femonationalist

en-adj

femonationalist (comparative more femonationalist, superlative most femonationalist)

more femonationalist (comparative)
most femonationalist (superlative)

In the final analytical section, we offer examples of ways in which feminists have tried to actively contest femonationalist tendencies.

2018, Maja Sager, Diana Mulinari, “Safety for whom? Exploring femonationalism and care-racism in Sweden”, in Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 68, May-June 2018:

The femonationalist territorialisation of Muslim men as sexual offenders may be exemplified with the Sweden Democrats, who in that op-ed in Wall Street Journal argued that Sweden's high rape figures are due to an 'open-door immigration' of particularly men from Muslim countries […]

2020, Lucas Gottzén, Kalle Berggren, “The rape capital or the most gender-equal country in the world?: Masculinity, hybridity and young men's intimate partner violence in Sweden”, in Lucas Gottzén, Margunn Bjørnholt, Floretta Boonzaier, editors, Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence, unnumbered page:

Femonationalist discourse is increasingly utilized by both Hindu and Buddhist nationalist representatives to figuratively rescue women from what they deem are the oppressive structures of Islam.

2021 September, Andrew Malji, “Gendered Islamophobia: The nature of Hindu and Buddhist nationalism in India and Sri Lanka”, in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, volume 21, number 2:

Related to, characteristic of, or espousing femonationalism.


heartbeat bill

(US, law) A form of abortion restriction legislation which makes abortion illegal as soon as the fetal heartbeat can be detected.


Auntie Flo

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fem lib

women's liberation
women's liberation#English

(informal) Synonym of women's liberation


cisfemininity

However, the act of critiquing cisnormativity inevitably presents the critic with a limited set of alternatives: one could argue that transmasculinity is as normal and regular as cismasculinity, cisfemininity, or transfemininity; […]

2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered pages

But we do need to talk about ourselves: practicing "black trans-cis-terhood"— to use black transfeminist theorist Dora Santana's felicitous phrase—means understanding black queer cisfemininity on its own terms.

2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders, unnumbered page:

Shikyūkei and chitsukei epitomise these traits of new spiritual culture by locating the part of the body most intimately associated with cisfemininity, a woman's sexual and reproductive organs, as the cause and remedy for the events of her life.

2021, Ellen Mann, "'A Woman's Happiness is Decided by Her Uterus!': Post-Feminism, Neoliberalism and the Politics of the Female Body in Japanese 'Uterus-Type' and 'Vagina-Type' Spirituality", in Beyond Kawaii: Studying Japanese Femininities at Cambridge (Angelika Koch, Brigitte Steger, & Christopher Tso), page 73


cisfeminine

cisfeminine (comparative more cisfeminine, superlative most cisfeminine)

more cisfeminine (comparative)
most cisfeminine (superlative)

At the beginning of Parachute_Silks's fem!Sherlock/fem!John story, "Categories," for example, a young female Sherlock tries to keep her university boyfriend, Sebastian, interested in her, first by pretending to fulfill traditional cisfeminine stereotypes: […]

2018, Ann K. McClellan, Sherlock's World: Fan Fiction and the Reimagining of BBC's Sherlock, page 129:

And it's in Scott's interview that the issue of transgender women not necessarily wanting to sound cisfeminine comes up.

2019, Jane Settler, Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It's Not What You Say, But How You Say It, page 171:

Drawing on NCAVP transgender homicide data, research has found that transfeminine Black and Latina individuals are at significantly higher risk for homicide than cisfeminine counterparts.

2020, Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz & Carolyn M. West, "The Intersections of Race and Immigration", in Transgender Intimate Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Introduction (Adam M. Messinger & Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz), page 143

Of or pertaining to female cisgender people or experiences.


uterine inertia

(medicine, obstetrics) Weak or irregular uterine contractions during labor.


salpingoplasty

(surgery) The surgical repair of the Fallopian tubes, especially the process of opening blocked Fallopian tubes.


Aunt Tabby

(feminism, historical, derogatory) A woman who opposes the feminist movement or regards it as too radical.


Lucy Stoner

From Lucy + Stone + -er, after Lucy Stone (1818–1893), the first married woman in the United States to carry her birth name through life.

(historical) A member of the Lucy Stone League, a women's rights organization founded in 1921 that promoted the idea of women keeping their maiden names after marriage.


onee-san

(Japanese, often as a form of address) An older sister


girlboss

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The book also includes sidebars featuring guest “girlbosses” (bloggers, Internet entrepreneurs) who share equally clichéd suggestions for business success.

2014, review of #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso, Kirkus Reviews, 15 July 2014, page 41

The girlboss didn't change the system; she thrived within it. Now that system is cracking, and so is this icon of millennial hustle.

2021, Leigh Stein, quoted in Arwa Mahdawi, Strong Female Lead: Lessons from Women in Power, unnumbered page

But viewers stanned girlbosses in every genre, from Parks and Recreation's idealistic bureaucrat Leslie Knope to Game of Thrones' colonizer Khaleesi, Daenerys Targaryen.

2021, Judy Berman, "What comes after the pop-culture girlboss", Time, 5 July 2021 - 12 July 2021, page 98

(neologism) A female entrepreneur who succeeds in the male-dominated business world; (by extension) any strong-willed, independent, enterprising woman.


girlbossery

Girlbossery requires performance, but with that comes discrete behavioural parameters, structures of control that spring up around this newly generated way to be.

2019 September 16, Kate Reeve, “Don't be a woman, be a #Girlboss”, in The Varsity, The University of Toronto, pages 10–11:

In fact, the roots of para-feminist girlbossery run deeper.

Andy works her way to girlbossery as well, pushing away her friends and boyfriend in the process.

2021, Sophia Mathews, "An Exploration of the Girl Boss Movie", Slope Magazine, Spring 2021, page 22

The state or quality of being a girlboss.


birthing father

en-noun

birthing father (plural birthing fathers)

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Riggs – who has served as an expert witness in a Queensland court case for a birthing father wanting to be recognised as such […] argues if someone is legally registered as a man, he should be able to claim the title “father”.

2020 October 9, “'Call me dad': Pregnant man takes birth drama to court”, in The Courier Mail:

For instance, compared with a cisgender nonbreastfeeding mother, breast cancer risk may be increased for a birthing father who feeds his infant artificial milk (due to the residual breast tissue and the lack of desire or ability to lactate), or decreased if he is able to partially lactate with the remaining mammary tissue.

2021, Melissa Bartick et al., "Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Position Statement and Guideline: Infant Feeding and Lactation-Related Language and Gender", Breastfeeding Medicine, Volume 16, Number 8 (link)

Mothers and birthing fathers usually have their postpartum checkup about six weeks after giving birth, Randall said, leaving them days or a few weeks to get care before their insurance lapses.

2021, Levi Pulkkinen, "2 Million Washingtonians Rely On A Medicaid System That’s Driving Away Doctors And Dropping New Mothers", InvestigateWest, 12 February 2021 (link)

(neologism) A trans man who has given birth to a child.


gestational father

gestational father (plural gestational fathers)

He [Cary Gabriel Costello] is the gestational father of a teenaged child, and is married to an intersex woman who was assigned male at birth—musician and technophile Aubrey Schaefer.

2016, “List of Contributors”, in Stefan Horlacher, editor, Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives, page xi:

Most of the gestational fathers I talked to had already rejected gender norms, and it was this rejection that led them to imagine becoming gestational fathers in the first place.

2019, Laura V. Heston, "Queering Kinship: LGBTQ Parents And The Creation Of Real Utopias", dissertation submitted to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, page 180

He [Freddy McConnell] has publicized himself as a gestational father, for instance in a documentary film “Seahorse” (an upright-swimming fish, the male of which has a brood pouch for gestating its young).

2020 October, Bernard M. Dickens, “Transsexuality: Legal and ethical challenges”, in International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, volume 151, number 1, page 165:


lightning crotch

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Wondering if and when lightning crotch might strike was not at all helpful. Mamas-to-be, don't read that stuff.

2019 October 8, Samantha Seneviratne, The Joys of Baking: Recipes and Stories for a Sweet Life, Running Press Adult, →ISBN:

YOU HAVE "LIGHTNING CROTCH"! In the last days of pregnancy, particularly as your baby's head lowers into your pelvis, you may find yourself experiencing a new and specific crotch ache, especially after periods of standing, walking,[…]

2020 February 4, Beth Newell, Jacqueline Ann May, There's No Manual: Honest and Gory Wisdom About Having a Baby, Penguin, →ISBN, page 59:

Lightning crotch is a sharp or shooting pain that you may feel in your vagina, rectum, or pelvis. The sudden pain is normal and may indicate that you are getting close to delivery (though it may occur at any time leading up to labor).

2020 December 15, Amanda Shapin Michelson, Pregnancy Hacks: 350+ Easy Hacks for a Happy and Healthy Pregnancy!, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 112:

Pelvic pain during pregnancy is called lightning crotch because it feels like your pelvis has been struck by lightning. As much as I love heeled shoes, I hate lightning crotch more, and it was worth taking a break from my favorite [heels].

2021 September 21, Amy Hammer, How to Grow a Baby: A Science-Based Guide to Nurturing New Life, from Pregnancy to Childbirth and Beyond, Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, page 31:

The condition, late in pregnancy, of having intense pain shoot through one's pelvic region, especially due to the baby's head lowering and bumping into one's pelvis.


lesbiandom

From lesbian + -dom (suffix forming nouns denoting conditions or states).

suffix

So I moved on to college and many, many more firsts, another Becky (that's right, but with a "Y" this time ), and incredibly true adventures of lesbiandom. But I'll never forget that first kiss.

2003, Karen X. Tulchinsky, editor, Hot & Bothered 4: Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire, Vancouver, B.C.: Arsenal Pulp Press, →ISBN, page 60:

Skeptics might say her declared lesbiandom made her more desirable to me.

2007, Glamour, volume 105, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130:

Even his final salvos were somewhat listless, as if he were delivering them out of obligation rather than true depth of feeling. “In ten years, I'll bet you two will have made the full transition to lesbiandom. I predict cats,” was one, […]

2015 March 10, Hanya Yanagihara, chapter 1, in A Little Life […], New York, N.Y., London: Doubleday, →ISBN, part V (The Happy Years), page 465:

The quality or state of being a lesbian.

We noted that even here, among women whose sex lives are theoretically the most structured in lesbiandom, there's a fair amount of fluidity.

1996, Lindsy Van Gelder, Pamela Robin Brandt, “Pulp Friction: Sameness and Difference”, in The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 184:

Perhaps the queerest thing about 1999’s independent releases is the fact that two of lesbiandom’s biggest directors, Ana Kokkinos and Rose Troche, made respectable splashes—but not on our end of the pool.

