lassie

I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27:

It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly. Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about cottage doors in the gloaming.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

She was caught in this git-a-man, git-a-bairn, git-a-hoose shite that lassies git drummed intae them, and hud nae real chance ay defining hersel ootside ay they mashed-tattie-fir-brains terms ay reference.

1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Bang to Rites”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 220:

Green grow the rushes, oh
Green grow the rushes, oh
The sweetest hours that e'er I spent
Are spent among the lassies, oh

2012, “Green Grow the Rushes”, performed by Celtic Woman:

(chiefly Scotland, Northern England, Geordie, Northumbria) A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.


delivery

en-noun

delivery (countable and uncountable, plural deliveries)

From Middle English deliveri et al., from Anglo-Norman, from Old French delivrer.

(genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.


virago

la-noun

virāgō f (genitive virāginis); third declension

virāgō (canonical feminine)
virāginis (genitive)
virāgō (nominative singular)
virāginēs (nominative plural)
virāginis (genitive singular)
virāginum (genitive plural)
virāginī (dative singular)
virāginibus (dative plural)
virāginem (accusative singular)
virāginēs (accusative plural)
virāgine (ablative singular)
virāginibus (ablative plural)
virāgō (singular vocative)
virāginēs (plural vocative)

→ Italian: virago

→ English: virago

→ French: virago

→ German: Virago

→ Portuguese: virago

[u̯ɪˈräːɡoː]


nana

nána (canonical feminine)
на́на (Cyrillic)


nana

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نعنع (nane), from Arabic نَعْنَع (naʕnaʕ), نَعْنَاع (naʕnāʕ).


ma

(astronomy, usually in the plural) Abbreviation of milli-arcsecond.


ma

(dialectal, informal) Alternative spelling of my


ma

Singlish is acceptable in Singapore mah

1998 April 24, viken, “tcs shows”, in sg.rec.tv (Usenet):

I dun have mah.

2015 April 17, Jalelah Abu Baker, “What's the difference between 'lah' and 'lor': Poet Gwee Li Sui's take on nuances of Singlish goes viral”, in The Straits Times:

"I was already 32, so must get married mah," he says, using the Singlish word often used to express something which is obvious.

2017 April 30, Wong Kim Hoh, “It Changed My Life: Migrant worker goes from painting condos to boss of own company”, in The Straits Times:


with child

Replaced earlier mid child. Compare Danish and Swedish med barn.

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

[N]othing vvas more frightful to me than his Careſſes, and the Apprehenſions of being vvith Child again by him, vvas ready to throvv me into Fits; […]

1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 118:

I should have had two children, but I find myself with only one. Yet he spends his time with other women who are already with child.

1999, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, Zulu Woman:


womyn

From woman and women; respelled so as not to contain the word man/men. Compare myn.

Summoning all my courage, I touched and kissed a womyn for the first time. I cannot describe what I felt at that moment.

1980, Susan J Wolfe, Julia Penelope, The coming out stories:

I dug with my bare hands through the bullshit where beneath I discovered a womyn. She was an incredibly angry womyn, but a womyn nonetheless.

2004, Misty Marie, I Too was a Child...:

And I'm sure you know that so many straight womyn are so miserable that "going to the shrink" has become their major occupation, if they can afford it.

1983, Anita Cornwell, Black Lesbian in White America:

Likewise, simply dismissing post-operative male-to-female transsexuals as "men," and making an artificial distinction between "women" and "womyn" neither justifies their policy, nor eliminates any of the substantive issues involved.

1991 December 22, Davina Anne Gabriel, “Still More On Michigan”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 23, page 4:

Since the publication of the Random House Webster's College Dictionary (RHWCD) in the spring of 1991, no single dictionary entry has been the subject of more discussion, criticism, and controversy than the entry womyn (an alternative spelling of women).

1995, Sol Steinmetz, “Womyn: The Evidence”, in American Speech, volume 70, number 4, page 430:

(rare, nonstandard) Feminist spelling of women.


niece-in-law

Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).

Someone's brother's daughter-in-law. (fraternal niece-in-law)

Someone's sister's daughter-in-law. (sororal niece-in-law)

Someone's spouse's sibling's daughter-in-law.

Someone's wife's brother's daughter-in-law.

Someone's wife's sister's daughter-in-law.

Someone's husband's brother's daughter-in-law.

Someone's husband's sister's daughter-in-law.

Someone's husband's niece. (Usually called a niece.)

Someone's wife's niece. (Usually called a niece.)


wimmin

Eye dialect, also used as a feminist spelling of the word women in order to deliberately exclude the word men, which is synchronically a component of women.

This is about wimmin sticking together (bois too), and fighting for equal rights and opportunities for everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.

2005, Dawn Keetley, Public Women, Public Words, page 425:

So eager was I to meet new wimmin-lovin' wimmin—or even just some womyn-lovin' womyn—one didn't need a Ouija board to figure out that I would fling myself forthwith into the world of regional Amazonia.

2011, Terry Castle, The Professor: And Other Writings, page 215:


mommy

→ Hebrew: מָאמִי (mámi)

The only bad-karma-reducing sposie on the market is a new line of biodegradable (meaning here "useless") sposie that won't last through the lightest of baby pees and will force you to change baby approximately once every thirty seconds, thereby completely undoing any so-called karma reduction. Only bad mommies use sposies.

2012, Willow Yamahchi, Bad Mommy, Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 91:

They will never part even though in mommy's heart she wishes daddy would leave forever. One grief-some January 25 mommy rested never to return for her and daddy went on a walk. “Where is mommy”, said baby but daddy couldn't talk.

2015, Paul Easter, Consciousness Before Conscience:


딸

First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 寶妲 (Yale: *pòtól), probably a compound of an ancient root for "daughter" *pòt- + suffix *-ól; compare Jilin leishi 丫妲 (Yale: *àtól, “son”), apparently equivalent to *à(N)t- + *-ól.
In the hangul script, first attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄯᆞᆯ〮 (Yale: stól). The */p-/ > /s-/ shift is difficult to explain; perhaps it simply "represents an irregular development", or perhaps the expected cluster */pt-/ had already fully merged and was realized in speech only as [t͈-], which was misanalyzed as the surface realization of the cluster /st-/.
Choi Yeong-Seon believes that the character 寶 in 寶妲 is a corrupted spelling of 實 (Late Middle Chinese */ʑiɪt̚/), and that the true Late Old Korean lexeme should be *sùtól or a similar form. If this is true, the Middle Korean reflex ᄯᆞᆯ〮 (stól) would be entirely regular, requiring only the elision of a minimal vowel.

ruby

􂀿鷄􂁀(계)􂀿林􂁀(림)􂀿類􂁀(유)􂀿事􂁀(사)」

鷄(계)林(림)類(유)事(사)」

lang

「鷄(계)林(림)類(유)事(사)」의 여성 명칭어 연구

lang

계림유사의 음운론적 연구

계림유사의 음운론적 연구

Coordinate term: 아들 (adeul, “son”)

딸을 시집보내다

딸이 미혼모가 된다니 체면이 서지 않게 되었다.

It is a disgrace that our daughter should be an unmarried mother.

Ttar-i mihonmo-ga doendani chemyeon-i seoji anke doeeotda.

그녀는 결혼하여 아들 셋에 딸을 하나 낳았습니다.

She married and had three sons and one daughter.

Geunyeo-neun gyeolhon-hayeo adeul ses-e ttar-eul hana naatseumnida.


femina

Inherited from Latin fēmina, from Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁m̥h₁néh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”), the feminine mediopassive participle of *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).


femina

la-noun

fēmina f (genitive fēminae); first declension

fēmina (canonical feminine)
fēminae (genitive)
fēmina (nominative singular)
fēminae (nominative plural)
fēminae (genitive singular)
fēminārum (genitive plural)
fēminae (dative singular)
fēminīs (dative plural)
fēminam (accusative singular)
fēminās (accusative plural)
fēminā (ablative singular)
fēminīs (ablative plural)
fēmina (singular vocative)
fēminae (plural vocative)

Dalmatian:

femia

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: feamin

Romanian: famen

→ Albanian: femër, femën — Gheg

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: femina

Istriot: fimana

Italian: femmina

Neapolitan: femmena

Sicilian: fìmmina

Sardinian:

femina, emina, femia

Padanian:

Lombard: femna, fomna, fonna

Friulian: femine

Ladin: femena

Piedmontese: fomna, fombra, fomla

Romansch: femna

Venetan: fémena

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: fèna

desctree

Old French: fame, fam, feme
Bourbonnais-Berrichon: fonne
Bourguignon: fanne, fonne
Champenois: fanme, fonme, fomme
Gallo: fame, fom
Lorrain: fomme
Middle French: femme (see there for further descendants)
Norman: femme, fâme, faume, faumme (Guernsey), foume (continental Normandy), fenme (Cotentin), foume, fenme
Picard: fanme, féme, feume
Walloon: feme
→ Middle English: femme, feme
English: femme, feme

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: fembra

Old Occitan: femna, feme

Occitan: femna, (Gascon) hemna, frema

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: fema

Old Galician-Portuguese: femea, femẽa, femẽa
Galician: femia, fema, fémea
Portuguese: fêmeo, fêmea

Old Spanish: femna, fembra, fembra
Spanish: hembra
→ English: hembra

Borrowings:

→ Ido: femino

→ English: femina (perhaps via Italian)

→ Spanish: fémina

From Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from earlier *θēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂ (“[the one] nursing, breastfeeding”), the feminine mediopassive participle of *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). Related to fellō, fētus, fīlius.

der

conveniunt, quibus aut odium crudele tyranni
aut metus acer erat; navis, quae forte paratae,
corripiunt, onerantque auro: portantur avari

29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.361–364

Those came together that either felt ruthless hate or bitter fear for their tyrant. They seized ships that had incidentally already been arranged and loaded them with gold. The treasures of avaricious Pygmalion were carried to the sea; the leader of the action was a woman.

Pygmalionis opes pelago; dux femina facti.

Prius quam messim facies, porcam praecidaneam hoc modo fieri oportet. Cereri porca praecidanea porco femina, prius quam hasce fruges condantur: far, triticum, hordeum, fabam, semen rapicium. thure, vino Iano Iovi Iunoni praefato, prius quam porcum feminam immolabis.

