Mako Mori test

Named after the character Mako Mori from the 2013 film Pacific Rim by a Tumblr user known as "Chaila", who thought that the older Bechdel test was sometimes insufficient for measuring the representation of women in films.

But what stood out most to me was how the film [Gravity] proves we need The Mako Mori Test.

2013, Ryan Syrek, "She Needed Her Space", The Reader, Volume 20, Number 35, 10 October 2013 - 16 October 2013, page 22

It [Run Lola Run] does pass the Mako Mori test though, because Lola is motivated by her boyfriend's safety, her actions do not always impact his story arc.

2015, Lani Gerbi, "The Bechdel Sword in the Stone", On Dit (Adelaide University), Volume 83, Issue 7, 15 July 2015, page 19

Below is just one take, and uses the established Bechdel and Mako Mori tests to assess whether a work is feminist/representative.

2015 August 17, Charlotte Hann, “Feminist Fandom”, in Salient, volume 78, number 19, Victoria University of Wellington, page 30:

(literature, critical theory) A feminist test for evaluating works of fiction by whether they have (i) at least one female character (ii) who has her own narrative arc (iii) which does not exist to support the narrative arc of a male character.


fussock

"Ay, the mercer's wife—I shall come to her presently. Well, Peregrine, as you have often seen, is a shade or so jealous of that fussock, his wife, who looks, when she is tricked out in her new russet grogram cloak, more like a brown haycock in motion than a living woman."

1838, John P. Kennedy, chapter X, in Rob of the Bowl, volume I:


zha bo

[t͡sä˨.bɔ˦˨]

Borrowed from Hokkien 查某 (cha-bó͘, “woman, girl”).

They didn’t think my mum could take over, much less me, whom they referred to as Ang Yew Seng’s zha bor kia (Hokkien for daughter).

2010 May 29, The Straits Times, “Old Times, New Blood”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2015-02-06, page B18:

Bro, you see, the only thing common about the places you mentioned, all have Zha Bos, this is the entertainment sustaining the us today.

2010 June 18, “Thai girls are boring after long time”, in SingThaiDisco, archived from the original on 2016-03-05:

And most of them call me "swee zha bo", pretty girl.

2013 December 9, “Hawker Masters 2013: Secrets about famous ‘Bedok Camp’ Cheng Tng revealed”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2016-03-06:

(Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) Lady or woman.


sheroic

en-adj

sheroic (comparative more sheroic, superlative most sheroic)

more sheroic (comparative)
most sheroic (superlative)

The tragedy of Gatha's sheroic journey is that the actualization of her own importance is never considered "the prize" of her odyssey; hence, she never recognizes the personal and historic success of her journey.

1999, Janice Lee Liddell, “Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation: The Climacteric as Seen in Novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall”, in Janice Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp, editors, Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature, University Press of Florida, →ISBN, page 36:

This sheroic choice eventually led her to testify compassionately on behalf of faceless and voiceless young girls still living under horrific conditions in the community she had escaped from.

2015, Nancy D. O'Reilly, Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 84:

However, in the same vein, she also bemoans that following each of these campaigns, amnesia sets in wherein society tends to conveniently forget about the sheroic lengths to which its women have uniformly performed and without whom the military's successes could not have been achieved.

2015, G. L. A. Harris, Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 37:

(feminism) Heroic in a female or feminist context.


side chick

(originally African-American Vernacular, slang) A mistress; a woman one dates in addition to one's girlfriend or wife, usually in secret.


side bitch

(African-American Vernacular, slang, vulgar, derogatory) A mistress; a woman one dates in addition to his girlfriend or wife, usually in secret.


ladystuff

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"You know if you fret about it, you're not going to have you a good time on my island at all. You'll spoil it for sure for the both of us. Now don't you worry about the ladystuff you'll need. A gal has her needs and she has to have pretties and all, and when I get set to go on into town, you can give me a list of anything you can think of."

1966, John D. MacDonald, The Last One Left, Random House, published 2014, →ISBN:

In the past, we’ve noticed how companies which offer “feminine” versions of otherwise gender-neutral products tend to charge considerably more for the ladystuff.

2013 October 30, Jennifer Abel, “Sure jumps on the genderizing bandwagon”, in ConsumerAffairs:

Nine times out of ten, the pink ladystuff is going to be more expensive, even if the ingredients or function of the thing is EXACTLY THE SAME.

2015 March 14, Caroline Thompson, “Four things that cost more for women than men”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

(informal) Products designed for and/or marketed toward women.


older sister

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

ousus

multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations


fuckstress

She was a good-natured, foolish, stupid, trusting creature, and my wonder is that she had lived twenty-one years in the country, without having a prick up her. As a lovely-cunted fuckstress she left nothing to be desired.

1888--95, `Walter', My Secret Life, volume IV, section IX, page 291:

A talented fuckstress, Miss Chisholm, / Was renowned for her fine paroxysm. / While the man detumesced / She still spent on with zest, / Her rapture sheer anachronism.

1941, Gershon Legman, editor, The Limerick, published 1969, page 58:

In February 1933, Crowley took on a new lover— Marianne, from Bulgaria, whom he declared “the most marvellous fuckstress alive.”

2014, Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, →ISBN:

(vulgar) A female fucker, especially a woman who is an eager and energetic participant in sexual intercourse.


plead the belly

en-verb

plead the belly (third-person singular simple present pleads the belly, present participle pleading the belly, simple past and past participle pleaded the belly)

pleads the belly (present singular third-person)
pleading the belly (participle present)
pleaded the belly (participle past)
pleaded the belly (past)

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She isn't hanged, while in jail, because she pleads the belly.

1994, Leslie Scalapino, Defoe, Sun and Moon Press, →ISBN:

Over 25 per cent of the 463 women who were sentenced to death at the Old Bailey pleaded the belly between 1674 and 1699, and 38 per cent from 1700 to 1724, though a much smaller proportion did so later.

2009, Shani D'Cruze, Louise A. Jackson, Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:

I was telling them only the other day about pregnant women avoiding the Drop in the eighteenth century by pleading the belly.

2013, M.J. Trow, Maxwell's Chain, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:

(historical) To attempt to use one's claimed pregnancy to avoid execution.


Duluth model

Developed in the city of Duluth, Minnesota.

A program designed to reduce domestic violence against women, based on feminist theory positing that such violence is the result of patriarchal ideology.


metapatriarchal

en-adj

metapatriarchal (comparative more metapatriarchal, superlative most metapatriarchal)

more metapatriarchal (comparative)
most metapatriarchal (superlative)

From meta- + patriarchal, coined by Mary Daly (1928–2010), playing on multiple senses of meta-.

(feminism) Relating to transcendence over the patriarchy.


jagabat

(Trinidad and Tobago) A sexually promiscuous woman.


feminasty

As I walked out of the court I recollected having read somewhere that the Honourable Sally Boucaut was the President of this group of legal feminasties.

1997, Gerald Paul James McGinley, True Counsel, page 17:


femaleist

From female + -ist coined in 1999 by Barbara Ehrenreich.

The femaleist premise could be summarized as: Yes, we are different—wanna make something of it?

1999 March 1, Barbara Ehrenreich, “The Real Truth About The Female Body”, in Time:

“What my book does, I think, is say, Let’s look at ourselves and not feel defensive,”’ says Mill Valley writer Dianne Hale, author of “Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Female” (Bantam), published last month. Hale and the authors of the two similar books have been described as “femaleists” rather than feminists.

1999 April 4, Joan Ryan, “Men, Women, Apples and Oranges”, in The San Francisco Chronicle:

The ad industry portrayed the role reversal that feminists have coveted for the past twenty years . . . the femaleist party line that women are more "manly" than men could ever hope to be!

2000, Diane Passno, Feminism: Mystique Or Mistake?, →ISBN:

Even in her critique of evolutionary psychology — a book heralded by Barbara Ehrenreich as the "chief manifesto of the new 'femaleist' thinking" — Natalie Angier expresses just this sort of impatience with perspectives from the usual critics of bioreductivism (feminists, progressives, and perhaps especially social scientists).

2003, Roger N. Lancaster, The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture, →ISBN:

I am a “femaleist.”I think that beer, when at its best, empowers women.

2006, Christopher Mark O'Brien, Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World, →ISBN:

One who acknowledges and celebrates the ways in which women are different from men (in addition to the obvious difference in reproductive organs).


Mulveyan

Mulveyan (comparative more Mulveyan, superlative most Mulveyan)

more Mulveyan (comparative)
most Mulveyan (superlative)

Of or relating to Laura Mulvey (born 1941), British feminist film theorist.


wommonhood

From wommon + -hood, modelled on womanhood.

(feminism, rare) Nonstandard spelling of womanhood.


womynkind

(rare, nonstandard) Feminist spelling of womankind


womonkind

From womon + -kind, modelled on womankind.


sheikha

Plus, Umm Waraqah was never explicitly forbidden to lead a mixed congregation. Wadud is now among a growing number of scholars, jurists, sheikhas, imamahs, and ordinary Muslim women pressing for the powers of religious authority.

2012, Robin Wright, Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World:


minisuction

en-noun

minisuction (usually uncountable, plural minisuctions)

A form of abortion in which the fetus or embryo, placenta, and membranes are removed by suction using a manual syringe.


miniabortion

miniabortion (usually uncountable, plural miniabortions)


best girl

[…] your fine magazine […] is a pleasure to read anywhere, but in an isolated spot such as this it's almost as good as a sugar report from the best girl!

1954, Esquire, volume 41, number 2, page 12:

Soon, you might think, a lone figure dressed in tails and a top-hat — Fred Astaire, or maybe Gene Kelly — would appear and dance his way from one of those spots to the next, singing about how lonely a fellow could be when his best girl had given him the air and all the bars were closed.

(film production) A woman who performs the duties of a best boy.

Also: Miku is best girl, thank you for attending this TED Talk.

2020 April 22, Will Harrison, “15 Anime To Watch If You Love Fruits Basket”, in CBR:

(fandom slang) A reader or viewer's preferred female character.


judgess

The judgess demands in her charge to the jury to “despise and hate all men and to bring up your children to do the same.”

1918, Motography, Volume 19, Issues 1-26:


femocracy

femocracy (countable and uncountable, plural femocracies)

Yet the critics of Hillary and the femocracy cannot let it lie.

2009 August 16, “Hot topic one issue, seven views”, in Toronto Star:

(derogatory) A feminist clique that focuses on its own interests rather than those of women in general.


womanager

Blend of woman + manager. The word was coined by Horace Walpole, an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.

(rare, informal, humorous) A female manager.


sadospiritual

en-adj

sadospiritual (comparative more sadospiritual, superlative most sadospiritual)

more sadospiritual (comparative)
most sadospiritual (superlative)

From sadistic and spiritual; coined by feminist Mary Daly.

