³¹/

/siau⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ lɯ⁵⁵⁴/


少女

From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of 乙 (oto, “young, little”) + 女 (me, “female, girl”). Compare 男 (otoko, “man”), originally meaning "young boy".

少女さび

behavior appropriate to an adult unmarried woman

a type of sea vegetable in order Ectocarpales

young woman who dances kagura at a shrine

少女文楽

少女文楽 おとめぶんらく

a kind of one-person puppet show performed by girls or young women


баба

bg-noun

ба́ба • (bába) f

ба́ба (canonical)
bába (romanization)
ба́ба (indefinite singular)
ба́би (indefinite plural)
ба́бата (definite singular)
ба́бите (definite plural)
ба́бо (singular vocative)
ба́би (plural vocative)
ба́би (dative singular)

bg-ndecl

ба́ба<(v)/dat:ба́би>


баба

baba (romanization)
баба (nominative singular)
бабаяс (nominative plural)
баба (accusative accusative-i singular)
бабаяс (accusative accusative-i plural)
бабаӧс (accusative accusative-ii singular)
бабаясӧс (accusative accusative-ii plural)
бабаӧн (instrumental singular)
бабаясӧн (instrumental plural)
бабакӧд (comitative singular)
бабаяскӧд (comitative plural)
бабатӧг (caritive singular)
бабаястӧг (caritive plural)
бабала (consecutive singular)
бабаясла (consecutive plural)
бабалӧн (genitive singular)
бабаяслӧн (genitive plural)
бабалысь (ablative singular)
бабаяслысь (ablative plural)
бабалы (dative singular)
бабаяслы (dative plural)
бабаын (inessive singular)
бабаясын (inessive plural)
бабаысь (elative singular)
бабаясысь (elative plural)
бабаӧ (illative singular)
бабаясӧ (illative plural)
бабасянь (egressive singular)
бабаяссянь (egressive plural)
бабалань (approximative singular)
бабаяслань (approximative plural)
бабаӧдз (singular terminative)
бабаясӧдз (plural terminative)
бабаӧд (prolative prolative-i singular)
бабаясӧд (plural prolative prolative-i)
бабаті (prolative prolative-ii singular)
бабаясті (plural prolative prolative-ii)
бабаӧй (nominative singular)
бабаясӧй (nominative plural)
бабаӧй (accusative accusative-i singular)
бабаясӧй (accusative accusative-i plural)
бабаӧс (accusative accusative-ii singular)
бабаясӧс (accusative accusative-ii plural)
бабанам (instrumental singular)
бабаяснам (instrumental plural)
бабаӧйкӧд (comitative singular)
бабаясӧйкӧд (comitative plural)
бабатӧгым (caritive singular)
бабаястӧгым (caritive plural)
бабаӧйла (consecutive singular)
бабаясӧйла (consecutive plural)
бабаӧйлӧн (genitive singular)
бабаясӧйлӧн (genitive plural)
бабаӧйлысь (ablative singular)
бабаясӧйлысь (ablative plural)
бабаӧйлы (dative singular)
бабаясӧйлы (dative plural)
бабаам (inessive singular)
бабаясам (inessive plural)
бабасьым (elative singular)
бабаяссьым (elative plural)
бабаам (illative singular)
бабаясам (illative plural)
бабасяньым (egressive singular)
бабаяссяньым (egressive plural)
бабаланьым (approximative singular)
бабаясланьым (approximative plural)
бабаӧдзым (singular terminative)
бабаясӧдзым (plural terminative)
бабаӧдым (prolative prolative-i singular)
бабаясӧдым (plural prolative prolative-i)
бабатіым (prolative prolative-ii singular)
бабаястіым (plural prolative prolative-ii)
бабаыд (nominative singular)
бабаясыд (nominative plural)
бабаыд (accusative accusative-i singular)
бабаясыд (accusative accusative-i plural)
бабатӧ (accusative accusative-ii singular)
бабаястӧ (accusative accusative-ii plural)
бабанад (instrumental singular)
бабаяснад (instrumental plural)
бабаыдкӧд (comitative singular)
бабаясыдкӧд (comitative plural)
бабатӧгыд (caritive singular)
бабаястӧгыд (caritive plural)
бабаыдла (consecutive singular)
бабаясыдла (consecutive plural)
бабаыдлӧн (genitive singular)
бабаясыдлӧн (genitive plural)
бабаыдлысь (ablative singular)
бабаясыдлысь (ablative plural)
бабаыдлы (dative singular)
бабаясыдлы (dative plural)
бабаад (inessive singular)
бабаясад (inessive plural)
бабасьыд (elative singular)
бабаяссьыд (elative plural)
бабаад (illative singular)
бабаясад (illative plural)
бабасяньыд (egressive singular)
бабаяссяньыд (egressive plural)
бабаланьыд (approximative singular)
бабаясланьыд (approximative plural)
бабаӧдзыд (singular terminative)
бабаясӧдзыд (plural terminative)
бабаӧдыд (prolative prolative-i singular)
бабаясӧдыд (plural prolative prolative-i)
бабатіыд (prolative prolative-ii singular)
бабаястіыд (plural prolative prolative-ii)
бабаыс (nominative singular)
бабаясыс (nominative plural)
бабаыс (accusative accusative-i singular)
бабаясыс (accusative accusative-i plural)
бабасӧ (accusative accusative-ii singular)
бабаяссӧ (accusative accusative-ii plural)
бабанас (instrumental singular)
бабаяснас (instrumental plural)