234 BCE – 149 BCE, Cato the Elder, De Agri Cultura 134.1

Before you carry out the harvest, it is proper to offer the porca praecidanea in this manner. Offer to Ceres a female pig as porca praecidanea before these crops are stored: emmer, wheat, barley, beans, and rapeseed. With incense and wine, offer a prayer to Janus, Jupiter, and Juno before you sacrifice the female pig.

Nam primum aliae (bestiae) mares, aliae feminae sunt, quod perpetuitatis causa machinata natura est, deinde partes corporis et ad procreandum et ad concipiendum aptissimae, et in mari et in femina commiscendorum corporum mirae libidines; …

To begin with, some of them (animals) are of gender males, others females, the which is for nature's perpetuity wrought, whence of each their parts in procreation and conceiving be optimal, and so the wanton desires in male and female towards sexual union of their own body; …

“Paelicem” autem appellatam probrosamque habitam, quae iuncta consuetaque esset cum eo in cuius manu mancipioque alia matrimonii causa foret, hac antiquissima lege ostenditur, quam Numae regis fuisse accepimus: “Paelex aedem Iunonis ne tangito; si tangit, Iunoni crinibus demissis agnum feminam caedito.”

c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.3.3.6

1927 translation by John C. Rolfe
Moreover, a woman was called paelex, or “concubine,” and regarded as infamous, if she lived on terms of intimacy with a man who had another woman under his legal control in a state of matrimony, as is evident from this very ancient law, which we are told was one of king Numa’s: “Let no concubine touch the temple of Juno; if she touch it, let her, with hair unbound, offer up a ewe lamb to Juno.”


emä

emä (nominative singular)
emät (nominative plural)
emän (genitive singular)
emmiin (genitive plural)
emmää (partitive singular)
emmiä (partitive plural)
emmää (illative singular)
emmii (illative plural)
emäs (inessive singular)
emis (inessive plural)
emäst (elative singular)
emist (elative plural)
emälle (allative singular)
emille (allative plural)
emäl (adessive singular)
emil (adessive plural)
emält (ablative singular)
emilt (ablative plural)
emäks (singular translative)
emiks (plural translative)
emännä (essive singular)
emmään (essive singular)
eminnä (essive plural)
emmiin (essive plural)
emänt (exessive singular)
emint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *emä. Cognates include Finnish emä and Estonian ema.

Seisoo emä i ei tiijä, mitä hänelle enstää tehä:

1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 27:

Mother stands still and doesn't know, what she should do first:


emo

emo (nominative singular)
emot (nominative plural)
emon (genitive singular)
emmoin (genitive plural)
emoloin (genitive plural)
emmoa (partitive singular)
emoja (partitive plural)
emoloja (partitive plural)
emmoo (illative singular)
emmoi (illative plural)
emoloihe (illative plural)
emos (inessive singular)
emois (inessive plural)
emolois (inessive plural)
emost (elative singular)
emoist (elative plural)
emoloist (elative plural)
emolle (allative singular)
emoille (allative plural)
emoloille (allative plural)
emol (adessive singular)
emoil (adessive plural)
emoloil (adessive plural)
emolt (ablative singular)
emoilt (ablative plural)
emoloilt (ablative plural)
emoks (singular translative)
emoiks (plural translative)
emoloiks (plural translative)
emonna (essive singular)
emmoon (essive singular)
emoinna (essive plural)
emoloinna (essive plural)
emmoin (essive plural)
emoloin (essive plural)
emont (exessive singular)
emoint (exessive plural)
emoloint (exessive plural)

From emä (“mother”) + -o. Akin to Finnish emo.


frail

The scythe, the sickle and the flail (or "frail", is it is invariably called) - these should surely be incorporated in the county arms, for on their use much of the prosperity of Essex has always rested until now.

1948, C. Henry Warren, The English Counties, Essex: Odhams, page 170:

(England, dialectal, obsolete) Synonym of flail.


gravid

en-adj

gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)

more gravid (comparative)
most gravid (superlative)

From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).

In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world.

1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:

The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a country stile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature

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

One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 345:

The minute she'd settled into the seat next to him, her billowing widow's rig had got redisposed to reveal her neatly gravid waistline, at which, now, he nodded.

2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 507:

(of egglaying animals, now chiefly figuratively) Pregnant.

հղի

pregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)


gravid

gravid (indefinite positive)
gravitt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
gravida (indefinite plural positive)
gravide (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
gravide (definite masculine positive singular)
gravida (definite positive)

Hon blev gravid när hon hade sex

vara gravid i sjunde månaden

(literally, “be pregnant in the seventh month”)

pregnant (carrying an unborn child, generally only applied to humans)


From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier nana, from nanny under the probable influence of mama, also from Nan. Compare Mary.

We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.

(British, Ireland, Australia, Canada, endearing) Synonym of grandmother.


bridal

From Middle English bridale, from Old English brȳdealo (“wedding ale; wedding feast”). The attributive usage was strengthened by association with bride + -al.

inh

bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber

Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial.


vamp

From Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe (“covering for the foot, perhaps a slipper or understocking; upper of a boot or shoe”), or from Anglo-Norman vampe, *vaumpé (“part of a stocking covering the top of the foot”), from Old French avantpied, avantpiet, variants of avantpié, from avant (“in front”) + pié (“foot”).
Noun senses 2 and 3 (“a patch; something patched up or improvised”) appear to have been extended from sense 1 (“top part of a boot or shoe”). Sense 4 (“repeated and often improvised musical accompaniment”) was probably derived from sense 3, and sense 5 (“activity to fill or stall for time”) from sense 4.
The verb senses were derived from the noun. Compare also Middle English vaum-peien (“(uncertain) to repair (footwear) with a new upper or vamp; to fabricate an upper or vamp”).

cog

The flow of water was in my ears, and in my eyes a hazy spreading, and upon my brain a closure, as a cobbler sews a vamp up.

1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XX, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, pages 279–280:

'Yes, I am rather cracked in the vamp,' he said freely, seeing that the eyes of the shepherd's wife fell upon his boots, 'and I am not well fitted either. I have had rough times lately, and have been forced to pick up what I can get in the way of wearing, but I must find a suit better fit for working days when I reach home.'

1883 March, Thomas Hardy, “The Three Strangers”, in Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively, and Commonplace […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 24:

Their dark brown shoes had hand-stitched vamps.

1976, Chaim Grade, translated by Curt Leviant, The Yeshiva, Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →ISBN, page 164:

The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.


vamp

A Fool There Was (1915 film)
Derby shoe
Oxford shoe
Theda Bara

Clipping of vampire. From a character type developed first for silent film, notably for Theda Bara's role in the 1915 film A Fool There Was.
The verb is derived from the noun.

It is the vamp who has a sense of humor that can really hold a man. She laughs at him, even as she is seeking to allure him—and he adores it.

1919 June, Renee Van Dyke, “Interesting Paragraphs about the Players”, in Geo[rge] M. Downs, Jr., editor, The Photo-play World, volume 2, number 8, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Downs Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 59, column 3:

She was got up to the best of her ability as a siren, more popularly a "vamp"—a picker up and thrower away of men, an unscrupulous and fundamentally unmoved toyer with affections.

1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Connoisseur of Kisses”, in The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 1, page 95:

"Lady Miriam?" said Jarvis in surprise. "Oh, yes. … I suppose you mean that she looks a queer sort of vamp. But you've no notion what even the ladies of the best families are looking like nowadays.[…]"

1927 September, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesteron, “The Actor and the Alibi”, in The Secret of Father Brown, London, Toronto, Ont.: Cassell and Company, →OCLC, page 148:

Well, her seclusion is considered suspicious. She annoys them by being good-looking and even what is called good style. And all the young men are warned against her as a vamp.

1936, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Vampire of the Village”, in The Penguin Complete Father Brown, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, London: Penguin Books, published 1985, →OCLC, page 707:

[…]strait-laced Sandy, played by Olivia Newton-John, transformed herself into a vamp to bag the man of her dreams

2021 January 2, Katie Hind, “Grease is 'racist, rapey, homophobic and slut-shaming' and should never be shown on TV again, say woke snowflakes”, in The Daily Mail:

A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her; femme fatale.


vamp

en-verb

vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)

vamps (present singular third-person)
vamping (participle present)
vamped (participle past)
vamped (past)

We want a musical-comedy star to vamp a Senator or a member of the Cabinet; we want the protective tariff revised up or down because of an actress' whim; we want scarlet scandal in high life. And we are not likely to get them.

1926 November, Gilbert Seldes, “Exit the Poor Actor!: Out at Elbow No Longer, Our Players To-day are among America’s Most Prosperous Citizens”, in Arthur Hornblow, editor, Theatre Magazine, volume XLIV, number 308, New York, N.Y.: Theatre Magazine Company, →OCLC, page 58, column 4:

"People who lose all their charity generally lose all their logic," remarked Father Brown. "It's rather ridiculous to complain that she keeps to herself; and then accuse her of vamping the whole male population."

She smiled again. Batted her lashes and laid down a few more mascara tracks. Vamping in order to maintain composure.

1990 October, Jonathan Kellerman, chapter 27, in Time Bomb, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 321:

She vamps this month on the cover of British Vogue, a portrait of artfully crafted provocation.

2021 May 4, Ruth La Ferla, “On That Bombshell Billie Eilish Cover for British Vogue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(transitive, intransitive) To seduce or exploit someone.


vamp

Uncertain; possibly related to vamp (etymology 1, above): see the 2008 quotation.

John Mackin is one of the old-timers of the new Department. He was a volunteer fireman as well, […] John Mackin was among the number of "old vamps" who made application to the first Board of Fire Commissioners for appointment in the Paid Department.

1892, “Companies of the Seventh District”, in Our Firemen: The Official History of the Brooklyn Fire Department, from the First Volunteer to the Latest Appointee. Compiled from the Records of the Department, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: [Brooklyn Fire Department], →OCLC, page 371:

The vamps had to carry their equipment to the fire on foot!