(derogatory) Of or relating to forms of religion with sadistic aspects.


pink tax

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(informal, feminism) The relative increase in price paid for women's consumer items compared to similar products marketed to men.


coffin birth

(medicine, obstetrics) Postmortem fetal extrusion: the expulsion of a nonviable fetus through the vaginal opening of a deceased pregnant woman as a result of gaseous pressure through decomposition.


stepmam

(Ireland, Northern England, Wales, informal) Stepmother.


stepmum

(UK, Australia, Canada, New England, informal) Stepmother.


railwaywoman

Some 100,000 railwaymen have been released to join the fighting forces, 90,000 are training as Home Guards in addition to their railway work, 170,000 members of the railway staffs have been fully trained in A.R.P. duties, and 100,000 railwaywomen are now employed.

1943 March-April, John R. Hind, “The British Railways at War”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:

(rail transport) A woman who works on a railway.

железничарка

woman who works on a railway — see also railwayman


labour pain

(obstetrics, gynaecology, British spelling, often plural) The pain suffered by a woman in labour during childbirth.


magical feminism

First used in 1987 by Patricia Hart to describe the works of Isabel Allende.


misogynize

en-verb

misogynize (third-person singular simple present misogynizes, present participle misogynizing, simple past and past participle misogynized)

misogynizes (present singular third-person)
misogynizing (participle present)
misogynized (participle past)
misogynized (past)

Professor Weems can be placed within all of the approaches, as her work not only looks at the reclaiming of the black women from within the texts in a liberative form, but also rejects those scriptures that dehumanize and misogynize women.

2000, Joe Aldred, Sisters With Power, page 119:

If you fail me I shall misanthropize, misogynize, misobrephize, shut myself up in a cell(ar).

2012, Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite:

(transitive, rare) To treat in a misogynistic manner.


beachgirl

'Very nice,' I said appreciatively, glancing at her glowing beachgirl face, green eyes, sandy hair held back with a clip.

1978, Miranda Miller, Under the Rainbow, page 146:

Nothing is more admired locally than the nut-brown beachgirl.

1991, Gillian Boddy, Jacqueline D. Matthews, Disputed Ground: Robin Hyde, Journalist, →ISBN, page 182:

Del's wife, Gloria, was a slim blonde, getting on into middle age, but tan as a beachgirl.

2004, Vincent Bugliosi, Till Death Us Do Part: A True Murder Mystery, →ISBN, page 87:

Newspaper artists gave their impressions of how she'd look today, fleshing out her bones with a beachgirl's curves.

An attractive girl who spends a lot of time at the beach.


sanitary pad

(Australia) Standard form of sanitary napkin.


matrician

In the present state of society we need not go far to find many a man who would give all the waltzes and polkas that a matrician genius ever invented, and throw all the new-fangled flourishes upon piano and guitar into the bargain, for healthful breakfasts [...]

1854, The Model Housekeeper, The Friend, page 358:

Instead, Bettina traces her lineage through "Foremother," whose oil portrait watches over the homestead; she is described as a "matrician" who "in life as in the portrait, . . . approved of nothing"

1992, Barbara Jean Monroe, Mother wit: American women's literary humor:

In essence, Wisdom's home serves as a multivalent symbol that illuminates her indispensable value as well as her noble status; it identifies Wisdom's fundamental role in the establishment of a household and depicts her as a wealthy matrician

2011, Christopher B. Ansberry, Be Wise, My Son, and Make My Heart Glad: An Exploration of the Courtly Nature of the Book of Proverbs, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 62:

A female patrician; an upper class matriarch


matrophobia

Coined by the poet Lynn Sukenick; equivalent to matri- + -phobia.

(feminism) The fear of becoming like one's mother.


Drss.

The Cleveland College and Hospital for Women sends us their third announcement. The faculty are: G.H. Blair, on Practice; Drss. Merrick, on Midwifery; Saunders, on Surgery; Brush, Chemistry; Cyriax; Materia Medica; Boynton, Physiology, Pathology and Microscopy; Brown, Anatomy; Chase, Jurisprudence; and Drss. Canfield, Demonstrator

1870, in The United States Medial Investigator. A Monthly Journal of the Medical Sciences, Volume 7, p. 614 (Google Books view)

Drss. Gœway presents an essay on dysmenorrhœa.

1880, in The Homœopathic News, Volume 9, p. 81 (Google Books view)

Drss. Ella R. Swinney of Smyrna, Del., has been appointed medical missionary to Shanghai, China, by the Baptist Board.

1883, in American Observer Medical Monthly, Volume 20, p. 240 (Google Books view)

(rare, obsolete) Abbreviation of doctress; a title used for a female doctor.


Pippi Longstocking

en-noun

Pippi Longstocking (plural Pippi Longstockings)

Astrid Lindgren
Inger Nilsson
Pippi Longstocking

Named after the character created by Astrid Lindgren, calque of Swedish Pippi Långstrump.

named-after

Then we’re swept back to her school days, where we see her giggling like a regular Pippi Longstocking as she spies on Rivera (Alfred Molina) applying his creative juices to an artist’s model while being berated by his wife (Valeria Golino).

2002 October 23, Ella Taylor with Frida (reviewer), “Sex-mad and Self-obsessed”, in LA Weekly:

You’re a regular Pippi Longstocking, you know that?

2014, P. V. Lundqvist, The Counterfeit Father: A Tony Pandy Mystery, Stick Raven Press:

Have I discovered my inner Pippi Longstocking?

2015, Patrice Vecchione, Step Into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life, Simon & Schuster, page 10:

A person, especially a girl or woman, given to headstrong, wild behaviour, flights of fancy, or irrepressible optimism.


marilith

A marilith can also constrict with her deadly tail. If the tail hits in combat, it wraps around a victim, automatically inflicting 4- 24 points of crushing damage each round.

1993, Doug Stewart, Gary Gygax, Monstrous Manual, page 338:

If you play with certain demons (mariliths, vrocks, hezrous, bone devils, nalfeshnees, pit fiends, or water demons), you could eventually get Yeenoghu anywhere, and then he could get you Demo.

2001, Kate Nepveu, “some tough questions?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

(fantasy) A powerful female demon with six arms and the lower body of a snake.


wingwoman

From wing + woman, modelled on earlier wingman.

By the time we return home, I'm not sure who's more nervous about Gen's future dating adventures—her, or me as her wingwoman, thrust in front of tempting, attractive men.

A female friend who accompanies one to offer support.


femicommie

(derogatory, rare) A feminist with left-wing leanings.


fudanshi

Borrowed from Japanese 腐(ふ)男(だん)子(し) (fudanshi, literally “rotten boy/man”).


Wollstonecraftian

en-adj

Wollstonecraftian (comparative more Wollstonecraftian, superlative most Wollstonecraftian)

more Wollstonecraftian (comparative)
most Wollstonecraftian (superlative)

Of or relating to Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.


womansplaining

Blend of woman + explaining, modelled on mansplaining.

The War on Women perpetrators keep trying to tell us that government not funding something equates to government banning something. That must be womansplaining, I guess? Except I’m not willing to have women made out to be idiots. So maybe “liberalsplaining.”

2015, Joy Pullmann, quoted by "David C Kifer", Tolerance (on newsgroup alt.quotations)

2015, "Chris Davis", quoted by Emily Crane, The moment that left the new Prime Minister scratching his head: Tanya Plibersek accuses Malcolm Turnbull of 'mansplaining' during Question Time… but what does it mean? (in Mail Online) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3237538/Tanya-Plibersek-accuses-Malcolm-Turnbull-mansplaining-question-time-does-mean.html
Womansplaining: When a woman incorrectly explains something, but you're not allowed to tell her without being accused of mansplaining.

The minister took offence with the accusation, saying he'd be judged much more harshly if the tables were reversed and he accused a woman of womansplaining.

2016, Daniel Peters, “Minister accused of MANSPLAINING by a female senator calls her a 'hypocrite' as boring parliamentary committee hearing turns into a fight about hipster language”, in Mail Online:

Andrea’s righteous womansplaining of Pink Floyd to Richie is worth repeating in full: “Your point-of-sales strategies are archaic. Your marketing makes you look like a vacuum-cleaner company. Dark Side of the Moon doesn’t even have a single on it and it’s a blockbuster! […]

2016, Dan Martin, “Vinyl recap: episode five - the high-end soap that's proving lovably trashy”, in The Guardian:

She offered her own story to warn me about what can happen when a Christian invests too much in her work and too little in finding a spouse. It was a bad case of womansplaining.

2016, Katelyn Beaty, A Woman's Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World:

Many men have reported a drastic rise in womansplaining.

2017 December 19, “The Rise Of The 'Feminazis'”, in Youth Ki Awaaz:

(informal, derogatory) Condescending explanation of something by a woman, particularly to a man.


LMP

Because of postconception bleeding or menstrual irregularities, the presumed date of LMP may be in error.

1995, National Center for Health Statistics, “Technical Appendix”, in Vital Statistics of the United States, 1992, volume 1, Washington, DC, published 1996, →ISBN, DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 96-1100, page 9:

menstrual period
menstrual period#English

(obstetrics) Initialism of last menstrual period; used in determining the start of a pregnancy.


Nussbaumian

Nussbaumian (comparative more Nussbaumian, superlative most Nussbaumian)

more Nussbaumian (comparative)
most Nussbaumian (superlative)

Of or relating to Martha Nussbaum (born 1947), American philosopher and feminist.


owneress

The good Doctor, who had but once since Madame de Malguet's establishment at the château entered the doors of that forbidden mansion, for the purpose of paying his respects to its owneress […]

1848, Henry Whitelock Torrens, Madame de Malguet: A Tale of 1820, volume 2, page 284:


governoress

Originally from Middle English governeresse, from Old French governeresse. In this form (with -o-; unlike governeress, governer seems to have never been more common than the -o- form) and later uses, directly from governor + -ess.

I was introduced by Mrs. Onward, the Governoress, to Mrs. Sapient, the Speakeress of the House.

1869 February 25, Redpath [pseudonym], “Redpath Visits the State Capital. a. d. 1900.”, in Iron County Register, volume II, number 29, Ironton, Mo., page [3], column 2:

Our modern governors (even the current governoress) do not deserve to be belittled as some sort of “gubers.”

1997 December 14, Frank G. Logan, “‘Gubernatorial’ is a wacky thing to call a governor”, in Home News Tribune, page I1, column 4:

The liberals in control now are just doing what they want. Let’s get things going and separate the states and maybe northern California might like to jump in also. We don’t even have a legal “governoress,” she just thinks she is.