1999, Girlfriends: The Magazine of Lesbian Enjoyment, volume 6, San Francisco, Calif.: H.A.F. Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:

Apparently, word had spread through the whose-who^([sic – meaning who's-who]) of lesbiandom and certain people were not replying to my texts at all.

2017 March 31, Hildred Billings, chapter 6, in Blown by an Inconvenient Wind, [S.l.]: Barachou Press:


Itty Bitty Titty Committee

en-noun

the Itty Bitty Titty Committee (plural Itty Bitty Titty Committees)

the Itty Bitty Titty Committee (canonical)
Itty Bitty Titty Committees (plural)

itty bitty titty committee
itty bitty titty committee#English

Alternative form of itty bitty titty committee


ecowomanist

One whose beliefs accord with ecowomanism.


champagne girl

(dated) A waitress in a bar who serves champagne.


angel maker

(historical, euphemistic) An illicit abortionist.


maternity hospital

maternity hospital (plural maternity hospitals)

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A hospital that provides assistance during childbirth.

geboortekliniek

a hospital that provides assistance during childbirth


babusia

Hanna sent food over when my babusia was sick.

1982, Christine Szambelan-Strevinsky, chapter 8, in Dark Hour of Noon, New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Junior Books, →ISBN, page 65:

Now you can buy Polish sausage all ready for the pan any time you have a hankering for it. Good, some of it is, too. But when it is Christmas and your roots are in Poland, there is a chance the commercial product simply will not do. It’s got to be kitchen-made by you, as it was made by mama and babusia before you.

1983 December 14, Jean Tallman, “Christmas has a Polish flavor”, in St. Petersburg Times, Hernando Times edition, St. Petersburg, Fla., page 1, column 1:

BUT WHAT about these pierogi? Looking at Helen [Szachta] you sense this is a woman who must be a master at making those morsels. Or Anne [Dresden], or Bea [Rybak] or Veronica [Grzena]. Nope. They never ate pierogi when they were kids. Or when they were, say, 50. “Listen, our mother never made pierogis,” Helen said. “And babusia (grandmother) never made pierogis,” Anne added.

1986 September 7, Peter Gavrilovich, “Labor of love: Women make 10,000 pierogi to benefit church”, in Detroit Free Press, volume 156, number 126, Detroit, Mich.: Detroit Free Press, Inc., →ISSN, page 11A, column 2:

A little girl, a first-generation American, sat on her front steps near Broadway and translated dispatches from Europe in the local papers into Polish for older women dressed in black, the eyes of the old “babusias” growing wide and small as they heard the names of besieged cities, towns and villages.

1989 September 1, Rafael Alvarez, “Baltimore’s Polish citizens recall war’s pain, heroism”, in The Sun, volume 305, number 93, Baltimore, Md., →ISSN, page 1:

This recipe was handed down by my babusia (grandmother).

1991, Irena Konczak, “[Poland] Bialy Barszcz Wielkanocna (White Easter Barszcz)”, in Tom Bernardin, The Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook, updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Tom Bernardin, Inc., published 1997 July, →ISBN, page 78:

There are as many recipes for borsch as there are babusias (grandmothers), and at our kitchen in Poland, right on the border with Ukraine, we made many different versions, depending on who was cooking and what recipe their grandmother taught them (for more about our work in Ukraine, see Sharing Joy in a Brutal World, page 270).

2023, José Andrés, World Central Kitchen, with Sam Chapple-Sokol, “[Hope: Stews, Soups, and Warming Meals] Ukrainian Borsch”, in The World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, →ISBN, page 164, column 1:

Learn about some delicious and wonderful meals, including chicken soup, tamales, pasta, and borscht, that abuelas, nonnas, babusias, and other grandmas around the world make with and for their grandchildren.

2024, Margot Mustich, When Grandmas Cook: In the Kitchen with Grandmas, Nonnas, and Abuelas, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks:


queenpin

Coordinate term: kingpin

(uncommon) The most important female person in an undertaking or organization.


xenofeminism

From xeno- + feminism. Coined by the collective Laboria Cuboniks in their 2015 manifesto The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation.

Even if they were to incorporate feminist perspectives, however, tensions remain between the desire to use technology for change, as in feminist posthumanism and xenofeminism, and the recognition of its embeddedness within both militarism and capitalism.

2018, Emily Jones, Sara Kendall, Yoriko Otomo, “Gender, War, and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century”, in Australian Law Journal, volume 44, number 1, page 5:

Xenofeminism sees the rising wave of technocracy but instead of searching for a buoy, it wants to catch the surf.

2019, Bogna M. Konior, “Automate the Womb: Ecologies and Technologies of Reproduction”, in Parrhesia, number 31, page 232:

Rejecting the claim that science and technology are inherently masculine or patriarchal, Xenofeminism looks at attempts to repurpose technology to liberate women.

2019, Jordi Vallverdú, Sarah Boix, “Ectogenesis as the Dilution of Sex or the End of Females?”, in Janina Loh, Mark Coeckelbergh, editors, Feminist Philosophy of Technology, page 113:

(neologism) A branch of feminism which rejects naturalism and posits the abolition of gender and/or gendered oppression through the posthumanist embrace of technology.


xenofeminist

en-adj

xenofeminist (comparative more xenofeminist, superlative most xenofeminist)

more xenofeminist (comparative)
most xenofeminist (superlative)

Highlighting how feminist theory and feminist posthumanism in particular has generally taken an antimilitarism stance, Jones notes that the xenofeminist manifesto is silent on the topic of militarism, and argues for reclaiming anti-militarism for the xenofeminist project, illustrating how that approach can be useful for critiquing the uses of autonomous weapons systems.

2018, Emily Jones, Sara Kendall, Yoriko Otomo, “Gender, War, and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century”, in Australian Law Journal, volume 44, number 1, page 6:

Nature's waters are subverted to turn against its guests, complementing a xenofeminist commitment to an anti-naturalism that also entails dismantling nuclear domestic spaces.

2020, Jennifer Cooke, “Feminist Manuals and Manifestos in the Twenty-first Century”, in Jennifer Cooke, editor, The New Feminist Literary Studies, page 196:

The alternative, in this case, is the possibility that highly automated and autonomous technologies could be leveraged as the technomaterialist infrastructure of a postcapitalist, xenofeminist world.

2021, Christopher M. Cox, “Estranged World: Tenets of Xenofeminism and Tropes of Automated Alienation in Contemporary Alien Films”, in Nathan Rambukkana, editor, Intersectional Automations: Robotics, AI, Algorithms, and Equity, page 223:

(neologism) Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to xenofeminism.


ballet mom

A woman with school-age children, most likely girls, especially one who spends time transporting them between after-school activities.

A mother who teaches ballet or is a ballet dancer.


menstrual pad

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A pad of absorbent material (such as cotton) used to absorb menstrual flow.


Carterian

Carterian (comparative more Carterian, superlative most Carterian)

more Carterian (comparative)
most Carterian (superlative)

Of or relating to Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter Jr.; born 1924), American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

Of or relating to Angela Carter (1940–1992), English writer known for feminist and picaresque works and magical realism.


fetucide

First of all, many who hold that combination of views (that is, regarding the death penalty: abolitionist; regarding abortion: libertarian) do so because they don't think fetucide is homicide, so that it is perfectly consistent to hold both views. (Think of someone who is opposed to murder but doesn't mind killing innocent turkeys, or even killing innocent great apes).

1994 May 9, Jamie, “Dilemna...”, in bit.listserv.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-22:

Fetuses are a little harder to read. There are generally two camps with regard to fetucide.

2000 January 10, Jigme...@mindful.com, “death penalty/ abortion...”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-22:

I concur that homosexuality is contrasurvival in that members who don't reproduce go extinct. I concur that fetucide is still a crime, while "abortion" has been concocted as a means to deal with "supercargo" under admiralty/maritime jurisdiction of the State.

2004 November 22, jetgraphics, “In God We Trust”, in alt.christian.religion (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-22:

Absolutist anti-capitalism and negative/zero population. Treating of humans as lower than animals as a kind of "reparations" to the world. The attempt to use bloody means like fetucide and even seek what some might think is a mere slippery slope, but is actually promoted in our colleges and that is the wonderful practices of infanticide by the Spartans and some Amerindian cultures. Promotion of euthanasia and eugenecis while giving lip service. Seeking to control anti-eugenecist movements like ours.

2006 July 13, lordalfredhenry, “How to be a Nazi parent.”, in alt.support.autism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-22:


instillation abortion

en-noun

instillation abortion (plural instillation abortions)

a rare method of abortion performed by injecting a solution into the uterus


LARC

Long-acting reversible contraception
w:Long-acting reversible contraception

Acronym of Long-acting reversible contraception.


ironmongress

The younger Lady Suffolk only spread a small quantity made into ointment on a bank bill of 70,000 pound, and it has made her first love Lord Falkland marry her: Sir Th. Robinson who intended to outlive his Barbadoes ironmongress,¹³ is dying for love of the same Countess.[…]13. Sarah Booth, m. (1) Samuel Salmon; m. (2) (between 1742–7, when he was Gov. of Barbadoes) Sir Thomas Robinson, Bt, of Rokeby. ‘An ironmonger’s widow, who gave him 10,000l. to be a lady, but would not follow him to England’ (HW’s notes to Maty’s Memoirs . . . of . . . Chesterfield, at end of Philobiblon Society, Miscellanies 1867–8, xi. 71; gec, Baronetage; Emily J. Climenson, Elizabeth Montagu, 1906, ii. 276).

1752 July 30, Gregory Whitewash, edited by W. S. Lewis and Ralph S. Brown, Jr, Horace Walpole’s Correspondence with George Montagu (The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Corerspondence; volume nine), volume I, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, published 1941, pages 139–140:

Then the portrait of Francis’s mistress is called La belle Furoniere, instead of Ferronière (the beautiful Ironmongress).

1836 January 2, “A Treatise on Painting. By Leonardo Da Vinci. Translated by J. F. Rigaud. With a Life of the Author. By J. W. Brown, Esq. Nicholls & Son.”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 427, London, page 10:

Our home was over an ironmonger’s shop, the ironmongress condescending to let us three rooms. She was a very grand lady was this ironmongress, very grand indeed; her flounces and her furbelows were wonderful to behold!

1859, “Marion”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXVI, Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox; London: Partridge & Co., chapter IV, page 139:

I understand; ah, if it were only in pursuit of some little ironmongress in the Pont Neuf, or the pretty widow of the Rue Saint Augustine, it might be worth your while.