бабаыскӧд (comitative singular)
бабаясыскӧд (comitative plural)
бабатӧгыс (caritive singular)
бабаястӧгыс (caritive plural)
бабаысла (consecutive singular)
бабаясысла (consecutive plural)
бабаыслӧн (genitive singular)
бабаясыслӧн (genitive plural)
бабаыслысь (ablative singular)
бабаясыслысь (ablative plural)
бабаыслы (dative singular)
бабаясыслы (dative plural)
бабаас (inessive singular)
бабаясас (inessive plural)
бабасьыс (elative singular)
бабаяссьыс (elative plural)
бабаас (illative singular)
бабаясас (illative plural)
бабасяньыс (egressive singular)
бабаяссяньыс (egressive plural)
бабаланьыс (approximative singular)
бабаясланьыс (approximative plural)
бабаӧдзыс (singular terminative)
бабаясӧдзыс (plural terminative)
бабаӧдыс (prolative prolative-i singular)
бабаясӧдыс (plural prolative prolative-i)
бабатіыс (prolative prolative-ii singular)
бабаястіыс (plural prolative prolative-ii)
бабаным (nominative singular)
бабаясным (nominative plural)
бабаным (accusative accusative-i singular)
бабаясным (accusative accusative-i plural)
бабанымӧ (accusative accusative-ii singular)
бабаяснымӧ (accusative accusative-ii plural)
бабананым (instrumental singular)
бабаяснаным (instrumental plural)
бабанымкӧд (comitative singular)
бабаяснымкӧд (comitative plural)
бабатӧгным (caritive singular)
бабаястӧгным (caritive plural)
бабанымла (consecutive singular)
бабаяснымла (consecutive plural)
бабанымлӧн (genitive singular)
бабаяснымлӧн (genitive plural)
бабанымлысь (ablative singular)
бабаяснымлысь (ablative plural)
бабанымлы (dative singular)
бабаяснымлы (dative plural)
бабааным (inessive singular)
бабаясаным (inessive plural)
бабасьыным (elative singular)
бабаяссьыным (elative plural)
бабааным (illative singular)
бабаясаным (illative plural)
бабасяньным (egressive singular)
бабаяссяньным (egressive plural)
бабаланьным (approximative singular)
бабаясланьным (approximative plural)
бабаӧдзным (singular terminative)
бабаясӧдзным (plural terminative)
бабаӧдным (prolative prolative-i singular)
бабаясӧдным (plural prolative prolative-i)
бабатіным (prolative prolative-ii singular)
бабаястіным (plural prolative prolative-ii)
бабаныд (nominative singular)
бабаясныд (nominative plural)
бабаныд (accusative accusative-i singular)
бабаясныд (accusative accusative-i plural)
бабанытӧ (accusative accusative-ii singular)
бабаяснытӧ (accusative accusative-ii plural)
бабананыд (instrumental singular)
бабаяснаныд (instrumental plural)
бабаныдкӧд (comitative singular)
бабаясныдкӧд (comitative plural)
бабатӧгныд (caritive singular)
бабаястӧгныд (caritive plural)
бабаныдла (consecutive singular)
бабаясныдла (consecutive plural)
бабаныдлӧн (genitive singular)
бабаясныдлӧн (genitive plural)
бабаныдлысь (ablative singular)
бабаясныдлысь (ablative plural)
бабаныдлы (dative singular)
бабаясныдлы (dative plural)
бабааныд (inessive singular)
бабаясаныд (inessive plural)
бабасьыныд (elative singular)
бабаяссьыныд (elative plural)
бабааныд (illative singular)
бабаясаныд (illative plural)
бабасяньныд (egressive singular)
бабаяссяньныд (egressive plural)
бабаланьныд (approximative singular)
бабаясланьныд (approximative plural)
бабаӧдзныд (singular terminative)
бабаясӧдзныд (plural terminative)
бабаӧдныд (prolative prolative-i singular)
бабаясӧдныд (plural prolative prolative-i)
бабатіныд (prolative prolative-ii singular)
бабаястіныд (plural prolative prolative-ii)
бабаныс (nominative singular)
бабаясныс (nominative plural)
бабаныс (accusative accusative-i singular)
бабаясныс (accusative accusative-i plural)
бабанысӧ (accusative accusative-ii singular)
бабаяснысӧ (accusative accusative-ii plural)
бабананыс (instrumental singular)
бабаяснаныс (instrumental plural)
бабанымкӧс (comitative singular)
бабаяснымкӧс (comitative plural)
бабатӧгныс (caritive singular)
бабаястӧгныс (caritive plural)
бабанысла (consecutive singular)
бабаяснысла (consecutive plural)
бабаныслӧн (genitive singular)
бабаясныслӧн (genitive plural)
бабаныслысь (ablative singular)
бабаясныслысь (ablative plural)
бабаныслы (dative singular)
бабаясныслы (dative plural)
бабааныс (inessive singular)
бабаясаныс (inessive plural)
бабасьыныс (elative singular)
бабаяссьыныс (elative plural)
бабааныс (illative singular)
бабаясаныс (illative plural)
бабасяньныс (egressive singular)
бабаяссяньныс (egressive plural)
бабаланьныс (approximative singular)
бабаясланьныс (approximative plural)
бабаӧдзныс (singular terminative)
бабаясӧдзныс (plural terminative)
бабаӧдныс (prolative prolative-i singular)
бабаясӧдныс (plural prolative prolative-i)
бабатіныс (prolative prolative-ii singular)
бабаястіныс (plural prolative prolative-ii)