2000, “History of the Atlanta Fire Department”, in History of Service: Atlanta Fire Department Commemorative Yearbook, Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 25, column 1:

Volunteer firemen are called vamps because they often went to fires on foot, vamp being an old English word for "walk." Syosset's first vamps responded quickly to fires and formed bucket brigades to extinguish them.

2008, John Delin, “The Vamps, Syosset’s Bravest”, in Syosset People and Places (Images of America), Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 88:


misogynist

From Ancient Greek μισογύνης (misogúnēs), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”), equivalent to misogyny + -ist.

One who displays prejudice against or looks down upon women.


breech

en-noun

breech (countable and uncountable, plural breeches)

From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.


breech

(obstetrics, of birth) With the hips coming out before the head.


breech

(obstetrics) Born, or having been born, breech.


dolly

Welsh: doli

From doll + -y, from the given name Dorothy, originally applied either to a woman or female pet or to a children's toy, and expanded to refer to various types of contrivances or devices. The Online Etymology Dictionary, while considering the reason for applying it to such devices unobvious, compares how the names jack, jenny and jimmy are also applied to devices.

rattaat

term not specific to bridge construction

But really you get your money from selling things — that's your line, and your Dad's isn't it? Using sexy dollies to con money out of people who've had to work for it. Well my daughter's not just a sugar-plum fairy to titillate men's fantasies, you know.

1978, John McGrath, Yobbo nowt, page 39:

This glorious collection should be passed around clubland as a textbook study in making a seamless transition from being a disco dolly to a serious pop vocalist.

Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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(slang) A young woman, especially one who is frivolous or vapid.

Spotlight on the other hand is remarkable for prices and skirt lengths to suit the teenyboppers[…] Appeal: to a lunchtime horde of date-going dollies who cannot really afford another dress.

1969 April 8, Prudence Glynn, “246 yards of fashion”, in The Times, page 6:

(slang, UK, dated) A fashionable young woman, one who follows the latest music or clothing fashions.

(gambling) A marker placed on the winning number by the dealer at roulette.


hussy

From earlier hussive, hussif, the regular evolution of Middle English houswyf (“housewife”), equivalent to house + wife. Modern housewife is a restoration of the compound (and thus is a doublet), after its component parts had become unrecognisable through regular phonetic change, as well as gradual negative senses and historical factors.
The traditional pronunciation of the word is /ˈhʌzi/; the pronunciation with /s/ is a spelling pronunciation.

WIRTHIN. Well, I should think so! They just dote on that hussy—can't seem to get enough of her. Gretchen tells me so herself. And the care she takes of them!

1892, Mark Twain, Meisterschaft: In Three Acts, act III, scene I, page 199:

Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

A cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behavior.

наха́лница

a cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behaviour

(obsolete) A case or bag for needles, thread, etc.

иго́льник

(obsolete) a case or bag for needles, thread, etc


gestation

en-noun

gestation (countable and uncountable, plural gestations)

/d͡ʒɛsˈteɪʃən/

The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.

xestación

period of time a fetus develops inside mother's body — see also pregnancy


insemination

insemination (countable and uncountable, plural inseminations)

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At the same time there is no fantasy, as there is in the teleportage of science fiction, or in the Greek myth that requires the insemination of a woman by a swan.

2010, Jeffrey Boss, Human Consciousness of God in the Book of Job, page 158:

The introduction of sperm into a female’s reproductive system for the purpose of impregnating (making pregnant).

تَخْصِيب

introduction of sperm into a female's reproductive system


mammy

That's what you for—to help white folks keep niggers down. That's why he sent you to me. They be calling you mammy in a few years. You be running the whole house when the old man dies.

(US, historical, often pejorative) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children.


glans

Learned borrowing from Latin glāns (“acorn”).

حَشَفَة

structure at the extremity of the penis and of the clitoris


marge

Had four bills and I bought me a car / Little red whip that I bought for my marge

2015, Stormzy (lyrics and music), “Shut Up” (track 15), in Gang Signs & Prayer, performed by Stormzy:

I think about my family too. My dad and his failing heart. My marge and her church. I think about what they'll do once I'm gone. Think about the way out, the blue space above.

2018, Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City, London: Tinder Press, →ISBN, page unknown:


hag

From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”). Doublet of hex.

And that olde hag that with a staffe his staggering lymbes dooth stay

1565, Arthur Golding (tr.), The Fyrst Fower Bookes of P. Ouidius Nasos worke intitled Metamorphosis, London: William Seres, The Fovrthe Booke:

Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 11:

A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.


pug

Origin unknown, possibly related to West Flemish pugge (“(adjective) small; (noun) short person; pet name derived from the first name Pugge”); though it is uncertain whether sense 1 (“senses relating to someone or something small”) and sense 2 (“senses relating to people”) are derived from the same source.
Sense 1.8 (“small demon”) was probably influenced by, though not a variant of, puck.

pentu

any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon

[Ulysses] ty'd his deafen'd Sailors (vvhile he paſs'd / The dreadful Lady's Lodgings) to the Maſt, / And rather venture drovvning, than to vvrong / The Sea-pugs chaſte Ears vvith a bavvdy Song: […]

a. 1681 (date written), Samuel Butler, “Satyr”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 77, lines 143–146:

(nautical) A cabin boy, a shipboy or ship's boy.

Senses relating to people.
A cabin boy, a shipboy or ship's boy.


prenatal

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A person who is expecting to give birth.

She was recommended a course of zinc prenatals.

A dietary supplement to be taken by somebody expecting to give birth.


prenatal

es-adj

prenatal m or f (masculine and feminine plural prenatales)


nanny

Constantijn Huygens Jr.
Nanny (disambiguation)

(1795) It has often been assumed that the English term was originally a widespread child's word for "female adult other than mother" (compare Greek νάννα (nánna, “aunt”), nanna). See also Welsh nain (“grandmother”).
On the other hand, according to recent research of the Dutch historical linguists Hans Beelen and Nicoline van der Sijs (published in Onze Taal, September 2018), on which see also etymologiebank.nl, in Dutch), the term nanny (and the British colloquial nan for "grandmother") may actually be eponymous, viz. being originally an affective form (i.e. a hypocoristic) of the popular female name Anne. The Dutch statesman and scientist Constantijn Huygens Jr. made the following observation during one of his many sojourns in England (noted in his Journaal, dated 13 December 1692): "Yesterday I received 10lb of chocolate again, from niece Becker, and she had Nanny, her maid, bringing me the money that she had owed me" (Gisteren kreegh 10 ℔ choccolate wederom van nicht Becker, en had Nanny, haer meidt, geweest om mij 't geldt, dat van haer hebben most, te brengen). Beelen and van der Sijs therefore assumed that "since many female domestic servants were named "Nan" or "Nanny", the name became a sobriquet for the profession of "maid, childminder" in the 18ᵗʰ century". ("Omdat veel vrouwelijke huisbedienden in het Engels de voornaam Nan of Nanny hadden, verschoof de betekenis in de achttiende eeuw naar die van een beroepsaanduiding: ‘meid, kindermeisje’")

onomatopoeic

child's word

Breeding is a consuming goal, and the ascendance of the sex drive is nearly as apparent in the behavior of a mountain goat billy. So given over is he to following and defending a succession of nannies as he searches for one in heat (estrus), he loses interest in food altogether; […]

1983, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, Bison Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 159:

Nannies and billies look very similar, both having dangerously sharp, curved black horns.

2005, Richard Cannings, The Rockies: A Natural History, Greystone Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 103:

A farmer friend keeps a video camera in the barn so she can turn on her goat cam and observe her animals at any time of the day or night. A baby monitor picks up the sounds of a nanny when she goes into labor—if the nanny is one who changes the usual pitch of her voice or nervously bleats during kidding.

2013, Janet Hurst, The Whole Goat Handbook: Recipes, Cheese, Soap, Crafts & More, Voyageur Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 28:


prophylactic

en-adj

prophylactic (comparative more prophylactic, superlative most prophylactic)

more prophylactic (comparative)
most prophylactic (superlative)

From Latin, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”) + φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “a watching, guarding”).

Serving to prevent or protect against an undesired effect, especially disease or pregnancy


housewife

en-noun

housewife (plural housewives or housewifes)

From Middle English houswyf, housewif, huswijf, equivalent to house + wife; a doublet of hussy, which it was long-distinguished with and displaced due to gradual negative connotation (see Online Etymology Dictionary entry). Cognate with German Hausweib.

It was a housewife, containing needles, a bodkin, and thread; ‘and, do you know,’ added he, ‘it was the most useful thing she could have given me, for it lasted all the time I was at Rome to mend my clothes with […].’

1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 246:

Woffington's housewife, made by herself, homely to the eye, but holds everything in the world

1852, Tom Taylor, Charles Reade, Masks and Faces, act II:

The "soldier's housewife" was a small sewing kit that was carried to make timely repairs to clothing and equipment.

1997, David L. Phillips, A Soldier's Story, MetroBooks, →ISBN, page 61:

(plural "housewifes") A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work.


rase

head

rase (genitive raseda, partitive rasedat)

raseda (genitive)
rasedat (partitive)
rase (nominative singular)
rasedad (nominative plural)
rase (accusative nominative singular)
rasedad (accusative nominative plural)
raseda (accusative genitive singular)
rasedad (accusative genitive plural)
raseda (genitive singular)
rasedate (genitive plural)
rasedat (partitive singular)
rasedaid (partitive plural)
rasedasse (illative singular)
rasedatesse (illative plural)
rasedaisse (illative plural)
rasedas (inessive singular)
rasedates (inessive plural)
rasedais (inessive plural)
rasedast (elative singular)
rasedatest (elative plural)
rasedaist (elative plural)
rasedale (allative singular)
rasedatele (allative plural)
rasedaile (allative plural)
rasedal (adessive singular)
rasedatel (adessive plural)
rasedail (adessive plural)
rasedalt (ablative singular)
rasedatelt (ablative plural)
rasedailt (ablative plural)
rasedaks (singular translative)
rasedateks (plural translative)
rasedaiks (plural translative)
rasedani (singular terminative)
rasedateni (plural terminative)
rasedana (essive singular)
rasedatena (essive plural)
rasedata (abessive singular)
rasedateta (abessive plural)
rasedaga (comitative singular)
rasedatega (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *rasëda (“tired; pregnant; heavy”), from Proto-Finno-Permic *ranśe. Related to raske (“heavy”) (from *raskëda, where the -k- is a derivational suffix). Replaced earlier raskejalgne (literally “having heavy feet”).

inh

rase naine

rasedaks jääma

Naine on kaheksandat kuud rase.

pregnant (carrying a fetus developing in its organism, expecting a child)


peak

en-verb

peak (third-person singular simple present peaks, present participle peaking, simple past and past participle peaked)

peaks (present singular third-person)
peaking (participle present)
peaked (participle past)
peaked (past)

From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”). Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike.

cog

I came to this via sport but the thing that really peaked me was this.