[1878], Alexandre Dumas, “His Excellency the Duc d’Orleans”, in The Regent’s Daughter. An Historical Romance., London: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, page 86:

The English Ironmongress / The war has done more to push English women to the front in the world’s great activities, than Mrs. Pankhurst and her associates in the suffrage campaign of “frightfulness” were able to do in all their years of hair-pulling and arson.

1916, Hardware Dealers’ Magazine, page 754:

I often have the same dream: you are an ironmonger, I am your wife, an ironmongress …

1970, René de Obaldia, Plays, volume 2, London: Calder and Boyars, →ISBN, page 112:

The narrator is sensitive to country smells as well as to scenery, and to drunkenness, batterings, and the domestic tensions of local peasant households – encountered through friendships with the local poacher, Batt Ryan, and with the [?] village ironmongress.

1985 March 8, Toby Fitton, “Local pride”, in The Times Literary Supplement, number 4,275, page 266:


costermongress

The educated Englishman and the educated Hindoo have a more glorious work before them than the interchange of “niggers” and “parallelograms,” like Daniel O’ Connell and the costermongress!

1861 February, “The Reconciliation”, in Mookerjee’s Magazine, volume I, number I, Calcutta, page 74:

They were only a penny a pint, and the coarse big hand of the costermongress tossed a pile headlong and tail-long into a paper bag.

1892 June 18, Frank Yeigh, “Bread and Butter”, in Toronto Saturday Night, volume 5, number 30 (whole 238), Toronto, Ont., page 7:

The dilapidated costermongress with the worried look on her face and the “Football Evening News” in her hand, walked up to the meat-stall, and began turning over the stray pieces of meat labelled, “All choice.” “Wodjer want nah, missus?” inquired the butcher. “Piece er beef,” responded the lady. “When you was ’agglin’ for the mutton ’arf an hour ago,” objected the man of meat, “yer told me as ’ow yer couldn’t eat beef!” “No more I carn’t!” snapped the costermongress. “But I reckon I shall want a bit all the same to put on a black eye. My ’usband went ’an blacked Chelsea this mornin’, an’ I see by the piper they lorst!”

1910 December 27, “Preparing for the Fray”, in The Evening Record, volume 21, number 230, Windsor, Ont., page 4:

Mr. Tuppy, who long has wanted to do something to live down his namesake’s inactivtion^([sic]), and he was put into an arm[-]chair, where he looked like a feather boa one minute and a costermongress’ discarded hat the next.

1926 January 3, “An Arlen Character”, in Sunday State Journal, Lincoln, Neb., two, page eight:


mongress

And brooding let her sink to starless night, / Swifter than she sunk to a vote-mongress, / And on her grave this epitaph I’ll write—“Liberty: Sent here, poor girl, by Congress!”

1889 July 2, Will Garland, “Congress. With Thanks to Gray’s Elegy For the Rythm^([sic]) and No Apologies to Others For the Rhyme.”, in Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel, volume XXXI, number 67, Santa Cruz, Calif.:

[…]her household in a spick and span condition free from dirt and scandal mongresses she is lost.

The painting of which the disputed canvas is either the original or a copy has long been popularly known as “La Belle Ferroniere,” which translated literally means “The Beautiful Iron-mongress.”

1922 June 25, Guy Hickok, “The Real “La Belle Ferroniere””, in Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 82, number 175, New York, N.Y., page 4 E:

I am listing a dozen of them, without naming names, including the one about little old me, which was so wonderfully disproved when my daughter grew up in my veritable image, as Helen Gude once put it, and dismayed and disappointed what I call the New Yorker’s scandal[-]mongers and mongresses, the leading ones in the country.

1958 March 19, James Thurber, “The Twilight Years”, in Harrison Kinney, editor, The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber, Simon & Schuster, published 2002, page 687:

Little Miss Jane Berbie, the war-mongress Preziosilla, sings well and with a fetching verse and she added the gaiety this heavy tragedy opera with its psychologically unreal thinking needs.

1969 March 19, Doris Reno, “A Stage Full of Top Voices in ‘Forza del Destino’”, in The Miami Herald, 59th year, number 109, page 8-B:

Evita Peron at 10 (3) stars Faye Dunaway as the power-mongress in this autobiographical look at Juan Peron’s wife and political colleague.

1981 February 20, Lindsay Brown, “Worth Watching”, in TV Times (The Herald), page 26:

Meanwhile, it seems marriage isn’t in the cards after all for New York Sen. Alfonse D’Amato and Live With Regis and Kathie Lee gossip-mongress Claudia Cohen.

1996 February 24, “Valentine’s Day post-mortem: A special report”, in The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, page 2A:


fish mongress

The venerable fish mongress deposed that the law student was in the practice of occasionally taking oysters at her shop;

1826 January 24, Vermont Gazette, volume XVII, number 8 (whole 840), Bennington, Vt.: Darius Clark:

The fish mongress then puts the fish in whatever container she may have, or just spreads them out on a mat, figure 10.

1963, Alexandria Journal of Agricultural Research, page 28:

Laura Foley Ramsden is a fourth-generation fish mongress and owner of Foley Fish.

2012, Robert Garlough, Angus Campbell, Modern Garde Manger: A Global Perspective, 2nd edition, Delmar, page 382:


fish-mongress

Simple Sandford took his eel / To an old fish-mongress: / “ ’Tis is no conger-eel,” she said, / “But it is a Congress.”

1866 October, “A Nursery Rhyme on the Great Eel, Fished up in the See of Worcester”, in The Town Crier: Or, Jacob’s Belles Lettres, volume VI, number 3, Birmingham, page 7:

Good Mère Lollier wished to make a fish-mongress of her; mademoiselle spurned the proposal. What! she, a genius, a beauty, a divine voice, waste her life on horrid, ill-smelling fish?

1877 May, “Nanette. A Legend of the Days of Louis XV.”, in The Catholic World. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science., volume XXV, number 146, New York, N.Y.: The Catholic Publication Society Company, chapter I, page 271:

This latter class at the time possessed the delicacy of the Hamburg fish-mongress of to-day.

1916, Heinrich Böhmer, “Luther as a Scholar and Author”, in Carl F. Huth, Jr., transl., Luther in Light of Recent Research, New York, N.Y.: The Christian Herald, page 195:


cheesemongeress

My lady in a way, because my Lord Doldrum was seen speaking in Hyde Park to Miss Stilton, the rich cheesemongeress’s daughter.

1843, “Jemima’s Journal of Fashionable Life and Conversation”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XIII, London: Richard Bentley, page 342:

But, as the cheesemongeress had by this time so far recovered her forces as to be able to undertake the charge of her own offspring, and as the young cheesemonger is at the present moment a vigorous and thriving student at a Clapham boarding school, with every prospect of succeeding honourably to his father’s business, it may be assumed that Miss Hipswidge had fulfilled this early portion of her Curtius-like destiny with perfect satisfaction.

1860, Charles H[enry] Bennett, Robert B[arnabas] Brough, “Memoir of Miss Juliana Hipswidge. The Infant Prodigy.”, in Shadow and Substance, London: W. Kent & Co. (late D. Bogue), pages 29–30 (1872 edition):

For Mrs. Jones the draper’s wife to be able to boast that she bought a silk pincushion at twenty times its value from the Countess of Belminster—for Mrs. Smith the cheesemongeress to be able to show a photograph of Lady Eleanor Gore-Layton, signed with her own hand, are occasions that do not occur twice in a lifetime.

1880 November, Mrs. G[eorge] W[illiam] Godfrey [i.e., Mary Rose Godfrey], “A Little Bohemian”, in Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, the sixtieth volume, London: Richard Bentley & Son; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers; Paris: Galignani, page 377:

Paris. English Cheesemongeress: “How horrid, John; here is a fly in the soup.” Cheesemonger: “Hush, Maria, don’t expose your ignorance; the bill of fare is in French, and may be I ordered fly soup for what I know.”

1893 July 15, “Facetiæ”, in The London Reader of Literature, Science, Art, and General Information, volume LXI, number 1576, page 310:


cheesemongress

How did I now regret that I had deserted my pretty and well provided cheesemongress!

1801 October 5, John, Lord Campbell, “January 1800—August 1802”, in Mary Scarlett Hardcastle, editor, Life of John, Lord Campbell, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain: Consisting of a Selection from his Autobiography, Diary, and Letters, volume I, London: John Murray, published 1881, page 75:

My lady in a way, because my Lord Doldrum was seen speaking in Hyde Park to Miss Stilton, the rich cheesemongress’s daughter.

1845, John Fisher Murray, “Jemima’s Journal of Fashionable Life and Conversation”, in The World of London, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, page 252:

Had she ever dreamed she would grow up to be a spinster cheesemongress?

2017, Peni Jo Renner, Raid on Cochecho (book three of The Puritan Chronicles), Lulu, →ISBN:

“The mold is what gives the cheese its character,” says Tonda Corrente, Orlando’s foremost cheesemongress (yes, I made that up) and proprietor of La Femme du Fromage.

2020 October 8, Amy Drew Thompson, “Don’t break the mold: Enjoying moldy cheese, for some, is a process — an acquired taste”, in Orlando Sentinel, page D1 (online):


vanishing twin syndrome

vanishing twin syndrome (plural vanishing twin syndromes)

(obstetrics, pathology) A condition where one set of twins or multiple embryos dies in utero, disappears, or is resorbed partially or entirely.


heteropagus

cardiovascular system
cardiovascular system

(pathology, obstetrics) A condition where asymmetric conjoined twins, in which the tissues of a severely defective twin (the parasite), are dependent on the cardiovascular system of the other, intact twin (the autosite) for survival.


postdebutante

Coordinate term: debutante

A young woman who has made her formal appearance in society.


Clarissian

In 1260, the Clarissians moved to the convent of Santa Chiara in town; afterwards, the church became a Fransciscan friary...

1992, Samuel Kline Cohn, The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death, page 322:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.


Clarissan

The rule of the Clarissans, who take their name from St Clara, was very strict.

1865, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, Women's Work in the Church, page 130:


Clarist

His wife desired to enter a convent of Clarists.

1840, Kenelm Henry Digby, Mores Catholici, page 404:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare, sometimes particularly one who follows or advocates the original precepts established by St Clare.


Clarissine

From French clarissine, from Clarisse + -ine.


Poor Lady

Originally an epithet of St Clare of Assisi herself.

...his widow became a Poor Lady in the convent of Strala, where she long fulfilled the office of abbess...

Following Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor.

1991, Thomas Head, “Clare of Assisi”, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers:

The rule of Urban IV also clarified the nomenclature of the Clarissas, with the pope designating the group as the Order of St. Claire rather than Poor Ladies, or Poor Recluses, of San Damiano.