2005 May 30, Orman Arnold, “New dividing line: An enthusiast”, in Tri-City Herald, page A12, column 4:


playeress

(rare) A female player; an actress, especially one who performs on the stage.


metapelet

en-noun

metapelet (plural metapelets or metaplot or metaploth)

metapelets (plural)
metaplot (plural)
metaploth (plural)

Borrowed from Hebrew מְטַפֶּלֶת (m'tapélet, “nanny”), derived from Hebrew טִיפֵּל (tipél, “to take care of”).


cousiness

From Middle English cosynes, cosyness; equivalent to cousin + -ess.


safe day

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A day that is believed to be safe for having unprotected sex without resulting in pregnancy, based on the woman's menstrual cycle.


magicianess

The Magicianeſs Bacoti, keeps conſtant Correſpondence with the Devil (to whom, if ſhe has a Daughter, ſhe offers her as ſoon as ſhe is born,) and if any Mother happen to loſe a Child, ſhe makes her Addreſs to this Magicianeſs, who, by the beat of a Drum, pretends to Summon the Soul of that Child, and tell the Mother, whether its Condition in the other World be Good or otherwiſe.

1695, Samuel Morland, The Urim of Conscience … With Three Select Prayers for Private Families, →OCLC, page 44:

[…] a Magician doth not, amongst learned men, signify a sorcerer or one that is superstitious or devilish; but a wise man, a priest, a prophet; and that the Sybils were Magicianesses, and therefore prophesied most clearly of Christ;

1898, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic, Chicago: Hahn & Whitehead, →OCLC, page 25:

For you see, Isis, my sister, the great and beautiful goddess of re-membering, whose true name is Auset, was the most magnificent magicianess in the whole of creation.

2015, Renee Starr, You Are Woman, You Are Divine: The Modern Woman's Journey Back to The Goddess, Gardena: Over and Above Creative, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:


overlady

From over- + lady. Attested since the 19th century.


womantic

en-adj

womantic (comparative more womantic, superlative most womantic)

more womantic (comparative)
most womantic (superlative)

“You say 'womantic comedy' [people] smile because they recognise that kind of relationship - they've been in one or they're mothers have or they know a womantic couple.” Alston says.

2010 October 23, Katherine Feeney, The Sydney Morning Herald:

It’s helped by a pair of delightful womantic leads, each lovable in their own way.

2012 August 30, “Review: For a Good Time, Call…”, in Crave Online:

The pair were spotted on a womantic dinner date at, errrrm, McDonalds^([sic]) following the GQ Men of The Year Awards on Tuesday night.

2013 September 4, Ashley Percival, “Rita Ora And Cara Delevingne Confirm They Are Very Much Still Wifeys With McDonalds^([sic]) Date After GQ Awards”, in HuffPost Entertainment United Kingdom:

This girlfriend talk is produced through a combination of womantic lexicon, therapy talk, and feminine consumption.

2013, A. Winch, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood:

The comedies in the exhibition showcased Australian films as part of major international traditions, for example Jucy, Louise Alston's 2010 'womantic' comedy, has at its heart friendship between women in the tradition of Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott, 1990) […]

2014, “The international reception of Australian women film-makers”, in Continuum, volume 28, number 5:


double aunt

The youngest son of Frikkie's sister had been betrothed to the girl who had measles in my house ; she was my sister's child, and thus I was double aunt.

1923, Mrs. Alida M. de Wet Badenhorst, Tant' Alie of Transvaal: Her Diary 1880-1902, page 235:

Aunt Mary was Uncle Burney 's double aunt. Now figure that out. She was Uncle Burney 's father's sister and also his mother's sister.

1971, Irwin Anderson Watson, The pioneers were our ancestors - Volumes 1-2, page 100:

It's difficult to determine which aunt Patience may be referring to here, but Patience had a double aunt and uncle: Patience's mother's sister Elizabeth married Patience's father's brother Daniel.

2006, Sandra Ailey Petree, Recollections of Past Days, →ISBN:

"Of course she's your aunt Callie. She's married to your uncle Rod." Kelsey threw her head back and laughed. “Then she's a double aunt.” Dana coughed. "Do you want some pie?" "What's a double aunt?" Callie tilted her head, a half smile curving her lips. "You're married to my Uncle Rod, Dad's brother, and you're also Mom's sister."

2011, Carol Ericson, B.J. Daniels, The McClintock Proposal/High-Caliber Christmas, →ISBN:

A dominant influence on NIghtingale was her Aunt Mai (Mary Shore Smith, eventually a double aunt as she was her father's sister who married her mother's brother).

2011, Timothy Larsen, A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, →ISBN, page 115:

A woman who is one's aunt in two ways, e.g. being a sister of one parent and the wife of a sibling of the other.


radical feminism

en-noun

radical feminism (countable and uncountable, plural radical feminisms)

The conference had been convened by a group that wanted to defend two positions that have made radical feminism anathema to much of the left. First, the organizers hoped to refute charges that the desire to ban prostitution implies hostility toward prostitutes.

2014 August 4, Michelle Goldberg, “What Is A Woman? The Dispute between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism”, in The New Yorker:

(politics, feminism) A type of feminism which calls for a radical reordering of society to eliminate male supremacy in all social and economic contexts.


pizza woman

A woman employed to deliver pizza to customers' homes.


bra-burning

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psychoprophylaxis

The growing emphasis on the emotional aspects of the physical bearing of children has greatly changed the practice of obstetrics across the world — from psychoprophylaxis in Russia to natural childbirth in America.

1957, Briefs - Maternity Center Association, volumes 21-25, page 6:

Psychoprophylaxis, the preparation of the mind to deal with pain naturally, has and is still being used for pain relief during labor and delivery.

2001, Sanjay Datta, Childbirth and Pain Relief: An Anesthesiologist Explains Your Options:

Psychoprophylaxis enjoyed a meteoric rise in the USSR and beyond, Vel'vovskii developed the method in 1948-1948, and it became national policy in the USSR in early 1951, when the Ministry of Public Health launched a campaign for its promotion. Psychoprophylaxis received the state's enthusiastic support because it required relatively little financial investment, had the added appeal of being legitimated on the basis of work by Russia's famous scientist, and supported the regime's pro-natalist agenda.

2012, Esther Cohen, Knowledge and Pain, page 235:

A method of preparing women for natural childbirth by means of special breathing, relaxation techniques and psychological conditioning, practiced without anaesthetics.


town bike

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anarchist feminist

anarchist feminist (plural anarchist feminists)


second aunt

A female first cousin of one's mother or father.


anarcha-feministic

en-adj

anarcha-feministic (comparative more anarcha-feministic, superlative most anarcha-feministic)

more anarcha-feministic (comparative)
most anarcha-feministic (superlative)

Of or relating to anarcha-feminism or feminist anarchy.


boobfeeder

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Well, there's the occasional fellow who posts to the boobfeeder groups looking for sympathetic moomees to b/f him...

2000 April 12, Gutterboy, “Now that's no ordinary soap! (Squick)”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

(see title)

2003 February 28, Winnie, “Aussie boobfeeder poll result”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

WTF is a l@ctivist? An in-your-face boobfeeder.

2003 April 29, vixanne, “Another over the top Moo sig”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

(slang, rare, derogatory) A breastfeeder.


neife

For the children of villeins were also in the same state of bondage with their parents; whence they were called in Latin, nativi, which gave rise to the female appellation of a villein, who was called a neife. [...] Neifes indeed had also an appeal of rape, in case the lord violated them by force.

1771, William, Sir Blackstone, “Of the Modern English Tenures”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 2, pages 93–94:


womyn's land

Womyn's lands were typically larger and more open than earlier urban communes: some women lived on the land long-term, but many welcomed others to visit for shorter periods; some urban communities also had ongoing connections with rural communities.

2021, Stephen Vider, The Queerness of Home, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 86:

A feminist commune inhabited only by women.


bhikkhuni

Transliteration of Pali bhikkhunī, from Sanskrit भिक्षुणी (bhikṣuṇī).

Coordinate term: bhikkhu


telephone girl

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I've just had a row with a telephone girl, a telephone girl, my brain's in a whirl.

1915, W. David, J. Barnett, Hermann Darewski (lyrics and music), “Which Switch is the Switch, Miss, for Ipswich?”:

(telephony, dated) A female telephone operator.


stepmommy

(informal, childish and diminutive) stepmother


Dworkinism

Seeing Dworkinism flare up in the gay community just brings bad memories of '70s feminism […]

1997, Charles Lyons, The New Censors: Movies and the Culture Wars, page 125:

But fighting Dworkinism and other forms of sexual conservative politics with a sex-positive agenda can also reproduce the racism inherent in the mainstream gay movement.

2004, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, page 26:


brakewoman

(sports) A female brakeman in bobsleigh.


yakshini

From Sanskrit यक्षिणी (yakṣiṇī, feminine of यक्ष (yakṣa)).

bor

There is also the Yakshini; who lies in wait for men and arouses their passions, with the ultimate object of delivering them over to demons or of feeding upon them as a vampire.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 202:


gender ideology

en-noun

gender ideology (countable and uncountable, plural gender ideologies)

Although it appears to pursue the good end of honouring all people, it also assumes the whole linguistic fabric of gender ideology, which aims to eliminate the concepts of male and female, dismantle corporal identity and deconstruct the human body, marriage and family.

2018 January 24, Jonathan Luxmoore, “Catholic bishops denounce LGBT diversity law”, in The Tablet:

"We are against gender ideology," Zeljka Markic, a leader of the conservatives, told The Associated Press.

2018 March 24, “Thousands of Croatian Far-Right Supporters March in Zagreb”, in Voice of America:

Some say that the latest instruction represents the promotion of the so-called gender ideology, but the Ministry denies this, reports Večernji List

2018 June 14, Vedran Pavlic, “Transgender People Have a Right to Be Issued New Diplomas”, in Total Croatia News:

Brazil’s Bolsonaro has denounced the presence of “Marxist rubbish,” political debate, and “gender ideology” on Brazil’s school campuses. Militants opposing so-called gender ideology throughout Latin America erroneously argue that teaching sexual education attracts young people toward homosexuality, feminizes boys, and masculinizes girls.

2019 March 7, Natalia Cote-Muñoz, “Murdered Women Can’t Celebrate International Women’s Day”, in Foreign Policy:

Gender ideology is the theory that […] human individuals are properly described in terms of an “internal sense of gender” called “gender identity” that may be incongruent with their “sex assigned at birth.”

2023 July 3, Jay W. Richards, “What Is Gender Ideology?”, in The American Conservative:

One Catholic family in Indiana has suffered the unthinkable: the parents’ son was taken from their home because his parents refused to genuflect to the demands of gender ideology.

2024 February 21, Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, “When Gender Ideology Infects the Family”, in National Christian Register:

(uncountable, derogatory) The belief that gender is an innate identity which is separate from sex at birth.


postcoital test

postcoital test (plural postcoital tests)

(gynaecology) A laboratory test in the evaluation of infertility. The test examines the cervical mucus in the postcoital period.


Sims test

From Marion Sims, American physician and surgeon.


effeminist

The effeminists have reported that the Effeminist Manifesto, the second piece in this section, "condensed itself in our minds as the best expression of our own committed politics."