2019 August 4, Alison Weir (@WeirAlison), Twitter:

My friend peaked me last year, at the GRA [Gender Recognition Act] consultation.

2019 August 31, MrsMiggins (@MrsMiggins13), Twitter:

Solidarity from Spain, @jk_rowling. Thank you for peaking so many people all over the world.

2021 November 22, DefendingMySisters (@DefendingMy), Twitter:

(gender-critical) To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans).


vestal

From Latin Vesta, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-. More at was.

Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth.

Does money fail?—come to my mint—coin paper,
Till gold be at a discount, and ashamed
To show his bilious face, go purge himself,
In emulation of her vestal whiteness.

1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:


vestal

A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar; a vestal virgin.

A female virgin; a woman who has never had sexual relations.


unborn

en-noun

unborn (countable and uncountable, plural unborns)

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From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born.

Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.

2009, Catherine Playoust, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, “The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature”, in Vanessa R. Sasson, Jane Marie Law, editors, Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176:

(countable) A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.


brorsdotter

brorsdotter (indefinite nominative singular)


bratanica

bratanica (nominative singular)
bratanice (nominative plural)
bratanicy (genitive singular)
bratanic (genitive plural)
bratanicy (dative singular)
bratanicom (dative plural)
bratanicę (accusative singular)
bratanice (accusative plural)
bratanicą (instrumental singular)
bratanicami (instrumental plural)
bratanicy (locative singular)
bratanicach (locative plural)
bratanico (singular vocative)
bratanice (plural vocative)


siostrzenica

siostrzenica (nominative singular)
siostrzenice (nominative plural)
siostrzenicy (genitive singular)
siostrzenic (genitive plural)
siostrzenicy (dative singular)
siostrzenicom (dative plural)
siostrzenicę (accusative singular)
siostrzenice (accusative plural)
siostrzenicą (instrumental singular)
siostrzenicami (instrumental plural)
siostrzenicy (locative singular)
siostrzenicach (locative plural)
siostrzenico (singular vocative)
siostrzenice (plural vocative)


tabby

tabby (countable and uncountable, plural tabbies)

Mid 17th century French tabis, from Arabic عَتَّابِيّ (ʕattābiyy), ultimately from Arabic الْعَتَّابِيَّة (al-ʕattābiyya), a quarter of Baghdad (named for a Prince عَتَّاب (ʕattāb)) which is associated with the manufacture of a certain type of waved silk. See also taffeta, another type of silk whose name derives from the Persian تافته (tâfta, “woven cloth”) and shares a similar etymological origin.

uder

الْعَتَّابِيَّة

(countable, archaic) An old maid or gossip.


waif

“It rait dong se, ‘Eni man we lef dem waif fi gi ar di piepa we shuo se dem no marid agen.’ Bot ier wa mi a se: eni man we brok op wid im waif, an a no laik se shi did a kip man wid im ar a gwaan wid no ada seks sin, ef da uman de go marid wan neks man, a di fos ozban wuda mek shi a liv iina sin kaa nou shi wudaana sliip wid wan neks man. An di man we marid da uman de afta ar ozban lef ar, im a liv iina sin tu, kaa im a sliip wid wan neks man waif

2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 5:31-32:

"It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.


Frau

de-noun

Frau f (genitive Frau, plural Frauen, diminutive Fräulein n or Frauchen n)

Frau (genitive)
Frauen (plural)
Fräulein (diminutive neuter)
Frauchen (diminutive neuter)
Frau (nominative singular)
Frauen (definite nominative plural)
Frau (genitive singular)
Frauen (definite genitive plural)
Frau (dative singular)
Frauen (dative definite plural)
Frau (accusative singular)
Frauen (accusative definite plural)
Frau (nominative singular)
Frauen (definite nominative plural)
Frauen (genitive singular)
Frauen (definite genitive plural)
Frauen (dative singular)
Frauen (dative definite plural)
Frau (accusative singular)
Frauen (accusative definite plural)

Unserdeutsch: Frau

→ English: frau

→ Russian: фра́у (fráu)

From Middle High German vrouwe, vrowe, from Old High German frouwa (“mistress”), from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ, a feminine form of *frawjô (“lord”), giving Old English frēa (“lord, king; God, Christ; husband”), frēo (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *proHwo-, a derivation from *per- (“to go forward”).
Cognate with Old Saxon frūa (hence Middle Low German vrouwe, Modern Low German frug), Old Norse freyja and frú (hence Icelandic frú and Norwegian frue). Further cognates include German Fron (“corvée, soccage”) and its kin. The Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Slavic *pravъ (“right, straight, correct”), whence Old Church Slavonic правъ (pravŭ), Russian пра́вый (právyj, “right”), perhaps also Ancient Greek πρῶρα (prôra, “bow, prow”) and the first element of Latin provincia, if this is from Proto-Indo-European *prōwiōn.

cog

Frau Bundeskanzlerin

madam (polite form of address for a woman or lady)


女帝

ja-noun

女(じょ)帝(てい) or 女(にょ)帝(たい) • (jotei or nyotai) ^(←ぢよてい (dyotei)?)

女帝 (canonical)
女帝 (canonical)
jotei (romanization)
nyotai (romanization)
dyotei (romanization)
ぢよてい (hiragana historical)

Jinnō Shōtōki
Kitabatake Chikafusa
ja:女帝


Bond girl

Sam scowled. 'I hate villains who call me Miss Jones,' she told him. 'It makes me feel like a Bond girl.'

1998, Justin Richards, chapter 12, in Option Lock, page 232:

When a lunch companion suggested that she might not want to take the Halle Berry route should she be nominated for an Oscar for "Monster," and win — soul-searching performance followed by a turn as a Bond girl — Theron threw her head back and howled.

One of the beautiful, seductive young women who appear in James Bond movies.


bag lady

(informal) A homeless woman who carries her possessions with her in bags.


old lady

His wife was asking where their savings account balance had gone, but the way he put it was that his old lady was ragging him about his pay rate.

“[…] Now if that thing is balling—and your old lady or your old man is off somewhere flashing and doesn't want to be touched—well, you get put down on acid, you can be on a bummer for months.”

1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:

But you know it could be a hassle / Trying to explain myself to a police officer / About how it was your old lady got herself stiffed

1978, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Street Hassle”, in Street Hassle:

(slang, US) One's girlfriend, wife or significant other.

老婆

one's girlfriend, wife or significant other

Old Lady of Threadneedle Street
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street

(informal, UK) The Bank of England, sometimes referred to as the “Old Lady of Threadneedle Street” or simply “The Old Lady”.


GC

en-noun

GC (countable and uncountable, plural GCs)

GCs prove everyday they're actually just critical of trans people, not critical of gender

2021 November 19, Yana (@lesbian_envy), Twitter:

That’s LITERALLY what trans activists say and what GCs are fighting against.

2021 November 28, SophieXY (@SophieXY44), Twitter:

When I pointed out the other day that prominent GCs had been pretty silent on #RoeVsWade or had tried deflecting onto trans people, I had this response from a GC.

2022 June 26, Lee WilliamDesigns (@designs_william), Twitter:

(informal) Initialism of gender critical.


butch

en-adj

butch (comparative butcher or more butch, superlative butchest or most butch)

butcher (comparative)
more butch (comparative)
butchest (superlative)
most butch (superlative)

Originally, it was probably used as an abbreviation of butcher. Later, in the 1940s, the sense “masculine lesbian” developed.

There, look, Mr. Horne! Vada that great butch lucoddy!

1967, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, Round the Horne, spoken by Sandy (Kenneth Williams):

Nor can I credit that a — to put it crudely — proud bisexual butch Italian — albeit one lonely, poor, emotional and without strong will — which Giovanni is shown to be in the earlier part of the book, should become, in a mere matter of months, and as the result of any happening, the venal hysterical fairy that he does.

1979, Colin MacInnes, Out of the way: later essays:

Then I started going out with different kinds of women, and I started feeling more like I wanted to be more butch. […] I feel much more butch than I feel femme.

1998, Kath Weston, Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

The process of appreciating a butch aesthetic may be even more complex for bisexual butch women. In contrast to lesbian butches who may date only within a butch-femme community, bisexual butch women may be more likely to […] In comparison to butch bisexual women, it may be easier for femme bisexual women to locate male and female dating partners […]

2007, Beth A. Firestein, Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 305:

More of the rotten responses I receive about being a bisexual butch woman come from other bisexuals, particularly men, who don't want to deal with any woman who is not some Barbie doll standard of femininity.

2014, Naomi S Tucker, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, Routledge, →ISBN, page 186:

"Faye got wicked buff and has a super butch haircut and it is hot as shit." "It's okay, babe. We can ogle her together."

2016, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3154: Coupling:

(slang, originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.


matriarch

/ˈmeɪtɹɪˌɑːk/

Of Latin origin, via or reinforced by Old French matriarche, from Latin māter (“mother”) + -archa, -arches, from Ancient Greek -άρχης (-árkhēs), from ἀρχός (arkhós, “chief”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin, rule, command”). By surface analysis, matri- + -arch.

matriarca

a female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group

A female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group.

The dominant female in a family group of elephants

A female founder of a political or religious movement, an organization or an enterprise.


dcera

dcera (nominative singular)
dcery (nominative plural)
dcery (genitive singular)
dcer (genitive plural)
dceři (dative singular)
dcerám (dative plural)
dceru (accusative singular)
dcery (accusative plural)
dcero (singular vocative)
dcery (plural vocative)
dceři (locative singular)
dcerách (locative plural)
dcerou (instrumental singular)
dcerami (instrumental plural)

→ Silesian: cera

Inherited from Old Czech dci, from Proto-Slavic *dъ̏ťi, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *duktḗ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.