1995, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Queen Sancia of Mallorca and the Convent Church of Sta. Chiara in Naples”, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, volume 40, page 75:


Sister Minor

Calque of Medieval Latin sorores minores (“lesser sisters”) and its variants in Norman, Middle French, and Italian. Doublet of Sister Minoress.

cal

...any Graunte by us made unto the Abbas, Covent and Susters Minores withoute Algate of oure Citee of London...

1473, Rolls of Parliament, volume VI, page 78:

(Catholicism, obsolete or historical) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.


Sister Minoress

en-noun

Sister Minoress (plural Sisters Minoress)

From sister + Minoress, q.v. Doublet of Sister Minor.

...the Abbesse and Covent of the Susters Meneresses withoute Algate...

1451, Rolls of Parliament, volume V, page 224:


sister minoress

sister minoress (plural sisters minoress)

It appears that Catharine became a sister minoress of the house of Brisyerd, in Suffolk.

1823, William Hutchinson, History and Antiquities of Durham, volume III, page 84:

Alternative letter-case form of Sister Minoress.


misogynoirist

Narrators demonstrated resistance coping techniques through direct confrontation with aggressors, such as racists, sexists, homophobes, elitists, and misogynoirists.

2022 December 6, LeAnna T. Luney, “Like our foremothers survived: Self-education, direct confrontation, and humor as resistance coping in Black womxn and femme college student being”, in Frontiers in Education, volume 7, →DOI, page 10:

(neologism) A person who exhibits misogynoir.


femxle

From female + -x-. Respelled both to avoid containing male, and to use x (like e.g. Latinx), intended to convey that the word has a broad scope. Compare womxn.

OP-ED: THE FUTURE IS FEMXLE: MUTE MISOGYNY IN 2019 / Starting 2019, it’s hard not to feel some relief compared to the past two years. 2016-18 were — to put it bluntly — trash years for black womxn.

2019 January 11, Chelsea Higgs Wise, RVA Magazine:

The OML on Revry channel highlights queer female or femxle stories in a truly “always on” environment and free of charge.

2020 October 28, Dino-Ray Ramos, “Revry Launches First Live Queer Womxn TV Channel OML”, in Deadline:

Arizona Women’s Film Festival (Flagstaff, Arizona) / International: exploring the femxle experience from any avenue.

2021, azwomensfilmfest.com, quotee, Women’s Film Festivals & #WomenInFilm Databases: A Handbook, Spiral Collective, →ISBN:

The Ogle County area Womxn in Business is a network of femxle business owners holding space to connect, find support and build relationships with peers who recognize the hard work it takes to be entrepreneurs, [Meggan] Dickson-Grennan said.

2021 December 31, “Womxn in Business donates $300 to PADS”, in Forreston Journal, volume 155, number 35, page 5:

The second is a global version, a femxle-led³[…]³ In response to a global trend, the term femxle/womxn is used throughout in this network to be inclusive and encompass all persons identifying as female/woman.[…]Transformation Network Example 2: A Femxle-led Network Towards a New Economic Future / The global example of a transformation network, the femxle-led network of professional change-makers towards a new economic architecture, emerged out of a much larger consciousness on the challenges ahead towards regenerative civilization.[…]Its goal is to unite at least 36 femxle professionals from around the globe to develop a new economic architecture and disseminate it globally in a manifesto.[…]A high-level network advisory group made up of femxle experts and strategic forerunners in new economic thinking and practice is providing the expert input and support needed.[…]For the network process design, this meant that a high-level advisory group with femxle experts is integrated into the network-building process.[…]Within its first 5 months, overall 48 high-profile global femxle professionals were selected for membership in the network, out of more than 100 expressions of interest.

2022, Elisabeth Kühn, “Small Scale, Large Scale—Why Networks are the Cornerstone of Transformations”, in Petra Künkel, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir, editors, Transformation Literacy: Pathways to Regenerative Civilizations, Springer, →ISBN, part III (Stewarding Transformations Towards Wellbeing and a Healthy Planet), pages 297–304:

THE FEMXLE CREATIVES YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT[…]We’re spotlighting some of femxle creatives who are killing it in their respective fields.[…]However, we’re using today to gather some inspiring creatives all in one helpful place – here are the femxle creatives you should know about, thank us later.

Produced by Ellandar Productions, a British East and Southeast Asian (BESEA) led theatre company championing BESEA, British Muslim and femxle creatives “to bring new audiences from different cultural roots into the theatre”.

2022 May 31, Abbey Wong, “Why You Need to Watch ‘No Particular Order’ AT Theatre503 This Summer”, in Resonate:

All Femxle Tattoo Studio, The Wolf Den, Overcame Adversity to Provide an Inclusive Space

2022 June 3, Udella J. Miranda, 303 Magazine:


babusya

“Aaaahhhh!” the babusya cried, throwing her arms wide and wrapping them around her granddaughter.[…]“Mary, this is my babusya.”

2009, Chuck Holton, Meltdown (Task Force Valor; book three), Multnomah Books, →ISBN, page 254:

When Father Hryhorii first arrived, the old babusyas, ignorant of the way religious affairs were ordered, thanked God that the church was not sealed up or blown into the air.[…]‘Who are you going to see, sir?’ A babusya, who was sitting near to him on the bus asked, ‘Perhaps your family. I know everyone in the village, I see you are not a local.’

2013, Vasyl Baziv, translated by Stephen Komarnyckyj, The Cross, or the Chocolates that Exploded: A Post Biblical Detective Story, Tucson, Ariz.: Anaphora Literary Press, pages 8 and 195:

I thought we’d just take my babusya to visit relatives in Vinnytsia and then, after stopping by my dad’s parents’ house in Snizhne, we would return to Tallinn in time to see the final episodes of Dynasty.[…]I didn’t cry even though as I buried my babusya, I was also burying my secret hopes of visiting her and staying permanently.

2021, Sofi Oksanen, translated by Owen F. Witesman, Dog Park, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN:

As my mother told me this story, I always just assumed that my babusya gave my mother the doll to keep her, a small, bedridden child, occupied, but my mother always emphasized the importance of the doll and how it was given to her to help her get better.

2022, Madame Pamita, Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:

What keeps him going is the reaction he gets from the people he helps, the sweet, old babusyas he delivers medication to, the kids in the children’s ward, injured from shelling, whose eyes lit up when they saw the toys he brought them.

2022 June 12, Brandon Barrett, “From the Sea to Sky to Kharkiv, a ray of hope”, in Pique Newsmagazine:


terven

en-adj

terven (comparative more terven, superlative most terven)

more terven (comparative)
most terven (superlative)

Happy #ldov [Lesbian Day of Visibility] to all them terven ladies and deffos no^([sic]) to males UwU

2018 April 26, Pidge (but evil) (@radfempidge), Twitter:

There are those of the terven persuasion in my mentions and I have exactly no energy to deal today.

2019 June 3, Roo B. (@roo_b_boy), Twitter:

Hi gyns!! I'm a terven artist who makes radfem-themed patches!!

2020 August 28, terfery is afoot (@gynosupremacist), Twitter:

(Internet slang) Characteristic of, related to, or espousing gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminism.


terven

en-noun

terven (countable and uncountable, plural tervens)

Any US radfems in the New England area? Watching with envy all the U.K. tervens getting to meet up

2019 September 7, coffee spoons (@coffeespoons3), Twitter:

Hey friends there's a few tervens who are harrasing^([sic]) this incredibly important binder fund aimed at the GRT community,

2022 May 4, Roo B. (@roo_b_boy), Twitter:

Tervens! I hope u all had a lovely weekend!

2022 June 12, Wild Womyn Workshop (@Wild_Womyn), Twitter:

(Internet slang, countable) A gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminist.

I gots data (at least for UK Terven)

2020 August 18, Maya Forstater (@MForstater), Twitter:

Because terven don't actually care about women's rights or equality

2020 December 15, Max has Nightmare Eyes (@chaoticgaythey), Twitter:

Request, terven and allies. I'm looking for articles written by lesbians and gay men arguing that "queer" is still a homophobic slur.

2022 June 16, Kara Dansky (@KDansky), Twitter:

(Internet slang, uncountable) Gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminists collectively.


Prosecco Stormfront

From Prosecco, a wine varietal, and Stormfront, a white supremacist website, the implication being that Mumsnet has become a radicalisation pipeline for upper-middle-class mothers (sometimes referred to pejoratively as wine mums).

Prosecco Stormfront have worked themselves up into a transphobic frenzy of utter vileness now.

2019 November 27, Banquo's Ghost (@_banquos_ghost_), Twitter:

Prosecco Stormfront aka Mumsnet had to shut down the Graham Linehan thread to moderate it because of the sheer influx of new accounts trolling everyone.

2020 June 27, Gemma Stone (@notCursedE), Twitter:

Prosecco Stormfront slagging off another cis woman, all because she doesn’t agree with their obsessive transphobic hate-cult! 🙄😖

2022 May 20, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) The British parenting-focused message board Mumsnet, viewed as a locus of gender-critical discourse and activism.


Mumsnut

Blend of Mumsnet + nut (“a crazy person”).

blend

Here’s some folks who actually know what they’re talking about, you don’t get that on Mumsnut.

2018 July 25, Hetty Spoon (@Henriettaspoon), Twitter:

Oh, and in the light of the current mumsnut discussion... I block all transphobes. Just sayin'.

2019 October 12, Annie Wallace (@anniewallace), Twitter:

Mumsnut is melting down, tee hee. "EVEN WPUK", lol

2021 March 24, Stephanie Anne Calvert (@StephAcalvert), Twitter:


Mumsnutter

Blend of Mumsnet + nutter (“a crazy or eccentric person”).

Mumsnutters use all kinds of euphemisms to denigrate trans women (no acknowledgement of trans people) but somehow 'cis' is a hate crime?

2018 November 17, Aimee Evelyn (@AimeeEvelyn202), Twitter:

*waves at all the obsessive Mumsnutters trawling my twitter to ‘report back’ to the terven “mother ship” for back-slaps and gossip* 🙄

2019 November 1, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter:

Hey trans guys, did you know that you're likely to be a "trojan horse" according to Mumsnutters?

2021 September 8, Rachel the wolf (@TheWolfSpirit1), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A gender-critical poster on the Mumsnet feminism boards.


radblr

Radblr is saturated with women calling themselves radical feminists who have the barest grasp on what that phrase means.

