bosomy

en-adj

bosomy (comparative bosomier or more bosomy, superlative bosomiest or most bosomy)

bosomier (comparative)
more bosomy (comparative)
bosomiest (superlative)
most bosomy (superlative)

The essence of a tandem team is surely that it should be well balanced, sporting in appearance and that the horses themselves should at all events convey the impression of being able to do a long stage with ease and comfort. Now there can be nothing "sporting" about a beefy, bosomy, bad-shouldered tandem leader, who picks his fore feet up as high as he can, hangs them down again with a straight thrust on the ground, but a very little distance in advance of the spot from which he took them up.

1908 June 20, “The Royal Horse Show”, in [Peter Anderson Graham], editor, Country Life, volume XXIII, number 598, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 897:

Who invented your library? […] I've toned it up with a lot of those "stage favourites" magazines. You know the kind—"Mary Mush as Magdalene," and all that bosomy sort of stuff; warm, but not incendiary.

1915 May, Thomas Addison, “The Taming of Aunt Maria”, in Lippincott’s Magazine, volume XCV, number 569, [New York, N.Y.]: McBride, Nast & Co., →OCLC, section III, page 117, column 2:

I wasn't your typical breast-augmentation candidate, if there is such a thing. […] First I helped myself … went through all the do-it-yourself (bobby socks, cotton, little balloons filled with water—one broke one day and talk about slushy!) augmenting. Most of the time the augmenting did help … one looked bosomier, lusher.

2000 February, Helen Gurley Brown, “Looks/Age/Health”, in I’m Wild Again: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 129:

German girls also featured prominently in [the Daily Mirror editor Neil] Withcomb's coverage, as they were the "bosomiest" in Europe: "average bra size for fraulein is 36 to 38, against 34 to 36 for young British girls. Bra shapes are different, too!"

2017, Mathias Haeussler, “The Inward-looking Outsider?: The British Popular Press and European Integration, 1961–1992”, in Haakon A. Ikonomou, Aurélie Andry, Rebekka Byberg, editors, European Enlargement across Rounds and beyond Borders (Routledge Advances in European Politics), Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part II (Beyond the Road to Membership), page 81:

For the most part, [Hugh] Hefner's female companions all adhered to the same mold: twentysomething, bosomy and blonde. "Well, I guess I know what I like," he once said when asked about his preferences.

2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, ‘Playboy’ Founder, Dead at 91: Legendary Magazine Editor Helped Spark the Sexual Revolution”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 2018-03-15:


paternal grandmother

en-noun

paternal grandmother (plural paternal grandmothers)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paternal, grandmother. (This entry is a translation hub.)


bull dyke

Superficially bull + dyke, although bulldyke predates dyke by several decades. See dyke for more.

(colloquial, LGBTQ, sometimes derogatory) A masculine or butch lesbian. (See usage notes about dyke (“lesbian”).)


on the pill

Jane went on the pill when she left for college.

(idiomatic, of a woman) Using oral contraceptives.


gynecocracy

gynecocracy (countable and uncountable, plural gynecocracies)

Gynaecocracy may not, however, be an idyllic affair.

1999, Jacqueline Rose, “Go girl”, in London Review of Books, section 21.19:

(government, sociology) Government or rule by women, or a society with such leadership.


sculptress

Nor may vve here omit to celebrate for the glory of the Sex, Propertia de Roſſi, a Florentine Sculptreſs; vvho having cut ſtupendious things in Marble, put forth alſo ſome rare things in Stampi to be encountred amongſt the Collections of the Curious.

1662, J[ohn] Evelyn, “Of the Invention and Progresse of Chalcography in Particular; together with an Ample Enumeration of the Most Renowned Masters, and Their Workes”, in Sculptura: Or The History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper. […], London: […] J[ames] C[ottrel] for G. Beedle [i.e., Gabriel Bedell], and T[homas] Collins, […], and J[ohn] Crook […], →OCLC, book I, pages 52–53:

The opening of GALAS in Boston signifies the first organized presentation of lesbian-created art in this city. Over 60 photographers, painters, craftswomen, sculptresses, and performing artists are participating in this month-long celebration.

1980 August 2, C. T. McKee, Marcia Geier, “The Great American Lesbian Art Show Comes To Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 10:


seamstress

[…] the Seamſtreſs brought in her ſilver thimble, the Chamber-maid her Bodkin , the Cook his ſilver ſpoon , the Vintner his Bowl into the common Treaſury of War and they who contribured to ſo pious a work, were invited more then others in ſome Churches to come to the Holy Communion in the very time of adminiſtration; […]

1656, James Howell, Some Sober Inspections Made Into the Carriage and Consults of the Late Long-Parliament, whereby Ocaſsion is Taken to ſpeak of Parliaments in former Times, and of Magna Charta, with Some Reflexes Upon Government in General, pages 128-129:

They are seamstresses, who have plied the daily and nightly needle in the service of master tailors and close-fisted contractors, until now it is almost time for each to hem the borders of her own shroud.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Procession of Life”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

“If you have finished blathering about men, perhaps you won’t mind skipping over the new seamstress you’ve no doubt found?"

1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 52: Need”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 862:

A woman who sews clothes professionally.


schoolmarm

The schoolmarm came to an abrupt stop in her arithmetic quizzing, her face set into a pruny scowl that looked to be permanent.

2013, Josh Rountree, Lon Prater, Alamo Rising:

(US, slang) A female teacher, especially one seen to be old-fashioned and extremely severe and strict.


Vatican roulette

From the Catholic church's prohibitions on active methods of contraception, and its perceived lack of reliability. By analogy with Russian roulette.


materteral

en-adj

materteral (comparative more materteral, superlative most materteral)

more materteral (comparative)
most materteral (superlative)

/məˈtɜːtəɹəl/

From Latin mātertera (“maternal aunt”) + -al.

It may be that stipulations about parts and wholes are, in some way that undermines my materteral analogies, unlike stipulations about aunts and legacies.

1990, (US), Peter Van Inwagen, Material Beings, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 9:

Only some insistent pleading (materteral rather than avuncular) had changed their mind.

2004, (UK), Saif Rahman, Archipelago, Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 150:

It pleased her to see Aunt Maude waiting tables. Smiling to herself, Alice reflected that Maude was materteral ... like a kindly aunt.

2006, (US), R. D. Chrisman, Cathedral Ledge, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 123:

A materteral lady told me that people come here from the city in search of peace.

2013 October 5, Bee Rowlatt, “Japan's new luxury sleeper train [print edition: Suite surrender on the rails]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Travel), archived from the original on 2013-11-09, page T9:

Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an aunt.


gynoid

She was obviously a skillful surgeon. She expertly cleaned and sterilized the gaping holes in the gynoid’s chest and back.

2000, Thomas J. Sanders, God's Fire, Trafford Publishing, page 58:

Purchased as sex toys, the gynoids are programmed to love and sexually serve male humans; the aberrant violence of one particular model, called "Hadaly," is a mystery to the company that manufactures them. They should not be able to kill humans, nor should they have any desire to commit suicide, since they should have no real sense of self.⁴⁴ Batõ and his new partner, Togusa (who was Kusanagi's partner in the previous film), spend the rest of the film trying to discover how the gynoids have acquired their faulty programming—is it the work of a terrorist hacker, for example, targeting prominent men?

2006, Sharalyn Orbagh, “5: Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis: The Evolution of Body and City in Science Fiction Narratives”, in Steven T. Brown, editor, Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation, Springer, page 99:

She is embodied as a bright blue feminized robot, much like the mechanized gynoids in the classic film Metropolis (1928).

2013, Nickie D. Phillips, Staci Strobl, Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way, New York University Press, page 82:

(science fiction) An android (humanoid robot) in female form.


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nulliparous

(of a woman or female animal) That has never given birth.


gestate

en-verb

gestate (third-person singular simple present gestates, present participle gestating, simple past and past participle gestated)

gestates (present singular third-person)
gestating (participle present)
gestated (participle past)
gestated (past)

In the early 1960s, a study was conducted in which gestating rats were given diets containing the same mineral content of mineral salts or amino acid chelates.

2012, H. DeWayne Ashmead, Amino Acid Chelation in Human and Animal Nutrition, CRC Press, →ISBN:

(intransitive) To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.


bahu

Borrowed from Hindi बहू (bahū) / Urdu بَہُو (bahū), from Sanskrit वधू (vadhū́).

(South Asia) A daughter-in-law or sister-in-law, especially one who lives with her husband's family when married.


bubbe

Borrowed from Yiddish באָבע (bobe, “grandmother”), and then either from a Slavic language or from eastern Middle High German bābe (“old woman”), both from Proto-Slavic *baba (“old woman”) and ultimately imitative of a child’s babbling.

The Bube explained the situation in voluble Yiddish, and made Esther wince again under the impassioned invective on her clumsiness. […] If the family died of starvation, their blood would be upon her grand-daughter's head.

1892, I[srael] Zangwill, “The Sweater”, in Children of the Ghetto […], volume I, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, book I (The Children of the Ghetto), page 34:

I never met my bubbe, my grandma, the source of all my mother's Yiddish proverbs, […]

1987, Linda Barnes, chapter 1, in A Trouble of Fools (A Fawcett Crest Book), New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 1:

I dedicate this book to my late grandparents, Morris and Bala Baellow. My bubbe’s inability to write in English turned out to be a blessing: she pressed me into service as her scribe at an early age.

1992, Steven C. Dubin, “Acknowledgements”, in Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 1994, →ISBN, page x:

Once, when I poked my stick in a bed of brown leaves, I found a shimmery snakeskin. When I showed my bubbe, she said I had found a memory of the snake, and that memories were precious.

1998, Elizabeth Sussman Nassau, “Raisins and Almonds”, in Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Dov Peretz Elkins, editors, Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit, Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications, published 2001, →ISBN, part 5 (Family), page 238:

"I wanna more chocolate, bubbe," said Karl. […] "You heard the bubbe," said Josie. "There isn't any. You act up and cry and I'll give you the back of my hand."