☾ a (canonical feminine)
☾ae (genitive)
☾a (nominative singular)
☾ae (nominative plural)
☾ae (genitive singular)
☾ārum (genitive plural)
☾ae (dative singular)
☾īs (dative plural)
☾am (accusative singular)
☾ās (accusative plural)
☾ā (ablative singular)
☾īs (ablative plural)
☾a (singular vocative)
☾ae (plural vocative)


pil

nl-noun

pil f (plural pillen, diminutive pilletje n)

pillen (plural)
pilletje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: pil

→ Indonesian: pil

→ Papiamentu: pelchi, pilchi, peeltsji (from the diminutive)

→ Sranan Tongo: perki

→ Saramaccan: péiki

From Middle Dutch pille, from Medieval Latin pilla, from Latin pilula, diminutive of pila (“ball”).

(with definite article: de pil) 'the' contraceptive pill


♂tis (genitive)
♂tēs (nominative plural)
♂tis (genitive singular)
♂tum (genitive plural)
♂tī (dative singular)
♂tibus (dative plural)
♂tem (accusative singular)
♂tēs (accusative plural)
♂te (ablative singular)
♂tibus (ablative plural)
♂tēs (plural vocative)

Arte ſivè Chymice parata: ut Vitriolum ♃vis, ☽næ, ♂tis, ☉lis, ♀ris

1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 399:

Those prepared by art or chemically: as vitriol of Jupiter, of the Moon, of Mars, of the Sun, of Venus


discipula

la-noun

discipula f (genitive discipulae); first declension

discipulae (genitive)
discipula (nominative singular)
discipulae (nominative plural)
discipulae (genitive singular)
discipulārum (genitive plural)
discipulae (dative singular)
discipulīs (dative plural)
discipulam (accusative singular)
discipulās (accusative plural)
discipulā (ablative singular)
discipulīs (ablative plural)
discipula (singular vocative)
discipulae (plural vocative)

[d̪ɪs̠ˈkɪpʊɫ̪ä]

Feminine form of discipulus; discipulus + -a (feminine suffix).

female student, pupil, scholar or disciple


mulier

mulier f (genitive mulieris); third declension

mulieris (genitive)
mulier (nominative singular)
mulierēs (nominative plural)
mulieris (genitive singular)
mulierum (genitive plural)
mulierī (dative singular)
mulieribus (dative plural)
mulierem (accusative singular)
mulierēs (accusative plural)
muliere (ablative singular)
mulieribus (ablative plural)
mulier (singular vocative)
mulierēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

desc

Aromanian: muljari, muljare, muljeari, muljeare, mljari, mljare, muieri

Istro-Romanian: muľerĕ

Megleno-Romanian: muľari

Romanian: muiere

Dalmatian:

mojer, molier, moler, mulir (Ragusan dialect)

Italo-Romance:

Italian: moglie, mogliera (Tuscan), muglieri (archaic)

Neapolitan: mugliera

Sicilian: mugghieri, muggheri, muglieri

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: muzere, mulleri (Campidanese)

North Italian:

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: mujer, mujera

Old Ligurian: moier

Old Lombard: muglier

Lombard: mié

→? Romansch: muglier

Piedmontese: mujé

Romagnol: mój, mujéṟ (Central Romagna)

Friulian: muîr

Istriot: muier

Venetan: mojer, mojere

Gallo-Romance:

Old Francoprovençal: moillier, muillier

Franco-Provençal: mulyer

Old French: muiler, moylier, muillier, mulier, moillier

Middle French: muillier, molier (hapax)

Occitano-Romance:

Old Catalan: muyller, muyler, muller, muyer, muler

Catalan: muller

desctree

Old Occitan: molher
Occitan: molhèr
→ Middle French: moulhé

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: muller

Old Leonese: muyer, mujer (Salamanca), muller (Asturias)
Asturian: muyer
Leonese: muyer, muyere
Mirandese: mulhier

Old Galician-Portuguese: moller, muller, molher
Fala: mullel
Galician: muller
Portuguese: mulher (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish: mugier, muger, muller
Ladino: mujer
Spanish: mujer

Borrowings:

→ English: mulier

From Proto-Italic *moljes, of uncertain origin; it has been proposed that it might derive from mollior, comparative of mollis (“soft, tender”). Others propose it might be akin to mulgere and therefore mean “the milk-giver”. Contamination within either of these two terms can be possible.
The former is from Isidore's Etymologies: "Mulier vero a mollitie, tanquam mollier, detracta littera vel mutata, appellata est mulier".

mulier sapiēns es, Nausistrata.

c. 161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Phormio 5.9


mujer

lad-noun

mujer f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מוּז׳יר, plural mujeres)

From Old Spanish mugier, from Latin mulierem.


mujer

Inherited from Old Spanish mugier, from Latin mulierem. Compare Portuguese mulher.


magistra

la-noun

magistra f (genitive magistrae, masculine magister); first declension

magistrae (genitive)
magister (masculine)
magistra (nominative singular)
magistrae (nominative plural)
magistrae (genitive singular)
magistrārum (genitive plural)
magistrae (dative singular)
magistrīs (dative plural)
magistram (accusative singular)
magistrās (accusative plural)
magistrā (ablative singular)
magistrīs (ablative plural)
magistra (singular vocative)
magistrae (plural vocative)

[mäˈɡɪs̠t̪rä]

From magister (“teacher, master”) + -a (feminine suffix).


Wonder Woman

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William Moulton Marston

From wonder + woman. The character, created by William Moulton Marston (1893–1947) and Harry George Peter (1880–1958), first appeared in DC Comics’ All Star Comics #8 dated December 1941.

In 1 Samuel 25, there is a great example of a guy who had a Wonder Woman 31 but failed to value her wisdom. This rich, stupid husband was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail.

2007, Jess MacCallum, I Married Wonder Woman… Now What?: A Superhero's Guide for Leading and Loving the Proverbs 31 Wife, Cincinnati, Oh.: Standard Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:

"I am working for our local 'Maternal Health Center' clinic," she [Olive Byrne] wrote to Margaret Sanger, "and am most amused when they speak of you. Somehow they think you are a contemporary of Florence Nightingale." It was as if Sanger had lived in another century, a Wonder Woman of History.

2014, Jill Lepore, “Love for All”, in The Secret History of Wonder Woman, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN:

(by extension of the proper noun) A woman of extraordinary powers; a superwoman.


conceive

en-verb

conceive (third-person singular simple present conceives, present participle conceiving, simple past and past participle conceived)

conceives (present singular third-person)
conceiving (participle present)
conceived (participle past)
conceived (past)

From Middle English conceyven, from Old French concevoir, conceveir, from Latin concipiō, concipere (“to devise, to conceive”).

der

Can you conceive of him as a leader?

We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals), page 4:

[…]you will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the ſame Climate […]

1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page lxii:

Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Remember, if you please, that the man you call slave sprang from the same seed, enjoys the same daylight, breathes like you, lives like you, dies like you. You can as easily conceive him a free man as he can conceive you a slave.

2008 [c. 65 CE], Seneca the Younger, “Letter on Slaves”, in Andrew Bailey et al., editors, The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought, volume 1, →ISBN, page 258:

(transitive, intransitive with of, ditransitive) To imagine (as); to have a conception of; to form a representation of.


انا

Turkish: ana, anne

From Proto-Turkic *ana, *eńe (“mother”).


lány

lányok (plural)
lány (nominative singular)
lányok (nominative plural)
lányt (accusative singular)
lányokat (accusative plural)
lánynak (dative singular)
lányoknak (dative plural)
lánnyal (instrumental singular)
lányokkal (instrumental plural)
lányért (causal-final singular)
lányokért (causal-final plural)
lánnyá (singular translative)
lányokká (plural translative)
lányig (singular terminative)
lányokig (plural terminative)
lányként (essive-formal singular)
lányokként (essive-formal plural)
lányban (inessive singular)
lányokban (inessive plural)
lányon (singular superessive)
lányokon (plural superessive)
lánynál (adessive singular)
lányoknál (adessive plural)
lányba (illative singular)
lányokba (illative plural)
lányra (singular sublative)
lányokra (plural sublative)
lányhoz (allative singular)
lányokhoz (allative plural)
lányból (elative singular)
lányokból (elative plural)
lányról (delative singular)
lányokról (delative plural)
lánytól (ablative singular)
lányoktól (ablative plural)
lányé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
lányoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
lányéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
lányokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
lányom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
lányaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
lányod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
lányaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
lánya (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
lányai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
lányunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
lányaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
lányotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
lányaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
lányuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
lányaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Coordinate term: fiú

Coordinate term: fiú (with possessive personal suffixes, cf. fia)

(chiefly with a possessive suffix) daughter


achi

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial) the eldest sister

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial, informal) an elder sister

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial, familiar) a young female senior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial) respectful term of address for the eldest sister

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial, informal) respectful term of address for an elder sister

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial, familiar) respectful term of address for a young female senior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)


famula

la-noun

famula f (genitive famulae, masculine famulus); first declension

famulae (genitive)
famulus (masculine)
famula (nominative singular)
famulae (nominative plural)
famulae (genitive singular)
famulārum (genitive plural)
famulae (dative singular)
famulīs (dative plural)
famulam (accusative singular)
famulās (accusative plural)
famulā (ablative singular)
famulīs (ablative plural)
famula (singular vocative)
famulae (plural vocative)

Feminine form of famulus; famulus + -a (feminine suffix).

female servant; maid, handmaiden, maid-servant


breast milk

en-noun

breast milk (countable and uncountable, plural breast milks)

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


feminism

feminism (countable and uncountable, plural feminisms)

From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning "the state of being feminine." Sense of "advocacy of women's rights" is from 1895.

equalism

ideology promoting treating the sexes (or other human divisions) equally

His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut[sic]—one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism.