баба

mk-noun

баба • (baba) f (plural баби, relational adjective бабин or бапски, diminutive бабичка or бабиче or бабуле, augmentative бабиште or бабетина)

baba (romanization)
баби (plural)
бабин (adjective relational)
бапски (adjective relational)
бабичка (diminutive)
бабиче (diminutive)
бабуле (diminutive)
бабиште (augmentative)
бабетина (augmentative)
баба (indefinite singular)
баби (indefinite plural)
бабата (definite singular unspecified)
бабите (definite plural unspecified)
бабава (definite proximal singular)
бабиве (definite plural proximal)
бабана (definite distal singular)
бабине (definite distal plural)
бабо (singular vocative)
баби (plural vocative)


баба

baba (romanization)
баба (nominative singular)
бабѣ (dual nominative)
бабꙑ (nominative plural)
бабꙑ (genitive singular)
бабоу (dual genitive)
бабъ (genitive plural)
бабѣ (dative singular)
бабама (dative dual)
бабамъ (dative plural)
бабѫ (accusative singular)
бабѣ (accusative dual)
бабꙑ (accusative plural)
бабоѭ (instrumental singular)
бабама (dual instrumental)
бабами (instrumental plural)
бабѣ (locative singular)
бабоу (dual locative)
бабахъ (locative plural)
бабо (singular vocative)
бабѣ (dual vocative)
бабꙑ (plural vocative)

кѫпетра

sister-in-law (husband's brother's wife)