1979 December, Stephen Longstreet, chapter 15, in The Dream Seekers, Los Angeles, Calif.: Pinnacle Books, published January 1981, →ISBN, page 174:


Roussel+UCLAF+486, from Usines Chimiques des Laboratoires Français. From French RU-486. From the codename RU-38486, the 38,486th compound synthesized by Roussel-Uclaf; then shortened to RU-486.


mifepristone

Dutch: mifepriston

French: mifépristone

German: Mifepriston

Italian: mifepristone

Vietnamese: mifepristone

From (a)mi(no)phe(nyl) + pr(opargyl) + ist- (“alteration of (o)est(radiol)”) + -one.

af

Now a year later, as the courts consider the fate of mifepristone and abortion providers gird for the possibility of a miso-only protocol, Cristina says that she’s grateful she was able to end her unwanted pregnancy, although she knows not everyone has access to the same resources […]

2023 July 31, Sara Hutchinson, “Having an Abortion at Home? There’s a Hotline for That”, in Cosmopolitan:

(pharmacology) A steroid medication that inhibits the action of progesterone, typically given orally in combination with misoprostol in early pregnancy to induce abortion.

mifepriston

steroid medication used to induce abortion

-pris-

steroid compound acting on progesterone receptors


city girl

A female inhabitant of a city, or one who prefers city life


Stepford

en-proper noun

Stepford (countable and uncountable, plural Stepfords)

Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway#English

A locality in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX8681).


Rosie

en-noun

Rosie (countable and uncountable, plural Rosies)

[…] continued oppression and exploitation of women in the workplace 50 years after the Rosies entered wartime factories.

2011, Philip C. DiMare, Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, volume 1, page 1087:

(countable, US, informal) A female factory worker during World War II (after the 1942 song Rosie the Riveter).


noblewoman

The King [...] sit at the head of the royal table with his elder warriors and advisers, noblemen and noblewomen.

2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 377:

A woman having a noble rank, especially one belonging to the peerage; a Lady.


luteal phase

The latter part of the menstrual cycle, that occurs after ovulation, in which the corpus luteum secretes progesterone to prepare the endometrium for the implantation of an embryo.


vulvectomy

(surgery) The surgical removal of some or all of the vulva.


vaginectomy

vaginectomy (countable and uncountable, plural vaginectomies)

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(surgery) The surgical removal of all or part of the vagina.


gender-blind

en-adj

gender-blind (comparative more gender-blind, superlative most gender-blind)

more gender-blind (comparative)
most gender-blind (superlative)

From gender + blind, by analogy with color blind (“holding no prejudice based on skin color; not paying attention to skin color”).

I note, however, no universal gender-blind pronoun is recommended. If we all use different third pronouns, they’ll become fourth, fifth, 200th pronouns, and clarity will be lost.

2015 January 30, Gary Nunn, “Is it time we agreed on a gender-neutral singular pronoun?”, in The Guardian:

And Dachs’s decision to have women play some of the male roles, most prominently Kira, is very effective. / Gender-blind casting is, of course, not uncommon in Japanese theater, and Dachs herself is a former member of that country’s all-female Takarazuka Revue company […].

2022 October 24, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Chushingura — 47 Ronin’ Review: A Sprawling Tale of Loyalty”, in The New York Times:

Having the quality of ignoring gender, such as organizations that accept and/or house people together without discriminating on the basis of gender.


tuboplasty

(surgery) Surgery to repair one or both of the Fallopian tubes.


damsel in distress

en-noun

damsel in distress (plural damsels in distress)

Calque of French demoiselle en détresse, from the classic theme in many dramatic forms.

I am not a pretty girl / That is not what I do / I ain't no damsel in distress / And I don't need to be rescued

1995, Ani DiFranco (lyrics and music), “Not a Pretty Girl”, in Not a Pretty Girl:

The damsel-in-distress archetype probably conjures up images of delicate maidens and chivalrous gentlemen. That is precisely what it is designed to do — for white people.

2020 May 27, Ruby Hamad, “A White Damsel Leveraged Racial Power and Failed”, in New York Times:

A young woman perceived as being helpless in a dangerous situation and requiring rescue.

فَتَاة فِي مِحْنَة

young woman perceived as being in a dangerous situation.


eat for two

en-verb

eat for two (third-person singular simple present eats for two, present participle eating for two, simple past ate for two, past participle eaten for two)

eats for two (present singular third-person)
eating for two (participle present)
ate for two (past)
eaten for two (participle past)

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blacktress

[…] this literary/arts center presents Manifesto Night, with readings by such notable playwrights, poets, teachers, and blacktresses as John Baldessari, Max Benevidez, Pam Gregg, Sue Spaid, David Schweizer, and Ms. Vaginal Creme Davis.

(slang, film, rare) An African American woman who is a pioneer of the film industry.


papergirl

Our current papergirl does a nicely consistent job of throwing the paper onto the porch. Our old papergirl sometimes would fling it into the bushes!

A girl who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.


chairwoman

1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland
At a Reform dinner which took place in 1832, the united ages of three women, including the chairwoman, amounted to 264.


girl band

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A pop group or rock band made up solely of young women.


adjudicatrix

She hastened to the Committee of Public Safety, coming out of a notary’s office whither she had gone as adjudicatrix of a dry-goods establishment…

1920: J.-G. Prod’homme & Theodore Baker, The Musical Quarterly, Volume №6, Issue №3 — The Baron de Trémont: Souvenirs of Beethoven and Other Contemporaries, somewhere between pp366 & 391

♂: Noble Star (GB) b. M, 1927:
♂: Hapsburg (GB) br. M, 1911…
♀: Hesper (GB) gr. F, 1923…
♀: Judica (GB) F, 1937:
♂: Easton (FR) b. M, 1931…
♀: Judith (GB) ch. F, 1929…

1946: Pedigree Online: Thoroughbred Database, Adjudicatrix Horse Pedigree, two generations Adjudicatrix (GB) b. F, 1946

The claimant will answer the Adjudicatrix’s question. Those who do not comply with the commission are subject to standard punishment number one.

2000, “Procurer”, in LEXX: Tunnels, Episode №31, Season №3:

2002: Anor — The Standing Stones Campaign, Canticus Tredecem Bracchiorum — Hymn of the Thirteen Ringstones, 1ˢᵗ ringstone
Portans ascensus Legis, sunt Tredecem Bracchi Arbitris — Bearing the Ascendence of Law, these are the 13 Arms of the Adjudicatrix

A woman or girl who adjudicates; a female adjudicator.


childbearing

en-noun

childbearing (usually uncountable, plural childbearings)

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From Middle English childberyng, childbering, chyldberynge, child berynge. By surface analysis, child + bearing.

From the Swedish returns (1776-1855) it appears that 100 childbearings produced 101.62 children, viz., 2.82 stillborn, 98.80 quickborn; consequently 100 quickborn children imply 101.21 childbearings.

1865, Great Britain. General Register Office, Annual Report ... of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England and Wales ..., volumes 26–30, page 243:

The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition.


puerperium

Borrowed from Latin puerperium (“childbed, childbirth”), from puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”) + -ium (nominal suffix), from puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).

af

As exciting causes, psychic traumata, exposure to cold, the puerperium, excesses, have been brought forward.

1921, Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen, A Textbook of Nervous Diseases: For Students and Practicing Physicians; In Thirty Lectures, page 84:

(obstetrics) The period of time lasting around a month immediately following childbirth, when the mother’s uterus shrinks back to its prepartum state.


phallocentrism

en-noun

phallocentrism (usually uncountable, plural phallocentrisms)


phallogocentrism

phallogocentrism (usually uncountable, plural phallogocentrisms)

/fəˌlɒɡəˈsɛntɹɪzm̩/

From French phallogocentrisme (coined by Derrida), corresponding to phallo- + logocentrism.

The task of this enquiry is to center on – and decenter – such defining institutions: phallogocentrism and compulsory heterosexuality.

1990, Judith Butler, 1990 Preface to Gender Trouble

(poststructuralist theory) The privileging of masculinity in the use of speech, writing or modes of thought; phallocentrism expressed through language.


clergywoman

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An ordained (female) Christian minister; a female member of the clergy.

女牧師 /女牧师

ordained (female) Christian minister, female member of the clergy


phallogocentric

en-adj

phallogocentric (comparative more phallogocentric, superlative most phallogocentric)

more phallogocentric (comparative)
most phallogocentric (superlative)

Blend of phallocentric + logocentric. By surface analysis, phallus + logo- + centric.

surf

Philosophers of language may wonder whether Latin was a phallogocentric language because of its use of gender to refer to non-gendered things such as water.

We men, at least in our standard phallogocentric mode of sexuality, even when we are doing it with the real women, we are effectively doing it with our fantasy.

2006, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Slavoj Žižek (actor):


pump and dump

en-noun

pump and dump (countable and uncountable, plural pump and dumps)

"She's the one who wants a quick fuck. I need more than that – not a wedding ring – but she's already been with two other guys this week. In this day and age? No way."
"I don't blame you. I gave up the ol' pump and dump recently myself."

2000, Randy Boyd, Bridge Across the Ocean, West Beach Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 80:

Getting a Taurus female into bed a second time is much easier than doing the same to her male counterpart: Taurus females are less lazy and stubborn and they view sexuality as more of a give-and-take than their pump-and-dump brethren.

2001, Stuart Hazleton, Sexscopes: How to Seduce, Stimulate, and Satisfy Any Sign, Fireside, published 2001, →ISBN, page 47:

I am tired of the pump-and-dump lifestyle, so please help me stop acting like a slut.

2009, Lisa Daily, How to Date Like a Grown-Up: Everything You Need to Know to Get Out There, Get Lucky, or Even Get Married in Your 40s, 50s, and Beyond, Sourcebooks Casablanca, published 2009, →ISBN, page 153:

(slang) A situation where a person has sex with a partner on a single occasion, without immediate intention of further contact or pursuing a serious relationship.


alley cat

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(figurative, humorous) A sexually promiscuous person, especially a woman.


morning sickness

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(medicine) Early morning nausea and vomiting as a symptom of pregnancy.


premenstrual

en-adj

premenstrual (comparative more premenstrual, superlative most premenstrual)

more premenstrual (comparative)
most premenstrual (superlative)

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Occurring in the time period during the menstrual cycle leading up to the beginning of menstruation.

premenstruační

occurring in the time period during the menstrual cycle

Relating to the time period in a girl's life prior to her first experience of menstruation; prepubescent.


skivvy

And then Somerset looked at the boys′ skivvy, and saw a well set up young woman with a red round face, an angry face just then but underneath the anger a pleasant one.