1875 July 24, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume II, page 105:

(obsolete) The state of being feminine; femininity.


feminism

head

feminism (genitive feminismi, partitive feminismi)

feminismi (genitive)
feminismi (partitive)
feminism (nominative singular)
feminismid (nominative plural)
feminism (accusative nominative singular)
feminismid (accusative nominative plural)
feminismi (accusative genitive singular)
feminismid (accusative genitive plural)
feminismi (genitive singular)
feminismide (genitive plural)
feminismi (partitive singular)
feminisme (partitive plural)
feminismisid (partitive plural)
feminismi (illative singular)
feminismisse (illative singular)
feminismidesse (illative plural)
feminismesse (illative plural)
feminismis (inessive singular)
feminismides (inessive plural)
feminismes (inessive plural)
feminismist (elative singular)
feminismidest (elative plural)
feminismest (elative plural)
feminismile (allative singular)
feminismidele (allative plural)
feminismele (allative plural)
feminismil (adessive singular)
feminismidel (adessive plural)
feminismel (adessive plural)
feminismilt (ablative singular)
feminismidelt (ablative plural)
feminismelt (ablative plural)
feminismiks (singular translative)
feminismideks (plural translative)
feminismeks (plural translative)
feminismini (singular terminative)
feminismideni (plural terminative)
feminismina (essive singular)
feminismidena (essive plural)
feminismita (abessive singular)
feminismideta (abessive plural)
feminismiga (comitative singular)
feminismidega (comitative plural)


feminism

feminism (accusative indefinite nominative)
feminismul (accusative definite nominative)
feminism (indefinite)
feminismului (definite)
feminismule (vocative)


feminism

feminism (indefinite nominative singular)


Athena

Borrowed from Latin Athena, from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ).


Athena

The last thing feminist Athenas see about corporate structures, government, or academia is that they are run by benevolent and all-protective fathers.

1989, Jennifer Barker Woolger, Roger J. Woolger, The goddess within:

The latter may become either Athenas or feminists. If one gets a certain sort of male sponsorship, becomes a Daddy's girl, one is allowed to function in these vocations of the righteous […]

1992, Marilyn Frye, Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992, page 141:

Women who do decide to become scientists find themselves under attack from the self-proclaimed "echt" feminists, who call them "Athenas" and "Queen Bees."

1995, Noretta Koertge, Skeptical Inquirer, volume 19, number 2, page 42:

(feminism, derogatory, figurative) A woman who colludes with the patriarchy rather than actively opposing it.


soror

la-noun

soror f (genitive sorōris); third declension

sorōris (genitive)
soror (nominative singular)
sorōrēs (nominative plural)
sorōris (genitive singular)
sorōrum (genitive plural)
sorōrī (dative singular)
sorōribus (dative plural)
sorōrem (accusative singular)
sorōrēs (accusative plural)
sorōre (ablative singular)
sorōribus (ablative plural)
soror (singular vocative)
sorōrēs (plural vocative)

Via accusative sorōrem (~ *serōrem):

Balkan Romance:

Romanian: suroră

Dalmatian:

seraur

Italo-Romance:

Old Italian: serore, sorore

North Italian:

Istriot: sorura

Old Lombard: seror

Lombard: seror

Old Venetan: sorore

Piedmontese: sëror (Biella, Val Sesia)

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: seror

Old French: seror, serur

Occitano-Romance:

Old Occitan: seror

Gascon: seror

→ Old Spanish: seror

Borrowings:

→ Interlingua: soror

→ Portuguese: soror

Via nominative sŏror:

Balkan Romance:

Romanian: sor

Dalmatian:

saur

Italo-Romance:

Old Italian: soro, suoro

Sicilian: soru

North Italian:

Friulian: sûr

Lombard: sor

Old Emilian: sore

Old Ligurian: sor

Ligurian: seu

Old Venetan: sor

Old Piedmontese: suor

Piedmontese: seur, seure

Romansch: sour

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: suèr

Old French: suer

French: sœur

Norman: soeu

Occitano-Romance:

Catalan: sor

→ Spanish: sor

Occitan:

Auvergnat: sòrre, suerre

Gascon: sòr

Languedocien: sòrre, sòr

Provençal: sòrre

Vivaro-Alpine: sór, sòrre

Insular Romance:

desc

Sardinian: sorre (Logudorese), sorri (Campidanese)

Borrowings:

→ English: soror

Via Vulgar Latin *sŏra (< sŏror):

Balkan-Romance:

Aromanian: sorã

Megleno-Romanian: soră

Romanian: soră

Italo-Romance:

Italian: sora, suora ⇒ sorella

q

Neapolitan: sora (dialectal plural serure < *serōrēs < sorōrēs)

North Italian:

Piedmontese: seura

Romansch: sora

⇒ Venetan: sorela, soreła

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: suèra

From Proto-Italic *swezōr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.


ملكة

ar-noun

مَلِكَة • (malika) f (plural مَلِكَات (malikāt), masculine مَلِك (malik))

مَلِكَة (canonical)
malika (romanization)
مَلِكَات (plural)
مَلِك (masculine)
مَلِكَة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمَلِكَة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
مَلِكَة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
مَلِكَةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمَلِكَةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
مَلِكَةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
مَلِكَةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَلِكَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
مَلِكَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
مَلِكَةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَلِكَةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
مَلِكَةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)
مَلِكَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمَلِكَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual informal singular triptote)
مَلِكَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual informal singular triptote)
مَلِكَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمَلِكَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual nominative singular triptote)
مَلِكَتَا (ar-infl-a construct dual nominative singular triptote)
مَلِكَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَلِكَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual singular triptote)
مَلِكَتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a construct dual singular triptote)
مَلِكَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمَلِكَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual genitive singular triptote)
مَلِكَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual genitive singular triptote)
مَلِكَات (feminine indefinite informal plural sound-form)
الْمَلِكَات (definite feminine informal plural sound-form)
مَلِكَات (construct feminine informal plural sound-form)
مَلِكَاتٌ (feminine indefinite nominative plural sound-form)
الْمَلِكَاتُ (definite feminine nominative plural sound-form)
مَلِكَاتُ (construct feminine nominative plural sound-form)
مَلِكَاتٍ (accusative feminine indefinite plural sound-form)
الْمَلِكَاتِ (accusative definite feminine plural sound-form)
مَلِكَاتِ (accusative construct feminine plural sound-form)
مَلِكَاتٍ (feminine genitive indefinite plural sound-form)
الْمَلِكَاتِ (definite feminine genitive plural sound-form)
مَلِكَاتِ (construct feminine genitive plural sound-form)

→ Azerbaijani: məlikə

→ Chagatai: ملکه

Uyghur: مەلىكە (melike)

Uzbek: malika

→ English: Malika

→ Kazakh: мәлике (mälike)

→ Ottoman Turkish: ملكه (melike)

Turkish: melike

→ Old Armenian: Մլքէ (Mlkʻē)

desctree

→ Classical Persian: مَلِکَه (malika)
Dari: مَلِکَه (malika)
Iranian Persian: مَلِکِه (maleke)
Tajik: малика (malika)
→ Gujarati: મલિકા (malikā)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: मलिका (malikā)
Urdu: مَلِکَہ (malika)
→ Marwari: मलिका (malikā)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਮਲਕਾ (malkā)
Shahmukhi script: مَلِکَہ (malikah)
→ Sindhi: malikā
Arabic script: مَلڪَھ
Devanagari script: मलिका

→ Turkmen: melike

→ Swahili: malkia


gynaecology

en-noun

gynaecology (usually uncountable, plural gynaecologies)


actrix

la-noun

āctrīx f (genitive āctrīcis, masculine āctor); third declension

āctrīx (canonical feminine)
āctrīcis (genitive)
āctor (masculine)
āctrīx (nominative singular)
āctrīcēs (nominative plural)
āctrīcis (genitive singular)
āctrīcum (genitive plural)
āctrīcī (dative singular)
āctrīcibus (dative plural)
āctrīcem (accusative singular)
āctrīcēs (accusative plural)
āctrīce (ablative singular)
āctrīcibus (ablative plural)
āctrīx (singular vocative)
āctrīcēs (plural vocative)

Asturian: actriz

→ Catalan: actriu

→ English: actrix

Galician: actriz

Italian: attrice

→ Middle French: actrice

desctree

French: actrice
→ Bulgarian: актри́са (aktrísa)
→ Dutch: actrice
→ English: actrice
→ Norman: actrice
→ Ottoman Turkish: آقتریس (aktris)
Turkish: aktris
→ Russian: актри́са (aktrísa)
→ Azerbaijani: aktrisa
→ Uzbek: aktrisa
→ Yiddish: אַקטריסע (aktrise)
→ Swedish: aktris
→ Ukrainian: актри́са (aktrýsa)

Portuguese: atriz

→ Spanish: actriz

From āctus + -trīx, from agō (“do, act”).

actress, actor (female) (person who performs in a theatrical play or movie)


policewoman

(law enforcement) A female police officer.


tomboy

→ Bikol Central: tomboy

→ Cebuano: tomboy

→ Spanish: tomboy

→ Tagalog: tomboy

First attested in Ralph Roister Doister (published 1567, written circa 1552), where it is used to describe a boisterous girl; the OED says the citation is however "generally taken" to mean a boisterous boy, and says that a use in The Old Law (published 1656, thought to have been written circa 1599) "certainly" means a boy: "must young court-tits / play tomboys' tricks with her?" By 1579 it was attested in the meaning "an immodest woman", and by no later than 1592 it had developed its modern meaning of a “girl who acts like a boy”; from tom + boy.