2019 August 17, Radfem Black (@RadfemBlack), Twitter:

My only contribution to radblr is occasional snide commentary, and they're not even particularly funny. Sorry y'all UwU

2020 October 27, normieenvy (@normieenvy), Twitter:

tho I did discover radblr in my late teens/early 20s and that was really eye opening for me 👀

2021 March 11, mandy (@siyeonbora), Twitter:

(Internet slang) The community of radical feminists on Tumblr.


radtwt

do u know by any means if any of these groups accepts women that are new to radtwt and trying to get familiarized with the discourse?

2020 December 5, V (@dyke_me_down), Twitter:

i bet jkr has a secret account on radtwt—which one of you is it, come forward

i've been crypto on radblr for a while but i figured i'd make an account on radtwt since twt makes more sense to me.

2021 October 8, katarina (@wyvernfem), Twitter:

(Internet slang) The community of radical feminists on Twitter.


TERF Island

NY Times does another article about the terrible women of TERF Island...but without talking to any of them of course.

2021 February 26, Maya Forstater (@MForstater), Twitter:

Do I want to know why the Queen of TERF island is trending?
 I do not.

2021 December 13, Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu), Twitter:

When I came back to the UK this year people said, “are you sure you want to leave the US? It’s really bad in the UK right now.”
Yeeeeah I’m gonna take my chances on Terf Island.
That should say a lot about how terrifying the US has become.

2022 May 3, James Stephanie Sterling (@JimSterling), Twitter:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

(slang, derogatory) Great Britain or the United Kingdom, viewed as a centre of gender-critical feminism, or more broadly of transphobic policies and attitudes.


Tranada

Sadly the same is happening in Tranada, where I live.

2019 December 26, RadFemGem (@gem_fem), Twitter:

Oh Tranada. You are such a disappointment. I never knew you had so many legislators with no respect for women.

2020 June 5, The Honourable Yona (@yona1959), Twitter:

Scotland is still the fight we all need to fight, SNP are trying to emulate Tranada.

2020 September 20, Paintpot (@Paintpot17), Twitter:

(derogatory) Canada, viewed as excessively supportive of trans rights or hostile toward gender-critical beliefs and policies.


gendercritter

Gendercritters never begin by being critical of their own gender stereotypes. It’s almost as if they think it’s everyone else’s job to free them from their stereotype performances.

2017 December 15, Cristan Williams (@cristanwilliams), Twitter:

Also, from the way they talk about non-passing trans women I suspect most gendercritters are only OK with GNC men so long as they fit a highly specific mould of thin, white, youthful androgyny.

2019 January 23, Maria H (@ThisMariaHutch), Twitter:

Have gendercritters tried blaming coronavirus on trans people yet?

2020 February 28, Iza Pride (@IzabelaKaramia), Twitter:

(derogatory) A gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminist.


tervert

Found one of these stuck on the back of the toilet cubicle door at the Museum of and in Manchester today, if anyone needed to know which public toilets the grubby terverts have been knocking about in lately.

2021 August 6, :, ew (@llewcid), Twitter:

Do you beleive^([sic]) that children should be required to submit to invasive genital inspections in order to participate in sports, as gender critical terverts have mandated by law in Florida?

2021 December 27, Crash (@StarCrashr), Twitter:

Thank you for standing up to the terverts! They think every normal person in the world should enable their weird sexual obsession with bullying trans people.

2022 June 29, AJ (@DreamSerpentine), Twitter:

gender-critical feminist
gender-critical feminist

(slang, derogatory) A gender-critical feminist or anti-transgender advocate, viewed as having an unhealthy fixation on trans people's genitals.


TERFery

can't stop thinking about all these British ladies that apparently need the smelling salts because a judge ruled that TERFery isn't an equality act PROTECTED CHARACTERISTIC akin to disability, race, sex, religion or sexual orientation

2019 December 19, Christa Peterson (@christapeterso), Twitter:

But accusations of TERFery have been sufficient to intimidate many people, institutions and organisations I once admired, who’re cowering before the tactics of the playground.

2020 June 10, J. K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues:

We're doing the usual road from "just asking questions" to "trans are being mean to me" to full-blown terfery and at this point can we just skip to the end?

2021 October 23, Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll), Twitter:

The state or quality of holding trans-exclusionary feminist views.


cryptoTERF

Cryptoterfs are really good at using social justice language to weasel themselves into these spaces and make people accept Bad Ideas and i hate it.

2019 October 25, shut up and go in peace (@deidaravore), Twitter:

ok so i think my moot is a cryptoterf and a bunch of ppl follow them and i dmed them about it (cause they’re following someone posting violent transmisogynist & transphobic shit) […]

2021 March 15, alina (@sindibunny), Twitter:

i'm glad i've curated my following on this account well enough from my last account that i don't have to read any cryptoterf "b- but queew is a swuw used to siwence wesbians 🥺" takes anymore

2021 June 15, Roo (@roopicoroo), Twitter:

A person who conceals or masks their gender-critical views, especially from friends or within trans-inclusive spaces.


Glincel

Blend of Glinner + incel, the first component being taken from Linehan's now-suspended Twitter account (@glinner), itself a blend of his given name and surname.

Glincels in force doing their master’s bidding in response to this tweet.

2019 February 27, meh (@ohnonotphil), Twitter:

Seen a lot of Glincels and even Linehan himself repeating the lie “people are forceably transing gay teenage kids”.

2019 September 17, Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack), Twitter:

at some point you'll incur the wrath of him or his Glincels.

2020 May 8, hashtag girlboss (@surfacingwater), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A fervent defender of Graham Linehan and/or supporter of his views on transgender people.


TWAW

The woke left is aware of how mainstream media rigs news in favour of the ruling class but doesn't wonder why mainstream media agree that TWAW.

2020 July 2, Adeline Virginia Stephen (@A_V_Stephen), Twitter:

i used to be a sex worker and a staunch liberal feminist that firmly believed twaw.

2022 June 26, jah (@planetofplanet), Twitter:

The use of pronoun badges is intended to enforce TWAW.

2022 June 29, Helen Saxby (@helensaxby11), Twitter:

(Internet slang) Initialism of trans women are women.


rudefem

I will never fucking understand how these "rudefems" think using straight up slurs and ridiculing physical appearance is fucking necessary or productive.

2019 July 16, 🧅 (@ThatsInThePast), Twitter:

watching myself slowly turn into a rudefem as these people piss me off and disgust me in new ways daily has been amusing

2020 October 7, mich (@pinktaxed), Twitter:

Shoutout to all the rudefems who never bite their tongues, say what they mean and don’t back down.

2021 December 6, lez-being (@separatismrules), Twitter:

(slang) A radical feminist who is blunt, confrontational, and sometimes abusive in their approach.


nicefem

Another day being a mean lesbian and not a nicefem and I've never felt hotter

2020 April 23, Inappropriate Happiness (@gaytoastu), Twitter:

im one of the nicefems too, i barely get in qrt fights and usually gender ppl correctly aswell^([sic]),,,, wait until they meet the rudefems😌

2020 November 15, Amy (@chlorofem), Twitter:

I’m getting there daily. I was sooo nice when I first peaked. And I appreciate nicefems, still am one, but I’m def learning to take less shit.

2021 March 13, zara (@cache_pas), Twitter:

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A radical feminist who is cordial and patient in their approach.


factfem

Polite factfems help people outside of this discussion wake up 🥰

2020 January 11, Lorelei (@hatpinwoman), Twitter:

trying to be my best factfem self by writing a long introductory thread to radical feminism 😔✊

2021 December 12, Yana (@lesbian_envy), Twitter:

Benji is also a great factfem. She always has so much information.

2022 July 1, Lorelei (@hatpinwoman), Twitter:

(slang) A radical feminist who uses persuasion and education in their approach.


meanfem

I think we absolutely must be kind to rad learning women so they aren’t scared away by meanfems doing their thing 😋

2021 March 29, zara (@cache_pas), Twitter:

i love meanfems so much idgaf about appearing sane

2021 March 29, thea (@wingfem), Twitter:

It's become popular among the "meanfem" segment of radfems too.

2022 March 30, Fox (@RohanTheMajesty), Twitter:

(slang, sometimes derogatory) Synonym of rudefem.


febfem

Abbreviation of female-exclusive bisexual female.

abbrev

possibly The spiciest take of today from me: generalising bi women is weird as hell and demanding that the only type of ""good"" bi women are febfems is 😐

2021 April 11, @wingfem, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-21:

i'm a febfem and i've never had a boyfriend in my life, now what

2021 September 22, sarah (@sarahofzion), Twitter:

i feel very lucky to be a goldstar febfem. its not easy trying to navigate a world that pressures and coerces women into dating and having sex with men!!! i dont think people realize just how sick it is to hear that sex with men is inevitable. hearing it made me want to d ie.

2022 July 4, @commieharley, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-21:

(gender-critical slang) A (generally cisgender) bisexual woman who exclusively dates other women.


TEHM

Acronym of trans-exclusionary homosexual male. Coined after the pattern of TERF (“trans-exclusionary radical feminist”).

acronym

Slowly for the TEHMs at the back ... not fancying a trans man (if you’re gay) doesn’t make you a transphobe. Making a big issue of it, or ironically claiming you aren’t transphobic just because you don’t find trans men attractive, means you probably are transphobic!

2019 June 7, Eloïse-saur-u (@WorldWearyWoman), Twitter:

There is something organised about a load of TERFs and TEHMs who all follow each other on Twitter ganging up on Stonewall for supporting the trans community.

2021 May 23, doggy foodle (@doodle_bobby), Twitter:

can we also stop pretending like terf rhetoric doesn’t also deeply affect trans men? bc terfs are often the ones to spread misinfo like this and indoctrinate ppl into being TEHMs

2021 June 6, jay (@bumbleshines), Twitter:

(usually derogatory) A trans-exclusionary homosexual male; a gay man who holds gender-critical or anti-transgender views, particularly one who considers trans men to be women.


autogynesmile

I guess deep dream decided you needed a bigger autogynesmile

2015 July 19, Mirah Image (@mirahimage), Twitter:

And there's that autogynesmile, that DUPER'S DELIGHT.

2017 December 7, Doctress Jiu Bao (@DoctressXiaoMao), Twitter:

And always with the autogynesmile. That smug face would make me lose my shit.

2020 July 24, Dixie Chick (@dixiechick547), Twitter:

(slang, derogatory, gender critical) A coy or gloating smile exhibited by a trans woman.


FART

Acronym of feminism-appropriating reactionary transphobe deliberately constructed to be homonymous with fart.

Reminder that FARTs don't actually believe trans women are men. They don't speak to people they think are men the way they do to trans women.

2018 September 16, Panic Dixie Scream Girl (@ChaKatKimber), Twitter:

“Blaming trans people for everything” is to FARTs as Three Blind Mice is to the bloody recorder.