баба

baba (romanization)
баба (nominative singular)
бабѣ (dual nominative)
бабꙑ (nominative plural)
бабꙑ (genitive singular)
бабу (dual genitive)
бабъ (genitive plural)
бабѣ (dative singular)
бабама (dative dual)
бабамъ (dative plural)
бабѫ (accusative singular)
бабѣ (accusative dual)
бабꙑ (accusative plural)
бабоѭ (instrumental singular)
бабама (dual instrumental)
бабами (instrumental plural)
бабѣ (locative singular)
бабу (dual locative)
бабахъ (locative plural)
бабо (singular vocative)
бабѣ (dual vocative)
бабꙑ (plural vocative)

Russian: ба́ба (bába)

Ukrainian: ба́ба (bába)


баба

ru-noun+

ба́ба • (bába) f anim or f inan (genitive ба́бы, nominative plural ба́бы, genitive plural баб, masculine бабе́ц, relational adjective ба́бий or ба́бский, diminutive бабёнка, pejorative ба́бка or бабёшка)

ба́ба (canonical)
bába (romanization)
ба́бы (genitive)
ба́бы (nominative plural)
баб (genitive plural)
бабе́ц (masculine)
ба́бий (adjective relational)
ба́бский (adjective relational)
бабёнка (diminutive)
ба́бка (pejorative)
бабёшка (pejorative)
ба́ба (nominative singular)
ба́бы (nominative plural)
ба́бы (genitive singular)
ба́б (genitive plural)
ба́бе (dative singular)
ба́бам (dative plural)
ба́бу (accusative animate singular)
ба́б (accusative animate plural)
ба́бу (accusative inanimate singular)
ба́бы (accusative inanimate plural)
ба́бой (instrumental singular)
ба́бою (instrumental singular)
ба́бами (instrumental plural)
ба́бе (prepositional singular)
ба́бах (plural prepositional)
ба́б (singular vocative)
ба́ба (dated nominative singular)
ба́бы (dated nominative plural)
ба́бы (dated genitive singular)
ба́бъ (dated genitive plural)
ба́бѣ (dated dative singular)
ба́бамъ (dated dative plural)
ба́бу (accusative animate dated singular)
ба́бъ (accusative animate dated plural)
ба́бу (accusative dated inanimate singular)
ба́бы (accusative dated inanimate plural)
ба́бой (dated instrumental singular)
ба́бою (dated instrumental singular)
ба́бами (dated instrumental plural)
ба́бѣ (dated prepositional singular)
ба́бахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Ingrian: baaba

→ Komi-Zyrian: баба (baba)

bába skáčet to zádom, to péredom, a delá idút svoím čéredom

ба́ба ска́чет то за́дом, то пе́редом, а дела́ иду́т свои́м че́редом

Ма́ма, а где ба́ба?

ба́бушка бабушка#Russian

(childish) grandma, granny (short for ба́бушка (bábuška))

Жи́ли-бы́ли дед да ба́ба.

There once lived an old man and his old woman.

ба́бушка бабушка#Russian

(informal or archaic) old woman (short for ба́бушка (bábuška))

Кто э́та ба́ба?

Все ба́бы — ду́ры; все мужики́ — сво́лочи (contemporary Russian saying)
Vse báby — dúry; vse mužikí — svóloči
"all women are idiots; all men are bastards"

(colloquial, slang, derogatory) woman, female, broad; countrywoman

(derogatory) milksop, old woman (weak man)

ро́мовая ба́ба

(cooking) baba (tall, cylindrical cake), bundt cake, Gugelhupf


баба

ба̏ба (canonical feminine)
bȁba (romanization)
ба̏ба (nominative singular)
бабе (nominative plural)
бабе (genitive singular)
ба̑ба̄ (genitive plural)
баби (dative singular)
бабама (dative plural)
бабу (accusative singular)
бабе (accusative plural)
бабо (singular vocative)
бабе (plural vocative)
баби (locative singular)
бабама (locative plural)
бабом (instrumental singular)
бабама (instrumental plural)


баба

uk-noun

ба́ба • (bába) f pers (genitive ба́би, nominative plural баби́, genitive plural баб or бабі́в, relational adjective ба́бський or ба́б'ячий)