1977, Jon Snodgrass, For men against sexism: a book of readings, page 112:

(historical) A member of a male homosexual movement opposing prejudices against effeminate behaviour.


third-wave feminist

third-wave feminist (plural third-wave feminists)


cart tart

(colloquial, derogatory) A female flight attendant.


political lesbianism

A feminist doctrine that advocates lesbianism and lesbian separatism as a part of the struggle against sexism.


political lesbian

political lesbian (plural political lesbians)

political lesbianism
political lesbianism

A proponent or practitioner of political lesbianism.


ride the cotton pony

en-verb

ride the cotton pony (third-person singular simple present rides the cotton pony, present participle riding the cotton pony, simple past rode the cotton pony, past participle ridden the cotton pony)

rides the cotton pony (present singular third-person)
riding the cotton pony (participle present)
rode the cotton pony (past)
ridden the cotton pony (participle past)

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Sanitary pads are made from cotton, with the placement of the pad giving the image of "straddling" a pony".


autogynephile

/ˌɔː.təʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfaɪl/

Evidently, the woman did not get those signals from the men. (If instead of being the wife of an autogynephile, she were the sister of a homosexual transsexual, I doubt she would have asked an analogous question.)

2003, J. Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen:

Transsexual and Nontranssexual Autogynephiles Resemble Each Other. […] I knew, however, that attempting to draw a definitive line between autogynephilic transsexuals and nontranssexual autogynephiles was a difficult if not an impossible exercise, even though I believed there were legitimate reasons for trying to do so.

2012, Anne A. Lawrence, Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism, page 179:

First identified in the early 1990s by Canadian sex researcher Ray Blanchard, autogynephiles usually grow up with masculine boyhood interests, eventually finding themselves fetishistically sexually interested in female clothes and female bodies.

2012, Gary F. Kelly, America's Sexual Transformation:


amblosis

Borrowed from Latin amblosis, from Ancient Greek ἄμβλωσις (ámblōsis).

miscarriage (the spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy)


amblotic

Causing or relating to amblosis; abortifacient.


Cinderella complex

en-noun

Cinderella complex (plural Cinderella complexes)

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From the title of a 1981 book by Colette Dowling, The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence; named after the girl from the fairy-tale Cinderella, who is rescued from her life of poverty and mistreatment by a prince.

The situation where a woman has an unconscious desire to be taken care of by others, and thus requires help from some outside force, usually a man.


women are wonderful effect

the women are wonderful effect (canonical)

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(psychology, sociology) The phenomenon in psychological and sociological research that people seem to associate more positive attributes with women in general than with men in general, reflecting an emotional bias.


legong

From Dutch legong, from Balinese legong.

A Balinese dance traditionally performed by girls before the age of puberty.


First Daughter

(politics) The daughter of the chief executive of a country, such as that of a nation's president.

First Family

the immediate family of the chief executive of a state

First Gentleman

husband of the chief executive of a state


rabbit test

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An early pregnancy test involving the injection of the tested woman's urine into a female rabbit, then examining the rabbit's ovaries a few days later for changes in response to a hormone.


double day

The extended working day of a person who has to fulfil the duties of paid employment and then care for a family at home.


double burden

The extended workload of a person who works double days.


NVP

(medicine) Initialism of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy: morning sickness.


great-grandaunt

An aunt of one's grandparent (i.e. a sister or sister-in-law of one's great-grandparent)


godwoman

(India, colloquial, derogatory) A charismatic female guru.


cockocracy

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chili queen

We asked him what came to mind when we said "hidden kitchen." The chili queens of San Antonio was his response. The saga of the chili queens goes back nearly 200 years. Some kitchens are hidden by place, some by time.

2004, “The Chili Queens of San Antonio”, in NPR:

Chili con carne was introduced to America by the "Chili Queens," women who served food in San Antonio's Military Plaza as early as the 1860s.

2008, Robb Walsh, “History of Texas Chili—Without Beans”, in HoustonPress:

A former Chili Queen could even nab a job working on the line at the Gebhardt packing plant, making canned chilies and tamales. Less glamorous than being a Chili Queen, perhaps—but the work was reliable and profitable.

2016, Sarah Lohman, Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine, page 72:

(US, historical) A member of a group of women who sold chili con carne as street food in San Antonio, Texas.


lady's maid

lady's maid (plural lady's maids or ladies' maids)

lady's maids (plural)
ladies' maids (plural)

A pretty Girl, the Lady’s Maid,
Who all her Dress in Order Laid,
Behind her Mistress simp’ring stood,
And rais’d the youthful ’Squires Blood.

1735, anonymous author, The Rake’s Progress; or, the Humours of Drury-Lane, London: J. Chettwood, Canto V, p. 35:

He stopped, ran his eye over my dress, which, as usual, was quite simple: a black merino cloak, a black beaver bonnet; neither of them half fine enough for a lady’s-maid.

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:

[…] the servant, a neat, plain woman, with a French face and a lady’s maid’s manner, ushered him into a diminutive drawing-room and requested the favour of his name.

1908, Henry James, chapter XXXVI, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; IV), New York edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 89:

The cat is the offspring of a cat and the dog of a dog, but butlers and lady’s maids do not reproduce their kind. They have other duties.

1915, H. G. Wells, Bealby, Chapter I, Section 1:

A first class lady’s maid is required to be a hairdresser, a good packer and an expert needlewoman. Her first duty is to keep her lady's clothes in order and to help her dress, and undress.

1922, Emily Post, chapter 12, in Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home:

A female servant employed by an upper-class woman to attend to her personal needs.


Zephyrette

From zephyr (“light wind from the west”) + -ette (suffix forming nouns meaning the female equivalent of something). Zephyr is derived from Latin zephyrus, Zephyrus (“personification of the west wind”), from Ancient Greek Ζέφῠρος (Zéphŭros, “personification of the west wind”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃yebʰ- (“to enter, penetrate; to copulate”). Sense 1 (“on-board hostess”) is derived from the California Zephyr train.

der

The Zephyrette then takes the reservations of the Pullman passengers.

1952, David L. Paden, Problems and Economics of Dining Car Service (unpublished M.B.A. dissertation), Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University, →OCLC, page 163:

A good part of the train's personality lay in the Zephyrette, an on-board factotum who, like an airline stewardess, was a mix of hostess, paramedic, tour guide, secretary, nanny, security guard, purser, public relations agent and ombudswoman.

1995, Henry Kisor, Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America, New York, N.Y.: Times Books/Random House, →ISBN; republished Holbrook, Mass.: Adams Publishing Group, 1995, →ISBN, page 18:

Zephyrettes were a fixture on the CZ right to the last day of service on March 22, 1970.

1997, Mike Schafer, Joe Welsh, “Triumvirate Triumph: The California Zephyr”, in Classic American Streamliners, Oscola, Wis.: MBI Publishing Company, →ISBN, image caption, page 68:

"Zephyr and Ezekiel, huh?" Tommy had the courage to ask, shaking their hands. The two wooly-headed, intellectual-looking twins laughed. "Well, our dad's name was Zechariah and our mom worked as a Zephyrette on the California Zephyr passenger train," Ezekiel explained. "So I guess you could say they liked the letter z."

2009 October 6, Sean Phelan, Coming of Age, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 246:

(historical) An on-board hostess on the California Zephyr train, which originally operated between 1949 and 1970.

I'm going to select one of those beautiful fast-color Zephyrette patterns for my 'prize' dress.

1908 June, “The Prize Dress [advertisement]”, in James M. Irvine, editor, The Fruit-grower: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Progressive American Farmers, volume 19, number 6, St. Joseph, Mo.: The Fruit-grower, →OCLC, page 22 (yearly page 266), column 2:

McCutcheon's Stocks of Ginghams, Linens, Shirtings, Novelty Voiles, Zephyrette, Japanese Crepes, and White materials are always abundant and varied.

1921 February 5, “McCutcheon’s Smart New Fabrics for Spring and Summer Frocks [advertisement]”, in Hamilton Holt, editor, The Independent, volume 105, number 3757, New York, N.Y.: Independent Corporation, […], →OCLC, page 147:

United States Rubber Co. has introduced a lightweight plastic Zephyrette raincoat for women, girls and children.

1953, “Plastic Raincoat”, in Industrial Sports, volume 14, Chicago, Ill.: Allegheny Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 6, column 2:

A lightweight print fabric used for women's dresses.


SWERF

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Acronym of sex worker-exclusionary radical feminist, on the model of TERF.

acronym

Conversely, many intersectional feminists see TERFs or sex worker exclusionary radical feminists (SWERFs) as bigots and bullies.

2016, Giuliana Monteverde, “Navigating Complicity in Contemporary Feminist Discourse”, in Afxentis Afxentiou, Michael Neu, Robin Dunford, editors, Exploring Complicity: Concept, Cases and Critique, page 108:

SWERFs (sex worker exclusionary radical feminists), they also dubbed us TERFs (transgender exclusionary radical feminists) because, as one protester shouted, 'Trans women sex workers of colour are dying thanks to SWERFs!'

2021, Julie Bindel, Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation, unnumbered page:

When national mainstream media outlets bought into the myth that lap-dancing clubs caused sexual violence in Camden, SWERFs gained huge ground in terms of public opinion about sex work, and with that came significant power.

2022, Stacey Clare, The Ethical Stripper: Sex, Work and Labour Rights in the Night-Time Economy, unnumbered page:

(see usage notes) A sex worker-exclusionary radical feminist; a feminist who opposes the sex industry, particularly the production and distribution of pornography, typically viewing it as coercive or abusive of the women involved.


Mizoran

en-adj

Mizoran (comparative more Mizoran, superlative most Mizoran)

more Mizoran (comparative)
most Mizoran (superlative)

Of or relating to Mizora (1880–81), a feminist utopian novel by Mary E. Bradley Lane, or the society it depicts.


anti-antifeminist

anti-antifeminist (comparative more anti-antifeminist, superlative most anti-antifeminist)

more anti-antifeminist (comparative)
most anti-antifeminist (superlative)


purplewashing

From purple + -wash + -ing. The colour purple is often associated with feminism.

Epilogue: from Islamophobia to purplewashing.

2015, Belén Fernández Suárez, “The construction of a victimized alterity in political and media discourses via the burka ban debate.”, in Revista Internacional de Comunicación y Desarrollo, volume 3:

One of the most common tools of promoting militarism in Western societies is the use of women as a flag. The so-called purplewashing or purple lavage, is to provide a veneer of liberal-colonial feminism in military interventions to legitimize them as actions of almost moral and ethical obligation. Purplewashing, currently closely linked to Islamophobia, is used to reinforce Western moral superiority, making invisible the struggles of those who do not conform to the colonial pattern, making the peoples essential, and ultimately legitimizing any kind of economic or military intervention towards the rest of the world.