1974, Simon Raven, Bring Forth the Body: Alms for Oblivion, volume 3, published 2012, page 194:

2002, Krzysztof Miklaszewski, George M. Hyde (translator, editor), Encounters with Tadeusz Kantor, page 143,
The common skivvy from the mortuary clings immoveably to the priest′s bed, which is just as immoveably guarded by the grandmother, who drives her off with a chamberpot. The skivvy is the photographer′s widow, trying to take a picture.

“[…]Yes, that was Mac′s Restaurant and I was a kitchen skivvy there, but amazingly, a kitchen skivvy who had actually written a poem. Oh it′s all a very long time ago, Theresa, and so much has happened since then.”

2005, Jenny Telfer Chaplin, The Widow of Candleriggs, unnumbered page:

(dated) A female domestic servant, especially one employed for menial work.


business girl

For quotations using this term, see Citations:business girl.

(idiomatic, euphemistic) A female prostitute.


sempstress

Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages 107–108:

I am sure he might pick and choose amongst the best dowried dowagers in England; and, instead of making any thing of himself, he has actually been all the way to Granard Park to look at his wife's picture, and make his bow to all the people who knew him, as "Manuello, the emigrant Italian," hunting up his sempstress and washerwoman, to make their old age comfortable, and talking religion with paralytic vicars and learned curates.

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 301–302:

This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.

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

They were composed of a heterogeneous collection of men and women of the lower layers of society, workmen, sempstresses, night watchmen, farm-hands, mechanics and railway-workers – a laic image in sharp contrast to the bourgeois image produced in the cathedral.

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 950:


amenorrhoeic

/eɪˌmɛnəˈɹiːɪk/


amenorrhoea

en-noun

amenorrhoea (usually uncountable, plural amenorrhoeae or amenorrhoeas)

amenorrhoeae (plural)
amenorrhoeas (plural)

/əˌmɛnəˈɹiːə/

/ˌeɪmɛnəˈɹiːə/

Via New Latin from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + μήν (mḗn, “month”) + -ροια (-roia, “flowing”).

af

(medicine) Absence of menstrual discharge.


dreamgirl

/ˈdɹiːmɡɜːl/

Coordinate term: dreamboy

The daughter of an Irish bricklayer became the American ideal: the dreamgirl of young, upward-bound males who yearned for the finer things of life

1989, Joseph M. Curran, Hibernian Green on the Silver Screen:

(informal) One's ideal vision of a female companion.


farmgirl

you can take the girl off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the girl

A girl or young woman who works on a farm, especially one who is growing up there as a child of the farmer.


janitress

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enchantress

/ɪnˈt͡ʃæntɹɪs/

/ɛnˈt͡ʃæntɹɪs/

/ɪnˈtʃɑːntɹɪs/

/ɛnˈtʃɑːntɹɪs/

From Middle English enchaunteresse, from Old French enchanteresse; equivalent to enchanter + -ess.

His desire for that enchantress led him to financial ruin.


in vitro fertilization

en-noun

in vitro fertilization (countable and uncountable, plural in vitro fertilizations)

(medicine) The fertilization of an ovum by sperm outside of a woman's body; normally used as a treatment for infertility.

體外人工受精 /体外人工受精

(medicine) the fertilization of an egg by sperm outside of a woman's body


artificial insemination

(biology, medicine) The introduction of semen into the uterus or cervix of a female by a means other than copulation.

иску́сственное оплодотворе́ние n (iskússtvennoje oplodotvorénije, literally “artificial fertilization”)


menorrhagia

menorrhagia (countable and uncountable, plural menorrhagias)

/ˌmɛnɔːˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪə/

metrorrhagia

abnormal uterine bleeding at irregular intervals

colporrhagia

bleeding per vaginam with vaginal source

Excessive menstrual flow but regularly timed.


busgirl

(US) A female busser; one who clears plates from and cleans tables; one who buses.


hysterosalpingography

hysterosalpingography (countable and uncountable, plural hysterosalpingographies)

(medicine) X-ray examination of the uterus and oviducts following injection of a radiopaque substance.


hysteroscopy

(medicine) The examination of the uterus using a hysteroscope.


charlady

"Then we'll move." And Peter, watching the car resignedly from the window, saw the American grip his seat with both hands, and then raise them suddenly in silent prayer, while an elderly charlady fled with a scream to the safety of the area below.

1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, “In Which He Has a Near Shave”, in Bulld-dog Drummond:

MOST of the charladies to be met with in novels and plays are comic characters. […] This ridicule of a whole class does not mean that novelists and dramatists hate charladies, but only that the novelist and dramatist is never quite master of his own book or his own play.

1949, Frank Swinnerton, “Charladies”, in Tokefield Papers, Old and New, page 163:

He is shown choking back tears as he discovers that his great, great, great grandmother was a charlady in Scotland who died in her thirties of tuberculosis and exhaustion.

2005 December 8, Owen Gibson, “Past lives bring Paxman to tears”, in The Guardian:

(chiefly archaic or historical) A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation.


Frenchie

“Kiss me,” she said.
He heard a giggle from Molly.
“Give her a Frenchie,” Solly said.

2014, J. David Simons, The Credit Draper:


gyno-

From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, female”).

derived

Of or pertaining to the female reproductive system.


grandniece

Then come […] the Duchess’s grandnieces Zwile and her little sister Gloria.

2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 209:

A granddaughter of one's sibling; a daughter of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's granddaughter: fraternal grandniece. Sister's granddaughter: sororal grandniece.)


fangirl

Coordinate term: fanboy

It's often an all or nothing world for the fangirl who has yet to learn to bridle the imagination. She is notorious for being incapable of passively enjoying stories.

2016, Kathleen Smith, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal, Penguin, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) A female fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media).


supermom

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Coordinate term: superdad

(US, informal) A mother who looks after her home and children whilst being in full-time employment.


superwoman

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From super- + woman.
From 1943's Superwoman, published by DC Comics in 1943.

(informal) A woman who looks after a home and children as well as being employed in a full-time job.


enfantement

"Which? She's expecting a second enfantement, you know, immediately...Oh, she's such a quick puss."

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 112


taskmistress

Not only under the laſh of my taſk-miſtreſs, but the drudge of the maid, apprentices and children, I never had a taſte of human kindneſs to ſoften the rigour of perpetual labour.

1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter V, page 87:

A woman who assigns tasks; a female overseer.


maestra

From Italian maestra, female form of maestro.

“That is fair,” we say of a rhymed page that sounds as if it might have been indited to the fair Caroline and she only. But the maestra curls her lip contemptuously and utters “umph! Pope!” We are shy of gems. If, therefore, we attribute to Moore what rightly belongs to the scribe here recorded, may his shade forgive us, and appreciate the compliment./[…]/ “The interesting feature of the book,” said the maestra, “is its ministerial records. Do you notice what an assembly of the saints is there represented?”

1872, “Editorial Department”, “Album Literature”, in The Ladies’ Repository, a Universalist Monthly Magazine for the Home Circle, volume XLVII, Boston: The Universalist Publishing House, page 392, column 1:

Four o’clock struck, and I and my young companions were setting out when the maestra stopped us. “Where are you going?” she said; “to hear a sermon? These girls must not go without leave.”[…]The manager used to watch as she passed with her Bible in her hand, and tell her that she must never bring that book to the factory. She told him she had a right to bring her Bible to read in the intervals of her work, and she would do it, come what might. The maestra used to tell her that she would turn her out if she ever brought a book or tract with her; but Antonia conciliated her with little attentions, and now the woman has actually bought a New Testament for herself.

1874 May 1, “Bible Visits in Madrid”, in L. N. R., editor, The Missing Link Magazine, or Bible Work at Home and Abroad, volume X, London: The Book Society, page 142:

The central boys’ school has three native masters and the central girls’ school has two maestras.

1901, Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War, page 551:

Her tears fell upon the cold floor she’d found herself dancing upon for several years now. Maestra has forced Katya to do the same taxing routine fourteen times since 7 am.

2024, Carter Enslein, “Цикл (Cycle)”, in Joey Knizner, editor, Expressions: St. Xavier High School Literary and Fine Arts Journal, number 59, Cincinnati, Oh.: St. Xavier High School, page 42:


breastfeeding

en-noun

breastfeeding (countable and uncountable, plural breastfeedings)

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nursing

terms applicable to any mammals (including quadrupeds and whales)

(countable) An instance (session) of such feeding activity.


right-hand woman

right-hand woman (plural right-hand women)

Magnussen is as cartoonish as his character while there are small, sparky opportunities for Patti Harrison as Hazel’s old friend and Noma Dumezweni as Byron’s right-hand woman, that are hopefully expanded in future episodes.

2021 March 31, Benjamin Lee, “Made for Love review – Black Mirror-esque comedy needs an upgrade”, in The Guardian:


girl Friday

girl Friday (plural girl Fridays or girls Friday)

girl Fridays (plural)
girls Friday (plural)

By extension from man Friday, from the character Friday in Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe
Friday (Robinson Crusoe)
Robinson Crusoe


lochia

Learned borrowing from Latin lochia, from Ancient Greek λοχεία (lokheía), neuter plural of λοχείος (lokheíos, “of childbirth”), from λόχος (lókhos, “childbirth”).

In April 1819, I attended a young married lady in her first pregnancy, in whose case the lochia began to diminish on the seventh day after parturition, [...]

1822, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal:

Variations in the quantity, quality, or odour of the lochia not unnaturally excite great alarm in the mind of the patient, who regards any deviation in this secretion as a proof of serious disease. Yet very remarkable differences do occur, without any morbid affection of the uterus or vagina.