ба́ба (canonical)
bába (romanization)
ба́би (genitive)
баби́ (nominative plural)
баб (genitive plural)
бабі́в (genitive plural)
ба́бський (adjective relational)
ба́б'ячий (adjective relational)
ба́ба (nominative singular)
баби́ (nominative plural)
ба́би (genitive singular)
баб (genitive plural)
бабі́в (genitive plural)
ба́бі (dative singular)
баба́м (dative plural)
ба́бу (accusative singular)
баб (accusative plural)
бабі́в (accusative plural)
ба́бою (instrumental singular)
баба́ми (instrumental plural)
ба́бі (locative singular)
баба́х (locative plural)
ба́бо (singular vocative)
баби́ (plural vocative)

grandmother, granny, old woman (in some cases maternal grandmother only)

віск зливати
віск зливати#Ukrainian

a fortune teller or witch, practising the art of віск зливати (visk zlyvaty, “wax pouring”)

не ма́ла ба́ба кло́поту та купи́ла ба́ба порося́

the woman had no trouble but the woman has bought a piglet

ne mála bába klópotu ta kupýla bába porosjá

(colloquial, slang, derogatory) woman, female, broad


баба

ба́ба • (bába) f inan (genitive ба́би, nominative plural баби́, genitive plural баб)

ба́ба (canonical)
bába (romanization)
ба́би (genitive)
баби́ (nominative plural)
баб (genitive plural)
ба́ба (nominative singular)
баби́ (nominative plural)
ба́би (genitive singular)
баб (genitive plural)
ба́бі (dative singular)
баба́м (dative plural)
ба́бу (accusative singular)
баби́ (accusative plural)
ба́бою (instrumental singular)
баба́ми (instrumental plural)
ба́бі (locative singular)
баба́х (locative plural)
ба́бо (singular vocative)
баби́ (plural vocative)

baba, babka (a special, delicate ritual bread that is blessed by a priest at Easter)

свята́ вече́ря
свята вечеря#Ukrainian

baba (a name given to сніп (snip) at Christmas, a sheaf of grain (wheat or rye), brought into the home for Christmas Eve supper свята́ вече́ря (svjatá večérja), placed in a corner of the room and later fed to livestock or cattle)


мати

From Old East Slavic мати (mati), from Proto-Slavic *mati.

Няньо і мати Енді Варгола


мати

mati (romanization)
мати (nominative singular)
матери (dual nominative)
матери (nominative plural)
матере (genitive singular)
матероу (dual genitive)
матеръ (genitive plural)
матери (dative singular)
матерьма (dative dual)
матерьмъ (dative plural)
матерь (accusative singular)
матери (accusative dual)
матери (accusative plural)
матерьѭ (instrumental singular)
матерьма (dual instrumental)
матерьми (instrumental plural)
матери (locative singular)
матероу (dual locative)
матерьхъ (locative plural)
мати (singular vocative)
матери (dual vocative)
матери (plural vocative)


мати

mati (romanization)
мати (nominative singular)
матери (dual nominative)
матере (nominative plural)
матере (genitive singular)
матеру (dual genitive)
матеръ (genitive plural)
матери (dative singular)
матерьма (dative dual)
матерьмъ (dative plural)
матерь (accusative singular)
матери (accusative dual)
матери (accusative plural)
матерьѭ (instrumental singular)
матерьма (dual instrumental)
матерьми (instrumental plural)
матере (locative singular)
матеру (dual locative)
матерьхъ (locative plural)
мати (singular vocative)
матери (dual vocative)
матере (plural vocative)

Belarusian: ма́ці (máci)

Russian: мать (matʹ), ма́ти (máti) (archaic)

Carpathian Rusyn: ма́ти (máty)

Ukrainian: ма́ти (máty)


мати

ru-noun+

матеря́ми,матерьми́

ма́ти • (máti) f anim (genitive ма́тери, nominative plural ма́тери, genitive plural матере́й)

ма́ти (canonical)
máti (romanization)
ма́тери (genitive)
ма́тери (nominative plural)
матере́й (genitive plural)
ма́ти (irregular nominative singular)
ма́тери (nominative plural)
ма́тери (genitive singular)
матере́й (genitive plural)
ма́тери (dative singular)
матеря́м (dative plural)
ма́ти (accusative irregular singular)
матере́й (accusative plural)
ма́терью (instrumental singular)
матеря́ми (instrumental plural)
матерьми́ (instrumental irregular plural)
ма́тери (prepositional singular)
матеря́х (plural prepositional)