2019 May 16, Dan (@DanDanYamagata), Twitter:

Tellingly, FARTs often end up in alliance with other far right movements with xenophobic, white supremacist, and nativist and ethno-nationalist reactionary politics.

2022, Alex Khasnabish, Making Sense of Society: Power and Possibility, page 118:

(derogatory) A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).


muh soggy knees

Distorted pronunciation of misogyny. See muh.


fertility clinic

en-noun

fertility clinic (plural fertility clinics)

(obstetrics) A medical clinic that assists couples, and sometimes individuals, who wish to become parents.


antigenderist

From anti- + gender + -ist, anti- + genderist, or antigender + -ist.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:antigenderist.

One who supports or engages in antigenderism.


Stepford wife

From the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (adapted into a 1975 film of the same name), in which a woman moves to the fictional town of Stepford, Connecticut and discovers its eerily docile housewives are android replacements.

Parroting back her husband’s words, by the end of the play, Kate sounds either like a brainwashed member of a bizarre religious cult or a Stepford wife, a woman whose personality has been wiped out and replaced by one more acceptable to her husband.

1995, Regina Barreca, Perfect Husbands & Other Fairy Tales): Demystifying Marriage, Men, And Romance, page 214:

"You can't just sit there and tell me you want Lili to become a 'Stepford wife' at your beck and call. […]

2005, Mollie Molay, An Engagement of Convenience, page 210:

So that prompted me to ask the question: isn’t the ideal Muslim wife in actual fact a Stepford Wife?

2006, Na'ima B. Robert, From My Sisters' Lips: A Unique Celebration of Muslim Womanhood, page 272:

(derogatory) A woman who unquestioningly submits to and serves her male partner, and/or does not seem to have interests, wishes, or pursuits of her own.

Ira Levin
The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives (1975 film)


humyn

From human, respelled so as not to contain the word man. Compare womyn.

Unfortunately, as the quantity of humyns grew, their ethical quality diminished. The Lord performed a moral evaluation of the behavior of humynkind and was not pleased.

1997, Robert Martin Walker, Politically Correct Old Testament Stories, page 25:

Beauvoir instead emphasises our fundamental intersubjectivity as humyns, that is, the undeniability of our relatedness to other humyns, and posits that this both shapes (and thus to some extent delimits) but also enables our existence.

2014, Lucy Nicholas, Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come:

(rare, nonstandard) Feminist spelling of human


humynkind

I have been mistaken as many things on this journey, by myself and others... there is no denying, however, the chaos my presence has brought across the usa^([sic]), the world, and indeed, the souls of humynkind.

2008, John Scott Ridgway, Waking Up Jesus:

(rare, nonstandard) Feminist spelling of humankind


shobe

tlb

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial)

From Hokkien 小妹 (sió-bē, “younger sister; youngest sister”).

bor

(informal) a younger sister; little sister

(familiar) a young female junior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)

(informal) term of address for a younger sister

(familiar) term of address for a young female junior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)


TERFspeak

Truth be told parroting actual TERFspeak for it's^([sic]) comedy value might have been a bad call.

2018 March 13, venyle (@cold_inthewater), Twitter:

"Trans-identified male" is TERFspeak for trans woman.

2019 December 17, fern +r | Badenlily (@fernseasons), Twitter:

“Respecting other people’s boundaries” is just TERFspeak for “trans women are not welcome to use public spaces”.

2022 March 3, Bette Joy (@SlaggitySlag), Twitter:

The jargon and rhetoric of gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminists.


trans cult

The rage and despair of seeing your flesh and blood drift into the trans cult and turn against you is unspeakable.

2018, "GenderCriticalDad", "'I'm Not A Hideously Bigoted Parent Who Doesn't 'Get' It'", in Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body (eds. Heather Brunskell-Evans & Michele Moore), page 82

Clichéd insults await the wrongthinkers: deny TW and you’re a bigoted transphobe; assert it and you’re a deluded member of the transcult.

2020, Alex Byrne, “Are women adult human females?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 177, page 3798:

There is seemingly a widely held concern that trans men are simply naive and manipulated gender non-conforming lesbians who have been led astray by the so-called trans cult or trans cabal.

2021, Finn Mackay, Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex, unnumbered page:

(gender-critical, derogatory) The transgender community, viewed as cultlike.


SWERFy

en-adj

SWERFy (comparative SWERFier, superlative SWERFiest)

SWERFier (comparative)
SWERFiest (superlative)

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Maybe this year we stop saying brandwh*re? Maybe that slur doesn't belong to all of us?? Maybe we think about the SWERFy streak in our community??? Just some thoughts

2021 February 9, nifty nif (@nifty_nif), Twitter:

The most artistic SWers I know don’t want to make NFTs because they see how misogynistic, transphobic, racist and SWERFy the culture is.

2021 November 21, natrix (@crypt0natrix), Twitter:

I was in a panel today & pushed back against "public health" narratives that position people selling sex + using drugs as traumatized people first. This is actually a really SWERFy position to take.

2022 February 25, Raani Begum (@raanibegum), Twitter:

(informal, neologism) Resembling, characteristic of, or related to anti-sex work feminism.


STEMinist

A self-proclaimed “STEMinist,” Imamura is looking forward to this new challenge as much to pave the way for others even as she completes her own education in the sciences.

2016 July, Dwain Hebda, “The Steminist Way”, in Savvy, page 25:

How can English teachers harness the power of nonfiction to inspire girls to be STEMinists?

2018, NCTE Annual Convention Program, page 66:

And most importantly, it shows that women in science come in all shapes and sizes, that we can become STEMinists at any age, and that STEM can be and should be an inclusive field.

2021, Chona VinceCruz-Abeledo, “STEMotivation”, in NatureVolve, number 9, page 32:

(neologism) A woman or girl who works in or is interested in a STEM field.


STEMinism

"STEMinism" is necessary in order to overcome the current stereotype that boys are more suited for careers in hard sciences.

2017 March 3, Jessica Jen, “STEMinism: a step for gender equality”, in The Smoke Signal, Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, CA, page 3:

STEMinism places the onus on the individual student or scientist to succeed in STEM fields rather than interrogating and removing structural barriers to success.

2019, Kristen Myers, Courtney Gallaher, Shannon McCarragher, “STEMinism”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume 28, number 6:

STEMinism campaigns are growing up but if these campaigns are promoted by only women the engagement will be more difficult [17-18].

2020, Sofia Scataglini & Estela Perez Luque, "Closing the Gender Gap in DHM", in DHM2020: Proceedings of the 6th International Digital Human Modeling Symposium, August 31 - September 2, 2020 (eds.D. Högberg, E. Brolin, & L. Hanson), page 409

(neologism) The movement to improve the representation of women in STEM fields, and to remove professional, academic, and social barriers to women's advancement.


femsplainer

(informal) One (especially a woman) who femsplains.


dwarrowdam

Coined by online Tolkien fans in the early 2010s, from dwarrow, an alternate word for the fantasy race of dwarves in Tolkien's legendarium, and dam (“female parent, mother”).

Kiaran stands at the heart of the room, speaking to a dwarrowdam with fiery red hair.

2014 May 1, LineofDurin (@Tiorvi), Twitter:

Goodnight dwarrows and dwarrowdams. As well as all others. I am retiring to my chambers for the eve. Court shall be held tomorrow.

2014 December 16, King Thrór (@Actual_Thror), Twitter:

Samila smiled and he sensed that this dwarrowdam was tougher than flint and able to go whatever lengths necessary to save her people.

2017, Anne Olga Vea, A Dragonslayer's Tale, page 472:

(chiefly Tolkien fandom slang, fantasy) A female of the dwarf race.

Dwarves (Middle-earth)
Tolkien's legendarium


grandmomma

There’s been an “accent on youth” where exhibitors are concerned, and Nat Bernstein, owner Bernstein Circuit, followed suit.[…]But, the mommas and grandmommas figured the accent was in the wrong place, so they suggested something just for them on the same par, with prizes as well.

1948 September 1, “News of the Territory”, in The Exhibitor, page NT-4:

No sooner do we walk in the door, than here come the kids, the mommas, the poppas, the grandmommas and the grandpoppas, all holding these little autograph books.

1962 July 9, Huston Horn, “Baseball’s Babbling Brook”, in Sports Illustrated, page 63:

We have systematically been taught to worship beauty and brains, as everyone else, and so have our grandmommas and grandpoppas and uncles and aunts and cousins and neighbors.

1974, James Dobson, Hide or Seek, Old Tappan, N.J.: Power Books, Fleming H. Revell Company, →ISBN, page 49:


grandmumma

Besides, my grandmumma always said that you come out the wuss whenever you get into a pee’n contest with a skunk.

1983, Betty Jane Morison, Port and a Star Boarder: A Little Maine Murder, Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 93:

Suddenly, from the crumpled body erupted a loud moan followed by childlike howls of “Grandmumma! Grandmumma! Grandmumma!”

2004, Anthony C. Winkler, The Annihilation of Fish and Other Stories, Macmillan Caribbean, →ISBN, page 132:

Every culture has its own folklore, magic and mystical practices. If you’re not sure of yours, talk to your family, trace your family heritage and ask questions of your aunties and grandmummas.

2017, Lisa Lister, Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic., Hay House, →ISBN, page 41:


woman ☕

Bro💀, I was on my way back home and this woman ☕ driver almost ran her car over me..

As a woman☕, I find this funny.

2022 July 31, u/ApatheticScoundrel, “get it guys? because women!”, in Reddit, r/terriblefacebookmemes, archived from the original on 2022-08-01:

that's not just a woman, that's a Woman☕

2022 August 11, u/Clear-Mongoose-3935, “Woman☕☕☕☕☕”, in Reddit, r/antimeme, archived from the original on 2022-08-12:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A woman, especially one acting in a stereotypically feminine way.


wifeism

In this chapter I examine the emergence of wifeism and the bureaucratization of women's concerns in Nigeria through state involvement, especially since the early 1980s.

1999, Amrita Basu, C. Elizabeth McGrory, Women's Movements in Global Perspective, page 213:

But this is not unconnected with the fact that the electoral system in Nigeria is still skewed in favour of wifeism.

1999, Matthew Hassan Kukah, Democracy and Civil Society in Nigeria, page 168:

(Nigeria, politics) A patriarchal societal tendency whereby women can only achieve things as the wives of men of rank.


lunachick

A lunachick.” “Lunachick?” Lux thought of the little girl with uncombable hair. A girl like that is always stigmatized and misunderstood. Of course she'd be called crazy because of her syndrome; her hair spiraling in a hive of curls[…]

2007 July 31, Maria Flook, Lux: A Novel, Little, Brown, →ISBN:

When your woman becomes a self-destructive “lunachick” and drives you up the wall, she's not trying to break off the relationship. She's trying to transform herself, yourself, and the relationship to next level.