1866, Fleetwood Churchill, On the theory and practice of midwifery:

In three or four days the distinctly bloody character of the lochia is altered. They have a reddish watery appearance, and are known as the lochia rubra or cruenta [...]

1884, William Smoult Playfair, A Treatise on the Science and Practice of Midwifery, volume II (fifth edition), part III, chapter IX:

1921, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, published by the American Gynecological Society
On the fifth day the coryza, cough and rash were all improved, but the patient was irrational; the lochia were thin, watery and odorless; …

1924: The Canadian nurse, published by the Canadian Nurses' Association
Check lochia and change sterile pad. If the patient's pulse is under 90, the fundus is firm and the lochia is normal, the patient may be left at the end ...

1927, The Indian Veterinary Journal, published by the Indian Veterinary Association
In one Magra ewe which gave birth to twins, lochia continued for 8 days …

1946: Nicholson Joseph Eastman and Emil Novak, Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey
By the fifth day, however, the lochia was normal in most of the patients and in only 4 patients was it heavy.

For the first three or four days after delivery the lochia are red; [...] three different types of lochia are distinguished: ‘lochia rubra’ or ‘red lochia’, ‘lochia serosa’ ‘serous lochia’, which appears five to six days after delivery, and ‘lochia alba’ meaning ‘white lochia’, the final lochial discharge [...]

1998, Giovanni Maciocia, Obstetrics & Gynecology in Chinese Medicine, page 609:

Normal post-partum vaginal discharge; blood, mucus, and placental tissue that are discharged from a female's vagina (similar to menstruation) for several weeks after she has given birth.


futz

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Janet gets on my nerves. She's a dumb futz, ain't she?

(vulgar, colloquial, dialectal, derogatory) An objectionable woman.


futz

en-verb

futz (third-person singular simple present futzes, present participle futzing, simple past and past participle futzed)

futzes (present singular third-person)
futzing (participle present)
futzed (participle past)
futzed (past)

From German herumfurzen (literally “to fart around”) (herum- + furzen), perhaps via Yiddish אַרומפֿאַרצן (arumfartsn); alternatively, a euphemism for fuck.

der

אַרומפֿאַרצן

I am nobody to futz around with when I know myself to be four hundred per cent in the right.

(Northern US) To be frivolous and waste time.


comfort woman

Calque from Japanese 慰(い)安(あん)婦(ふ) (ianfu).

She carefully watches the efforts of Koreans who are suing Japan to get reparations for the comfort women. It was only in 1993 that Japan formally recognized its involvement in the forced prostitution.

1995 September 10, Jane H. Lii, “The Memories of a Comfort Woman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(idiomatic, historical, euphemistic) A woman forced, or supposedly recruited, into brothels by the Japanese occupation forces before or during World War II.


comfort girl

(idiomatic, euphemistic) A female sex slave; prostitute.


daughterling

BLOSSOM of the almond-trees, • April's gift to April's bees, Birthday ornament of spring, Flora's fairest daughterling; — [...]

2003, William Patten, Poems Old and New:

Would I have my vanished sight once more I Tell me, daughterling, how looks this promised land towards which we have been journeying these months and years?

2004, Flora Annie Webster Steel, Dramatic History of India:

(diminutive, endearing) A daughter, especially a young or precious one.


due date

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The date on which a pregnant woman is expected to give birth.


memaw

en-verb

memaw (third-person singular simple present memaws, present participle memawing, simple past and past participle memawed)

memaws (present singular third-person)
memawing (participle present)
memawed (participle past)
memawed (past)


demimondaine

However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:

A sexually promiscuous woman (of the demimonde).


direct maternal death

en-noun

direct maternal death (plural direct maternal deaths)

A maternal death resulting from a complication of the pregnancy or delivery, or their management.


indirect maternal death

indirect maternal death (plural indirect maternal deaths)

A pregnancy-related death in a female patient with a preexisting or newly developed health problem.


cousin sister

Late in 1997 the entire family returned to India to arrange the marriages of Nimrat's brothers and cousin-sister.

2006, Nicola Mooney, “Aspiration, reunification and gender transformation in Jat Sikh marriages from India to Canada”, in Global Networks, volume 6, number 4, page 394:

Welfare Ministry Secretary Upali Dahanayake, his elderly father, daughter, and a cousin sister died on the spot in a tragic accident in Mahiyangana yesterday.

2007 July 2, Kurulu Kariyakarawana, Yohan Perera, “Ministry secretary, three others killed in road accident”, in Daily Mirror e-edition, Sri Lanka, page 1:


abortuary

/əˈbɔɹt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/

/əˈbɔːt͡ʃʊəɹi/

/əˈbɔːt͡ʃwəɹi/

(slang, anti-abortion, derogatory) A place where abortions are performed.


women's libber

Shortened form of women's liberation + -er

(derogatory) A member or supporters of the women's liberation movement; a feminist


proprietress

In addition, the proprietress is a Nazi. We barely escaped with our lives.

1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 3, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 55:


pro-lifer

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A person with pro-life views, or who advocates such policies


pro-choicer

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A person with pro-choice views, or who advocates such policies.


playgirl

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/ˈpleɪˌɡɜːl/

The female counterpart to a playboy: a woman, specially a wealthy one, who devotes herself to a life of leisure and pleasure, often sexual, without commitments or responsibilities.


primipara

primipara (plural primiparas or primiparae)

/ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/

/ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpɹə/

/pɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/

Borrowed from Latin prīmipara (“pregnant for the first time; having given birth to only one offspring; primiparous”), from prīmus (“first”) + parere (from pariō (“to bear, give birth to; to beget, produce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth”)). The word is cognate with French primipare.

der

(obstetrics, veterinary medicine) A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy.

първескиня

woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy — see also primigravida

(obstetrics, veterinary medicine, specifically) A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.

primipara

woman or female animal that has carried a pregnancy to a viable gestational age


postpartum depression

en-noun

postpartum depression (countable and uncountable, plural postpartum depressions)

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Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.

1999, Ridha Arem, The Thyroid Solution, →ISBN, page 216:

(psychiatry) Depression experienced by a parent, usually the mother, after childbirth.


contadina

contadina (plural contadinas or contadine)

The mellowest lamplight and the easiest chair had been placed at his disposal by Baptiste—subtlest of servants; the novel half uncut, the novel lemon-coloured and tender, with the ivory knife athwart it like a dagger in a contadina's hair, had been pushed within the soft circle—a circle which, for some reason, affected Strether as softer still after the same Baptiste had remarked that, in the absence of a further need of anything by Monsieur, he would betake himself to bed.


feticide

feticide (countable and uncountable, plural feticides)

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From fetus + -cide or fetus + -icide, from Middle French -cide, from Latin -cīda (“cutter, killer”) and its derivation -cīdium (“killing”), from -cīd (combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”, forming agent nouns).

Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh.

2002, Daniel Schiff, Abortion in Judaism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 68:

Notwithstanding the earnest opposition of writers and lecturers and preachers and legislators, the practice of feticide appears to be on the increase.

1878, H. Gibbons, "On Feticide" in Transactions of the Session of the Medical Society of the State of California vol. 8; J. Anthony & Co., Printers; page 209

(dysphemistic) The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion.


gammer

If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail
Will sing in sorrow, 'neath the brinded cow,
And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale […]

1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX:


babcia

These cakes are from family recipes, from great-grandmothers and babcias, from kitchens as far apart as Knoxville, Tennessee, and Warsaw, Poland.

2001, Whispers from Heaven for the Christmas Spirit, Publications International, Ltd., →ISBN, page 273:

I visited my babcia Lottie Korosz in Hunlock Gardens and all the relatives on my mother’s side of the family. My babcia Jadwiga Gobolewski died while I was still in Washington, but my grandfather Wiktor greeted me warmly in Glen Lyon.

2008, Gene Gomolka, Coal Cracker’s Son, Xlibris, page 191:

My babcia would only stare morosely at photographs of my father’s father, showing me the black and white albums, their youth in Poland, the countryside, the funny dress, the world outside a world outside a world of memories and lost hopes.

2010, Jaap Stijl, Pacing the Bird, Greenwinter Press, →ISBN, page 9:

But there’s no question she’s brought Polish food back to the neighborhood—the menu features potato pierogi, golabki, borscht, kielbasa, and a few items you probably wouldn’t recognize if you didn’t grow up with a babcia cooking for you.

2010 January 14, Mike Sula, “Not Your Babcia’s Pierogi”, in Chicago Reader:

However, with the increased geographic mobility in Poland after 1989, and the greater push to look for jobs in other cities, fewer relatives are on hand to provide child care. Women who had babcias considered themselves lucky.

2015, Joanna Mishtal, The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland (Polish and Polish-American Studies Series), Ohio University Press, →ISBN:

The Germans were “kind” to some families in Poland, too. Just not us. What difference did it make if you were kind to some, if you were beating and stealing others’ mothers and babcias? I suddenly understood more than my father did.

2019, Rachel DeWoskin, Someday We Will Fly, Viking, →ISBN, page 49:

My babcia was hired to attend funerals and weep for those who had few friends or family members.

2021, Creating Inclusive Writing Environments in the K-12 Classroom: Reluctance, Resistance, and Strategies that Make a Difference, Routledge:


newsgirl

A newsgirl passed by, yelling, "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"

A girl who sells and/or delivers newspapers.


newswoman

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break water

en-verb

break water (third-person singular simple present breaks water, present participle breaking water, simple past broke water, past participle broken water)

breaks water (present singular third-person)
breaking water (participle present)
broke water (past)
broken water (participle past)

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To lose one's amniotic fluid a.k.a. water, usually during the last phases of pregnancy.


puerpera

en-noun

puerpera (plural puerperas or puerperae)

Borrowed from Latin puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”), substantive of puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).

af

I saw a very serious hemorrhage result from relaxation of the uterus on the eleventh day when the puerpera had been frightened by a domestic quarrel.