мать мать#Russian


мати

ма̏ти (canonical feminine)
mȁti (romanization)
ма̏ти (nominative singular)
ма̏те̄р (nominative singular)
матере (nominative plural)
ма̏тере̄ (genitive singular)
матера (genitive plural)
ма̏тери (dative singular)
матерама (dative plural)
ма̏те̄р (accusative singular)
матере (accusative plural)
мати (singular vocative)
матере (plural vocative)
ма̏тери (locative singular)
матерама (locative plural)
матером (instrumental singular)
матерама (instrumental plural)

sh-decl-noun

ма̏ти/ма̏те̄р

mȁti


мати

uk-noun

ма́ти • (máty) f pers (genitive ма́тері, nominative plural матері́, genitive plural матері́в)

ма́ти (canonical)
máty (romanization)
ма́тері (genitive)
матері́ (nominative plural)
матері́в (genitive plural)
ма́ти (nominative singular)
матері́ (nominative plural)
ма́тері (genitive singular)
матері́в (genitive plural)
ма́тері (dative singular)
матеря́м (dative plural)
ма́тір (accusative singular)
матері́в (accusative plural)
ма́тір'ю (instrumental singular)
матеря́ми (instrumental plural)
ма́тері (locative singular)
матеря́х (locative plural)
ма́ти (singular vocative)
матері́ (plural vocative)

From Old East Slavic мати (mati), from Proto-Slavic *mati, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.


multiparous

It is not denied there have been bicipitous Serpents with the head at each extream, for an example hereof we finde in Aristotle, and of the like form in Aldrovandus we meet with the Icon of a Lizzard; which double formations do often happen unto multiparous generations, more especially that of Serpents […]

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

Producing several offspring at one time.


крава

mk-noun

крава • (krava) f (masculine бик or вол, relational adjective кравји, diminutive кравичка or кравче)

krava (romanization)
бик (masculine)
вол (masculine)
кравји (adjective relational)
кравичка (diminutive)
кравче (diminutive)
крава (indefinite singular)
крави (indefinite plural)
кравата (definite singular unspecified)
кравите (definite plural unspecified)
кравава (definite proximal singular)
кравиве (definite plural proximal)
кравана (definite distal singular)
кравине (definite distal plural)
краво (singular vocative)
крави (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *korva, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).

(colloquial) an insult for an odious woman, especially a fat one


agony aunt

Coordinate term: agony uncle

You should write in to the agony aunt; she'll sort it out for you.

Pandora has just left my bedroom. I am just about devastated with frustration. I can't go on like this. I have written to Aunt Clara, the Agony Aunt.

1984, Sue Townsend, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, Methuen, →ISBN, page 20:

The big difference between agony aunts then and today is that now we have the internet to answer those tricky problems about how to eat an avocado pear (a lot of letters in the 70s were avocado-related)[…]

2021 June 20, Philippa Perry, “Ask Philippa: meet the Observer’s brilliant new agony aunt”, in The Observer:

(informal, British, Ireland) A writer of an advice column in a newspaper or other periodical.


maidservant

From Middle English maide servant; equivalent to maid + servant.

Sixe dayes thou ſhalt labour, and doe all thy worke. / But the ſeuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou ſhalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy ſonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man ſeruant, nor thy maid ſeruant, nor thine oxe, nor thine aſſe, nor any of thy cattel, nor thy ſtranger that is within thy gates, that thy man ſeruant and thy maid ſeruant may reſt as well as thou.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 5:13–14, column 2:

"A great people were they. They conquered till none were left to conquer, and then they dwelt at ease within their rocky mountain walls, with their man servants and their maid servants, their minstrels, their sculptors, and their concubines, and traded and quarrelled, and ate and hunted and slept and made merry till their time came."

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

But a man who holds so tightly to what he calls his rights over what he calls his debts will hold tightly also to what he calls his rights over her whom he calls his wife. No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his manservant or his maidservant or his jackass. / —Or his jennyass, Buck Mulligan antiphoned.

1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:


breech birth

A birth in which the baby comes through the birth canal posterior (buttocks), feet, or knees first, instead of the more usual position of headfirst.