(Philippines, colloquial) A lesbian; a butch.


anoppi

head

anoppi (genitive anopin, partitive anoppie)

anopin (genitive)
anoppie (partitive)
anoppi (nominative singular)
anopit (nominative plural)
anopin (genitive singular)
anoppien (genitive plural)
anoppie (partitive singular)
anoppija (partitive plural)
anoppih (illative singular)
anoppiloih (illative plural)
anopissa (inessive singular)
anoppiloissa (inessive plural)
anopista (elative singular)
anoppiloista (elative plural)
anopilla (adessive singular)
anoppiloilla (adessive plural)
anopilta (ablative singular)
anoppiloilta (ablative plural)
anopiksi (singular translative)
anoppiloiksi (plural translative)
anoppina (essive singular)
anoppiloina (essive plural)
anoppiloineh (comitative plural)
anopitta (abessive singular)
anoppiloitta (abessive plural)
anoppi (nominative singular)
anopit (nominative plural)
anopin (genitive singular)
anoppiloin (genitive plural)
anoppie (partitive singular)
anoppiloida (partitive plural)
anoppih (illative singular)
anoppiloih (illative plural)
anopissa (inessive singular)
anoppiloissa (inessive plural)
anopista (elative singular)
anoppiloista (elative plural)
anopilla (adessive singular)
anoppiloilla (adessive plural)
anopilda (ablative singular)
anoppiloilda (ablative plural)
anopiksi (singular translative)
anoppiloiksi (plural translative)
anoppina (essive singular)
anoppiloina (essive plural)
anopinke (comitative singular)
anoppiloinke (comitative plural)
anopitta (abessive singular)
anoppiloitta (abessive plural)
anoppini (first-person possessive)
anoppis (possessive second-person)
anoppih (possessive third-person)

krl-decl-table

type 2/<i class="Latn mention" lang="krl">risti</i>, pp-p gradation

From Proto-Finnic *anoppi. Cognates include Finnish anoppi and Veps anop'.


maid of honor

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The primary woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony.

шаферка

the primary woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony


besom

From Middle English besme, beseme, from Old English besma, besema (“besom, broom, rod”), from Proto-West Germanic *besmō (“broom”).

"Eh, but she was a besom, if a' tales be true !"

1903, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Dark O' the Moon: A Novel, page 130:

Janet's eyes began to look dim, and I had to frown at her very hard; then I had to turn my frown on Jean ... and Janet, the besom, took advantage of my divided attention.

1917, A.S. Neill., A Dominie Dismissed, page 10:

Uncle Angus went on about the behavior of the car. "She's a besom, a proper besom, her and her gears. She'll be the death of me yet one of these days."

1963, Margaret McLean MacPherson, The Shinty Boys, page 187:

"She's a besom but no' bad at times, like now," Agnes said as she bit into a dough-ring.

(Scotland, Northern England, derogatory) A troublesome woman.


childbirth

en-noun

childbirth (usually uncountable, plural childbirths)

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From Middle English childbyrth [and other forms], perhaps a partial calque of Old Norse barnburðr (“childbearing, childbirth”, literally “bairn birth”); equivalent to child + birth. Compare Swedish barnsbörd (“childbirth”), Icelandic barnsburður (“childbirth”).

der

The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy.


freo

frēo (canonical)
frēo (masculine nominative singular)
frēo (feminine nominative singular)
frēo (neuter nominative singular)
frēone (accusative masculine singular)
frēo (accusative feminine singular)
frēo (accusative neuter singular)
frēos (genitive masculine singular)
frēore (feminine genitive singular)
frēos (genitive neuter singular)
frēom (dative masculine singular)
frēoum (dative masculine singular)
frēore (dative feminine singular)
frēom (dative neuter singular)
frēoum (dative neuter singular)
frēo (instrumental masculine singular)
frēore (feminine instrumental singular)
frēo (instrumental neuter singular)
frēo (masculine nominative plural)
frēo (feminine nominative plural)
frēo (neuter nominative plural)
frēo (accusative masculine plural)
frēo (accusative feminine plural)
frēo (accusative neuter plural)
frēora (genitive masculine plural)
frēora (feminine genitive plural)
frēora (genitive neuter plural)
frēom (dative masculine plural)
frēoum (dative masculine plural)
frēom (dative feminine plural)
frēoum (dative feminine plural)
frēom (dative neuter plural)
frēoum (dative neuter plural)
frēom (instrumental masculine plural)
frēoum (instrumental masculine plural)
frēom (feminine instrumental plural)
frēoum (feminine instrumental plural)
frēom (instrumental neuter plural)
frēoum (instrumental neuter plural)
frēo (masculine nominative singular)
frēo (feminine nominative singular)
frēo (neuter nominative singular)
frēon (accusative masculine singular)
frēon (accusative feminine singular)
frēo (accusative neuter singular)
frēon (genitive masculine singular)
frēon (feminine genitive singular)
frēon (genitive neuter singular)
frēon (dative masculine singular)
frēon (dative feminine singular)
frēon (dative neuter singular)
frēon (instrumental masculine singular)
frēon (feminine instrumental singular)
frēon (instrumental neuter singular)
frēon (masculine nominative plural)
frēon (feminine nominative plural)
frēon (neuter nominative plural)
frēon (accusative masculine plural)
frēon (accusative feminine plural)
frēon (accusative neuter plural)
frēora (genitive masculine plural)
frēona (genitive masculine plural)
frēora (feminine genitive plural)
frēona (feminine genitive plural)
frēora (genitive neuter plural)
frēona (genitive neuter plural)
frēom (dative masculine plural)
frēoum (dative masculine plural)
frēom (dative feminine plural)
frēoum (dative feminine plural)
frēom (dative neuter plural)
frēoum (dative neuter plural)
frēom (instrumental masculine plural)
frēoum (instrumental masculine plural)
frēom (feminine instrumental plural)
frēoum (feminine instrumental plural)
frēom (instrumental neuter plural)
frēoum (instrumental neuter plural)

Middle English: fre, vri, vry

English: free

→ Fiji Hindi: firii

Scots: fre

From Proto-West Germanic *friu, a byform of *frī. The transmission of this word was complex. The Proto-Germanic form must have been *frijwaz. After loss of final *-az and syllabification of *-w, the resulting West-Germanic form was *friju, which developed further to *frīju after gemination and vocalization of *j between *i and another *j. The sequence *iju, *īju then contracts to *iu, yielding a final form *friu (cf. Proto-West Germanic *friund, from *frijōndz), which develops normally to Old English frīo, frēo. The oblique forms should however have retained *-j- in all instances in which it was not followed by *u, yielding an alternation between frīo and frīġ- throughout the paradigm. This alternation, though sparsely attested in the Old English corpus, was too irregular to have been maintained for long and was eventually levelled away in all dialects in favor either of the diphthongal nominative or the oblique forms in -ġ-. Note also that *w was deleted between *īj and any front vowel, thus explaining its absence in certain oblique forms such as frīġes, from earlier /ˈfriːj.wæs/. See Hogg 1992 sections 3.17, 3.19(3), 4.7, and 4.9(1) for details.

c. 700 Cædmon, Metrical Paraphrase
Ða wearþ worn afeded freora bearna

then a number of noble children were brought forth.


bridesmaid

From bride + -s- + maid. Sports/entertainment sense: in reference to the saying always a bridesmaid, never a bride.

I'd love to be your bridesmaid at the wedding.

I was promised sex. Everybody said it. You'll be a bridesmaid, you'll get sex, you'll be fighting 'em off. But not so much as a tongue in sight.

1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Lydia (Sophie Thompson):

A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.

strooimeisie

woman who attends the bride at a wedding ceremony


protection

en-noun

protection (countable and uncountable, plural protections)

/pɹəˈtɛkʃən/

From Middle English, from Old French, from stem of Late Latin prōtectiō (“a covering over”), from Latin prōtēctus, perfect passive participle of prōtegere (“to protect, cover in front”). Displaced native Old English ġesċildnes.

der

A means, such as a condom, of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease.


heroine

From Latin hērōīna, from late Ancient Greek ἡρωΐνη (hērōḯnē) (2nd century), a feminine equivalent of ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero, demigod”), equivalent to hero + -ine (suffix forming feminine nouns).
* English from 1587. The sense of "female lead character" is from 1715.

suf

Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:


brunette

Borrowed from French brunette, the feminine form of brunet, from brun (“brown”). Doublet of burnet.

And M. [Henri-François-Alphonse] Esquiros, in describing the Dutch generally, speaks of beauties both blondes and brunettes, ‘for black hair is not uncommon in the Netherlands.’ These words seem to imply that black hair does not preponderate; and, if not, there must be a marked difference between the Dutch and the English. Here again is confirmation of the opinion that the modern English are somewhat more dark-haired than the ancient Saxons.

1866, Luke Owen Pike, “The Evidence of Physical Characteristics”, in The English and Their Origin. A Prologue to Authentic English History., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 145–146:

The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.

1946, William Hatfield, Buffalo Jim, Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege, page 70:

Brownheads or brunettes use a darker red than blondes and redheads.

A person, especially female, with brown hair.

سَمْرَاء

a person, especially female, with brown hair


bá

(dialectal) paternal aunt-in-law, father's elder brother's wife


ตัว

Ultimately from Chinese 頭 (OC *[m-t]ˁo). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨲ᩠ᩅᩫ, Lao ໂຕ (tō) or ຕົວ (tūa), Lü ᦷᦎ (ṫo), Tai Dam ꪶꪔ (to1), Tai Dón ꪔꪺ (to1), Shan တူဝ် (tǒ), Tai Nüa ᥖᥨᥝ (tow), Ahom 𑜄𑜥 (tū) or 𑜄𑜤 (tu), Zhuang duz, Saek ทั๊ว and Khmer តួ (tuə). Compare also Japanese 頭 (tō, “counter for certain animals”).


foster

head

foster n (definite singular fosteret or fostret, indefinite plural foster or fostre, definite plural fostra or fostrene)

fosteret (definite singular)
fostret (definite singular)
foster (indefinite plural)
fostre (indefinite plural)
fostra (definite plural)
fostrene (definite plural)


foster

fosteret (definite singular)
foster (indefinite plural)
fostera (definite plural)


pregnant

en-adj

pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)

more pregnant (comparative)
most pregnant (superlative)

Apparently from Middle French pregnant, preignant (“pressing, compelling”), present participle of prembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

Peregrine was in a little time a distinguished character, not only for his acuteness of apprehension, but also for that mischievous fertility of fancy, of which we have already given such pregnant examples.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:


surrogate mother

en-noun

surrogate mother (plural surrogate mothers)

A woman who gives birth to a child with the intent to give this child to at least one of the biological parents (not including herself, if she is one of them)

أُمّ بَدِيلَة

woman who gives birth to a child not her own


birth control

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birth control
en:Comstock Law
en:Margaret Sanger
en:The Woman Rebel

Margaret Sanger coined the term "birth control" in 1914, using it in the July 1914 issue of The Woman Rebel, and was criminally indicted for it in August 1914, under the Comstock Law for obscenity in print.