2016 November, Nora Miralles Crespo, “Gender and military culture. Lives, bodies and social control under war.”, in Centre Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau:

View all notes has inspired conceptual tools such as whitewashing, purplewashing and greenwashing, among others.

2017, Melania Moscoso, R. Lucas Platero, “Cripwashing: the abortion debates at the crossroads of gender and disability in the Spanish media”, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 31, number 3:

The practice of presenting something as feminist, particularly a political action, in order to soften or downplay aspects of its reputation considered negative or as a justification for economic, political, xenophobic or racist goals.


ecofeministic

ecofeministic (comparative more ecofeministic, superlative most ecofeministic)

more ecofeministic (comparative)
most ecofeministic (superlative)


wombman

From womb (“uterus”) + man, modelled after woman.


WOC

the contributions of WOC to the development of rock and roll

Initialism of woman of color or women of color.


old dear

The bus journey took forever, with old dears with their shopping trolleys getting on and off at every stop.

Sadly, the ever-eager Reverend Judith had not been able to conjure up many worshippers, even though it was Father’s Day. There was just one old dear sitting halfway back, her faulty hearing aid letting off a high-pitched whistle.

2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:


woman of the world

en-noun

woman of the world (plural women of the world)

man of the world
man of the world#English

(female equivalent of man of the world) A worldly or sophisticated woman, one well versed in the ways and dealings of humankind.


Radium Girl

(US, historical) A female factory worker who contracted radiation poisoning from luminous paint (containing radium) used in watch dials in the early 20th century.


grandmistress

The St. Petersburg grandmistress blundered on the 29th move of a Kramnik Sicilian and resigned three moves later.

2003, Andy Soltis, Los Voraces 2019: A Chess Novel, page 42:


Dworkinite

A supporter of Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005), American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography.


feminist dance therapy

Colorado, of course, means "red" in Spanish, not "overpriced ski resorts and dingbats who live in Boulder and teach feminist dance therapy."

2007, P. J. O'Rourke, Give War a Chance, page 53:

To […] tap into what your authentic expression is […] you must have the courage to confront your fears and any inauthentic structures you have created, including being a feminist dance therapy major at Oberlin College.

underwater basket weaving
underwater basket weaving#English

(rare, informal, derogatory) Synonym of underwater basket weaving (“useless academic course or major”)


iron lady

On the one hand, the patriarchal discourse constructs the identity of 'an iron lady' for the successful woman leader.

2002 October, AM Lämsä, T Tiensuu, “Representations of the woman leader in Finnish business media articles”, in Business Ethics: A European Review:

Stories about Biljana Plavsic also contain the monster narrative. Emphasis on her toughness and her nickname 'iron lady' hint at a monster characterization, but these images are much more obvious in the emphasis on the view that Plavsic is lacking in mental balance.

2007, Laura Sjoberg, Caron E. Gentry, Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics, →ISBN, page 156:

Del Ponte only takes the blame for the last incident, acknowledging that she realized too late that she had been played by the “iron lady” from Republica Srpska.

2009, David P Forsythe, Encyclopedia of Human Rights - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 485:

A strong-willed and unrelenting female leader.


pornotroping

Coined by Hortense J. Spillers in her 1987 essay “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book”; porno- + trope + -ing.

(feminism) The process of reducing a person or group of people to mere flesh, stripped of personhood and made into the object of violent and sexual impulses.


wenchhood

Louise Glaum, as the nasty gixy clubbed into wenchhood, gave a characteristically energetic physical portrait.

1916, Photoplay Magazine - Volume 10, page 91:

It was about this time that the rest of the French Navy staggered in with the jauntiest of Moorea's wenchhood upon its arm.

1933, Hassoldt Davis, Islands Under the Wind, page 32:

Kothar snarled. His eyes ran over her sweet shapeliness disclosed by her torn garment, and he grinned. “It would be a waste of wenchhood to burn her.”

2016, Gardner F. Fox, The Second Kothar the Barbarian:

The quality, state, or condition of a wench


wenchdom

Unlovely is the project which would take womanhood out of its graceful place in creation, and substitute for it a brawling, political wenchdom, and a sisterhood of hussies for the polling-booths.

1868, The Dublin University Magazine - Volume 72, page 63:

'You're certainly a cut above wenchdom, even if your taste in men is execrable.

2016, Elizabeth Rolls, In Debt to the Earl:

The state or condition of being a wench; wenchhood


wenchish

en-adj

wenchish (comparative more wenchish, superlative most wenchish)

more wenchish (comparative)
most wenchish (superlative)

Ann: black-haired and wenchish in her bosomy softness, but compact and clean as a spring spouting from sand.

1994, Janice Daugharty, Going Through the Change, page 32:

Emerging from her room in a low-cut jumper that made the most of her wenchish curves, Mary didn't bother with a hello.

2010, Bernadette Strachan, Why Do We Have To Live With Men?:


elrig

It is still in considerable vogue, and the enquirer will at times hear some good examples—though the chances are a hundred to one against his ever understanding them. A couple which were interpreted for my benefit were: "Hi, yob, kool that enif elrig with the nael ekom. Sap her a top of reeb and a tib of occobat," and "Islema, ogda the opperca." After the reader has sufficiently puzzled over these hieroglyphics he or she may be glad to learn that the quotations respectively mean: "Hi, boy, look at that fine girl with the lean moke. Pass her a pot of beer and a bit of tobacco," and "Misle, dog the copper!"

1912 May 11, A. J. Heighway, “Whitechapel”, in The Evening Post (New Zealand), volume LXXXIII, number 112, page 9:

I see you've had an elrig hanging round your stall.

2011, Ruth Hamilton, The Corner House, Random House, →ISBN, page 86:


like mother, like daughter

(idiomatic) A daughter takes after her mother.

anyja lánya

stating the similarity of a daughter to her mother

the apple does not fall far from the tree


main bitch

I don't want my main bitch to find out that I'm seeing a side bitch in the weekends.

(US, slang) The primary woman that a man is romantically involved with.


prick tease

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(slang, vulgar, chiefly derogatory) Synonym of cock tease.


jineology

Anglicized from Northern Kurdish jineolojî, from jin (“woman”).

(feminism, politics) A school of feminist thought espoused by various leftist groups in Kurdistan.


wombyn

Form "My journey as a wombyn child emerging from a wombyn, my mother, and my own growth thru all the passages and consecutive emergences to the present is both similar to the experiences of generations of wombyn gone before me and uniquely my own.

1983, Lynda Ross Ford, Bleeding, page 147:

I come from a generation of wombyn that struggled and strived alone.

2014, Diata, Wombanystic Thoughts, →ISBN, page 108:

These spritely guides are merely an inspiration for you to begin or deepen your journey depending on where you are in your development. I invite you to take time to see what your personal guidance says about your wombyn's rhythms.

2016, Zsuzsi Hussla, Unraveling Her, →ISBN:


volleybelle

Now a part of the decorated DLSU Lady Spikers, this petite lass already showed glimpses of her skills as she, together with veteran volleybelle Charleen Cruz bagged home second honor merits in the recently concluded UAAP Beach Volleyball tournament...

2010, Green Gallery: Lady Spiker Amanda Villanueva:

(Philippines, sports journalism) A female volleyball player.


bearded lady

A woman with a beard, often appearing as a circus sideshow


minoress

The chronicler Charles Wriothesley is the sole authority for the marriage of one Mistress Bures, a minoress of some 16 years standing, to the quondam abbot of Walden, Essex in 1538.

1992, Catherine Paxton, The Nunneries of London and Its Environs in the Later Middle Ages, page 302:

(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minoress: a Poor Clare.


gopnitsa

Borrowed from Russian го́пница (gópnica).


censoress

There's for you! I am to pass for a censoress now!

1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 104:


endoamnioscopy

(obstetrics) An experimental imaging technique which allows direct visualisation of the developing fetus.


vaginoid

From vagina + -oid (“derogatory suffix”).

/ˈvæd͡ʒɪnɔɪd/

/vəˈd͡ʒaɪnɔɪd/

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cum to me, poor vaginoids

1997 February 7, “S.T.V.C. go forth you fucks (xxx dance)”, in rec.arts.poems (Usenet):

Then I'd be a Feministrious Tubloidial Vaginoid!

1998 September 7, Evil Beavis, “Where does the show take place?”, in alt.tv.beavis-n-butthead (Usenet):

But this episode taught us quite a bit, and we will one day learn more once we are able to hold another vaginoid in captivity.

2001 November 19, Alien, “O/T - Humour - [silly, crude, but also funny :-) ]”, in alt.support.autism (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, rare) One who possesses a vagina; a female.


mistress of ceremonies

en-noun

mistress of ceremonies (plural mistresses of ceremonies)

“In that case, sir,” she rejoined, “as my kinsman’s politeness seems to be still slumbering, you will permit me (though I suppose it is highly improper) to stand mistress of ceremonies, and to present to you young Squire Thorncliff Osbaldistone, your cousin,[…]”

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 97–98:

At this moment, Eva came up in her authoritative way as mistress of ceremonies, took Mr. St. John by the arm, and, walking across with him, seated him by Sibyl Selwyn, introduced them to each other, and left them.

1873, Harriet Beecher Stowe, We and Our Neighbors, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter , p. 186:

(dated) A woman who acts as a host at a formal event.

The mistress of ceremonies, a local poetess named Alicia Larralde de Ferrero, did not observe that more than a dozen uninvited guests had joined the audience.

1950 January 23, “Spanish Omelet”, in Time:

Her first real job in show business was as mistress of ceremonies at the Etoile music hall, in a revue that starred Mistinguett; she later said that it had taught her “to walk on stage”.

2005 June 18, “Suzanne Flon”, in The Guardian:

A woman who conducts a programme of varied entertainment, for example by introducing performers to the audience.


bus conductress

bus conductress (plural bus conductresses)


'Arriet

From the name Harriet, in reference to the Cockney habit of dropping initial /h/ sounds in speech.


wimin

(feminism) Alternative spelling of women


womin

LF 36, Pisces, would like to meet a special womin with Holistic inter arts affection.

1986 April 19, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 13:

(feminism) Alternative spelling of woman


complain queen

Complain – Mcdonald’s new Flurry Flavour – Chendol (TOO SWEET AHHH!) I know Chendol should be sweet and all – but this is just way too much. I did not manage to finish the whole cup as much as I wanted to (not cheap, leh!)… McFlurry actually has a great potential – but I just feel it can be better if the sweetness can be reduce...Posted by SG Complain Queen’s rants at 10:00.

2017 September 9, Catherine Jaevans, “Singapore’s Complain Queen”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), retrieved 2017-11-01:

Pasir Ris woman files six complaints in eight years against neighbours. On March 9, she called the police, claiming that several children from the flat above had placed dead bees outside her unit. In the last eight years, ... had filed six complaints at the Community Mediation Centre (CMC), so much so that those neighbours have dubbed her as the “complain queen” of Pasir Ris, reported Lianhe Wanbao.