1918, Joseph Bolivar De Lee, Principles and practice of obstetrics, page 813:

Since one of the principal reasons for keeping the puerpera in a recumbent posture is avoidance of strain upon relaxed and weakened supporting structures by a large heavy uterus, the length of the stay in bed is not made a matter of routine

1934, Karl Mathias Beierlein, Pamphlets and Reprints, page 350:

A statistically significant circadian rhythm for urine volume was revealed in 6 of 10 pregnant women in the first trimester and in 6 of 9 puerperas on the 7th puerperal day.

1984, Erhard Haus, Hugh F. Kabat, editors, Chronobiology 1982-1983:

Abdominal ultrasound of the puerpera usually does not require a full bladder, because the enlarged uterus directly abuts the anterior abdominal wall and can be scanned without difficulty.

2011, Eberhard Merz, “Ultrasound in the Puerperium”, in Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, volume 1, page 39:

(obstetrics) A woman undergoing puerperium; a woman whose uterus is still enlarged from pregnancy.

An often proved Remedy to bring away what is, or should not be left in the Womb of a Puerpera, though it were Part of a dead Child.

1731, Robert Boyle, Medicinal experiments, volume 3, page 6:

"I must acknowledge, if Kolletschka's disease and the disease from which I saw so many puerperae die, are identical, then in the puerperae it must be produced by the self-same engendering cause, which produced it in Kolletschka."

1860, Henry E. Brady, David Collier, quoting Ignaz Semmelweis, Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 224:

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

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

With the exception of the very nearest, — for instance, the husband and the mother of the puerpera, — visitors should be kept away until she has been out of bed for a few days, and even then admitted only in small numbers and one at a time.

1907, Henry Jacques Garrigues, A Text-book of the science and art of obstetrics, page 243:

(rare) A woman who has recently given birth.


daughter of the manse

en-noun

daughter of the manse (plural daughters of the manse)


right-to-lifer

One who espouses a position of support for fetuses' right to life; a pro-lifer; one who opposed abortion.


menstruous

From Anglo-Norman menstruus, Middle French menstrueus, and their source, Late Latin menstruosus (“menstruating”), from Latin mēnstruum.

There shall be a confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruous women shall bring forth monsters:

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Esdras 5:8:

Foolish, drunken, or hairbrain women most part bring forth children like unto themslves, morosus et languidos, and so likewise he that lies with a menstruous woman.

(of a female) Currently undergoing menstruation.


grandmamma

She is staying here on a visit to her grandmamma and aunt, very worthy people; […]

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 92:

“Your grandmama is going to be so impressed by this beautiful, loving family, and beautiful, loving families take boat trips together.” “Do they, though?” “Well, the boat salesman said yes.”

2024 November 10, Zac Oyama, “National Lampoon's The Odyssey!” (1:56 from the start), in Krapopolis, season 2, episode 6, spoken by Shlub (Matt Berry):


venter

Borrowing from Latin venter (“the belly; the womb; a swelling”).

bor

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(biology) A protuberant, usually hollow structure, notably:

(botany) The swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops.


gynocracy

en-noun

gynocracy (countable and uncountable, plural gynocracies)

(government, sociology) Synonym of gynecocracy


mamaw

Probably an affectionate alteration of mama or reduplication of mother.

(US, dialect, Southern US) One's grandmother, especially one's maternal grandmother.


sarong party girl

sarong party girl (plural sarong party girls)

(Singapore, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Asian girl who dates a non-Asian, especially a white expatriate.


abortogenic

en-adj

abortogenic (comparative more abortogenic, superlative most abortogenic)

more abortogenic (comparative)
most abortogenic (superlative)

/əˈbɔɹ.təˌd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/


administratrix

en-noun

administratrix (plural administratrices or administratrixes)

administratrices (plural)
administratrixes (plural)

The Princess Sophia was named in the act of settlement […] not for her merits as a temporary administratrix of a power, which she might not, and in fact did not, herself ever exercise.

1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 24:


abortee

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

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aborter

[…] these findings are consistent with other studies which have shown that most aborters tend to be highly informed about contraceptives but failed to use them at the time they became pregnant.

1992, D. C. Reardon, chapter 1, in Life Stories, Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books, page 8:

One who or that which aborts.
(derogatory) One who has an abortion.

One who or that which aborts.
One who has an abortion.

But when is one an accomplice? Is a thief the accomplice of his receiver, a briber the accomplice of the official he corrupts […] an abortee the accomplice of the aborter […]?

1963, Richard H. Kuh, “A Prosecutor Considers the Model Penal Code”, in Columbia Law Review, 63.4, p. 616:


fisherwoman

/ˈfɪʃəˌwʊmən/

The fisherwoman cast her line.

She is a fisherwoman, out on a trawler for days at a time.

“My parents were fishermen.” He turned to me and smiled, “Shall I call my mother a fisherwoman? Does that suit you?”

2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 139:

A woman whose profession is catching fish.


paternity leave

paternity leave (usually uncountable, plural paternity leaves)

From paternity + leave, modelled after maternity leave.

My husband is on a three-month paternity leave while he looks after our newborn baby and I’m working abroad.

A leave of absence from a job for a father to care of a baby.


stepmom

Susan Sasse of Chesapeake City, Md., vice president of the International Stepfamily Association, a nonprofit group, said: "What I hear from new stepmoms all the time, especially with older kids, is, 'They just hate me. They don't want to give me a chance. They think I'm taking their dad.'"

2000 August 17, Tamar Lewin, “Differences Found in Care With Stepmothers”, in The New York Times:

The Papster, my stepmom, her sister Angela the psychoanalyst, and Angela's husband Eric the kazillionaire were strolling along the canal.

Now that I’m a stepmom legally, I would argue that it’s a wonderful role: You learn how to parent with your partner before the stress of a newborn comes into the mix.

2020 April 16, Chloe Caldwell, “I Always Wanted to Be a Stepmom”, in The New York Times:

A few years later when Doug and I got married, Cole, Ella, and I agreed that we didn’t like the term “stepmom.” Instead they came up with the name “Momala.”

2024 July 21, Kamala Harris, “Kamala Harris on Being ‘Momala’”, in ELLE:


dyke

Dyke (slang)
Green's Dictionary of Slang
dyke

Uncertain. Attested since the 1940s (in Berrey and Van den Bark’s 1942 American Thesaurus of Slang) or 30s. Semantic development from dyke (“ditch”) has been proposed, and some sources from the 1890s are said to record dyke as slang for "vulva" and hedge of the dyke as slang for "pubic hair", but Green's Dictionary of Slang says this is not found in connection to lesbianism and Dictionary.com considers a connection unlikely.
Bull dyke / bulldike is attested earlier, in reference to women since at least the 1920s (the 29 July 1892 Decatur Daily Review in Illinois mentions a woman who "won the affections of Harvey Neal, alias 'Bulldyke'", whose gender is unclear); compare dike (“noun: well-dressed man; verb: be well dressed”)), bulldyker, and bulldyking, which are all attested earlier than bare dyke, e.g. in Parke's 1906 Human Sexuality, in the speech of Philadelphians, and backcountry black Americans. Compare bulldagger, attested since around the same time and used especially by black women.
Other linguists suggested that bull dyke(r) referred to strong black women who dug dikes, or derived from bull + dick, perhaps in reference to black men. It has also been suggested dyke is a shortening of morphodyke, from morphodite, from hermaphrodite, but the derivation may go in the other direction instead, with morphodyke being a blend of morphodite with the already-extant word dyke.

(slang, usually derogatory, offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.


progestin

progestin (countable and uncountable, plural progestins)

(chemistry) A synthetic progestagen intended to mimic the effects of progesterone, often for contraceptive purposes.


abstinence only

Programs have been developed that either advocate abstinence only […] or abstinence-plus […].

2002, Marysol Asencio, Sex and Sexuality Among New York's Puerto Rican Youth, page 149:

Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas specify the teaching of abstinence only until marriage.

2002, Larry D. Burlew, Dave Capuzzi, Sexuality Counseling, page 75:

Not only was the federal government encouraging abstinence only; […].

2003, Judith Levine, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, page 101:

[…] directly to organizations that teach abstinence only without going through the states.

2006, David Cooper, Broken America, page 182:

sexually transmitted diseases
sexually transmitted diseases

A form of sex education that advocates only abstinence as a means to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.


obasan

"This woman really my aunt, my obasan, but I call her my grandmother, obaasan.[…]"

1985, Kenneth Fenter, Mo Ichido, Once More: An American Family in Japan, the Second Year, Cross Cultural Press, →ISBN, page 25:

In the novel [Obasan] Naomi stands between two obasans, the one of the title, her great-aunt, the other aunt Emily, her mother’s sister.

1992, Wilhelm G. Busse, editor, Anglistentag 1991 Dusseldorf: Proceedings, Max Niemeyer Verlag, page 380:

When Naomi’s uncle dies, Naomi travels home to her obasan, where she is newly confronted with questions about her mother’s inexplicable and permanent disappearance before the war when Naomi was still a small child.

2003, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, volume 24, page 139:

She forced her thoughts into it, thought hard about the sakura viewing festivals and her obasan’s beloved samisen as she sang traditional songs under the cherry blossom trees.

2014, Julia Rios, Alisa Krasnostein, editors, Year’s Best: Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013, Twelfth Planet Press, →ISBN:

I see my best friends, Walter Okura and Alvin Wakayama, with their obasans and moms visiting the very spot where Buddha attained Enlightenment.

2020, R.K. Lindsey, Jr., Waimea I Ka La’i, iUniverse, →ISBN:

After more than three months of staying with her obasan and ojisan, she could finally go home.

2021, Wesley Leon Aroozoo, chapter 20, in The Punkhawala and the Prostitute, Epigram Books, →ISBN:


flower girl

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unprotected sex

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Sexual intercourse without protection from pregnancy; non-use of birth control.


directress

And now a maiden […] ſupplied them, next, / With a reſplendent table, which the chaſte / Directreſs of the ſtores furniſh'd with bread / And dainties, remnants of the laſt regale.