2003, Thomas David Kehoe, Hearts and Minds: How Our Brains Are Hardwired for Relationships, Casa Futura Technologies, →ISBN, page 217:

Freaking lunachick. I can imagine her looking at herself in her mirror and going, “Mirror God, Mirror God on the wall—am I, like, the hottest, most radical Christian Crusader of them all? Amazing! I will spread your word, Mirror God,[…]

2020 August 11, Lori Lansens, This Little Light: A Novel, Abrams, →ISBN:

(colloquial, derogatory) A lunatic girl or woman.


mesonephric rest

en-noun

mesonephric rest (plural mesonephric rests)

(medicine, gynaecology) Remnants of the mesonephros in a girl or woman that have persisted past the embryonic stage.


orgasm shot

(medicine, gynaecology) A procedure involving the injection of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) into the vagina, claimed to improve orgasms.


male-

Ignoring male-odorous patriarchal rituals and ceremonies, we celebrate New Sparks of Elemental Feminist Genius with our own festivals.

1998, Mary Daly, Quintessence: Realizing the Archaic Future:

(rare, derogatory, feminism) Variant of mal-; used to associate men with negative things


femstruate

en-verb

femstruate (third-person singular simple present femstruates, present participle femstruating, simple past and past participle femstruated)

femstruates (present singular third-person)
femstruating (participle present)
femstruated (participle past)
femstruated (past)

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Blend of fem- + menstruate, to avoid the word men.

(rare, nonstandard, feminism) Synonym of menstruate


femopause

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Blend of fem- + menopause, to avoid the word men.

(rare, nonstandard, feminism) Synonym of menopause


modern girl

(historical) A Japanese woman who followed westernized fashions and lifestyles in the period after World War I.


NAMALT

Coordinate term: AWALT

Initialism of not all men are like that.


trans the gay away

trans the gay away (third-person singular simple present transes the gay away, present participle transing the gay away, simple past and past participle transed the gay away)

transes the gay away (present singular third-person)
transing the gay away (participle present)
transed the gay away (participle past)
transed the gay away (past)

We're seeing this new 'trans-the-gay-away' movement happening, and people think that it's progressive, when in reality this is happening in some of the most conservative areas across the globe.

2020 February 13, Mary Farrow, quoting Mary Kate Fain, “On transgenderism: Common ground, and real differences, between Catholics and radical feminists”, in Catholic News Agency:

One plausible line of inquiry by those questioning transitioning is whether it involves homophobia, as in the phrase "trans the gay away".

2020 May 4, Monica Rose, “10 painful things I learned when my daughter transitioned”, in MercatorNet:

A gay clinician there resigned due to concerns that some parents appeared overly happy to "trans the gay away".

2021 August 12, Petra Kindler, “Conversion Therapies Bill”, in Irish Times:

LGB Alliance believes that treatment at the NHS’s Tavistock Clinic is "transing the gay away". It argues that puberty blockers and experimental drugs are the "greatest threat" to young people it represents.

2022 September 12, Hayley Dixon, “Tavistock clinic 'putting young gay people at risk by treating them as trans'”, in The Telegraph:

(gender-critical slang, derogatory) To induce a gay person to undergo gender transition so that they become heterosexual.


office girl

From office + girl, as a female equivalent to office boy.

A junior female clerk employed in a professional office to perform odd jobs, such as running errands or making copies.


le$bian

(Internet slang) Filter-avoidance spelling of lesbian.


pro-deather

Without realizing it, the pro-deathers and the police together end up closing the clinic down, thus preventing aboritons on that day, all to avoid violence!

1995 February 21, Angie Miller, “Church Will Always Have PR Problems with World”, in Liberty Champion, Lynchburg, Virginia, retrieved 2022-11-19, page 13:

Recently our local abortion rights fund received a piece of mail enjoining “pro-lifers” to “attack” abortion providers and other “peddlers of death. . . . When we shoot, we should aim for the lower spine and the buttocks. At this time we probably don’t need to kill to discourage some pro-deathers from implementing their agenda.”

1998, Marlene Gerber Fried, “Abortion in the United States – Legal but Inaccessible”, in Rickie Solinger, editor, Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950–2000, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 209:

a. 2013, “Euthanasia Pro-Deather Spills the Beans”, Pro-Life Victoria, archived from the original on October 26, 2022.

(derogatory, dysphemistic, uncommon) A person who is supportive of the practice or legality of abortion or who is opposed to “pro-life” causes.


rapehon

Compound of rape + hon (“a trans woman who does not pass”).

com+

we need to form twinkhon death squads to hunt and execute the rapehons

2018 October 26, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:

>also repressing trans, will evolve into rapehon at 50

2018 November 7, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:

from what i can tell it it a term used by reddit rapehons to explain why they get hard when crossdressing

2021 December 8, @estrogenizedboy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-12-08:

Im not ugly enough to immediately revolt and disgust all my friends like a boomer rapehon but im ugly enough for them to want to befriend me to make themselves feel better in comparison

2022 March 22, @aphextwinkhon, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-03-22:

but yeah from the laptop stickers and being an oldshit (19) rapehon this *is* literally me

2022 May 10, @estrogenizedboy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-12-08:

If Destiny was a trans woman he would be a rapehon

2022 May 18, @LibtardAthena, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-05-18:

this 14 year old kid is out of her mind calling people "rapehons" and telling them to "41%." youre in middle school?

[2022 September 23, @wittlett, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-12-08:

the current moment creates this sort of deepfaked person with no traits outside of posting or saying "ive been observing this rapehon clique" etc

2022 September 23, @LeadingLoss, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-12-08:

(4chan /lgbt/ slang, derogatory) A trans woman who acts in a perverted or rapey way.


nipple confusion

en-noun

nipple confusion (usually uncountable, plural nipple confusions)

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The midwives and breastfeeding consultants that I saw scared me with stories of nipple confusion, so I was reluctant to try a bottle too early. This led to my baby refusing a bottle and, later, breast milk from a cup.

2017 March 28, Carmen Fishwick, “'An unrealistic pressure': mothers on what it's like to breastfeed”, in The Guardian:

The situation in which an infant has difficulty in switching between feeding on maternal nipples and artificial nipples (such as feeding bottles or pacifiers), often resulting in ineffective sucking or refusal to breastfeed.


nipple-confused

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(of an infant) Affected by nipple confusion; having difficulty in switching between feeding on maternal nipples and artificial nipples.


ancient marineress

ancient marineress (plural ancient marineresses)

A reference to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in which an old mariner corners a reluctant wedding guest to tell a story of a horrific voyage.

Further than this mystic demonstration none of them had gotten, so far, for Mrs. Parker kept her glittering eye on them like an Ancient Marineress and “The boldest held his breath for a time!”

1879 March 5, [Rose Terry Cooke], “Dr. Parkers’ Patty”, in Nanaimo Free Press, volume V, number 92, Nanaimo, B.C.:

Here’s to the health of my respected ancient mariner-ess—a veritable old maid, all forlorn, whose legacy is a long time coming, but sure to get here some time.

1881 October 14, “Aunt Sarah’s Fortune”, in Valley Sentinel, volume 18, number 23, Carlisle, Pa., page 1:

“I’m all ready,’ announced the fluffy haired girl just then, thrusting the last long pin through her new hat. “So am I,” said the sallow young woman. “But the ancient marineress here—” “Sit down,” commanded the philosopher.

1904 June 18, “The Girl Philosopher”, in Marion Daily Star, volume XXVII, number 173, Marion, Ohio, page six:

Two humorous numbers were given. One by Mr. G. C. Donovan, Lexington, N. C., which was entitled, Breakers Ahead, and in which he depicted Elon life and society in the year of grace 1950. The other was an original impersonation by Esmond R. Riedel, Holland, Va., to which he gave the title, The Ancient Marineress. It was a graphic portrayal of one of our “evening sisters” making her maiden voyage to London.

1917 March 1, The Herald of Gospel Liberty, volume CIX, number 9, page 212 (20):

But now it’s Shirley finally making her film debut as the slattern looking for her lost youth in “Come Back, Little Sheba” for Hal Wallis and she’s hailing the advent with: “The ancient marineress finally arrives in Hollywood.[…]”

1952 February 25, Daily News, number 17,821, Los Angeles, Calif., page 17:

The worst of this lot of frustrated authors was a trembling old woman who insisted that he must read her manuscript immediately or it would be stolen by her enemies. . . . Unable to shake off this Ancient Marineress, he took her into his office, opened the huge ribbon tied manuscript, and found only blank pages.

1953 April 19, Fanny Butcher, “The Literary Spotlight”, in Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume CXII, number 16, part 4, page 11:

But an hour later we observed what emphatically was a figure, seated under a bush with some camels round it. Hussein and I trotted over. It was an old, old woman, an Ancient Marineress of the desert, and she was cracking lice in the head of a small boy wrapped in a goatskin.

1956 August, “Cave-Paintings and Camels”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume 280, number 1690, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, page 139:

Jenny has the reputation of being an “ancient marineress”[…]

For her part, as Ruth navigates her way through public readings, interviews and a cranky widow who keeps popping up like an unwelcome Ancient Marineress, she is, as Irving puts it, “almost pathologically afraid of her readers, because she’s associated all of them with the potential that lurks in her most obsessive and crazed fans.”

1998 June 7, Mark Rozzo, “The Writing Racket”, in Newsday, volume 58, number 278, page B11:

The latter had likewise been seduced by the Professor—likewise summarily dumped—and wished to revile the P. with some other local Ancient Marineress who might lend a sympathetic ear.

2010, Terry Castle, “The Professor”, in The Professor and Other Writings, Harper, →ISBN, page 288:

“Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams.

2016, Mike Westphal, Cloud of Expectation; Book One: The In America Series, Xlibris, →ISBN:

An old woman who bears some resemblance to Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, especially one who has an unfortunate history or insists on telling her story.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner


mother figure

/ˈmʌðə ˌfɪɡə/

/ˈmʌðɚ ˌfɪɡɚ/

Coordinate term: father figure

One (especially an older woman) who behaves as, is regarded as equivalent to, or represents a mother for another person or group of people.

moederfiguur

one who behaves as, is regarded as equivalent to, or represents a mother


mean girl

Popularized by the 2004 teen comedy film Mean Girls.

Before you know it, they're off to junior high. At this point, you start to kind of remember things from the times when you were there, especially the mean girl stuff.