2012 March 22, Rennie Whang, “Pasir Ris neighbor fought with three neighbours”, in The New Paper, retrieved 2017-11-02:

Watwheels: Women in my mum’s generation are much stronger and tougher dan today’s complain queens. Imagine they had to endure non-aircon and bumpy bus-rides either sitting or standing to reach their destinations.

2008 July 4, “Another complain Queen on MRT!”, in MyCarForum of SgCarmart, retrieved 2017-11-02:

hoganrock: Who's the number 1 Complain King/Queen here? Are you a Complain King/Queen? What do you usually complain about?

2004 May 29, “'Are you a Complain King/Queen? – SgForums.com (Singapore)”, in SGFORUMS, retrieved 2017-10-23:

Are we really complain kings and queens? Some academic from New Zealand said that we are a nation of moaners in Straits Times. Sure, we complain about lots of stuff, but everyone does it, not just Singaporeans. I don't think it's fair. Besides what else can we do...its not easy living here...the prices are sky-rocketing, everything is expensive , from owning a box of space in the air to the cars on the streets, and the govt is not helping. And I don't think we moan, we are just giving feedback. Some people think we're being petty cos we have a good life. So should we just keep our dissatisfaction to ourselves? What's wrong with complaining any.

2000 October 5, squig...@my-deja.com, “Are we really complain kings and queens?”, in soc.culture.singapore (Usenet), retrieved 2017-11-01:

(Singapore, colloquial) A woman who is constantly dissatisfied and always grumbles or reports faults of others to authorities or the media, with or without ill intentions.


roastie

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From roast + -ie. The Internet slang sense likens a (promiscuous) woman's vulva to the filling of a roast beef sandwich.


nice guy syndrome

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So before you fall into the trap of the ‘nice guy syndrome’ and start complaining about women’s choice in men, you should look to yourself.

2003, Laura Chesnik, "Our responsibility: Education is a right", The Lance (University of Windsor), 18 November 2003, page 18

Just because a guy treats a woman with respect does not mean she owes him anything. The “nice guy syndrome” needs to cease.

2014, Shira Stein, "Are nice guys actually as nice as they seem?", The Highlander (Carlmont High School, Belmont, CA), April 2014, page 3

If you really are a male feminist, whatever social awkwardness you might be suffering should never be confused with something so gross as Nice Guy Syndrome.

2016, “Coquette”, in [The Best of] Dear Coquette: Shady Advice from a Raging Bitch Who Has No Business Answering Any of These Questions, page 74:

(colloquial) A phenomenon in which a man thinks that he deserves romantic or sexual attention from women by virtue of being nice.


Playboy Bunny

As a result, the fifteen women blur, dissolve into one—a big Playboy''' bunny, masochist to the tip of her Pucci tail, hopping from one key sexual event to another so that life itself seems unlived.

1972 July 31, Linda Wolfe, “Luce Women [review of Jack Olsen, The Girls in the Office (1972)]”, in Clay S[chuette] Felker, editor, New York, volume 2, number 14, New York, N.Y.: New York Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 55, column 3:

Terri Bryant, a former member of the singing group, The Fifth Dimension, always wondered what it would be like to be a Playboy Bunny hostess when she performed with that popular singing group at the Playboy Clubs in Lake Geneva, Wis., and Great Gorge, N.J. […] Ms. Bryant had her dream come true at the Playboy Club in Chicago[…].

1980 April 3, “Former Fifth Dimension has Dream Come True: Night as a Playboy Bunny”, in John H[arold] Johnson, editor, Jet, volume 58, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 61:

The Playboy bunny symbol is widely used throughout the Bebo network in both skins and other applications. Marie's extensive use of the Playboy bunny merchandise both off and online, indicates the normalization, banality even, of the Playboy bunny, marketed at teen and tween girls, illustrating the trend towards 'porno-chic' for these age groups[…].

2011, Jessica Ringrose, “Are You Sexy, Flirty, or a Slut?: Exploring ‘Sexualization’ and How Teen Girls Perform/Negotiate Digital Sexual Identity on Social Networking Sites”, in Rosalind Gill, Christina Scharff, editors, New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Negotiating Postfeminist Media Culture), page 108:

By the mid-1960s Hefner had amassed a fortune of $100 million, including a lasciviously appointed forty-eight-room mansion staffed by thirty Playboy "bunnies" ("fuck like bunnies" is a phrase we have largely left behind, but most people at the time caught the allusion).

2012, David Farber, The Sixties: From Memory to History, page 247:

She [Maria Richwine] studied dancing and for a while worked as a Playboy Bunny. While visiting England she decided to become an actress.

2014, Frank Javier Garcia Berumen, “The 1970s”, in Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films since the 1960s, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 102:

Female waitresses, called "Playboy Bunnies," wore bushy cotton tails, rabbit ears, and bowties. […] Playboy Bunnies are not sex workers; however, anecdotal evidence demonstrates that some have been paid for their time during which they voluntarily performed sexual favors for guests at Playboy's lounge and mansion. Playboy Bunnies may be photographed for Playboy; and several Playboy Playmates have dressed in Playboy Bunny costumes while appearing in magazine editorials.

2015, Carmen M. Cusak, “Bestiality in Art and Culture”, in Animals, Deviance, and Sex, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, pages 62–63:

A waitress at a Playboy Club, characteristically dressed in a strapless teddy, black pantyhose, cuffs, a collar and bowtie, bunny ears, and a short, fluffy tail.


Afrofeminist

en-adj

Afrofeminist (comparative more Afrofeminist, superlative most Afrofeminist)

more Afrofeminist (comparative)
most Afrofeminist (superlative)

Of or relating to a form of feminism focusing on women of African descent.


sextremism

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Femen is originally a Ukrainian women's group that applies "sextremism" to draw attention to equality and democracy issues.

2013, vivapa...@aol.com, “Topless Femen Activists Target Swedish Mosque”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

The activist group, which says that it is based on "sextremism, atheism and feminism," was apparently trying to protest against patriarchy and the Vatican's pro-life views. According to EuroNews.com, the woman was identified as 20-year-old philosophy student Josephine Witt.

2013, GLOBALIST, “Here is how mature adult women demonstate their political believes-they rub your face into their vaginas.”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):

Sextremism is the main new form of feminist activism developed by Femen. Sextremism is female sexuality that has risen up against patriarchy by embodying itself in extreme political acts of direct action.

Their ideology centers around "sextremism" and feminism.

2016, anonymous author, “'Victory of all feminists': FEMEN wins right to topless protest in France”, in alt.prophecies.nostradamus (Usenet):

According to FEMEN's website, sextremism is a: fundamentally new form of women's feminist actionism. [It] is female sexuality rebelling against patriarchy and embodied in the extremal political direct action events [...] Sextremism is the woman's mockery of vulgar male extremism and its bloody mayhems and a cult of terror.

2016, Helen Davies, Claire O’Callaghan, Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture:


broflake

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Netflix dropped the first trailer for its new comedy series Dear White People today, and already broflakes (what I’ve decided to call MAGA hat-wearing dudes who complain about “snowflakes” but are themselves overly sensitive) are cancelling their accounts.

2017 February 9, Christopher Hooton, “The first trailer for Netflix's 'Dear White People' is upsetting broflakes everywhere”, in The Independent:

Yesterday, actress Amber Tamblyn published a New York Times op-ed stemming from her Twitter feud with actor/broflake James Woods.

2017 October 17, Whitney Kimball, “Amber Tamblyn's James Woods Feud Inspires New York Times Op-Ed , But Woods Hates the Times, So There”, in Jezebel:

Specifically, the broflakes said they had experienced gender discrimination against them at some point.

2018 January 10, Shaun Nichols, “1 in 5 STEM bros whinge they can't catch a break in tech world they run”, in The Register:

Bring on the broflakes triggered by reading Lena Dunham's name.

2018 February 9, Lanre Bakare, “Lena Dunham to remake Julia Davis sitcom Camping for HBO”, in The Guardian:

But here’s the thing about quotas, or - to protect the political broflakes (a portmanteau of “bros” and “snowflakes”, thank you internet) - here’s the thing about “targets”: they work.

2018 March 9, Jacqueline Maley, “Coalition has a problem with women - and Peta Credlin wants to fix it”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(slang, derogatory, neologism) An overly-sensitive man or boy who is easily upset or offended, especially one upset about loss of male privilege.


dried-fish woman

en-noun

dried-fish woman (plural dried-fish women)

(Asia, idiomatic, derogatory) A woman, especially a young one, who lacks a significant other.


neurofeminist

Relating to a branch of feminism that critically examines neuroscientific research in terms of gender bias.


consistent life ethic

capital punishment
capital punishment#English

A cultural, political, and religious right to life belief opposed to abortion, capital punishment, economic injustice, euthanasia or assisted suicide, and war.


walk-on girl

/ˌwɔːk ɒn ˈɡɜːl/

/ˌwɔk ɑn ˈɡɝl/

/ˌwɑk ɑn ˈɡɝl/

Again anticipating opportunity, Tommy Cox jets to Alaska and books Sarah Palin to be a walk-on girl at the 2009 Desert Classic final.

2010, Paul Siegel, chapter 7, in 2008: The Year in Darts, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 39:

His then girlfriend, Bernice Grey was a minor model turned darts walk-on girl. Jack's checklist-life could not have got much better compared to his childhood ambitions.

2012, Mark Wollacott, “Blank Jack (Teaser)”, in 108 Breaths, Circencester, Gloustershire: Wyrd Works, →ISBN, page 112:

The rah-rah girls dancing onstage were shaking their thing as Phil wobbled his way down the runway flanked by a Dutch walk-on girl dressed like a Thunderbirds pilot, all enhancements bouncing to the Eurobeat, as the surgeon intended. Then it was Mike's turn. His girl was dressed in a lime-green minidress and fat gold rope chain (subconsciously channelling Run DMC), which wasn't the only plastic on show. Neither walk-on girls I recognise. They must be the continental ones.

2017, King Adz, “Continental Darts”, in Fear and Loathing on the Oche: A Gonzo Journey through the World of Championship Darts, London: Yellow Jersey Press, →ISBN:

Flanked by a minder and a walk-on girl he strode down the walkway, hands in prayer, eyes turned heavenward.

2017, Matthew E. Pointon, “Holy Mass”, in Short Stories Volume 2 (2006–2010), [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN, page 179:

Walk-on girls will no longer be used by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) after talks with broadcasters. The long-established practice of women escorting male players to the stage will be abandoned, starting with this weekend's Masters in Milton Keynes. […] But walk-on girl Charlotte Wood, who says darts accounts for 60 per cent of her income, says her rights "are being taken away". […] The Women's Sport Trust tweeted: "We applaud the Professional Darts Corporation moving with the times and deciding to no longer use walk-on-girls. Motor racing, boxing and cycling … your move."