臀位分娩

birth in which the fetus comes feet or knees first


dominatrix

la-noun

dominātrīx f (genitive dominātrīcis, masculine dominātor); third declension

dominātrīx (canonical feminine)
dominātrīcis (genitive)
dominātor (masculine)
dominātrīx (nominative singular)
dominātrīcēs (nominative plural)
dominātrīcis (genitive singular)
dominātrīcum (genitive plural)
dominātrīcī (dative singular)
dominātrīcibus (dative plural)
dominātrīcem (accusative singular)
dominātrīcēs (accusative plural)
dominātrīce (ablative singular)
dominātrīcibus (ablative plural)
dominātrīx (singular vocative)
dominātrīcēs (plural vocative)


quean

From Middle English quene (“young, robust woman”), from Old English cwene (“woman, female serf”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).
Cognate with Dutch kween (“a barren woman, a barren cow”), Low German quene (“barren cow, heifer”), German Kone (“wife”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Icelandic kona (“woman”), Gothic 𐌵𐌹𐌽𐍉 (qinō, “woman”), 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”). More at queen.

cog

Forbye the two queans there was the son, John Gordon, as coarse a devil as you'd meet, he'd already had two-three queans in trouble and him but barely eighteen years old.

1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 30:

(Scotland) A young woman, a girl; a daughter.


quean

From Middle English quene, from Old English cwene, from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).


ropa

ropa (nominative singular)
ropy (genitive singular)
ropie (dative singular)
ropę (accusative singular)
ropą (instrumental singular)
ropie (locative singular)
ropo (singular vocative)


pop feminism

So pop feminism distorts feminism by depoliticizing it and burying its complexities, and in so diminished a state it has no power to vanquish the male privilege that women experience in their everyday lives.

1996, Zillah R. Eisenstein, Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century:

Cinematherapy combines a strategic mix of pop feminism (which presumes female independence and “girl power”) and stereotypes, then, as a primary method of appealing to female audiences.

2006, Barbara Klinger, Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home:

[…] strongly associated with a 1990s/early 2000s cultural moment of “pop-feminism,” marked by a high-profile, culturally pervasive, quasi-feminist rhetoric. This rhetoric relied heavily on female celebrities who embraced the “bad girl” stereotype […]

2011, Su Holmes, Diane Negra, In the Limelight and Under the Microscope:

(sometimes derogatory) A populist, non-academic approach to feminism, suggesting that women can attain equality with men through a positive, go-getting attitude, without much need to organize politically or to examine or change cultural institutions and biases.


loop

From Middle English loupe (“noose, loop”), earlier lowp-knot (“loop-knot”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlaup (“a run”), used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa (“to leap”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to leap, run”). Compare Swedish löp-knut (“loop-knot”), Danish løb-knude (“a running knot”), Danish løb (“a course”). More at leap. The verb is derived from the noun.

der

(biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.


ladette

So the rise in drinking seems to centre on gen X women, or, to give us our proper title, ladettes.

2021 September 22, Zoe Williams, “Generation X are heavy, risky drinkers. Will anything ever persuade us to stop?”, in The Guardian:

(informal) A young woman who behaves in a laddish manner, namely being boisterous and loud and drinking to excess.


midwife

From Middle English midwif, corresponding to mid (“with”) + wif (“woman, wife, female”). It appears not to be entirely clear whether the original understanding was “with-woman” in the sense of “attending/assisting woman”, or “they who are with the woman” (namely the mother).

促成者

person who assists in bringing something about

A hundred years ago, a midwife would bring the baby into the world - going to a hospital to deliver a baby was either impossible or unheard of.

The senior midwife confirmed that […] occasionally a multigravid woman could feel little more than slight abdominal discomfort.

2009, Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, page 235:

Despite Richard's efforts to midwive his own narrative of legitimacy, the source of this legendary one cannot be controlled because it has moved from the mouths of nurses, midwives and gossips into the public domain.

2017, Caroline Bicks, Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England, page 123:

(obstetrics) A person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth, but who is not a physician.


baka

báka (canonical feminine)
ба́ка (Cyrillic)
báka (nominative singular)
bake (nominative plural)
bake (genitive singular)
baka (genitive plural)
baki (dative singular)
bakama (dative plural)
baku (accusative singular)
bake (accusative plural)
bȃko (singular vocative)
bake (plural vocative)
baki (locative singular)
bakama (locative plural)
bakom (instrumental singular)
bakama (instrumental plural)