1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book I.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 9, lines 172 and 174–177:


baby bump

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(informal) Visible signs of pregnancy, noticeable abdominal swelling in a pregnant woman.


sky girl

(aviation, dated, now offensive) A female flight attendant.


stepniece

(rare) The daughter of one's stepbrother or stepsister

(rare) The stepdaughter of one's sibling


vaginal birth

vaginal birth (countable and uncountable, plural vaginal births)

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Birth via the vagina (as opposed to caesarean section).


gravidity

gravidity (countable and uncountable, plural gravidities)


father-to-be

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A male partner of a pregnant woman (mother-to-be), especially when she is pregnant for the first time.


rhythm method

A method of natural birth control that involves counting days of a woman's menstrual cycle in order to determine when sexual intercourse is most or least likely to result in pregnancy.


calendar method

A rhythm method of natural birth control.


demirep

he had no knowledge of that character which is vulgarly called a demirep; that is to say, a woman who intrigues with every man she likes, under the name and appearance of virtue [...] in short, whom everybody knows to be what nobody calls her.

1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 569:

Madam by this Time Lady Brittle is the Talk of half the Town—and I doubt not in a week the Men will toast her as a Demirep.

1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i:

[…] in short, this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal prince, was a violator of his word, a libertine, over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps […] .

1813, Leigh Hunt, in a journal article about the prince.(Chambers, R.. "'The Book of Days': A miscellany of popular antiquities. Londres: W & R Chambers, 1832." Google Books)

[…] the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers […].

1822, Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:

With the mincing step of a demirep / Some sidled up the stairs […].

1904, Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol:

In this new world, ruled by charlatans and dominated by demireps, Talleyrand may have found much to shock his sense of decorum, but little to outrage his moral standards.

1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 65:

(colloquial, dated) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.


crown princess

crown princess (plural crown princesses)


breast pump

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A device used by a lactating woman to extract milk from her breasts (typically for short-term storage).


childbed

childbed (countable and uncountable, plural childbeds)

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From Middle English child bed; equivalent to child + bed.

(uncountable) The final stage of pregnancy; confinement.


chorionic villus sampling

chorionic villus sampling (countable and uncountable, plural chorionic villus samplings)

(obstetrics, pathology) A form or prenatal diagnosis in which part of the placental tissue is tested for genetic abnormalities.


hello girl

/həˈləʊ ˌɡɜːl/

/hɛˈloʊ ˌɡɝl/

From the fact that the telephone operators would greet callers with “Hello” when contacted.

The latest model of the multiple switch-board is in position, and in a few days the "Hello" girls will render complete the inside view of a modern telephone exchange.

1884 September, “The International Electrical Exhibition at Philadelphia, Sept. 2, 1884”, in F. L. Pope, editor, The Electrician and Electrical Engineer. A Monthly Review of Theoretical and Applied Science, volume III, New York, N.Y.: Electrical Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, page 193, column 2:

Surely, we must include the Long-Distance Telephone among the electrical achievements of the year. And if we may add the automatic switch-board, by which the services of the "hello-girl" are to be dispensed with; and if the new company, just formed in Chicago, fulfill its promise to give us telephone service at half the present rates, it will afford us an illustration of "applied science," which I am sure we shall be quick to appreciate.

1893, J[ohn] T. Pettee, “Annual Address: A Review of the Year 1892 by the President”, in Transactions of the Scientific Association, Meriden, Conn., Meriden, Conn.: Press of E. A. Horton & Co., →OCLC, page 17:

The humblest hello-girl along ten thousand miles of wire could teach gentleness, patience, modesty, manners, to the highest duchess in Arthur's land.

1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Sandy’s Tale”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 177:

Now imagine that the main automatic exchange is out of service and all those calls have to be made the old-fashioned way, by hello girls, taking ten times as long.

2001, Ken Follett, chapter 17, in Jackdaws, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Dutton, 2002, →ISBN, page 162:

(telephony, informal, dated) A female telephone operator.

sentraalisantra

(informal) female telephone operator — see also telephone girl


divorcée

Borrowed from French divorcée (“divorced woman”).


half sister-in-law

en-noun

half sister-in-law (plural half sisters-in-law)

From half sister + -in-law or half + sister-in-law.


Clarisse

Borrowed from French Clarisse, from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa (“Poor Clare”); see there for more. Doublet of Clarissa and Clarice.

Clara... withdrew herself... to the Church of St. Damian, and there gave beginning to the poor Maids, called from her name Clarisses...

1693, Gabriel d'Emillianne, translated by Antonio Gavin, A Short History of Monastical Orders, page 253:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare, sometimes particularly such a nun who followed the original rules of Saint Clare of Assisi.


TW

(pharmacology) Initialism of treatment week.


employée

/ˌɒmplɔɪˈeɪ/

/ˌɑmˈplɔɪeɪ/

/ˌɑmplɔɪˈeɪ/


OB-GYN

OB-GYN (countable and uncountable, plural OB-GYNs)

(countable, initialism, acronym) (prefixed with the) A clinic or doctor's office with these specialties.


unipara

A woman who has given birth to one child.


scrubwoman

Coordinate term: scrubman

(US) A woman employed to do general housework, such as cleaning a house or office.


dudess

Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too—I know that; but when I left America it had disappeared—at least to all intents and purposes. The remnant of it was restricted to the dudes and dudesses. When a disease has worked its way down to that level, it may fairly be said to be out of the system.

1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster and Company, →OCLC:

Marge recently dressed Joanne Dru ranch style during the making of Howard Hawks' Red River. Miss Dru, in old-style calicoes and ginghams, felt grubby beside the dudes and dudesses who galloped over from near-by ranches […]

1947, Collier's, volume 120, New York, N.Y.: P. F. Collier, →OCLC, page 258:

“Sorry, dude,” I said. “Dispatch One, she's gonna call me?” / “Yo, the dudess,” he said, heading out the door.

1988, Larry Beinhart, You Get What You Pay For, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN:

DEALING WITH DEFIANT DUDES (AND DUDESSES) [chapter title]

1997, Ed Dunlop, chapter 10, in “How Do I Get These Kids to Listen?”: Practical Ways to Gain and Hold Attention in the Classroom, Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Sword of the Lord Publishers, →ISBN, page 181:

Those smart dudes (and dudesses) on ESPN (and virtually every other channel, it seems) winning hundreds of thousands, or even millions, at Texas Hold 'Em, don't become legends because they're lucky, although that is an element of poker, as it is in life, that should never be discounted.

2007, “Foreword”, in Otto Penzler, editor, Dead Man's Hand, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, →ISBN:

(colloquial) A woman, generally a younger woman, especially one who is perceived to be cool or hip.


danceress

From Middle English daunseresse; equivalent to dancer + -ess.


rubber baby buggy bumper

rubber baby buggy bumper (plural rubber baby buggy bumpers)


hypomenorrhea

hypomenorrhea (usually uncountable, plural hypomenorrheas)

The condition of menstrual blood flow that is extremely light.


chieftainess

From chieftain + -ess. Middle English had an equivalent form cheventaynes but the OED asserts the term was derived anew in modern English in the 19th century. Piecewise doublet of captainess.

He gazed in silence for some minutes upon the body of Meg Merrilies, as it lay before him, with the features sharpened by death, yet still retaining the stern and energetic character which had maintained in life her superiority as the wild chieftainess of the lawless people amongst whom she was born.

1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], “chapter ?”, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

Mrs. Douse was more important than Mr. Douse; she was a chieftainess in her own right, and had great dignity.

1941, Emily Carr, chapter 20, in Klee Wyck:


queen of spades

queen of spades (plural queens of spades)

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(card games) One of the 52 playing cards in a standard deck.


anembryonic pregnancy

anembryonic pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural anembryonic pregnancies)

(medicine) A form of early miscarried pregnancy in which the embryo fails to develop, though the gestational sac appears to grow normally.

gestação anembrionária

pregnancy in which the embryo fails to develop, though the gestational sac grows normally


omg

(chiefly Internet, slang) Alternative form of OMG:


Aunt Flo

Pun on flow and Flo (nickname for Florence, Flora, etc).

Aunt Flo came to visit last night: that's why I was so ratty.

(euphemistic slang) A personification of the menstrual period or menstruation.

大姨媽 /大姨妈

slang, personification of the menstrual period


disengagement

disengagement (countable and uncountable, plural disengagements)

(medicine, obstetrics) The emergence of the fetus from the birth canal.


MFM

MFM (countable and uncountable, plural MFMs)

Initialism of maternal and fetal medicine. The specialty of medicine, a subspecialty of obstetrics, that deals with high-risk pregnancies.


baby mama

Formed in African-American Vernacular English, attested since c. 1986 and popularized in the 2000s. Possibly from or influenced by same term in Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole baby-mother (“pregnant woman”) (1966), alternatively due simply to grammatical similarities between AAVE and Jamaican Creole.

der

She's not his girlfriend now, but she's one of his baby mamas.

Except for Rasheena, the rest of the baby mamas was at least struggling to live halfway right. They used to clown and act shitty whenever they came by Noojie's and saw Carmiesha there. But every last one of them ended up being grateful to her for the things she did for their kids.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 128:

For men who must deal with these situations and others like them, the result is what has now been deemed as "baby-mama drama."

2008, Ebony Vol. 63, No. 8, Sidestepping Baby Mama Drama - Jun 2008, page 154

(US, slang, possibly derogatory) The mother of a child in common, particularly unmarried.

African-American Vernacular English
baby mama


right to choose

Strict abortion laws have been attacked in the courts, on the grounds that they violate a woman's fundamental right to choose whether or not to bear children.

1969 November 12, “Significant Step Taken on Abortion”, in St. Petersburg Times (Washington Post Service), retrieved 2009-03-22, page 7D:

(public policy, law, ethics) The moral or legal entitlement of a pregnant person to make the full and final decision either to give birth to their child or to abort the fetus.


right to life

Texas Right to Life, a statewide, anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia organization, was organized last summer. Right to Life groups in Dallas and Houston have been active for some time.

1974-03, Martha Hume, "Abortions in Texas", Texas Monthly, page 65

That means women should have the right to be free about their own bodies. I believe a woman has a right to life. The opposition is an anti-freedom group, rather than, as they have very effectively called themselves, a right-to-life group.

1987-06, Dale Keiger, "The Quiet Minority", Cincinnati Magazine, page 68

(US, public policy, law, ethics) The moral or legal entitlement of an unborn child to be born, and not have its birth prevented through an abortion or other medical procedure.


cover girl

Whether it's in next-to-nothing swimsuits in Sports Illustrated or starring in ex-husband Billy Joel's rock videos or in countless boldface tabloid mentions, the quintessential California blond cover girl has become a fixture on the cultural landscape.

2008 July 2, Frank Eltman, “Christie Brinkley divorce trial set to begin”, in Associated Press, archived from the original on 2008-07-06:

She's sitting opposite a window that's gently breezing into her face, wafting her hair into cover-girl perfection and when I joke about this she roars with laughter.

2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this...' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):

(informal) An attractive, usually well-known, female model whose image has been featured on one or more magazine covers.


hymenoplasty

en-noun

hymenoplasty (countable and uncountable, plural hymenoplasties)

Dr. Robert Stubbs, a Toronto-based plastic surgeon . . . has won international acclaim for refining the hymenoplasty procedure, which involves cutting away the scarred edge of the membrane broken during intercourse and narrowing the entrance of the vagina, then putting the pieces back together.

2008 July 12, Diana Zlomislic, “The Virgin Makers”, in Toronto Star, page L1:

One of the options available to women under such pressure is hymenoplasty, in which a surgeon uses remnants of the hymen or tissue from the vaginal wall to create a "new hymen" that will break and bleed during intercourse.

2010, Emily Maguire, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 36

(medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.


eldmother

From Middle English eldmoder, from Old English eald mōdor (“grandmother”), equivalent to eld (“old”) + mother. Cognate with Scots eldmoder, eldmother (“mother-in-law”), Old Frisian aldemōder.

Item I gyve vnto my eldmother his wyffe my wyffes froke and a read petticote and a smoke.

1571 November 5, John Heworth of Gatisheid, Will, in Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham (1835)

John Morpeth [...] saith that, on Sondaie last [...] the said John Robson said to the said Arthure, "Thou haiest a witch to thy eldmother[.]"

1586 July 15, “Isabel Chamber against John Robson in Causa Defamationis”, in Depositions and Other Ecclesiastical Proceedings from the Courts ... of Durham, published 1845:

(dialectal, now archaic) One's grandmother or other female ancestor, or one's mother-in-law.


gynaecologist

In the last analysis, the fate of each individual woman rests in the hands of the gynaecologist.

1950, Moya Woodside, Sterilization in North Carolina: A Sociological and Psychological Study, University of North Carolina Press, page 56:

Since there is an important bill under study today, we are asked to hope that a gynaecologist will sit on a therapeutic committee.

1969, Canadian House of Commons, Debates, Official Report, page 8287:

During the past 5 years considerable interest has been shown by gynaecologists in the technique of laparoscopy (Steptoe, 1967; Cohen, 1970).

1972, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, volume 12, page 194:

According to the Bill, from the moment that the embryo insertion has been completed, the authority for the gynaecologist to have an embryo in his possession immediately and automatically ends.

1984, British House of Commons, Parliamentary debates (Hansard), page 345:

Mr Shikuku: […]Was there any gynaecologist among those doctors?
Mr. Angatia: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there was a gynaecologist and also a midwife.

1995 October 31, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 2287:

2009, India Today, Volume 34, Issues 36-43, page 592,
With one of the highest birth rates across the world (22.69 births per thousand), one can be sure that no gynaecologist will be without work in India.

(Australia, British spelling, Commonwealth) (Canadian spelling, also common) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.

طَبِيب نِسَاء

specialist in diseases of the female reproductive system


mother's milk

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From Middle English moderis mylke, equivalent to mother + -'s + milk.

Breast milk; milk produced by a human or animal mother for her offspring to nurse.


feministic

en-adj

feministic (comparative more feministic, superlative most feministic)

more feministic (comparative)
most feministic (superlative)

Someone might be feministic without “officially” being a feminist.

Of or relating to or in accordance with feminism.


femdom

en-noun

femdom (countable and uncountable, plural femdoms)

→ Russian: фемдо́м (femdóm)

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From female + dom, short for domination or dominance.

(BDSM, uncountable) Female domination; a sexual practice in which women dominate men or other people.

I'm acutely aware that I'm on my knees in front of a gorgeous femdom.

2017, D. L. King, Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink:

She wished she had some fuck-me stiletto thigh-high boots on to give her more of a Domme appearance, but she had seen plenty of femdoms at the club wearing comfortable walking shoes.

2018, Kallypso Masters, Box Set: Rescue Me Saga Books 4-6 and Bonus Western Dreams:

(BDSM, countable) A female dominator in sadomasochistic sexual practices.


femdom

(rare) Females considered as a group; womankind.


domme

Alteration of dom with the pseudo-French feminine inflection.

No amount of fetish wear or powerful looking garments can make a domme out of a woman who hasn't worked on her power and grace within.

2005, Midori, Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink, Los Angeles: Daedalus Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN, page 95:

Something dommes know is that fear can be controlled — and even used to your advantage.

2006, Emily Dubberley, Whip Your Life into Shape, Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 94:

Leather and rubber fetish has always been popular but there’s a massive need for dommes who specialise in foot and shoe worship; there are just not enough of us to go around.

2011, Rebecca, “Rebecca”, in Julian Davies, Hookers: Candid Confessions of Real Call Girls, Milo Books, page 179:

A female dominant in a BDSM relationship.


fanne

Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans.

1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, Fannes, page 31:

A little more than a week ago two fen and one fanne left for London as delegates to a big gathering formally billed as the Science Fiction Festival Convention but more intimately described as a fanference. […] Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen […] many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and fenne after all.

1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life, volume 30, number 21, →ISSN, page 127:

Dorothy lived in the middle of the great western plains, far away from any other fans. She was a very lonely little fanne, who could not afford to go to the annual World Conventions, and had been only to one Oklacon.

1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Cyclone”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 2013-07-21:

(dated, sometimes derogatory, fandom slang) A female science fiction fan.


hysterotomy

(surgery) The surgical procedure of making an incision in the uterus, commonly combined with a laparotomy during a caesarean section.


in a family way

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She mentioned that she was in a family way and . . . stated that she needed all her money to pay the doctor's bills at the approaching deliverance.

1855 August 25, “Law Intelligence: Supreme Court—Special Term”, in New York Times, page 8:

Her way of paying for these gift subscriptions was to choose one of her sows which was in a family way and, when the sow littered, to sell its offspring.

1947 November 10, “Dear TIME-Reader”, in Time, retrieved 2008-08-11:

Three pregnancies occur in this novel: Nina, Fran and Danielle all find themselves in a family way.

2005 April 15, Carolyn See, "Squab and Squabbles" (book review of Mothers and Sons by Paul Hond), Washington Post, p. C03 (retrieved 11 Aug. 2008)

in the family way
in the family way#English

(euphemistic) Alternative form of in the family way.


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birthing chair

Two nurse-midwives at the Milwaukee Birth Center (MBC), Milwaukee, OR, designed a new birthing chair that has received rave reviews from the first 25 women who used it for labor and delivery.

1984, “Clinical News: Rebirth of the Birthing Chair,”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 84, number 7, page 872:

(obstetrics) A chair designed to place a woman who is in labor in a position which facilitates childbirth.


Láadan

From Láadan Láadan, created by Suzette Haden Elgin in 1982.

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language designed as an experiment in feminist linguistics.


grand duchess

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labiaplasty

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Many doctors performing labiaplasties were never taught vulvar anatomy—leaving some patients scarred and unable to feel sexual pleasure.

2019, Suzannah Weiss, The Establishment, The Insidious Reasons Doctors Are Botching Labiaplasties:

Labiaplasty—surgery for reshaping or resizing the inner labia—is the fastest growing type of plastic surgery in the world: in 2016, 45 per cent more labiaplasty procedures were carried out than in 2015, […]

2019, Lynn Enright, Vagina: A Re-Education, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

When performed poorly, a labiaplasty — a procedure to reduce the size of the labia minora, and one of the fastest-growing cosmetic surgeries worldwide — can also damage nerves, leading to genital pain and loss of sexual sensation.

2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:

(surgery) The moulding or shaping of the labia minora and/or labia majora.


smear test

(gynaecology) A screening test to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample (‘smear’) of cells from the cervix.


cervical smear

(chiefly gynaecology) A screening test to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample (‘smear’) of cells from the cervix.


Pap test

From Papanikolaou. Named after Greek-American physician Georgios Papanikolaou.

named-after

(gynaecology) A screening test to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample ('smear') of cells from the cervix.


dinner lady

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Ten years to the month after Jamie Oliver began his school food revolution – with the help of a formidable dinner lady called Nora Sands at Kidbrooke school in south London – a small inner-city primary on the other side of the Thames is doing its best to give it a new lease of life.

2015 April 4, Sally Weale, “The new dinner lady: 10 years on, can an Ottolenghi chef prove Jamie Oliver's revolution wasn't a flash in the pan?”, in The Guardian:

(British, informal) A woman employed to serve food in a school or work canteen.


menstrual fluid

en-noun

menstrual fluid (countable and uncountable, plural menstrual fluids)

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The mixture of blood and cellular debris from the uterus that constitutes the menses


oligomenorrhoea

/ɒlɪɡə(ʊ)mɛnəˈɹiːə/

/ɑləɡoʊmɛnəˈɹi.ə/

(medicine) Unusually infrequent menstruation.


human cheese

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The flavor of human cheese would depend on what you were feeding your human.

1998, Dan Savage, Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist:


queen mother

A widowed queen consort (a queen dowager) whose son or daughter from that marriage is the reigning monarch.

الْمَلِكَة الْأُمّ

widowed queen consort whose son or daughter from that marriage is the reigning monarch


queen consort

queen consort (plural queens consort or queen consorts or queens consorts)

queens consort (plural)
queen consorts (plural)
queens consorts (plural)

Coordinate term: king consort

The Queens consorts of England are by law the perpetual patroneſſes; this hoſpital being conſidered as part of their dower.[…]Nothing now remains but to give a ſhort account of the Queens Consorts of England, who have been Patroneſſes of the two Hoſpitals of St. Katharine, from their foundation to the preſent time.

1782, “The present State of this Hospital, concluding with a List of the Royal Patronesses from its Foundation to the present Time”, in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica. № V. […], London: […] J[ohn] Nichols, pages 42–43:

This implies they say, that the “queens” are spoken of not as queens regnant, but as queens consorts.[…]We allow that queens are here spoken of as queens consorts, and not as queens regnant. But though a queen consort possesses no official power, her husband does. And it is therefore an obvious fallacy to argue, that because queens consorts, who have no official power, can nurse the Church only in a private capacity, that therefore the kings, their husbands, who are possessed of official power, should nurse the Church only in a private capacity.

1839, William White, “Lecture II”, in Lectures on the Lawfulness and Advantages of National Establishments of Religion, Haddington: […] Neill and Sons; […], pages 44–45:

The other cases which bear upon, or have any analogy to, the present, are those of Queens Consorts of this kingdom;[…]As far, then, as we can judge by precedent of these matters (and I shall endeavour presently to show that there is no other mode of judging of them), it would appear that 50,000l. a-year is the sum which has ordinarily been allotted to princes in the situation of Prince Albert and to the Queens Consorts of this country. With respect to the sums which have been granted either to the husband of the Queen, or to Queens Consorts, in all cases of their surviving the Sovereign, the sum allowed has always been greater than that which I now propose.

1840 January 24, “The Prince Albert’s Provision”, in John Henry Barrow, editor, Mirror of Parliament. […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], page 341, columns 1–2:

The founder of this college was Robert de Eglesfeld, chaplain and confessor to Philippa, queen consort of Edward III., who in compliment to his royal mistress designated it by the name of Queen’s college, or the hall of the Queen’s scholars. Philippa not only encouraged him in his work, but became its patroness after the founder’s death, which happened in 1349; an example which has since been followed most liberally by the queens consorts of many of our kings, in taking this college into their special favour.

1847, “Queen’s College”, in A Hand-book for Visitors to Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker, pages 134–135:

In its new state Queen Victoria wore the stone in a brooch, in a tiara, and, from 1858, in a circlet set for her by Garrard, the crown jewellers. It has never been worn by a male sovereign, for on her death Victoria bequeathed it to her daughter-in-law, Alexandra, and after her to successive queens consorts.

2000, Katherine Prior, John Adamson, Maharajas’ Jewels, Assouline, →ISBN, page 74:

He will lead the country in mourning as the new King and head of state for 14 Commonwealth realms. Camilla, his wife, becomes Queen Consort.

2022 September 8, “Queen Elizabeth II has died”, in BBC News:


gylany

gylany (countable and uncountable, plural gylanies)

From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + English l(inking) and Ancient Greek λ(ύειν) (l(úein)), λ(ύω) (l(úō), “to dissolve, sever; to release, set free”) + Ancient Greek ἀνδρός (andrós) (genitive singular of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”)) + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a state, condition, or quality); coined by the Austrian-born American cultural historian and author Riane Eisler (born 1931) in writings in the 1980s, including The Chalice and the Blade (1987): see the quotations.

suffix

[T]he two projected androcratic futures—a totalitarian future or no future at all—are not our only alternatives. There is the third alternative, the humanistic future to which the concept of gylany, both the balanced core and the logical requirement of our cultural evolution, provides the key.

1981 December, Riane Tennenhaus Eisler, “Gylany: The Balanced Future”, in Futures: The Journal of Forecasting, Planning and Policy, volume 13, number 6, Oxford: Elsevier Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, abstract, page 499:

It seems particularly fitting to use terms of Greek derivation to describe how these two contrasting social models have affected our cultural evolution. For the conflict between gylany and androcracy as two very different ways of living on this earth—and the advancement of our evolution through gylanic influences—is dramatically illustrated if we take a fresh look at ancient Greece from the new perspective offered by cultural transformation theory.

1987, Riane Eisler, “The Other Half of History: Part I”, in The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 106:

Old Europe and Anatolia, as well as Minoan Crete, were a gylany. A balanced, non-patriarchal and non-matriarchal social system is reflected by religion, mythologies, and folklore, by studies of the social structure of Old European and Minoan cultures, and is supported by the continuity of the elements of a matrilinear system in ancient Greece, Etruria, Rome, the Basque, and other countries of Europe.

1989, Marija Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of Western Civilization, San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page xx:

In a gylany, the sexes are "linked" rather than hierarchically "ranked" which is typical of patriarchal societies. The existence of gylanies or societies with a balanced authority among men and women has been evidenced by ethnology and anthropology. Gylany must not be confused with matriarchy which never existed and which has the value of a myth like the one about the Amazons[…]. Civilization in Old Europe is among the examples of an early gylany in mankind's cultural history.

1996, Harald Haarmann, “Iconography, Symbolism and Writing at the Dawn of Civilization – Old Europe from the Seventh to the Fourth Millennia B.C.”, in Thomas A[lbert] Sebeok, Roland Posner, Alain Rey, editors, Early Civilization and Literacy in Europe: An Inquiry into Cultural Continuity in the Mediterranean World (Approaches to Semiotics; 124), Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, Walter de Gruyter & Co., →ISBN, pages 13–14:

Once in our sights, gylany seems in abundant evidence as a worldwide societal phenomenon before about 3000 bce, when it, together with the Mother Goddess religion underpinning it, yields universally to the blood-and-thunder sky-gods of warrior societies. Did anything like gylany ever exist in the ancient Cherokee world?

2013, Donald N. Yates, “The Mother Goddess in America”, in Old Souls in a New World: The Secret History of the Cherokee Indians (Cherokee Chapbooks; 7), 2nd edition, Phoenix, Ariz.: Panther’s Lodge Publishers, →ISBN, page 66:

(sociology) A social system based on equality of women and men.


handywoman

An uncertified midwife; a woman who attends at childbirths but who lacks a medical qualification.


maternity leave

en-noun

maternity leave (countable and uncountable, plural maternity leaves)

Coordinate term: paternity leave

My wife is on a two year maternity leave while she takes care of her newborn baby.

I went on maternity leave in May 2022, so have been away for nearly 14 months.

2023 July 26, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: Rebuild trust or it's game over”, in RAIL, number 988, page 3:

A leave of absence from a job for a mother to care of a baby.


parental leave

parental leave (countable and uncountable, plural parental leaves)

Both my husband and I are on a 3-month parental leave while we look after our newborn baby.

A leave of absence from a job for a parent to take care of a baby.

產假 /产假

leave of absence for a parent to take care of a baby


gurl

en-verb

gurl (third-person singular simple present gurls, present participle gurling, simple past and past participle gurled)

gurls (present singular third-person)
gurling (participle present)
gurled (participle past)
gurled (past)

From Middle English gurlen (“to growl, rumble”).

inh

The poor little doctor, thus rudely and suddenly aroused from his tipsy sleep, looked excessively bewildered when he opened his eyes, and met the glare of ferocious delight that Darby Kelleher cast upon him, and he gurled out, “What's the matter?” as well as the grip of Darby's hand upon his throat would permit him.

1834, Samuel Lover, Legends and Stories of Ireland:

“Weel may ye mind, yon night sae black, Whan fearfu' winds loud gurled, And mony a lum dang down—and stack, Heigh i' the air up swirled, Alangst yon brae, ye clam, and stack,

1845, Alexander Wilson, Poetical Works: With an Extended Memoir of His Life and Writings:


sistergirl

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"We are all so proud of you, sistergirl! Couldn't you tell at graduation?"

2003, Shonell Bacon, Draw Me with Your Love:

Dianne, where would I be without my sistergirl support group?

2004, Janette McCarthy Louard, Portrait of Deception:

(African-American Vernacular) Sister, girlfriend (as a familiar term of address between women).


philosopheress

A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.


jill

From the female name Jill.
* (to masturbate): By analogy with jack (off). See Jack (“male name”).
* (gill): Paired with jack (from the male name Jack) as terms for alcohol measurements.
* (pelvic protector): By analogy with jock, Jock being a male name.

Below ground, in the maze of tunnels excavated by the rabbits over many, many years, five of our jill, or bitch, ferrets were running loose[...]. A white jill popped out of the hole nearest men slithered through the net mesh and disappeared down an adjacent entrance.

1971 March, Fred Taylor, “How the English hunt rabbits”, in Field & Stream^([84]), volume 75, number 11:

In 1989 I obtained a hob from Curtis Price from one of my own jills mated to my own hob, for living as I do at the very edge of Britain it is not practicable to breed litters of ferrets to obtain a single replacement. Hence I lend out my best mated jills and receive a single ferret kitten from each litter.

2001, David Brian Plummer, In Pursuit of Coney^([62]), Coch Y Bonddu Books, →ISBN:

I prefer to use Jills on my ferreting jobs. All are fitted with transmitter collars, and I would never work a ferret without one. That said, I always make sure I have a large Hob ferret with me because sometimes he will shift stubborn rabbits where the Jills have failed.

2006, Steve Caple, Rural Pest Control^([9]), Troubador Publishing Ltd., →ISBN:


superheroine

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From super- + heroine, by analogy with superhero.

A heroine with supernatural powers; a female superhero


concertmistress

Possibly a calque of German Konzertmeisterin, corresponding to concert + mistress.


ex-wife

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Pascal's estate was contentiously split between his ex-wife and his nonwife, with artistic decisions ultimately empowered to a banker.

2001, Steven Suskin, Broadway Yearbook, 1999-2000:

Personal stories about unhappy relationships, cheating partners and manipulative ex-wives were often described in detail, usually to illustrate AWALT and serve as the basis for the MGTOW lifestyle.

2020, Scott Wright, Verity Trott, Callum Jones, “‘The pussy ain’t worth it, bro’: assessing the discourse and structure of MGTOW”, in Information, Communication & Society, volume 23:

A former wife (from a previous marriage after a divorce).