Voluntary control of the number of children conceived, especially by the planned use of contraception.

izeeʼ bichįʼ doo ichį́į́ dahí

voluntary control of the number of children conceived

BC

BC; birth control; US Navy standard issue eyeglass frames euphemistically referred to as or due to their unattractiveness

Any technique used to prevent the birth of a child (such as abortion or preventing conception).


dynes

dynesau (plural)
dynes
ddynes (soft)
nynes

From dyn (“man; person”) + -es (feminine suffix).


bachgennes

bachgenesau (plural)
bachgennes
fachgennes (soft)
machgennes

From bachgen (“boy”) + -es (feminine suffix).


geneth

genethod (plural)
geneth
eneth (soft)
ngeneth

From Proto-Brythonic *genettā (“daughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.


bobo

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *baba, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ, from nursery language.

onomatopoeic

nursery language


gynocentric

en-adj

gynocentric (comparative more gynocentric, superlative most gynocentric)

more gynocentric (comparative)
most gynocentric (superlative)

Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting gynocentrism; focused on females.


gynocentrism

We Americans have not so much need to take his admonitions to heart as Continental Europeans, seeing that captious critics are prone to regard us as suffering rather from gynocentrism than anthropocentrism.

1897, “Book Reviews and Notes”, in The Open Court, volume 11, page 575:

An ideological focus on females, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females.


androcentric

androcentric (comparative more androcentric, superlative most androcentric)

more androcentric (comparative)
most androcentric (superlative)

Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting androcentrism; focused on males.


androcentrism

An ideological focus on males and men, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-males.


strumpet

From Middle English strumpet, strompet, strumpett. Further origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch strompen (“to stalk”) or strompe (“stocking”); or Late Latin stuprum (“violation”) or stuprare (“to violate”).


expect

en-verb

expect (third-person singular simple present expects, present participle expecting, simple past and past participle expected)

expects (present singular third-person)
expecting (participle present)
expected (participle past)
expected (past)

From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).

when you least expect it

I expect to be able to walk again after getting over my broken leg.

He never expected to be discovered.

We ended up waiting a little longer than we had expected

The doctor said he expected me to make a full recovery.

“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

And temperatures are expected to keep rising.

2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns:

(transitive, intransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen

تَوَقَّعَ

to look for, look forward to, anticipate

England expects that every man will do his duty.

1805, Nelson, Horatio via Pasco, John, signal sent at the Battle of Trafalgar

I was born and immediately thrown into a society that makes its own rules, standards, and expectations. I am expected to behave. I am expected to deliver. I am expected to live up to the contrived standards of the society.

2015, Sajith Buvi, I Am 7.5 Billion Human, page 49:

You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.

“You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,”

2011, Eva Fischer-Dixon, The Bestseller:

(continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.


pixie

Uncertain; 17thC, originally in the folklore of southwest England; perhaps diminutive of Swedish pysk (“fairy”); perhaps Puck + -sy; see Wikipedia.


CVS

en-noun

CVS (countable and uncountable, plural CVSs)

chorionic villus sampling
chorionic villus sampling#English

(obstetrics, pathology) Initialism of chorionic villus sampling.


fishwife

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From Middle English fysshewyfe; equivalent to fish + wife (“(obsolete) woman”) (see also midwife).

(archaic) A woman who sells or works with fish; a female fishmonger.


pregnancy

pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural pregnancies)

pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy

The period of time this condition prevails.


mamma

Either sex under special stimulations is capable of manifesting powers ordinarily shown only by the other […] Thus, to take an extreme case, the mammæ of men will, under special excitation, yield milk: there are various cases of gynecomasty on record, and in famines infants whose mothers have died have been thus saved.

1880, Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology, page 434:

(anatomy, plural mammae) The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.

(meteorology) An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.


mamma

Alternative spelling of mama; see further etymology there.

1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
The next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her mamma. They told her she was away; that she would bring her back some playthings.


mamma

mom (US), mommy (US), mum (UK), mummy (UK)


mamma

la-noun

mamma f (genitive mammae); first declension

mammae (genitive)
mamma (nominative singular)
mammae (nominative plural)
mammae (genitive singular)
mammārum (genitive plural)
mammae (dative singular)
mammīs (dative plural)
mammam (accusative singular)
mammās (accusative plural)
mammā (ablative singular)
mammīs (ablative plural)
mamma (singular vocative)
mammae (plural vocative)

Aromanian: mamã

→ English: mamma

French: maman

Portuguese: mamã

Ido: mama

→ Irish: mama

→ Galician: mama

Istriot: mama

Italian: mamma

Megleno-Romanian: mamă

Mozarabic: ממה (mmh)

Neapolitan: mamma

Old Galician-Portuguese: mamoa (from mammula)

Galician: mámoa

Portuguese: mamoa

→ Portuguese: mama

Romanian: mamă

Romansch: mamma, mama, mumma, moma

Sardinian: mama, mamma, immamma

Spanish: mama

Uncertain. Either a native childish term of onomatopoeic origin, or borrowed from Ancient Greek μάμμη (mámmē).

mammam dare

to give someone the breast, to suckle someone

(by extension) a protuberance on tree bark


mamma

mammaa (definite singular)
mammaer (indefinite plural)
mammaene (definite plural)


mamma

mamma (indefinite nominative singular)
mammas (genitive indefinite singular)
mamman (definite nominative singular)
mammans (definite genitive singular)
mammor (indefinite nominative plural)
mammors (genitive indefinite plural)
mammorna (definite nominative plural)
mammornas (definite genitive plural)

Han älskar sin mamma.

mom (US), mommy (US), mama (US), mum (UK), mummy (UK)


mistress

→ Japanese: ミストレス (misutoresu)

From Middle English maistresse, from Old French maistresse (whence French maîtresse), feminine of maistre (“master”). By surface analysis, mist(e)r + -ess.

male equivalent: master

games mistress


siren

From Middle English siren, from Old French sereine and Latin Sīrēn, Sīrēna, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). The mammalian sense was first attested in French in Dominique Bouhours, Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène, in 1671. The aquatic salamander sense was originally introduced by Linnaeus in 1766, for a genus of his reptiles. Doublet of serin.

A member of a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae, commonly used for all species in the family Sirenidae.


mum

Alternative form of mam, or an abbreviation of mummy. Compare mom, mama.

From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.

1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5:

'Ooh Mum, Auntie don′t allow smokin’ - Pat′s eyes were round with awe as Mum struck a match.

1993, Hilda Hollingsworth, Places of Greater Safety, Zenobia Press edition, page 278:

Her mum says that she is deaf and only partially sighted, so I need to go and stand in front of her, so she can see the gift.

2004, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul 2, page 336:

“Mum! Mum!” he shouted out. The laughter stopped. Two bright, sparkling yellow eyes peeped from the hollow. Atop her head were the fluffy ear tufts that his mum was so proud of because they were fuller and lovelier than those of most Great Horned Owls. It was indeed his mum!

2006, Kathryn Lasky, Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Book 11: To Be a King, page 88

2011, Chyna, FAM: Rolling in a London Girl Gang, unnumbered page,
He′s looking at my mum, at her swollen eyes, busted nose and bloodied lips. She′s mashed up something chronic, and the man who did this to her is my dad.

(Commonwealth, Ireland, informal) Mother.


mens

From clipping of English menstruation or menses.


breastfeed

An instance of feeding milk to a baby from the breasts; a breastfeeding.


barra

barrá (canonical feminine)
agábu (masculine plural)
agaabá (feminine plural)
barrá (absolutive)
barrá (predicative)
barrá (subjective)
barrá (genitive)
barrál (l-case with-postposition)
barrák (k-case with-postposition)
barrát (t-case with-postposition)
barráh (h-case with-postposition)


hysterectomy

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she even contemplated having her womb taken out to eliminate periods altogether, which would surely be her greatest possible career move, a tactical hysterectomy for ambitious women with menstruation problems

2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 140:

(surgery) The surgical procedure to remove all of or part of the uterus.

histerectomia

surgical removal of the uterus or part thereof


miss

en-noun

miss (countable and uncountable, plural misses)

Here's my report, miss.

A term of address by a student for a female teacher.


太太

/tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ tʰaɪ̯¹/

/tʰɛ⁴⁴ tʰɛ²⁴/

/tʰaːi̯³³ tʰaːi̯³³⁻³⁵/

/tʰai̯⁵⁵ tʰai̯⁵⁵/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁵³ tʰai²¹/

/tʰai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tʰai⁴¹/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁵³ tʰai²¹/

/tʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ tʰai¹¹/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁴¹ tʰai²¹/

/tʰa⁵⁵ tʰa²¹/

/tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ tʰaɪ̯¹/

/tʰɛ⁴⁴ tʰɛ²⁴/

/tʰaːi̯³³ tʰaːi̯³³⁻³⁵/

/tʰai̯⁵⁵ tʰai̯⁵⁵/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁵³ tʰai²¹/

/tʰai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tʰai⁴¹/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁵³ tʰai²¹/

/tʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ tʰai¹¹/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁴¹ tʰai²¹/

/tʰa⁵⁵ tʰa²¹/

這位是陳太太。

这位是陈太太。

Ali's lady wife had the religious name Fāṭima. She was the daughter of Muṣṭafā, the mother of Ḥasan and Ḥusayn. Her heart was compassionate, her nature wise; she was clever and loved the faith, and looked upon her father as a teacher.

《天⽅正學》 by 藍煦, 1852

Ěrlǐ tàitài, dàohào Fǎtǔmò. Mùsītèfā zhī nǚ, Hāsān, Hóusāiní zhī mǔ yě. Qí xīn réncí, qí xìng mǐnhuì, mǐn ér hào dào, shīshì qí fù.

爾理太太，道號法土默。穆斯特發之女，哈三、侯腮尼之母也。其心仁慈，其性敏惠，敏而好道，師事其父。

《天⽅正學》 by 藍煦, 1852

尔理太太，道号法土默。穆斯特发之女，哈三、侯腮尼之母也。其心仁慈，其性敏惠，敏而好道，师事其父。

An honorific for adults, usually conferred on married women following the surname of their husband: Mrs

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