2018 January 27, “Darts: PDC to Scrap Walk-on Girls after Broadcaster Talks”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2018-06-21:

(darts) A woman who escorts a player to the stage at a darts event.


toxic femininity

Don’t get me wrong I know many rad Riot Grrris but for me the predominant kinderwhore uniform didn’t seem very different than the toxic femininity mass media was already pushing on me as a fat non white teen […]

2014, Mason J., quoted in Amos Mac & Rocco Kayiatos, "Mr. Transman San Francisco Mason J.", Original Plumbing, Winter 2014, page 33

The obsequious demands of toxic femininity require placing oneself in a diminished role in relation to a more powerful partner, who uses physical, sexual, financial, emotional, or psychological actions or threats of actions to gain or maintain power over another person.

2019, Brenda R. Weber, Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism, page 232:

Rather, toxic femininity is a by-product of toxic masculinity – it is the poison which arises in women's bodies and minds when they experience not just the pain of lost love, but the hopelessness of trying to be perfect, not for themselves but for men who ultimately neither understand nor value them.

2024, Van Thanh Binh, Stephen Whitehead, Self-Love for Women: Overcoming Toxic Femininity and Suffering, unnumbered page:

(feminism) The systemic pressure on women to conform to standards of beauty, femininity, modesty, etc., to the detriment of individual agency and well-being.


mamgu

And brightly dressed mamgus sipping from a flask of whisky, lightly laced with tea for the bronchi cough.

2007, Aneurin Gareth Thomas, Luggage from Elsewhere, page 203:

I'm not a religious man, or at least I am not a churchgoer. But I really felt my two mamgus, Annie and Lena, were looking down on me that day from heaven, […]

2011, John Hartson, Please Don't Go: Big John's Journey Back to Life:

For Nora, Nancy, and all the Mamgus.

2021, Donna Amey Bhatt, How to Greet a Gran:


huwoman

Blend of human + woman; in analogy to man, as it appears to be in the word human.

(rare, nonstandard) A woman; a female human.


oligoamenorrhea

(medicine) The condition of having irregular infrequent menstrual periods.


Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc (plural Joans of Arc or Joan of Arcs)

Joans of Arc (plural)
Joan of Arcs (plural)

Appellativisation of Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc), the name of a 15th century French folk heroine revered as a martyr.
Further etymology
The name itself is a calque of French Jeanne d’Arc. According to surviving signatures, her Old French given name was Jehanne, feminine form of Jehan (cognate in English to John). In the English language, her first name has been repeated as Joan since the fifteenth century because that was the only English equivalent for the feminine form of John during her lifetime, Jane not being attested until later. She did not come from a place called Arc; d'Arc was attributed because of her father's surname, which was most likely Darc. Apostrophes were never used in fifteenth-century French surnames, which sometimes leads to confusion when analyzing such names. See Wikipedia (Name of Joan of Arc) for more.

And they're the ones that put you down/ 'Cause they got no heart / But I'm the one that will follow you / You're my Joan of Arc

2013, Arcade Fire, “Joan of Arc”, in Reflektor:

Volatile yet stubborn, self-interested yet a modern Joan of Arc—criticisms of Richardson were as contradictory as they claimed her to be.

2020, Lindsay Harroff, “From Sitting In to Sitting Out: Gloria Richardson and the 1963 Cambridge Movement”, in Lesli K. Pace, Sean Patrick O'Rourke, editors, Like Wildfire: The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Sit-Ins, page 204:

Digressing a bit, the mission statement of this chapter is to illustrate the example set for all of us by the Joan of Arcs of today—women who serve in Special Operations in particular, and the military in general […]

2021, Steve Giblin, Jon Land, Walking in Mud: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Rules for Surviving the New Normal, unnumbered page:

(figuratively) A brave, visionary, or martial woman.


Mrs Miggins

From Mrs + Miggins (“a surname”), possibly popularized by the character Mrs Miggins who is mentioned in the British television comedy series Blackadder II (first broadcast 9 January – 20 February 1986) as the owner of a pie shop, and appears in Blackadder the Third (17 September – 22 October 1987) as a coffee shop proprietress.

I doubt that Mrs Miggins on the number 32 bus cares much about the plight of the yellow woodlouse.

Many were the high expectations entertained by fond parents, of the rapid progress which their darlings would make, when placed under the tuition of the young man from college, that would teach without whipping, "Old man," said Mrs. Miggins (as I heard) to her husband, a sturdy farmer, "old man, our Jack is a mighty smart boy: I saw him the other day, when he wanted some cake go to the cupboard, take a long stick, pull it down on the floor, and then taking it up, he ran to me and cried out, 'Goodness, mother, look here what a piece of cake I found on the floor; may'nt I have it?' He is a mighty clever boy, and neighbor Johnson's son will teach him every thing that's smart."

1849 February, “The ‘Moral Suasion’ Theory”, in The University Magazine, volume I, number 2, Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia, →OCLC, pages 53–54:

You can do nothing Evangelical without a tea-meeting. […] Mrs. Griggs and Mrs. Miggins are ready with their donation to your subscription list, but you must give them the opportunity of drinking Bohea in public before they will disburse.

1873, Iota [pseudonym; John Francis Waller], “Hatchley Colne”, in The Adventures of a Protestant in Search of a Religion, London: R. Washbourne, […], →OCLC, page 192:

It's all very well trusting users, but what happens if Mrs. Miggins brings in a floppy disk from home with some code on it written by her son.

2003, Nigel Stanley, “Scalability and Security”, in Microsoft .NET Jumpstart for Systems Administrators and Developers, Burlington, Mass.: Digital Press, Elsevier Science, →ISBN, page 150:

Instead, this government seems to see a Britain stymied by local vested interests, where our whole economic future is called into question because Mrs Miggins doesn't want a motorway through her back garden, or a nuclear power station built next door. […] Its solution is to cut Mrs Miggins – and anyone else who wants a say in what happens in their local neighbourhood – out of the process. Instead, big decisions will be taken by an appointed panel of "experts".

2007 June 4, Mark Lynas, “Don’t Blame Mrs Miggins”, in New Statesman, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-01-03:

For a mercifully short period, it felt as though the Today programme was dominated by high-level political debate over whether Labour could be blamed for the whole thing (in general, government spokesmen were not persuaded by this thesis), or whether Gordon Brown could take credit for Mr and Mrs Miggins and the Miggins brood getting home in one piece (the direction of this debate was not unpredictable either).

2010, Adam Boulton, Joey Jones, “Decision Time”, in Hung Together: The Cameron–Clegg Coalition, London: Simon & Schuster UK, published 2012, →ISBN, part I (Campaign), page 80:

If Tesco want to invest and produce a front-end to interact and deal with Mrs Miggins and her interaction with Government, why shouldn't they be able to? Tesco don't want to get involved in a £1 billion procurement, but they want more up-sell to Mrs Miggins.

2011 March 15, Public Administration Select Committee, House of Commons, quoting Martin Rice, witness, Government and IT—“a Recipe for Rip Offs”: Time for a New Approach: Twelfth Report of Session 2010–12 (HC 715-II), volumes II (Oral and Written Evidence), London: The Stationery Office, published 28 July 2011, →ISBN, page Ev 26, column 1:

[…] Volvo is a motoring minnow. They made around 450,000 cars last year. […] So Volvo announcing that it's going all electric is going to have the same effect on the world's carbon emissions as Mrs Miggins turning the thermostat down in her front room.

2017 July 7, Jeremy Clarkson, “Volvo going electric will have the same effect as Mrs Miggins turning down the heating in her front room”, in The Sun, London: News Group Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-20:

Although asset managers ultimately manage money for private individuals – a point which they frequently shorthand by referring to the end investor under the patronising and arrogant generic term ‘Mrs Miggins’ – very few people working in the firms have had any contact with private individuals at all. […] [E]ven in the retail market the very large majority of relationships with end clients are mediated – it isn’t actually necessary to meet Mrs Miggins, Mr Miggins or any other members of the Miggins family.

2018, Lucian Camp, Anthony Thomson, No Small Change: Why Financial Services Needs a New Kind of Marketing, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

From the moment you park up in a police car outside some little old lady's house, even if it's only to walk down the road to make an inquiry at a neighbour's, Mrs. Miggins will be convinced that you're there to tell her that one of her family has died in some tragic accident.

2022, Darren Moor, “Try Not to Frighten Mrs. Miggins Any More than You have Already”, in How to Survive Your Early Years as a Police Officer: Tips, Tactics and Humour for the Probationer and Beyond, Market Harborough, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN:

(UK, informal) Any ordinary woman, especially an older woman.

Pihtiputaan mummo

any ordinary woman, especially an older woman


Friedman test

Developed in 1931 by Maurice Harold Friedman and Maxwell Edward Lapham at the University of Penn.


womxn

From women + -x-. Respelled both to avoid containing men (compare English womyn), and to use x (compare English Latinx), intended to convey that the word has a broad scope.

A womxn whose ability to carry out this work is through the grace of Anishinaabe mxn and institutions? A womxn without a grove of birch whose bark may be harvested without fear of negative consequences?

2018, Julie A. Gallagher, Barbara Winslow, Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN:

“Coyolxauhqui Canto” by Cristina Gorocica, a song written in offering to the moon, documents the moment of recognition when a womxn's body undergoing a metamorphoses to accommodate the growth of life is mirrored back in the phases of [the moon].

2019, Lara Medina, Martha R. Gonzales, Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 294:


womxn

Twenty-One Ways of Leaving:
[…]
19. The womxn in their thirties.
The womxn with wrinkles at the edges of their eyes.
The womxn who spell lonely with ambition.
The womxn in their thirties.
The womxn who do not bring up your age at the dinner table.
The womxn who bring up your accolades at the dinner table.
The womxn who make love to you
and introduce you at the dinner table
like they have not been intimate with your sheets.
Oh honey, run.
No.
The other way.

2017, Koleka Putuma, Collective Amnesia, →ISBN, page 44:

She was born in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico, and migrated with her family in the early 1990s to the Pacific Northwest. She is also a hip-hop artist with Batallones Femeninos, a womxn's hip-hop collective based in Mexico, and does multimedia production and autonomous organizing with Shades of Silence. She is currently in the process of applying to film school and to a graduate doctoral program to extend her work of supporting womxn and Indigenous communities ...

2017, Devon Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, Gabriel R. Valle, Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: Decolonial Perspectives, University of Arkansas Press, →ISBN, page 443:

To every person I spoke with on my many trips across the country, to guides/mentors/friends/fam: to Alexis Pauline Gumbs, for living queer Black brilliance and Black love, for creating space to remember Harriett Tubman, and for continuing to create Black Spaces for us rooted in the ways and words of Black womxn; ...

2017, Rae Paris, The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:


matristics

The study of women who were involved in the early Christian church.


pelvic inflammatory disease

(pathology) The infection of the upper part of the female reproductive system (uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries) and inside of the pelvis.


femoid

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Members describe women as “femoids” and the men they have sex with as “chads”.

2017 November 8, Olivia Solon, “'Incel': Reddit bans misogynist men's group blaming women for their celibacy”, in The Guardian:

The user wrote: "Although I don’t condone what celbro Frank Yeager did, normies and femoids need to understand what can happen after you bully us for so long."

2017 November 9, Alexandra Richards, “Reddit bans 'misogynist' group which blamed women for its members' celibacy”, in Evening Standard:

But when they abandon the pursuit of relationships in favor of long-winded posts about their anger toward “femoids,” one’s sympathy wanes.

2018 April 27, Brooke A. Rodgers, “The online ‘incel’ culture is real – and dangerous”, in New York Post:

Alongside the terms used in Minassian’s message, a common idiom in their discussions is “femoid”. Short for “female humanoid”, it’s used in place of the word “woman” to depict how, in an incel’s view, women are not entirely human, but are instead robot-like androids who only crave sex with Chads.

2018 April 28, Kate Wilson, “Last week in tech: sex robots”, in The Georgia Straight:

Mr. Genco posted on an incel website that he had also shot couples and “foids” — short for “femoids,” an incel term for women — with orange juice from a water gun, which made him feel “spiritually connected to the saint on that day,” according to the indictment.

2021 July 21, Michael Levenson, “‘Incel’ Is Charged With Plotting to Shoot Women, U.S. Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


sismance

sismance (countable and uncountable, plural sismances)

‘Sis-mance’, or ‘sister-mance’ (the best I could come up with for a female version of ‘bromance’) was rampant this week

2013, What have Your Favourite Celebs been up to? Find out on ‘The BFF Special’ of #WorkFlow! – Your Weekly Entertainment News Bulletin, BellaNaija:

2014 Joséphine Japy : "Mélanie Laurent place la barre assez haut dans son cinéma" Premiere
Joséphine : C’est une amitié passionnelle, au sens de l’adoration de l’autre. Ce que les Américains appellent une « sismance ».
Le féminin de « bromance » ?
Joséphine : Voilà. Ces deux jeunes filles ont un rapport d’exclusivité l’une envers l’autre. Elles doivent toujours tout faire ensemble, tout partager. C’est particulier, deux filles qui décident qu’elles sont faites l’une pour l’autre.

So, when Amy showed up to Elle's Women in Hollywood Awards Monday (Oct. 19) night in what must've been her Jennifer Lawrence Halloween costume because literally everything about her look was a direct throwback to Jennifer Lawrence's iconic 2011 Academy Awards style, we knew this sismance was at peak levels.

2015, Amy Schumer And Jennifer Lawrence Just Completed The Twin Transformation, MTV:

Romeo and Juliet ended their relationship in similar fashion. So did Thelma and Louise, come to think of it. Is that a Sismance?

2016, Ten great movie bromances, The Irish Times:

2017 Rahul Da Cunha: Padmavati Bar & Grill, Goa Mid-Day
I wanted to make a low budget sismance movie — the female equivalent of 'bromance' — but was told by the studios that chick flicks are out

2018 Kareena Kapoor Khan and Sonam Kapoor starrer ‘Veere Di Wedding’s trailer to release on THIS day Free Press Journal
She will be seen in ‘Veere Di Wedding’ which also stars Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhasker and Shikha Talsania in the key roles. Ever since the announcement of the film, their fans have been excited to watch this mixture of sismance on the big screen.

(informal) A close but nonsexual relationship between women.


sismantic

en-adj

sismantic (comparative more sismantic, superlative most sismantic)

more sismantic (comparative)
most sismantic (superlative)

Sweetest thing i saw when i was at the esplanade was there was a couple and they came up with this idea of taking pictures of other couples in love, and also those who just wanna be bromantic and sismantic.

2009, Matthew Goh, locked inside my head ., Creating-Miracles:

January 2010 Kyle Frazier Distributed time for others leads to healthy relationships
A fine balance of chilling with friends and hanging with a significant other is the key to a good relationship, whether the relationship is of the romantic kind or the bromantic/sismantic kind.

February 2010 The Uncelebrated Love Affair of the Single Girl, Ruth's Gleanings
The Benefits of Bro-/Sismantic Love

Special thanks to my beta, dolimir_k and my sismantic twin, maplelump.

2011, together, we are the oceans (part 4):

there is nothing in the rule book stating that you must celebrate only romantic love. Why not celebrate the love you have for yourself and your closest friends by having a “single girls night” at home? While all the couples out there are waiting for their turn in a jam-packed restaurant, you and your friends can enjoy a fun, sismantic (okay, I made that up, how come guys have bromances, but we don’t have a term for our bond as women?) night in the comfort of your own dining room.

2012, Nicole Etolen, Celebrate Single Girls Night on Valentine’s Day with Bormioli Rocco, Pretty Opinionated:

Root’s sismantic (/romantic) relationship with Shaw is also fascinating.

2015, Laura Dallars, Great Women II, We're Being WATCHED:

If a scene is between two or more characters, does it advance the story or character development arc between those characters? This includes all sex scenes and romantic or witty bromantic/sismantic interludes.

2016, James Osiris Baldwin, Fix Your Damn Book!: How to Painlessly Self-Edit Your Novels & Stories, page 72:


watch-birth

This Pattern pleas'd thee ſo, th' haſt fram'd by it,
Th' eternall Watch-births of thy ſacred Wit:
Thy pithy Book of Proverbs richly-grave,
Unto the PORCH may rich relation have:
For that it gives us Oeconomike Lawes,
Rules Politike, and Private civill Sawes;
And for (the moſt) thoſe Leſſons generall
At Humane matters ayme the moſt of all.

1641 [1578–84], “The Magnificence”, in Sylvester, Joshua, transl., Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes and Workes, translation of Semaines by Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, page 215:


beour

There were clusters of other lads and beors all about the riverbank, drinking, laughing.

(Ireland, slang) An (often attractive) woman or girl.


transmisogynoir

/ˌtɹænz.mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪˌnwɑɹ/

Blend of transmisogyny + misogynoir, from trans- + misogyny + French noir (“black”); coined on the site Gradient Lair in 2014.

When Black American transgender women contend with these dynamics, they experience transmisogynoir, the interactive product of anti-Blackness, transphobia, and sexism.

2017, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

(neologism) Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against black trans women.


control of conception

Perhaps popularised in 1931 by the book Control of Conception: An Illustrated Manual.


trans womyn

From trans woman, with woman respelled womyn (see that entry).

I am a tweener dyke and more butch than femme. I know other trans womyn who are solidly butch, and others who are totally femme, and, of course, the equivalents among straight and bi womyn.

2011, Laurie Penny, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (John Hunt Publishing), quoting Marja Erwin

… the officer responsible for the brutal beating of trans womyn Duanna Johnson who was shot and killed in the process of suing the Memphis Police Department has been sent caskets and death threats, corporate pride events have been stormed, …

2016 (originally published 2011), "An Alleyway Tranarchist", Lubing Up The Social War, in Queer Ultraviolence: Bashback! Anthology (Fray Baroque and Tegan Eanelli, eds.)

The internal debate led to some awkward and confusing statements about who counts as womyn, such as, “Trans womyn who identify as womyn-born-womyn are welcome at Michfest.”

2017, Heath Fogg Davis, Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?, NYU Press, page 91, quoting a MichFest statement

(rare) Feminist spelling of trans woman and trans women.


sister from another mister

en-noun

sister from another mister (plural sisters from another mister or sisters from other misters)

sisters from another mister (plural)
sisters from other misters (plural)

/ˈsɪstɚ fɹəm əˈnʌðə ˈmɪstɚ/

By analogy with brother from another mother.

My deepest thanks to my sister, Pamela Wilson and to my brother from another mother, Richard Montgomery, and my sister from another mister, Muriel Funches.

2010, Vanessa D[iana] Gilmore, “Dedication”, in You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Tales from a Judicial Diva, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:

And this is our sister from another mister, the fabulous Best Lightburn, but you already know all about her and her work.

[2016], Nicole Blades, The Thunder beneath Us, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN:

Ollie, my sister from another mister, would have shared her tiny bedroom with me in a heartbeat if I'd asked, but I'd never stoop to asking.

2017, Liz Reinhardt, chapter 1, in Rebels Like Us, Don Mills, Ont.: Seventeen Fiction, Harlequin Teen, →ISBN:

If I've done my job, you'll know and love these characters—sisters from another mister, brothers from another mother.

2018, J. Kenner, “An Introduction to the Lexi Blake Crossover Collection”, in Justify Me (A Stark International/Masters & Mercenaries Novella), [s.n.]: Evil Eye Concepts, →ISBN:

I'm the only child, no brothers, or sisters / Other than brothers from other mothers / Or the sisters from other misters

2020, Felice Mathieu, “The Man behind the Message”, in A Christian Marriage Guide: Preventing Arguments and Promoting Unity in the Christian Marriage, [s.n.]: Felice Mathieu:


behenji

(India, informal, derogatory) A woman who favours traditional Indian clothing, music, etc. over the Western equivalents.


pregnant woman

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NUWSS

w:National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

(UK, historical) Initialism of National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.


second-waver

second-wave feminism
second-wave feminism

A feminist in the era of second-wave feminism.


first-waver

A feminist in the era of first-wave feminism.


mamiji

(India) mother's brother's wife; maternal aunt


A-bomb maiden

Hiroshima maiden
Hiroshima maiden#English


Hiroshima maiden

Hiroshima maiden (plural Hiroshima maidens)

(historical) Any of a group of Japanese women who were disfigured by the thermal flash from the fission bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and who subsequently went on a highly publicized journey to get reconstructive surgery in the United States in 1955.


swan maiden

(mythology) A woman able to shapeshift between human and swan forms.


gori

(North India, Pakistan, British India, elsewhere slang, ethnic slur) A white woman.


headswoman

No candid person will wholly dismiss the proposition that the idea of having a Lord Chancellor but not a Lady Chancellor may at least be connected with the idea of having a headsman but not a headswoman, a hangman but not a hangwoman.

1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, chapter 3 part 9:

A female headsman; a female executioner that carries out executions by decapitation.


reply girl

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

(Internet, historical) A young woman who published video responses to popular YouTube videos, often wearing suggestive clothing, in order to exploit the site's algorithms and receive large amounts of traffic.


ROGD

Anti-trans campaigners call this 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' (ROGD) but there is no such phenomenon listed in clinical research. The only evidence for ROGD has come from a poorly designed study (Littman 2018) that has been criticised by its own university […]

2019, Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 51:

Michael Bailey and Ray Blanchard have expressed some preliminary thoughts based on interviews with mothers of ROGD children and clinicians […]

2020, Charles Murray, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class, Twelve, →ISBN:

rapid-onset gender dysphoria
rapid-onset gender dysphoria#English

(gender critical, pseudoscience) Initialism of rapid-onset gender dysphoria.