2008, Laura Ross, The Valley Girl Turns 40, page 110:

When mean girls are protagonists, unlikability is used to provide complexity to their narration that reminds us of mean girl as person.

2018 December 7, Mary Ann Harlan, The Girl-Positive Library: Inspiring Confidence, Creativity, and Curiosity in Young Women, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 48:

African American mean girls include Davida Williams as Claire in Lizzie McGuire, Taveeta Szymanowicz as Valerie in Make It Pop, LaTangela as Maritza in Taina, and Shanica Knowles as Amber in Hannah Montana.

2018 December 17, Patrice A. Oppliger, Tweencom Girls: Gender and Adolescence in Disney and Nickelodeon Sitcoms, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 6:

This dipping into and out of the worlds of Viennese composers and American mean girls was a roundabout way of discussing how the physician Ádám Politzer had the good fortune to learn medicine in Vienna during the Second Viennese School, amid all that creativity and learning and good music.

2021 March 18, John Fox Bershof, MD, The Second History of Man, skynetMD, →ISBN:

(informal) A girl who tries to elevate her social status through bullying and cliquey behaviour, especially at a high school.


femstruation

femstruation (usually uncountable, plural femstruations)

Blend of fem- + menstruation, to avoid the word men.

(rare, nonstandard, feminism) Synonym of menstruation.


men ☕

the design is very...
Men ☕
HAHAHAHHAAHAHAHA

2023 April 14, @me_snch, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

toxic masculinity
toxic masculinity#English

(Internet slang, derogatory, sometimes offensive) Expresses disdain for male behavior, particularly toxic masculinity.


Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale (plural Florence Nightingales)

Appellativisation of Florence Nightingale

But there is no Florence Nightingale here . Patients , and those who pay good prices too , pass long , weary nights without attendance

1880, The National Conference of Charities and Corrections (p. 309)

All Our Women Are Florence Nightingales

1994, Mary Elizabeth Massey, Women in the Civil War, page 43:

1996, M Gustafson, “Mary Seacole, the Florence Nightingale of Jamaica”, in PubMed:


manel

(feminism, informal, derogatory, neologism) A panel of speakers that fails to include any women.


Fleabag era

Coined with reference to Fleabag, a British dark comedy television series centering on an angry, impulsive anti-heroine, in combination with the TikTok trend of referring to a life phase as an era (compare flop era).

Coming out of my own ‘Fleabag era’ was the best thing I’ve done for my mental health.

2022 January 25, Saskia Kirkegaard, “Why Being In Your 'Fleabag Era' Isn't A Flex: The Romanticisation Of Women's Suffering On TikTok”, in That's What She Said:

A cheekily named “era” undercuts whatever hardship gives it shape: Why say you’re overwhelmed by grief, money troubles or loneliness (sad, embarrassing) when you could be in your “Fleabag era” (chic, cool)?

2022 August 22, Jessica M. Goldstein, “Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’”, in The Washington Post:

I will no longer be in my Fleabag era, and I refuse to be a woman deranged. I will love this world. I implore you to do the same.

2023 February 6, Menal Siddiqui, “The End of My Fleabag Era”, in Unpublished Zine:

(Internet slang) A period in a woman's life characterized by cynicism, despondency, and self-destructive behaviour.


cleidotomy

cleidotomy (countable and uncountable, plural cleidotomies)

Cleidotomy – fracturing the fetal clavicle.

2019 June 26, Leena Khan, “Shoulder Dystocia”, in TeachMe ObGyn, archived from the original on 2023-02-28:

(obstetrics) Intentional fracturing of the clavicle of a fetus for the management of shoulder dystocia during vaginal delivery .


chio bu

[ˌt͡ʃʰjoː˨ ˈbuː˦˨]

From Hokkien 𪁎母 /𲍸母 (chhio bú, literally “lascivious woman”).


FIGO

Acronym of the French name Fédération Internationale de Gynécologie et d'Obstétrique

w:International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics

(gynaecology, obstetrics) Acronym of International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics.


FGR

(obstetrics) Initialism of fetal growth restriction.


mia noi

Many men in Thailand, both rich and poor, have a ‘mia noi’. A ‘mia noi’, roughly translated, means ‘minor wife’ or mistress and has been common in Thai culture for centuries. Even in modern day Thailand, many Thai men will have a mia yai, a major wife (the main wife) and then a mia noi.

2011 June 22, “The Mia Noi or Minor Wife in Thailand: Yes, Thai Men Do Have a Mistress”, in Tasty Thailand:

(Thailand) minor wife; secondary wife; wife of inferior rank; concubine, mistress


woo girl

Imitative of somebody shouting in excitement; see woo, woohoo.

Clusters of woo-girls, each wearing the same uniform black dress, crammed into the bar. I counted five bachelorette parties.

2013, David Hopkins, Nancy Myers, The Wild and Wayward Tales of Tammi True, page 122:

I'm wedged in between a couple of squealing woo girls who are guzzling margs like it's last call […]

Our mouths open as we whoop it up like a “woo girl” at a One Direction concert.

(slang, derogatory) A young woman who behaves in a loud, exhibitionistic manner in public.


beastmistress

Now she burns bright in the forests of a film called The Beastmaster and throws down her spears for our portfolio unfolding on page 150. Contributing Photographer Richard Fegley caught the beastmistress in his sights for our cover.

1982 October, Playboy, volume 29, number 10, page 7:

He spilled a puddle of ink on the hotel registry, shuddering at the thought of sharing a bed with that foul-mouthed, knife-wielding beastmistress.

1993, Cassie Edwards, Shirl Henke, Kathryn Kramer, Eugenia Riley, An Old-Fashioned Valentine, New York, N.Y.: Leisure Books, →ISBN, pages 124–125:

The lands north of Naggaroth are bitter and inhospitable even for Belithi – a beastmistress of Karond Kar – and her hunting party.

2003 November/December, Inferno!, number 39, page 3:

[…] although crocodiles exert a great deal of pressure when biting down, the jaw muscles in even the largest crocs are relatively weak. That means it’s possible, under expert supervision of course, for you to play beastmistress, should you be so inclined.

2007, Mia Balwyn, The Australian Woman’s Survival Guide, Pier 9, →ISBN, page 17:

After defeating the Earth controller Lord Gaea and his minions, Drax and Mar-Vell fell victim to the drugged wine of faunish Dionysus, who preferred partying to killing, and had the two heroes taken to Paradise, where they faced beastmistress Elysius.

2008, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, →ISBN:

Makela waltzes past, her feathered cape swirling. She’s the shaman, the beastmistress. It’s us who are the beasts.

2015, Anthony Nanson, Deep Time, Hawthorn Press, →ISBN:


Rowldemort

Big ups to Rick Riordan for being a good one. Disappointing that Rowldemort continues to not listen.

2020 June 6, Crow, in Autumn Clad(@unlimitedBLACK), Twitter:

People want to morally justify putting money in Rowldemort's pockets.

2022 December 29, @The_Terroirist, Twitter:

Like seriously, you're being silenced? Then why the fuck do I keep hearing from your ass, huh? Conjure me up an answer to that one, Rowldemort.

2023 April 14, Kilroy A. L. Mioruilt (@superiordriger), Twitter:

(slang, derogatory) J. K. Rowling viewed as villainous for her espousal of gender-critical or anti-transgender views.


TIRF

I would love to know more TIRFs, but the ones I follow have almost all ended up being TERfs undercover!

2013 August 21, Claire's Outrageous Thoughts (@claireOT), Twitter:

The term TERF exists to distinguish RFs who are TE from those who aren't TE. There are certainly TIRFs as well as TERFs.

2016 February 23, Eve Keneinan (@EveKeneinan), Twitter:

We hear so much about TERFs but never anything about TIRFs.

2019 January 7, Dr Ashley Nova (@DrAshleyNova), Twitter:

radical feminist
radical feminist#English

Acronym of trans-inclusive radical feminist.


She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

Coined as an ironic reference to the nickname "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" used by characters who fear speaking Lord Voldemort's name within Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Depending on who you ask, JK Rowling is either a heroine of free speech or She Who Must Not Be Named.

2021 July 28, Charlotte Runcie, “JK Rowling is more than just a Twitter talking point”, in The Telegraph:

Witchcraft and wizardry have been the subject of fascination for centuries—just look at the success of a certain magical franchise written by She Who Must Not Be Named.

2022, Josie Anne Gaitens, “Witch Hunt”, in Reykjavík Grapevine, number 5, page 30:

I used to worship She Who Must Not Be Named of Harry Potter before she started using her platform to peddle a bunch of harmful garbage.

2022 December 16, Prerana Srikantappa, quoting Robbie Crouch, “Robbie Crouch”, in Vulkan, page 83:

(slang, derogatory) The author J. K. Rowling, when viewed as villainous for her espousal of gender-critical or anti-transgender views.

Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling
Lord Voldemort


cuckcake

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A woman who has sex with someone else's partner, with the consent of both.


Yuzpe regimen

A medical eponym; it is named for the physician whose publications about it (in the medical literature) are widely cited (A. Albert Yuzpe, born 1938).

A method of emergency contraception that uses a combination of ethinylestradiol and levonorgestrel. It works by preventing fertilization of an egg.


Ettingerian

en-adj

Ettingerian (comparative more Ettingerian, superlative most Ettingerian)

more Ettingerian (comparative)
most Ettingerian (superlative)

Of or relating to Bracha L. Ettinger (born 1948), Israeli artist and feminist psychoanalyst.


god-grandmother

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Hamiter of Waskon, Texas, was the scene Easter Sunday of a reunion of the Hamiter and Ellis families following the christening service of Mr. and Mrs. Hamiter’s son, Dickson Ellis Hamiter, at the First Methodist church, with the Rev. S. M. Dunnam, Jr., officiating and Mr. C. D. Sellers, Jr., acting as godfather and Mrs. Oma Dossett of Iraan, Texas, acting as god-grandmother.

1951 April 8, “Reunion of Hamiter And Ellis Families Is Held in Waskom”, in The Shreveport Times, volume LXXVII, number 312, Shreveport, La., page a11:

The bridegroom’s grandmother, Mrs. Roland Pasho, of Anderson, and the bride’s god-grandmother, Mrs. Oscar Bransky, of Palm Beach, Fla., had pink Sweetheart rose corsages.

1964 July 26, “The Phelps, Dr. Wellington Wed”, in Anderson Sunday Herald, volume 97, number 34, Anderson, Ind., page 13:

Meggie was preceded in death by god-grandmother, Dorothy Smith (AKA the Girl Grand); […]

2022 November 10, “[Obituaries] Megan Kaylie Altizer”, in The Roanoke Times, volume 70, number 314, page A5: