pro-abort

pro-abort (comparative more pro-abort, superlative most pro-abort)

more pro-abort (comparative)
most pro-abort (superlative)

In its newsletter, Defense of Life described Thornburgh as "pro-abort" and said Woods had no recorded abortion position.

1987 April 29, “Thornburgh turns down Reagan offer”, in Gettysburg Times:

As she stood outside the clinic on Saturday, she lamented the lost opportunities as the counterdemonstrators clogged the sidewalks. "They're the real lunatic, pro-abort people," she said[…]

1989 July 17, “Abortion Battle: 2 Foes on Front Lines”, in The New York Times:


proabortion

en-adj

proabortion (comparative more proabortion, superlative most proabortion)

more proabortion (comparative)
most proabortion (superlative)

Supportive of the practice and/or legalization of abortion.

abortuszpárti

supportive of the practice and/or legalization of abortion


pro-abortionist

One who supports the practice or legality of abortion.

partisan de l’avortement

one who supports or defends the practice and/or legality of abortion


anti-choicer

(informal, derogatory, dysphemistic) One who opposes pro-choice views.


midhusband

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By analogy from midwife, where wife long ago meant any woman.

(rare, usually humorous) masculine equivalent of midwife: A male midwife.


woman of means

A woman who possesses sufficient wealth to be regarded as prosperous or well off.


denial of pregnancy

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(medicine, psychology) A condition whereby a pregnant woman refuses to accept or recognise her pregnancy.


salpingectomy

From salping- (“of or relating to the salpinx”) + -ectomy (“surgical removal”).

af

(gynaecology, surgery) Surgical removal of the Fallopian tubes.


village bike

From the joke that "everyone gets a ride" (i.e. sexual intercourse).

He said of the girl complainant: 'She was the village bike.' 'What do you mean by that?' asked the Chairman. 'Everybody rode her,' was the reply. The idiom is evidently widely diffused, and there is little profit in trying to establish who invented it […]

1983, Philip Howard, A word in your ear:

The local people privately called Jean's mother 'The Village Bike', on which everyone got to ride. Jean had no way of knowing whether the man who lived with them was her father; the man himself may not have known.

Dexter wrote: > […] My charity is always extended to the local drunks of the village where I was brought up.
You were the village bike then?

2003, Effervescing Elephant, “Re: Stealth aircraft over Lincs”, in uk.local.lincolnshire (Usenet):

The boys nicknamed her the “village bike” and any lad who wanted affection or experience picked her up for the night.

2009, Annette J. Dunlea, Always and Forever:

She has a bit of a Village Bike reputation, and she usually wears her hair in two pigtails.

2009, Brent Crawford, Carter Finally Gets It:

My ex wife's a bit of a village bike, does that count? :-P

2012 May 15, Bob Milutinovic, “Re: Attn : TPG Techs”, in aus.computers (Usenet), retrieved 2014-09-23:

(UK, slang, derogatory) A local woman who is sexually promiscuous.


Grandmummy

Grandmummy told me about her life.


writeress

(dated, rare) A female writer; an authoress.


batwoman

(UK, military) A female batman (servant)


godsister

From Middle English godsuster, equivalent to god- + sister.

Let's go back to the thirteen-year-old girl introduced in Chapter 8 who found out her godsister was her half sister.

2005, Diane Ehrensaft, Mommies, daddies, donors, surrogates:

Before she met the man who became and remains her pimp, she was selling drugs with her godsister; he was one of their clients.

2007, Cynthia Cole Robinson, From the classroom to the corner:

What seemed a promising turn in their relationship was dashed when he began introducing her to his friends as his godsister.

2009 August 23, Katie Zezima, “Leah Squires and Eric Traub”, in New York Times:

"Mother, are you going to take her in as your goddaughter? I'm going to have a godsister? "

2020, Ruan Bao, Deep Affection of You and Me: Volume 1, Funstory, →ISBN:

The daughter or goddaughter of one's godparent, or the goddaughter of one's parent.


salpingostomy

(obstetrics, surgery) The surgical unblocking of a blocked Fallopian tube.


androcracy

(government, sociology) Government or rule by men.


feminal

en-adj

feminal (comparative more feminal, superlative most feminal)

more feminal (comparative)
most feminal (superlative)

Of or pertaining to women, femininity or feminism


Quiverfull

From quiver + full, in reference to the Old Testament: "As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them."

A conservative evangelical Christian movement that promotes procreation, rejects birth control, and regards children as a blessing from God.


bluehair

Compound of blue + hair.
The "elderly person" sense, first documented in the 1980s, refers to the blue rinse once used by older women to conceal grey hair.
The second sense emerged from the stereotypical association of dyed blue hair with social-justice activists.

I have memories from a young age in which my father is yelling about "blue hairs" and their inability to drive. And everyone remembers that scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in which the old lady cannot see over the steering wheel and is swerving down the road.

1997, Karin Vonesh, "Who are the worst drivers of all?", Southwords (Maine South High School, Park Ridge, IL), Volume 34, Issue 7, 19 December 1997, page 3

He'd recently swiped the little orange bottle of OxyContin from the old hag he often watched on Tuesday nights when her cold, indifferent middle-aged daughter played bingo with the other bluehairs from the strip-mall salon she frequented.

2011, Lola Newmar, Devlin's Beast, page 33:

“Anyone can join,” O'Neill says. “We have age ranges from children to blue hairs.”

2019, Chris O'Neill, quoted in Jordan Bradley, "Do Something Different: Try These Alternative Recreation Options", Encore (Michigan), June 2019, page 25

(slang, derogatory or humorous) An elderly person, especially a woman or one viewed as senile, old-fashioned, or out of touch.


breastfeeder

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From breastfeed + -er or breast + feeder.

A nursing mother, one who breastfeeds (suckles a baby).


Dworkinian

Dworkinian (comparative more Dworkinian, superlative most Dworkinian)

more Dworkinian (comparative)
most Dworkinian (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005), American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography.


menometrorrhagia

(pathology) Excessive uterine bleeding occurring outside of the normal menstrual period.


ecbolic

ecbolic (comparative more ecbolic, superlative most ecbolic)

more ecbolic (comparative)
most ecbolic (superlative)

(medicine) Producing abortion of a fetus or accelerating childbirth, oxytocic.


ecbolic

(medicine) An agent that produces abortion of a fetus or hastens delivery of the same.


mansplaining

Blend of man + explaining, or from mansplain + -ing.

Mansplaining isn't just the act of explaining while male, of course; many men manage to explain things every day without in the least insulting their listeners... Mansplaining is when a dude tells you, a woman, how to do something you already know how to do, or how you are wrong about something you are actually right about, or miscellaneous and inaccurate "facts" about something you know a hell of a lot more about than he does.

2009 May 8, Karen Healey, “A woman's born to weep and fret”, in Karen Healey's Livejournal:

It's hard to appreciate the full pathological depths of mansplaining unless you've read late-period Heinlein, an experience comparable to being trapped in an elevator for six hours with a boorish know-it-all offering his theories on economics, politics, sex, aesthetics, military strategy, investing and myriad other topics.

2014 December 1, Jeet Heer, Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays & Profiles, The Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 179:

“Cognitive therapy” is the fancy clinical term for what is otherwise known as “mansplaining.”

2015 December 7, James Taranto, “You're Being Hysterical. Calm Down.”, in The Wall Street Journal:

(informal, derogatory) The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a woman, in order to appear knowledgeable, or from a mistaken presumption that she has an inferior understanding of the topic.


girlzine

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Impatient horniness — the stereotypically male variety — shapes the credo of the on-line girlzine Minx.

2000, Benjamin DeMott, Killer woman blues:

On another floor there was a fanzine workshop, as well as a putting-on-gigs workshop, an extensive girlzine stall and a rape crisis information point.

2001, Chérie Turner, Everything you need to know about the riot grrrl movement:

On the one hand feminist ideas are increasingly taken for granted across a range of media and genres, vibrant girlzines spring up all over the world, and the Web is home to an enormous diversity of feminist ideas[…]

2007, Rosalind Gill, Gender and the Media, page 2:

A zine written predominantly by and for girls, specifically the riot grrrl subculture.


proprietrix

en-noun

proprietrix (plural proprietrixes or proprietrices)

proprietrixes (plural)
proprietrices (plural)


procidentia

(medicine) Prolapse, especially of the uterus.


misbirth

From Middle English, from Old English misbyrd (“abortion”), from Proto-Germanic *missa- (“mis-”) +*burdiz, *burþiz (“birth, carriage”). Equivalent to mis- + birth. Cognate with Dutch misgeboorte (“miscarriage”), German Missgeburt (“abortion”). Compare also misbreyde.


bra burner

After protests against bras and other emblems of femininity in the 1960s; see Bra burning.

(derogatory, slang) A strident feminist.


weaker sex

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For a man raised since birth to be strong, resolute, spare with words, and never to bow to the weepings and handwringings of the weaker sex, he had poured out his heart in that letter.

2013, Peter McAra, A World Apart, page 14:

"There's always a reason behind a lie. People can be very good at lying. Women can be especially good at it because they're the weaker sex and we, that's what the books say, and we want to protect them and not have anyone take advantage of them. At least I do," Farese said during closing statements Wednesday.

2017 April 22, “Attorney in Tennessee Rape Trial Says Women are Good Liars Because ‘They’re the Weaker Sex’”, in KTLA5:

(now offensive) Women; the female gender.


foster mother

A female adult who cares for a child who has been placed in foster care.

mendeshë

adult female who cares for a foster child


aftercoming

From Middle English after comyng, afthercomende, equivalent to after- + coming.

The most important aspect of an assisted vaginal breech delivery is careful delivery of the aftercoming head.

2003, Pitkin, Peattie & Macgowan, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, page 41:

(obstetrics) Specifically, of a baby's head: following the rest of the body out of the womb, rather than (as is usual) preceding it.


cis woman

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Not only do people harass and attack transwomen for being who they are: transwomen also face scrutiny from both ciswomen and cismen over “what” they are.

2010, Holly Kearl, Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 57:


genetic girl

My story began many years ago, I first crossdressed rather innocently. I was a child of 7, sharing time with two gg's (genetic girls). They talked me into putting on a dress and spend the day playing in the neighborhood as a girl. I really liked it and felt quite comfortable.

before 2002, Heidi, “HEIDI'S STORY”, in GeoCities:

(dated, LGBTQ slang, now offensive) A cis woman.


queer studies

The study, based on critical theory, of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, usually focusing on LGBT.


featherwood

I have another roommate who is a white girl, she is a featherwood. So she got this thing in the mail from her pen pal that had peckerwood written in it. And this black girl wanted to look at her mail, which she had no business doing […]

1998, Barbara A. Owen, "In the Mix": Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison, page 155:

"I don't know, Teri asked me if I was a featherwood and I said no because I don't have wings […]" […] "Girl do you know what a featherwood is?" Tai asked. "I thought it was a bird." "God you're so innocent." Dolores stated.

2007, Sandra Coleman, From Housewife and Mother to Convict, page 100:

I've been visiting a couple of featherwoods, all bad tattoos and twisted intentions. Seeing Anita for the first time without a half-inch-thick plate of shatterproof Plexiglas between us (the county jail allows only noncontact visits), […]

2010, Kenneth E. Hartman, Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars, page 68:

(prison slang) A white female inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.


menstruator

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Today she would probably be diagnosed with menorrhagia or Von Willbrand disease, a rare blood-clotting disorder, but then, she would have been viewed as a perpetual menstruator, eternally unclean, contaminating, and forbidden to have contact with any man.

2011, Chris Bobel, Samantha Kwan, Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules:

The most obvious population of menstruators affected by period poverty is homeless women, who struggle to afford any basic necessity, including shelter. And as we just discussed, period poverty for homeless women can be dangerous and detrimental to their health.

2018, Nadya Okamoto, Period Power, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 132:


scream queen

Her [Janet Leigh's] "scream queen" status also led to cameo roles in Jamie Lee Curtis' 1998 horror sequel Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and A Fate Totally Worse than Death in 2000.

2004 October 4, “Psycho actress Janet Leigh dies”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2016-08-02:

What makes a good scream queen? Lloyd Kaufman, whose Troma Films has distributed more than 1,000 horror films since the mid-'70s, says, "It's more than just crying and having ketchup thrown on you. You not only have to be attractive, but you also have to have a big brain. You have to be frightened, you have to be sad, you have to be romantic."

2007 April 27, Thomas K. Arnold, “Three screams for these stars”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 2016-03-04:

In short order, Friday the 13th (the first widely distributed major studio slasher flick), Terror Train and Prom Night – the latter two starring uber-scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis […]– led the charge into cinemas. With the formula nailed down – masked killer stalks and slays teenagers on a particular holiday or special event – everyone and their cousin could assemble their own cheapie horror flick and as a result, quality slumped as quantity multiplied.

2017 May 11, Peter Schorn, “Going To Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film: The slasher film dissected in this documentary retrospective [review]”, in IGN, archived from the original on 2016-09-15:

Confessions of a Scream Queen by Matt Beckoff (BearManor Media) is a series of interviews with actresses associated with horror films (using a very loose definition of the term "scream queen").

2011, “Nonfiction Books”, in Ellen Datlow, editor, The Best Horror of the Year, volume III, San Francisco, Calif.: Night Shade Books, →ISBN:

In this unique gallery of “Scream Queens,” you'll discover sixteen actresses who starred in bloodcurdling movies and TV shows […] The original Scream Queens were actresses in precarious, life-threatening situations—exemplified by the scene in King Kong in which the monstrous Kong "holds" [Fay] Wray in his hand while terrorizing Manhattan.

2015, Tim Foley, Scream Queens Paper Dolls, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN:

(informal) An actress who appears in several horror films.

кралица на ужаса

actress who appears in several horror movies


doctrix

From Middle English doctrice, from Latin doctrīx (“female teacher”), feminine form of doctor (“teacher”). The "female physician" sense is from the English doctor (which is from the Latin doctor) medical sense, analyzed as a feminine form of the English word; equivalent to doctor + -trix.

Secondly, There is a Doctrix, concerning whom I will relate unto you these most certain stories.[…]A sickly Rustick came unto her, complaining of a pain in his neck, and betwixt his shoulders. She affirmed his disease to be the Ripples in his neck, and essayed to cure him thus;[…]A Rustick woman came unto her, to get her advice concerning the Gravell, wherewith she was much troubled. The Doctrix gave her this advice, for causing the stone fall down into the neck of the bladder, You must stand leaning forwards with your two hands, upon the arms of a great chair, setting your feet far asunder; then let your Husband take a broad shovel, and give you four or five good clanks or strokes upon the buttocks with it.

1664, Matthew Mackaile, Moffet-Well, or, A Topographico-Spagyricall Description of the Minerall Wells, at Moffet in Annandale of Scotland, Edinburgh: […] Robert Brown, pages 173–174:

[…]; thus they have made Gallus their geese-god, Wendilin their sheep-god, Eulogius their horse-god, Antonius their swine-god, &c. Rochus their plague-physician and protector, Appollonia their tooth-ach doctrix, John a god of the Epilepsy, Eutropius of the Hydropsy, and Dame Catharine is lady of the mid-wives, &c.

[1664], Alexander Pitcarne, The Spiritual Sacrifice, or, A Treatise Wherein Several Weighty Questions and Cases Concerning the Saints Communion with God in Prayer are Propounded and Practically Improved, Edinburgh: […] Robert Brown, page 107:

Scold on; I thought you were a Physician. / A Doctrix for the Devil; / And all your Receipts bitter as Gall.

1693, Paul Vergerius, transl., The Royal Cuckold, or, Great Bastard Giving an Account of the Birth and Pedegree of Lewis le Grand, the First French King of That Name and Race: A Tragy-Comedy, London, page 2:

[…]the Nurse-Doctrices ordinarily cure such Patients by one night’s sweat with a half dozen spoonfuls of Poppy-water, and three or four of Plague or Treacle-water, and the most knowing of their Profession will add the bigness of a Nutmeg of Diascordium, and this to be given to any Red-gummer of twenty years of age, or thereabouts.[…]They appear either in a greater number, or lesser; of which latter the bigger are call’d by the Doctrices the Swine-pox, and the lesser the Chicken-pox.

1696, Gideon Harvey, A Treatise of the Small-Pox and Measles Describing Their Nature, Causes, and Signs, Siagnostick and Prognostick, in a Different Way to What Hath Hitherto Been Known, London: […] W. Freeman, pages 69–71:

I wish she would get the Doctrix to send a new dose to the patient she knows of, for there was a little too much of one of the ingredients in the last, which toke away the effect of the whole. […] The dose must be carefully made up, and no appearance of its comeing from any other hand but the Doctrix’ own.

1715–1745, Katherine Thomson, Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745: John Erskine, Earl of Mar. James Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater. The Master of Sinclair. Cameron of Lochiel, published 1845, page 118:

For I observe that at least two ladies (all honour and success to them, say I) have acquired the title of Doctor or Doctrix, and six more, I see, are at this moment engaged in dissecting the human subject at Edinburgh. […] Notoriously is this the case regarding the fair ‘Doctrixes,’ faith in whom appears to be ‘conspicuous by its absence’ amongst female patients.

1875, Belgravia, volume 25, pages 478–479:

One specialist asked her a grave question as to an eye case, another as to the brain, a third as to excision of the hip-joint, a fourth on tuberculosis, and so on. In ten minutes the doctrix had settled points that had taken those grave gray heads years to comprehend, and had fallen into as many pits.

In 1746 a “doctrix” was consulted in Galston about the recovery of a sick child. The “doctrix” attributed the child’s illness to a neighbour who “had a bad eye, and could not help it.”

1885, Andrew Edgar, Old Church life in Scotland, lectures, page 270:

Alice Driuer martyr. This was the doctrix of the forſaid weauer, who was ſo malepart and contumelious before the iudges, as firſt her eares were cutt of, for callinge Q. Mary Iezabell.

1603, A Treatise of Three Conversions, page 11:

Alice driuer, a famous Doctrice, Nouember 22.

1620, A Little Treatise Concerning Trial of Spirits, [Lancashire]: [Birchley Hall Press?], page 29:

[…]; she forshooth would be a Doctrix in the Councell;

1631, Rich[ard] Crakanthorp, Vigilius Dormitans Romes Seer Overseene· Or A treatise of the Fift General Councell Held at Constantinople, Anno 553. under Iustinian the Emperour, in the Time of Pope Vigilius, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Robert Mylbourne, page 303:

[…]; but onely Thyatira is charged for ſuffering Jezabell to teach, if they were one Church, the whole would have beene gulty of the ſinnes of the part, the whole being negligent to diſciplinate the part, but every Church is rebuked for it’s own fault, Ergo, every one was independent within it ſelfe. So M. Best, Author of Preſb. gover. exam. and the femall doctrix Childley.

1642, Samuell Rutherfurd, A Peaceable and Temperate Plea for Pauls Presbyterie in Scotland, or, A Modest and Brotherly Dispute of the Government of the Church of Scotland, […], London: […] Iohn Bartlet, page 242:

If A. B. had any Precedent, it was the Spanish Nun Teresa, who yet pretended not to be the singular or sole Doctrix of the whole World, as A. B. did.

1700, George White, D. D. An Advertisement, Anent the Reading of the Books of Antonia Borignion, Aberdeen: […] John Forbes, page 87:

Next Day, I did nothing but ſpent my Time in Plotties with my Neigbours, the Bow-Wives; particularly Mris. Campbel the School-Miſtreſs, and her Doctrix Mary Weir.

1735, The Occaſional Tinclarian, in a Letter to Sir John de Graham, Knight of the Thistle, page 17:

[…]—these are, therefore, advertising all who incline to be taught any manner of needle-work, washing, clear-starching, and many other parts of education, fit for accomplishing a gentlewoman, that they can have access to enter to the said Miss Eleanora Grant’s school in a fortnight hence, where they will be educate as above, and genteelly used by her and her doctrix.

1750, “Eleanora Grant appointed by the Magistrates Schoolmistress of Aberdeen”, in Aberdeen Journal; republished as “Extracts from the Aberdeen Journal”, in Antiquarian Gleanings from Aberdeenshire Records, compiled by Gavin Turreff, Aberdeen: George & Robert King; […], 1859, page 243:

It may not be without interest for Signor De Sio to note that, whatever may be the ultimate decision of the Courts of Italy on the special point raised in the case of Signorina Lidia Poët, of Turin, in regard to admission to the Bar, the power of creating “Doctrices” recorded by Strykius as lawfully exercised in his day, has lately been revived in Ireland, and gracefully exercised in the exalted person of the Princess of Wales, now Doctrix in the Faculty of Music of the Royal University of Ireland.

1885, The Law Magazine and Review: For Both Branches of the Legal Profession at Home and Abroad, page 311:

The letter under your cover to the doctrix daughter (Gold’s sister, i.e., Lady James Drummond) I caused a trusty hand deliver to Mr. H[a]II, so it is not to be doubted but it will go safe to the lady’s hands.

1904, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional papers. Inventory control record 1:

Other items in the account are payments made to the Doctrix of the school, drink-money for the tailor’s men, sequins for head-suits, and a “baberick” or baldric (i.e., a chain for the neck).

1907, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 182, page 68:

To Mrs. Cumming for a Quarter’s Payᵗ for Katie for sewing etc. 10ˢʰ and to the Doctrix 1ˢʰ . £0 11 0 / For the Doctor of the Writing School . 0 1 0

1914, John Alexander Inglis, The Family of Inglis of Auchindinny and Redhall, page 97:


meido

From Japanese メイド (meido, “maid, maidservant”), from English maid.

uder

I was really struck by how many of the bishoujo cliches it managed to bring up. We already have the older sister, younger sister, childhood friend, and exotic transfer student. We have a genki girl, a ditzy girl, a hime-sama, and a meido.

2006 October 13, Abraham Evangelista, “Re: Crescent Love - dull new anime”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

And then there’s Roberta, who seems like a typical meido (maid) character until she pulls out machine guns from her lacy uniform!

2008 October 12, Kitty Sensei, “Playing pirate”, in Malaysia Star:

Although this is a manga about maids, don’t expect to see the submissive and fawning maids of the meido category. The protagonist here is a faithful, skilled and courteous maid from the old English society.

2008, Memedi, "Loyal helper", Malaysia Star, 9 November 2008

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who is employed as a maid, typically wearing a stylized French maid outfit.


nonbreastfeeding

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victrix

In his victrix he required all that was here visible — the imprint of high cultivation, the consecration of a careful and authoritative protection, the adjuncts that Fashion decrees, Wealth purchases, and Taste adjusts […]


victrice

From Middle English victrice, from Latin victrīx.

To have her captiv'd ſpirit freed from fleſh, / And on her Innocence, a garment freſh / And vvhite, as that, put on: and in her hand / VVith boughs of Palme, a crovvned Victrice ſtand.

a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. An Elegie on My Muse.”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, page 260:


radfem

"How come a radfem like you didn't keep your last name after you got married?" Mosko asked.

1999, Michael Jahn, Dorian Yeager, & Barbara Paul, A New York State of Crime, Worldwide, →ISBN, page 39:

In their philosophical pursuit of answers to ultimate questions, the radfems get mired in the multi-syllabic muck of over-intellectualization, lacing their ideas with obscure cross-references and mind-numbing bombast […]

2003, Kenneth Lasson, Trembling in the Ivory Tower: Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 103:

Dr. Brimacombe firmly believed that just because she was a radfem, there was no need to dress in drab. She was frilly and feminine in the peachy-pinky, frou-frou frock and matching heels recommended by her fashion consultant.

2008, Peter Innes, The Man with the Grasshopper Mind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 91:

It was passionate trans women activists online whose strong advocacy of their right to exist as women in the world showed me just how dehumanising the trans-hostile rhetoric is from some radfems about them.

2018 November 28, Viv Smythe, “I'm credited with having coined the word 'Terf'. Here's how it happened”, in The Guardian:

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A radical feminist.


multip

A multiparous woman; one who has given birth twice or more.


nulliparity

In mammals, this transition from nulliparity to motherhood profoundly and fundamentally alters the female’s behavioral and motivational repertoire.

2007 December 11, Craig Howard Kinsley, Massimo Bardi, Kate Karelina, Brandi Rima, Lillian Christon, Julia Friedenberg, Garrett Griffin, “Motherhood Induces and Maintains Behavioral and Neural Plasticity across the Lifespan in the Rat”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:

Never having completed a pregnancy beyond 20 weeks.


wardrobe mistress

en-noun

wardrobe mistress (plural wardrobe mistresses)

The wardrobe mistress from Wicked showed the kids where the nooks and crannies are hidden in the show's lavish costumes to allow the leading ladies to hang from ropes.

2008 May 16, Lina Lofaro, “Grade School Impresarios”, in Time:

(performing arts) A woman in charge of the procurement, maintenance, and inventory of the costumes and other clothing worn by performers.

costumière

a woman in charge of maintaining a theatrical wardrobe


unfeminist

en-adj

unfeminist (comparative more unfeminist, superlative most unfeminist)

more unfeminist (comparative)
most unfeminist (superlative)

DEPENDING on who is doing the talking, fashion is bourgeois, girly, unfeminist, conformist, elitist, frivolous, anti-intellectual and a cultural stepchild barely worth the attention paid to even the most minor arts.

2007 September 2, Guy Trebay, “Admit It. You Love It. It Matters.”, in New York Times:


postpregnancy

Even Cookie, a luxury parenting magazine, recently ran an article that described postpregnancy breasts as “the ultimate indignity” and promoted implant surgery; a photo of droopy water-filled balloons accompanied the article.

2007 October 4, Natasha Singer, “Is the ‘Mom Job’ Really Necessary?”, in New York Times:


commanderess

Her political hucksters and Power Pointers are trying to help the New York senator blur the line between “male” and “female” enough to become the first commanderess in chief.

2007 October 21, Maureen Dowd, “Cougars, Archers, Snipers”, in New York Times:


laminaria

(gynaecology) A thin rod made of the dried stems of this alga, used to dilate the cervix.


good-time girl

Coordinate term: john

Just recently I found a story about a woman who was murdered in Niniltna back in 1915, a woman they called 'the Angel', one of the good-time girls who came up with the stampeders to mine the gold miners in the Yukon, and who came down to mine the copper miners along the Kanuyaq afterword.

2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 104:

We hadn't been out of the bar very long when a small, young Korean boy came up to us and wanted to know if we wanted good-time girls.

2006, James R. Clark, American Soldier at 13 Yrs Old WWII, →ISBN, page 190:

In The Loved One (1965) Lyn is lost amongst the myriad of starlets playing funeral parlor hostesses, cosmetologists, and scantily clad good-time girls.

2013, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles, →ISBN, page 76:


child bride

Coordinate term: child groom

Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that allow minor girls to be child brides.

With a smile and baksheesh for the little fair-faced girl destined to be the child-bride of some unknown Egyptian

1878, Frank Leslie's Sunday magazine, Volumes 3-4, page 206

Alone in [he]r tent the frightened child-bride [w]aits her husband, who will see her... [sic] ...for the first time.

Ohio, where she had peddled with her parents until she became a child bride to Salem's brother Khalil, in 1896

1993 Alixa Naf, Becoming American, page 142

In this article she discusses the 1992 incident in which a Hyderabadi Muslim father sells his daughter as a child-bride to an Arab named Yahya Mohammed al-Sageih for Rs. 6000.

2008, Hafiza Nilofar Khan, The University of Southern Mississippi, Treatment of a wife's body in the fiction of Indian subcontinental women writers, page 46

A very young bride, usually coerced or pressured into nuptials with a much older man, as practiced in some cultures.


Butlerian

Butlerian (comparative more Butlerian, superlative most Butlerian)

more Butlerian (comparative)
most Butlerian (superlative)

As [Mae] West aptly demonstrates, theatrical performance, performance in everyday life, and Butlerian performativity suggest how both actresses and prostitutes employ a variety of strategies to intervene in their discursive representations.

2005, Kirsten Pullen, Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society, page 21:

As we have explained, Butlerian theory affords us a way of understanding gendered, heterosexual relations that illuminates and helps to make sense of the (non-)responses of our participants.

2015, Tracy Morison, Catriona Macleod, Men's Pathways to Parenthood: Silence and Heterosexual Gendered Norms, page 47:

In Butt, gender is aesthetically transcended: instead of a Butlerian gender performance that destabilizes masculinity through parody, or a celebration of the destruction of the masculine ego-ideal, which Bersani foregrounds, we find a non-essentialist transformation of the materiality of the male body.

2022, Peter Rehberg, Hipster Porn: Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine Butt, page 91:

Of or relating to Judith Butler (born 1956), American philosopher focused on feminism, queer theory, and ethics.


fishwoman

Watt was not a woman's man, but the fishwoman pleased him greatly.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:


fœticide

en-noun

fœticide (countable and uncountable, plural fœticides)


jimmy hat

It was a brown wallet, it had props numbers / It had my jimmy hats, I gotta get it man

1990, “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo”, in People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, performed by A Tribe Called Quest:

I strap out, step out in every direction / Glock, TECs, jimmy hats, in case I need protection

1993, “Just Another Day”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:


drospirenone

But Yaz contains drospirenone, a progestin that can cause excess potassium production in some patients, its side effects include an increased risk of serious heart and other health problems.

2009 February 11, Natasha Singer, “A Birth Control Pill That Promised Too Much”, in New York Times:

(pharmacology) A synthetic progestogen C₂₄H₃₀O₃ that is an analog of spironolactone and is used in birth control pills in combination with ethinylestradiol (trademarks Yasmin and Yaz).


phallocracy

phallocracy (countable and uncountable, plural phallocracies)

Therefore, despite its political patriarchy, Athens cannot be considered—horrid word—a phallocracy.

A society or government of, or dominated by, men.


bloody show

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The passage of a small amount of blood or blood-tinged mucus through the vagina near the end of pregnancy.


be born

head

be born (highly irregular; see conjugation table)

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queen regnant

A female monarch who reigns in her own right, in contrast to a queen consort, who is the wife of a reigning king.


grande dame

/ˌɡɹɒ̃ ˈdɑːm/

/ˌɡɹɑnd ˈdɑm/

Borrowed from French grande dame, from grande (the feminine form of grand (“great, grand”)) + dame (“lady”). Doublet of grandam.
The plural form grandes dames is borrowed from French grandes dames.

In general the Continental, or at least the Belgian old women permit themselves a license of manners, speech, and aspect, such as our venerable grand-dames would recoil from as absolutely disreputable, […]

a. 1856 (date written), Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter VIII, in A[rthur] B[ell] Nicholls, editor, The Professor, a Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 140:

You only 'make love' languidly to some grande dame, who blinds him with sandal-wood and stifles him in lace; […]

1865, Ouida [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], “Feathery Seeds that were Freighted with Fruit of the Future”, in Strathmore: A Romance […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 219:

Now the Baronne de Ribaumont Walwyn was a veritable grande dame, and Madame Croquelebois, in spite of her sharp nose, and sharper tongue, was quite cowed by her, and absolutely driven to confess that she had not heard a word against Madame la Contesse.

1883, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “A Patient Grisel”, in Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 232–233:

Do you no longer want to go to Europe? to court? to be grande dame and converse with princes?

1902 March, Gertrude Franklin Atherton, chapter III, in The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, book I (Rachel Levine), page 15:

"Beatniks," snorted one grande dame as she pushed her way toward her chauffeur-driven limousine.

1966 August 19, “Resorts: Happening at the Hamptons”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-10-28:

She has been buying (under my guidance) new clothes and she looks quite the grande dame.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 141:

A woman who is high-ranking, socially prominent, or has a dignified character, especially one who is advanced in age and haughty.

arvokas rouva

Died. Ruth St. Denis, 90, grande dame of modern dance, whose foresight and inspiration helped change the U.S. from a choreographic wasteland to what is today one of the world's foremost centers of dance; […]

1965 August 2, “Milestones”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-10-29:

As the grande dame of Latin American actresses, Norma Aleandro is accustomed to having choice roles gravitate in her direction.

2007 July 15, Larry Rohter, “Movies: A part made for her”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-26:

A woman who is accomplished and influential, and is a respected senior figure in a particular field; a doyenne.


actoress

(nonstandard) Alternative form of actress


pavement princess

en-noun

pavement princess (plural pavement princesses)

Out on Fort Street, a pavement princess was sitting on the sidewalk with her back to a lamppost and her legs stretched out.

2009, Stanley Evans, Seaweed on the Rocks, page 35:

Anyhow, most street chicks won't do B/D, S/M scenes. Too complicated, I guess. But, one night in (of all places) Bakersfield, California, Fireass spotted a pavement princess dressed in full dominatrix attire.

2010, H. A. Carson, A Roaring Girl: An Interview with the Thinking Man's Hooker, page 200:

(slang) A female prostitute who seeks clients on the street.


character actress

character actress (plural character actresses)


fetus fetishist

fetus fetishist (plural fetus fetishists)

"Defeat the fetus fetishists" and "I am more important than a fetus" were among the placards carried by nearly 100 women […]

1972 October 3, Laurie Johnston, “Respect Life Week Stresses the Unborn”, in The New York Times:

As Campbell announced he supported life, Morgentaler cut him off and shouted, "I'm a pro-choicer and a pro-lifer. You are not a pro-lifer; you are a fetus fetishist."

1988 February 10, “TV Opponents Take Gloves Off Following Debate on Abortions”, in Toronto Star:

(Canada, US, politics, derogatory, dysphemistic) One who supports fetal rights; an antiabortionist.


TG girl

/ˈtiːˈdʒiːˌɡɜːl/

(LGBTQ, slang) A trans woman, a male-to-female transsexual or transgender person.


trans woman

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In “Femininity," Freud describes the limits of psychoanalytic knowledge of the female as follows: “psychoanalysis does not try to describe what a woman is — that would be a task it could scarcely perform — but sets about enquiring how she comes into being.” I was born “male" (whatever the contingencies of that term may be), and I lived my childhood largely (at least visibly) as a boy. But I grew up to be a trans woman.[…]
At one point, she spoke of "boys who played the flute in school bands," and I suddenly realized that to have been a boy who played the flute in school bands was a mark of distinction: that to have been that kind of boy included me in a very special and wonderful "sisterhood." I will never again give in to shame about being a flute-playing sissy. I'm proud of the sissy I was, and the trans woman that sissy became. (And I will try, as well, not to be ashamed of the adolescent with hir collar turned up trying so hard to be tough. S/he was struggling hard to survive, and s/he used whatever tools s/he could find.)

1999, Jody Norton, “The Boy Who Grew Up to Be a Woman”, in Matthew Rottnek, editor, Sissies and Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood, New York University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 263, 268:

A transgender or transsexual woman; i.e., a woman who was assigned male at birth; i.e., a person who was assigned male at birth but who has a female or primarily-female gender identity.

wrgrn

person assigned male at birth who lives as a woman

trans womyn

transfeminist spelling, especially of the plural


profeminism

profeminism (countable and uncountable, plural profeminisms)


up the kyte

Times change, that's a fact, what the hell am I blethering about, it's been the same since the world began, men have always been getting lassies up the kyte.

1983, Clifford Hanley, Another Street, Another Dance, Mainstream, →ISBN, page 115:


TS girl

(medicine) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see TS, girl. (A girl who has a medical condition, such as Turner syndrome or Tourette syndrome, which is initialized "TS".)


womon

From woman; respelled so as not to contain man.

Womon seeks womon to share 2 bdrm apt in JP.

1980 April 19, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

I don't think she was saying that you become responsible for the racism directed at you once you identify as a black womon, only that one could not assume that any given netizen was or was not a member of a minority without self-identification.

1996 December 6, Suki L. McDonough, “What's Up?”, in soc.women.lesbian-and-bi (Usenet):

But it does insure that the community won't lose the land if a womon decides, for whatever reason, not to pay.

1996, Judith Blazer Foster, “Land in the Ozarks”, in The new Our Right To Love: A Lesbian Resource Book, page 67:

(nonstandard) Feminist spelling of woman


blushing bride

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Originally a reference to a virgin bride who, lacking sexual experience, might be nervous about her wedding night.

My beautiful blushing bride, Sheila here, and I - We have come all the way up here to god’s green country to... Kill you. Clean you. And eat you.

2009, Benjamin Gilton, The Missing Dinner Guests:

Dana Jackson was not your average blushing bride. You see, she went down the aisle on her 100th birthday.

2012, Melissa Locker, “Bride Ties the Knot on Her 100th Birthday”, in Time:


victoress

But when the victoreſſe arriued there, / Where late ſhe left the penſife Scudamore, / With her owne truſty Squire, both full of feare, / Neither of them ſhe found where ſhe them lore:[…].

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part I (books I–III), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44, page 588:

And at the field fought before Bebriacum, ere the battailes joyned, tvvo Ægles had a conflict and bickered together in all their fights: and vvhen the one of them was foyled and overcome, a third came at the very inſtant from the ſunne riſing and chaſed the Victreſſe avvay.

1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Flavius Vespatianus Augustus”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 5, page 243:


papess

Was the history of that their monstrous Papess of our making?

1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:

(obsolete) A female pope, i.e. the fictitious Pope Joan.


blushet

little blushet Wax ne'er so easy

1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 4:


metritis

metritis (countable and uncountable, plural metritides)

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The conjunctive tissue, young and succulent, then becomes hard and fibrous, and the uterus, on section, is pale, indurated and devoid of blood; that is chronic metritis which has reached the second period, or period of induration.

1888, Georges Apostoli, On a New Treatment of Chronic Metritis:

The use of systemic antibiotics is justified and often required for metritis that causes systemic illness.

2008, Thomas J. Divers, Rebhun's Diseases of Dairy Cattle, page 411:


lactophilia

(paraphilia) a sexual fetish for lactating breasts and breastfeeding


cloistress

Like a cloistress she will veiled walk.

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:


brick house

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Possibly coined in 1977 from the song "Brick House" by The Commodores, who took it from the older expression built like a brick shithouse.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A house or type of construction made of bricks or blocks of masonry.


traitoress

From Middle English traitresse, traytouresse, from Middle French traitresse, Anglo-Norman traiteresse, treiteresce; equivalent to traitor + -ess.

Rather than heed her warnings, those who hear her words name her a traitoress or a woman insane.

2005, Lynda Rue Duerksen Jordan, Risking Apollo’s Kiss: Stories of Academically-Talented Women Teachers Naming Themselves (quotation in English; overall work in English), page 4:


hystory

hystory (countable and uncountable, plural hystories)

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Wordplay, replacing the supposed occurrence of the male pronoun his with hystero-; compare herstory.

(feminism, very rare) Nonstandard spelling of history.


intact dilation and extraction

intact dilation and extraction (countable and uncountable, plural intact dilation and extractions)

intact dilation and extractions (plural)

A late-term surgical abortion procedure, involving (in order) dilation of the cervix, removal of the fetus from the uterus to the shoulders, and emptying of the fetal cranium to allow for easier passage of the head through the cervix and vagina.


IDX

intact dilation and extraction
intact dilation and extraction#English

Initialism of intact dilation and extraction.


late-term

en-adj

late-term (comparative more late-term, superlative most late-term)

more late-term (comparative)
most late-term (superlative)

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In, pertaining to, or occurring during an advanced stage, especially of pregnancy.


gayelle

From Spanish gallera (“cockfight arena”).

And that time Bolo is coming through the village to the gayelle...

1975, Quincy Troupe, Rainer Schulte, Giant talk: an anthology of Third World writings, link:

I who have the best gamecocks from here to Maraval, and win twenty-nine battles with Hawk alone before they poison him near the gayelle in Valencia when we went to fight.

1997, Earl Lovelace, The Schoolmaster, page 21:

Stickfighters usually frequent a particular gayelle, which may have a recognized champion.

2004, Milla Cozart Riggio, Carnival: culture in action : the Trinidad experience, page 293:

(Caribbean, chiefly Trinidad and Tobago) An informal stage or arena, as for cockfighting or stickfighting.


delivery room

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Too many expectant mothers go to the delivery room terrified of what may be about to happen.

1951 January 1, “Medicine: Without Fear”, in Time:

When the mothers and their babies are brought out of the delivery room, “the postpartum nurse greets them at the desk and starts the ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs,’ and how lucky they were to have the nurse in the delivery,” Ms. Callahan said.

2011 November 7, Jordan Rau, “Test for Hospital Budgets: Are the Patients Pleased?”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-01-16:

(medicine) An operating theatre or similar room in a hospital or other medical facility, furnished with suitable equipment and staffed by physicians, surgeons, or other medical workers, for the purpose of assisting mothers with the births of their babies.


cateress

With her abundance; she, good cateress,
Means her provision only to the good

1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

After a while the mistress of the house arose, and said to the cateress: " Arise, O my sister, and let us fulfil our debt." The cateress left the saloon, and soon returned leading two black hounds , with chains around their necks.

1913, Frances Jenkins Olcott, The Arabian Nights, page 33:

In the kitchen, partly partitioned by a curtain, the cateress and her helper were busy.

2015, Joan Williams, Lisa C. Hickman, Remembering: Joan Williams' Uncollected Pieces:


high priestess

en-noun

high priestess (plural high priestesses)

A female clergyman with a higher function than a normal priestess.


auditress

Yet went she not, as not with such discourse / Delighted or not capable her ear / Of what was night: such pleasure she reserved, / Adam relating, she sole auditress

1667, John Milton, “Book CC”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 48-51:

I have forbidden Adèle to talk to me about her presents, and she is bursting with repletion; have the goodness to serve her as auditress and interlocutrice:

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XIV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 253:


cliterati

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Its first meeting, held at Eve Ensler's apartment, was a who's who, as Cuomo puts it, of "the New York cliterati," including Urvashi Vaid, Laura Flanders, Sarah Schulman and other notables.

2004, Laura Flanders, The W effect: Bush's war on women, Feminist Press at the City University of New York, page 248:

Significant figures in the feminism movements.


light-o'-love

Best sing it to the tune of light o' love.

c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters.

You light-o'-love, a word or two.

1626 February 13 (licensing date), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

That is why a priest's light-o'-love is always some honest man's wife.

1866, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866, page 618:

(by extension) A flirtatious or wanton woman.


admonitrix

From Latin admonitrix; equivalent to admonitor + -trix.


grannam

Why, do not I know you, grannam, and that sugar-loaf?

1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker, Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):


sultaness

From Middle English soudanesse. By surface analysis, sultan + -ess.


have the painters in

en-verb

have the painters in (third-person singular simple present has the painters in, present participle having the painters in, simple past and past participle had the painters in)

has the painters in (present singular third-person)
having the painters in (participle present)
had the painters in (participle past)
had the painters in (past)

(UK, slang, euphemistic, humorous) To menstruate; to be on one's period.


amniorrhexis

(medicine) A rupture of the amniotic sac during pregnancy.


anticontraception

en-adj

anticontraception (comparative more anticontraception, superlative most anticontraception)

more anticontraception (comparative)
most anticontraception (superlative)


amoret

From Middle English amorette, from Old French amorette, French amourette, diminutive of amour.


basbleu

Borrowed from French bas-bleu, from bas (“stocking”) + bleu (“blue”), itself a calque of English bluestocking.

(derogatory, dated) A bluestocking (a literary woman).


tomrig

And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg;[…]

1728, John Dennis, Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the lock. In several letters to a friend. With a preface, occasion'd by the late Treatise on the profound, and the Dunciad., London: J. Roberts, page 16:

(archaic) A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy.


humiliatrix

en-noun

humiliatrix (plural humiliatrixes or humiliatrices)

humiliatrixes (plural)
humiliatrices (plural)

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From Latin humiliātrīx or humiliate + -trix, compare humiliator and dominatrix.

2005 March 27th (4:25am), “aaadoveliz” (user name), alt.personals.spanking (Usenet newsgroup), “thongs, bikini, panties, panty, bikini, stockings, garterbelt TallCenter harvey glory bubba”, Message ID: <85b18095.0503270425.70a037db@posting.google.com>
The high-heeled humiliatrices of Cincinnati.

Miss D, a dominatrix and humiliatrix, who is a regular commentator on a number of sissy blogs

2010, Sally Hines, Tam Sanger, Transgender Identities:

But who was I to judge him I would probably die a miserable death myself for being the dominatrix, the slut buggerer, the forced bi specialist that would make grown men do unthinkable things by sucking each other off, the humiliatrix who would men^([sic]) weak at the knees with her power by forcing them to stick their tongue up my bottom hole and clean it, the woman who could stick stub cigarettes out on a mans^([sic]) chest while cumming all over his face.

2011, Rose Budworth-Levine, Intimate Encounters, page 62:

(BDSM) A dominatrix who specialises in humiliation.


flirt-gill

From flirt (“one who teases affection”) + gill (“prostitute, harlot”).

compound

Scurvy / knave! I am none of his flirt-gills. I am none of his / skains-mates.

c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 2, scene 4:

You heard him take me up like a flirt-gill, and sing bawdy songs upon me;

1607, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act 4, scene 1:

(obsolete) A flirtatious, promiscuous, or loose woman.


tirewoman

(archaic) A female dresser in a theatre; a wardrobe assistant.


advoutress

From Middle English advowteresse, avouteres, avoutresse, avowtres, avowtresse, from Old French; equivalent to advoutrer + -ess.

Edward the Second of England, his queen, had the principal hand in the deposing and murder of her husband. This kind of danger, is then to be feared chiefly, when the wives have plots, for the raising of their own children; or else that they be advoutresses.

c. 1612, Francis Bacon, "Of Empire" in The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon (2013 edition), p. 758 (Google preview)


town bicycle

From the jocular idea that the woman in question, like a hypothetical bicycle shared by an entire town, has had many people "take a ride" (i.e., have sexual intercourse with her).

"It's not you, my dear. A trip on the town bicycle isn't nearly as fun when everyone's already run it roughshod."

2010, Jill Myles, Gentlemen Prefer Succubi, Pocket Star Books, published 2010, →ISBN, page 119:

(slang, derogatory) A woman who is promiscuous.


Bloomerism

From Bloomer + -ism, after women's-rights advocate Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–1894).

A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land. A sort of shemale dress you call Bloomerism; a fashion of Sister Jonathan's.

1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:

(historical, sometimes derogatory) Support for equal rights for women; an early form of feminism, especially in relation to dress.


lady who lunches

en-noun

lady who lunches (plural ladies who lunch)

But there's always this aggrieved air that I'm some sort of ghastly Harvey Nichols-obsessed lady who lunches while he earns all the money.

1996, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel, London: Picador, →ISBN:

I'm not interested in material things, the way you and your ladies who lunch are, the way my fat brother Aaron is! I'm happy to work on my jewelry, to be able to commit to my religious beliefs through my jewelry.

2002, Evan Hunter, The Moment She was Gone: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

Sublime cafe fare (and gourmet takeaway) in a sunny, noisy setting crowded with suits, ladies who lunch and artsy Mass Ave types.

2006 February, Indianapolis Monthly, page 263:

I then choose a pale green silk print dress that plays up the green in my eyes. Matching it with pea green 3 inch heels, pearl necklace and 7mm pearl earrings; I once again look like a lady who lunches; a very wealthy one but one never the less.

2010, Tammi Shelton, The Stone Dragon, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 145:

(chiefly in the plural) A lady who is affluent and thus able to have lunch with other such ladies in relatively expensive restaurants.

Art Museum of Georgia
Shalva Kikodze
Tbilisi


fetation

(archaic) The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.


bluenette

A girl with pale blue hair and a translucent dress wears see-through underwear (she's not a natural bluenette).

2000 November, B. Werde, “The Love”, in CMJ New Music Monthly:

(slang) A person with blue hair, especially a woman.


matrixial

The third element of the matrixial model is metramorphosis: a process of change that is a result of nonphallic ways of contacting the archaic m/Other.

2011, Pat Paxson, Art and Intuition: Borderlines and Boundaries:

Of or relating to a feminist film theory introduced by Bracha L. Ettinger.


menostasis

(medicine, archaic or homeopathy) menopause


Irigarayan

en-adj

Irigarayan (comparative more Irigarayan, superlative most Irigarayan)

more Irigarayan (comparative)
most Irigarayan (superlative)

Of or relating to Luce Irigaray (born 1932), Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, and sociologist.


woman child

en-noun

woman child (plural woman children or women children)

woman children (plural)
women children (plural)

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The first statute that gave the father a power of appointing, was the 4 and 5 Philip and Mary, c. 8, which provides, under severe penalties, such as fine and imprisonment for years, against taking any maid, or woman child unmarried, being within the age of sixteen years, out of or from the possession, custody, or governance, and against the will of the father of such maid, or woman child, or of such person or persons, to whom the father of such maid, or woman child, by his last will and testament, or by any other act in his life time, shall grant the education and governance of such child.

1809, William Nicholson, “Guardian by statute, or Testamentary Guardian”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume III (E … I), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 2:

(colloquial, generally derogatory) An adult female who is childish or immature.


Cixousian

en-adj

Cixousian (comparative more Cixousian, superlative most Cixousian)

more Cixousian (comparative)
most Cixousian (superlative)

Worsham understands that Junker needs to validate Cixousian theory through composition pedagogy in order for her, like other compositionists, to find it to be a useful theory.

1997, Sidney I. Dobrin, Constructing Knowledges:

The Cixousian sentence is manipulated from back to front by its intrinsic infinity: the sentence is no longer a logical unit, a synthetic entity, a pause in the concept, but a stream with no banks or external constraints[…]

2005, Lee A. Jacobus, Regina Barreca, Hélène Cixous: Critical Impressions, page 81:

Of or relating to Hélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, philosopher, and literary critic.


big mama

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(African-American Vernacular) A grandmother.


love glove

She seemed like she should be accompanied by one of those miniature dogs with a bow in its hair and a heart rate of 1,000 beats per minute and should carry one of those little rhinestone purses that couldn't possibly hold more than a lipstick and a love glove.

1995 June, Paula Poundstone, “Republican field guide”, in Mother Jones:


jimmy cap

Giuliana: Oh please, fine, when we did it that night without a jimmy cap...

2010, Giuliana Rancic, Bill Rancic, I Do, Now What?: Secrets, Stories, and Advice from a Madly-in-Love Couple, Ballatine Books, →ISBN, page 132:


johnny bag

Should he get johnny bags from his big brother's room?

2011, Alison Irvine, This Road Is Red, Luath Press, →ISBN, page 114:


linea nigra

A dark vertical line, running up the abdomen from the pubis to the navel (though it sometimes runs further, to the top of the abdomen) that forms during pregnancy.

sorturák

dark vertical line on abdomen that forms during pregnancy


anti-abortionism

Anti-abortionism became crucial in the protection of births and population growth and thus a key element in the social policy of the New State.

1991, Mary Nash, “Pronatalism and motherhood in Franco's Spain”, in Gisela Bock, Pat Thane, editors, Maternity & Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States 1880s-1950s, Routledge, published 1994, →ISBN, page 168:

An ideology or policy of opposition to the practice and/or legalization of abortion.


pro-abortionism

They see pro-abortionism and reductions in immigration as the same issue.

2007, Brian N. Fry, Nativism and Immigration: Regulating the American Dream, LFB Scholarly Publishing, →ISBN, page 130:

An ideology or policy of support for the practice and/or legalization of abortion.


pro-lifeism

He starts with three strikes against him: Mormonism, Massachusetts-ism and a suspiciously recent conversion to pro-lifeism.

2007 May 11, Howard Fineman, “The Megastates Gamble”, in Newsweek:

An ideology or policy of opposition to abortion.


vampire's teabag

en-noun

vampire's teabag (plural vampires' teabags)

From an allusion between the appearance of a tampon, which has an attached string, and a teabag, along with the fact that a tampon is used to absorb blood, which the mythical vampire is reputed to drink.

I had the unenviable job of clearing one for somebody not long ago and the obstruction turned out to be a number of vampire's teabags gathered in a mass.

2004 July 22, Andy Hall, “Re: Clearing blocked toilet with caustic soda”, in uk.d-i-y (Usenet):

(slang) A tampon, especially an in-use or used one.


Minoress

From Medieval Latin minorissa, from Latin minor (“little, lesser”) + -issa (“-ess”), under influence from Norman frere-menouresse and Middle French sereur meneuresse (“lesser sister”), from menour (“minor”) + -esse (“-ess”), after the model of Medieval Latin Fratres Minores (“Lesser Brothers”), chosen by St. Francis to inculcate humility in the order's members. Equivalent to minor + -ess. Doublet of minoress and Sister Minor.

der

Also I. bequethe to the Religiouse Wommen the Menouresses dwellyngge witħoute algate of london̄, C. s. to be departed amonge [hem] by euene porcion̄, for to synge and rede and to praye diuine seruice for my lordes soule Sir Thomas West, and myn, and for alle christene soules, and for the estates of Thomas my sone, and Iohane his wyf, and for her children.

1395, Alice West, last will and testement, p. 3

These Nunnes were of the order of S. Clare, and called Minoresses.

1631, John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments, page 755:

The chief house of the Clares in England stood near Aldgate; it was built by Blanche, queen of Navarre, and her husband Edmund, earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Darby, son to Henry III. and brother to Edward I. These nuns were Urbanists, and enjoyed revenues. They were called Clares or Minoresses, and their house the Minories...

1759, Alban Butler, The Lives of the... Saints, volume IV, page 87:

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


mansplainer

Think about the men you know. Do any of them display that delightful mixture of privilege and ignorance that leads to condescending, inaccurate explanations, delivered with the rock-solid conviction of rightness and that slimy certainty that of course he is right, because he is the man in this conversation?

2009 May 8, Karen Healey, “A woman's born to weep and fret”, in Karen Healey's Livejournal, retrieved 2012-05-26:

(informal) One (especially a man) who mansplains.


mansplain

en-verb

mansplain (third-person singular simple present mansplains, present participle mansplaining, simple past and past participle mansplained)

mansplains (present singular third-person)
mansplaining (participle present)
mansplained (participle past)
mansplained (past)

Blend of man + explain, equivalent to man + -splain.

But what's getting all of the attention in the bill is the part where legislators have banded together to mansplain the various shadings of the crime of "rape" to America.

2011 February 1, Jason Linkins, “What’s behind the drive to redefine rape in new and insane ways?”, in The Huffington Post, archived from the original on 2016-04-01:

There were some Occupy-style solutions: those whose voices dominate should “step back” for an entire meeting. […] Men should notice when they are “mansplaining” (this one got a thunderous ovation).

2012 May 18, Sarah Seltzer, “Can Occupy fight back against the war on women?”, in The Nation, archived from the original on 2013-08-14:

Positioning himself as the white guy mansplaining to a black woman what’s best for her, The New York Times’s John Caramanica argues that Rihanna’s attempt, on the album, “to make public art with the person who physically abused you is immature, pre-feminist, post-ethics.”

2015 February 27, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism, Alresford, Hants: Zero Books, →ISBN:

(informal, derogatory) To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it merely because she is female.


mail-order bride

en-noun

mail-order bride (plural mail-order brides)

A woman who is listed in a catalogue to be selected by a man for marriage.


femifascist

/ˌfɛmɪˈfæʃɪst/

Blend of feminist + fascist, perhaps coined as an alternative to feminazi to avoid the genocidal connotations of Nazi.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:femifascist.

(US, offensive, rare, derogatory) A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views.


testeria

From testes, coined as a feminist response to the use of hysteria.

(rare) Behavior exhibiting excessive irritability, aggression, or unreasonableness.


pregnancy test

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A modern pregnancy test looks for human chorionic gonadotropin to determine whether a woman is pregnant.

a piece of test equipment that determines whether a woman, or by extension, a female animal is pregnant


mosquito bite

Half your bones are busted, your body is swollen like one huge mosquito bite, and you're nearly starved to death. Believe me, Champ, you're not okay.

2001, Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-073400-8; republished New York, N.Y.: HarperTrophy, 2005, ISBN 978-0-06-073400-8, page 121

From there, the cycle may be initiated once again when the sporozoites are released into the blood stream during a mosquito bite.

2002, Jacqueline Stanley, Essentials of Immunology & Serology, Albany, N.Y.: Delmar Thomson Learning, →ISBN, page 403:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mosquito, bite.


superfete

en-verb

superfete (third-person singular simple present superfetes, present participle superfeting, simple past and past participle superfeted)

superfetes (present singular third-person)
superfeting (participle present)
superfeted (participle past)
superfeted (past)

It makes me pregnant and to superfete

1655, James Howell, “The Vote, or a Poem Royal”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) To conceive (another fetus) after a former conception.


snow bunny

(Canada, US, slang) An inexperienced, usually female skier.

(Canada, US, slang) A young, attractive, female skier; a sexually active young woman attracted to the promiscuous après-ski way of life.


unabort

unabort (third-person singular simple present unaborts, present participle unaborting, simple past and past participle unaborted)

unaborts (present singular third-person)
unaborting (participle present)
unaborted (participle past)
unaborted (past)

Well, she can't unabort that baby.

1998 January 7, Mr. Nobody, “Re: Building a Consensus Group:”, in alt.abortion (Usenet), message-ID <34B34AA1.23F@toot-toot.com>:

She can't unabort, and trying to blame a previous abortion is rather like blaming illness on that old lady next door cursing you.

1999 March 21, hereticfromsf <hereticfromsf@my-dejanews.com>, “Re: Post Abortion Stress Syndrome (pro-lie disinformation)”, in alt.abortion (Usenet), message-ID <7d3t5h$77s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>:

He was practicing aborting his pilot training, but then he really did abort! By then it was too late to unabort, eh Herbot?

2004 September 10, The Lone Weasel, “Re: Bush Piloted Guard Training Jets Just Before Disappearance”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet), message-ID <Xns9560B474C36Eloneweaselyahooco@130.133.1.4>:

You'll never be able to unabort the baby that was alive in your womb years ago.

2016, Chris Foote, Unbelief: Overcoming Our Days of Doubt:

(rare) To undo an abortion (in various senses).


PPH

en-noun

PPH (countable and uncountable, plural PPHs)

postpartum hemorrhage
w:postpartum hemorrhage

(obstetrics) Initialism of postpartum hemorrhage.


cousin-aunt

Mary is my mother's first cousin. That makes Mary my cousin-aunt. Judy is my dad's first cousin, so for me she is another cousin-aunt.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cousin-aunt.

first cousin once removed
first cousin once removed

Female first cousin of one's parent; one's female first cousin once removed in a higher generation.


abruptio placentae

abruptio placentae (plural abruptio placentarum or abruptiones placentarum)

abruptio placentarum (plural)
abruptiones placentarum (plural)

Borrowed from New Latin abruptiō placentae (literally “a breaking off of the placenta”).

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(gynaecology) A premature separation of the placenta from the uterine wall.


nurse-in

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From nurse + in, by analogy with sit-in.

A nationwide nurse-in descended on Target stores this week after a mom in Texas complained when employees said she could not feed her baby in the store.

2011 December 31, Beth Brelje, “Mother defends breastfeeding in public despite criticism”, in Pocono Record:

A demonstration in which women gather in public to breastfeed their children.


bride-to-be

The etiquette of a royal wedding might vary according to the status of those entering into wedlock, but wherever possible it was preferred that a foreign bride-to-be should make the journey to be married, and settled, in England.

2011, Emily Brand, Royal Weddings, Shire Publications, published 2011, →ISBN:


milk sibling

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But knowingly to marry someone who is a milk sibling is, as Sidi told me gravely, to go against Islam.

2004, Rebecca Popenoe, Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty, and Sexuality Among a Saharan People, Routledge, published 2004, →ISBN, page 94:

A person who is not one's biological sibling but was nursed by the same woman as oneself.


milk brother

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Garin had been with them as well that day; he was Arianne's milk brother, and they had been inseparable since before they learned to walk.

2005, George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows, Spectra, →ISBN, page 299:


milk sister

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In this shop, I always used to play hide-and-seek with Marie, my wet nurse's daughter, who in fact is my milk sister, […]

2007, Jenny Erpenbeck, The Book of Words (trans. Susan Bernofsky), New Directions (2007; original German novel published 2004), page 46


grandgirl

One time, leetel ones, I was staying in a village with my only grandgirl, Cecile.

1872, Clara L. Matéaux, Raggles, Baggles, and the emperor, page 39:


intersectionality

en-noun

intersectionality (countable and uncountable, plural intersectionalities)

the intersectionality of these issues

the intersectionality of race, gender, class, ethnicity, age, generation, marital status, and place of origin

The feminist movement has also laid the groundwork for new intersectionalities with other movements. The intersectionality of interests between legal feminists and fem-crits has perpetuated a progressive CLS [Critical Legal Studies]-tilt within feminist legal discourse.

1993 March, Journal of Legal Education, volume 43, number 1, [Durham, N.C.]: Association of American Law Schools, →OCLC, page 45:

With men who are unemployed men or have limited access to work this heightening of masculinity within the interior of the familial relationship is of particular relevance with differences attributable to the intersectionality of race, class, culture and sexual orientation.

1998, Rhea V. Almeida, “The Dislocation of Women's Experience in Family Therapy”, in Rhea V. Almeida, editor, Transformations of Gender and Race: Family and Developmental Perspectives, New York, N.Y.: Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 16:

[Lisa] Bowleg details how she went about a psychological study of Black lesbian women only to find—in the midst of data collection—that the study had been configured along an additive model of identity that could not account for the intersectionality of her participants' experiences.

2014, Patrick R. Grzanka, “Introduction: Intersectional Objectivity”, in Patrick R. Grzanka, editor, Intersectionality: A Foundations and Frontiers Reader, Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, →ISBN, page xx:

The quality or state of being intersectional, that is, of being characterized by intersection (especially of multiple forms of discrimination).


redskirt

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From red + skirt. Patterned after redshirt, which derived from the tendency for male security officers, who wore red shirts, to die on episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. Female crew members wore minidresses, but only one red-uniformed female character was killed during the series' run, in the episode "By Any Other Name."

Wasn't there that episode where the aliens turned everyone into little blocks of styrofoam, and one of the aliens turned a redskirt and a redshirt into cubes and crumbled one of them? And then Scotty got really drunk. I seem to recall that the redskirt bought it that time.

2007 February 10, Marc Goodman, “Re: Response to Steven Pinker's 'The Mystery of Consciousness'”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):

(fiction, fandom slang, rare) An unimportant or expendable female character, especially one introduced only to be killed in order to underscore the peril faced by important characters.


protectrix

From Middle English protectrice, protectrix, protectryse, from Latin prōtēctrīx.

(archaic) A female who protects; a protectress.


neif

From Old French neif, from Latin nātīvā (“female serf”). Doublet of naïf and native.

Neifs indeed had also an appeal of rape, in case the lord violated them by force

1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

(historical) A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf.


gynergy

From gyno- + -ergy, coined by Emily Culpepper in a conversation in Leverett, Massachusetts, in 1983.

The patterns of racism and gynergy exist, I contend, separate from and prior to the humans who currently affirm these ideas.

2008, Constance Wise, Hidden Circles In The Web: Feminist Wicca, Occult Knowledge, and Process Thought, Lanham: AltaMira, →ISBN, →OL, page 126:

The world could be so cockaludicrous, so full of snools and dickspeakers. Everybody was losing their gynergy.

2010 December 26, Sara Corbett, “Gyno-theologian”, in New York Times Magazine, →ISSN, page 14:


rape culture

rape culture (countable and uncountable, plural rape cultures)

From rape (“non-consensual sex”) + culture.

By exposing the facts of our rapes, the numbers of them, the events surrounding them, and the men who commit them, we begin to break down the myths that support the rape culture.

1977 Spring, Suzanne Lacy, “"Three Weeks in May": Speaking Out on Rape, a Political Art Piece”, in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, volume 2, number 1, →JSTOR, page 67:

In a rape culture both men and women assume that sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable as death or taxes.

1993 September 1, Emilie Buchwald with Martha Roth and Pamela R. Fletcher, Transforming a Rape Culture, Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, →OL, page vii:

To prevent further incidences of rape on college campuses, we need to understand what it is about fraternities in particular and college life in general that may contribute to the maintenance of a rape culture on college campuses.

1996 April, A. Ayres Boswell with Joan Z. Spade, “Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?”, in Gender & Society, volume 10, number 2, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 134:

Rape culture is regarding violence as sexy and sexuality as violent. Rape culture is treating rape as a compliment, as the unbridled passion stirred in a healthy man by a beautiful woman, making irresistible the urge to rip open her bodice or slam her against a wall, or a wrought-iron fence, or a car hood, or pull her by her hair, or shove her onto a bed, or any one of a million other images of fight-fucking in movies and television shows and on the covers of romance novels that convey violent urges are inextricably linked with (straight) sexuality.

2009 October 9, Melissa McEwan, “Rape Culture 101”, in Shakesville, retrieved 2012-04-05:

Women's rights activists in Britain and the US have accused Facebook of promoting rape and "rape culture" after the social networking site refused to take down pages on which users made jokes and apparent confessions about sexual assault.

2011 September 30, Lizzy Davies, The Guardian:

Or "I wrote on rape culture my junior year at Brown / So I'm allowed to say what all his raps are about"

2011, “Backpackers”, in Camp, performed by Childish Gambino:

A culture, environment or society where rape (a form of sexual assault) is common, and in which social attitudes or practices work to trivialize sexual violence, make rape seem normal, or shift responsibility from rapists to rape victims.


pornsick

en-adj

pornsick (comparative more pornsick, superlative most pornsick)

more pornsick (comparative)
most pornsick (superlative)

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(informal) Psychologically damaged, sadistic, misogynistic, etc. as a result of excessive viewing of pornography.


minaudière

/ˌmɪnəʊˈdjɛː/

Borrowed from French minaudière (“coquettish woman; type of bag”), from minauder (“to simper”) + -ière (feminine form of -ier).

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Another gift—the Minaudiere—from Paris, costly because it is wrought from gold, or silver, is a flat case with all those requisites which ensure the feminine peace of mind on all elaborate or special occasions—even to a lighter for those who smoke—and alternately a case for those who do not—fitted with other delightful accessories.

1936, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, volume LXXXIII, London: Ward, Lock and Bowden, →OCLC, page 166, column 1:

The collection here includes a minaudiere with a sapphire clasp; a gold basket-bag, much like the ones French school children carry; a cigarette case emblazoned with a single sapphire; a lipstick case capped with another sapphire; a round compact with a sapphire imbedded in the center of the lid.

1957, Harper’s Bazaar, volume XC, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corp., →OCLC, page 145:

A type of formal, decorative women's clutch bag without handles or a strap.


BCP

en-noun

BCP (countable and uncountable, plural BCPs)


mansplanation

Like I said, I can see how a person can take the song as a mansplanation of an issue primarily pertaining to women, but was that Lupe’s intention?

2012, Ameer Hasan Loggins, "Bitch Bad: Misogyny, Misappropriated Anger & 'Me-ism'", Onyx Express (University of California, Berkeley), Volume 18, Issue 1, Spring 2012, page 9

English physician Samuel Farr was pretty certain women couldn't get pregnant without an orgasm. The Guardian quotes the mansplanation from his 1814 Elements of Medical Jurisprudence: "For without an excitation of lust, or the enjoyment of pleasure in the venereal act, no conception can probably take place. So that if an absolute rape were to be perpetrated, it is not likely she would become pregnant."

2012 August, Erika Eichelberger, “Men Defining Rape: A History”, in Mother Jones:

Vesta's left me alone with him so he can give me some sort of Big Daddy lecture. Because the thing I need right now is a mansplanation of the error of my thinking.

2014 October 28, Alex Marwood, The Killer Next Door, Penguin, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(informal) A condescending explanation given by a male explainer to a female listener, especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it because she is a woman.


ormeloxifene

From [Term?] + (di)me(thy)l + -oxifene (“tamoxifen derivative”).

af

(pharmacology) A selective estrogen receptor modulator.


preg

Pat told me once at their house that I should not play badminton because I might fall. She, who rode horses every day of her pregs!

2008, Nancy J. Howe, Dear Owie, Vantage Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 29:

She'd lost all her preg weight, but twenty-five months later was still a little poochy in front, favored baggy sweatshirts.

2008, Jonathan Kellerman, Compulsion, Ballantine, published 2008, →ISBN, page 308:

There was nothing even approaching the near-great, so (and I can't believe I ever had this much free time in my former life) I actually designed and sewed all my preg stuff myself.

2010 June 8, Linda Russell, “Notes from the new-mother zone”, in The Globe and Mail:


premenstrual dysphoric disorder

en-noun

premenstrual dysphoric disorder (countable and uncountable, plural premenstrual dysphoric disorders)

premenstrual dysphoric disorders (plural)

premenstrual syndrome
premenstrual syndrome

A severe form of premenstrual syndrome, associated primarily with the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, and characterized by feelings of despair or anxiety, panic attacks and mood swings, irritability, apathy, and various physical aberrations.


alphette

(informal, rare) an alpha female; a confident, self-assured woman


sulfatolamide

(pharmacology) A drug used in gynecology, a combination of sulfathiourea and mafenide.


footwoman

A female servant equivalent to a footman.

A female foot soldier; a female infantryman.


ablatio placentae

Borrowed from Latin ablatio (“carrying away”) + placentae (“flat cake”).

placental abruption
placental abruption#English

(gynaecology) Synonym of placental abruption


incomplete abortion

incomplete abortion (plural incomplete abortions)

(medicine) An abortion or miscarriage that does not fully remove all product traces of the fetus.


nontherapeutic abortion

nontherapeutic abortion (countable and uncountable, plural nontherapeutic abortions)

(medicine) An abortion not required for medical reasons.


therapeutic abortion

therapeutic abortion (countable and uncountable, plural therapeutic abortions)

/θɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/

(medicine) An abortion indicated by need for the health of the mother or due to the inviable nature of the fetus.


Beauvoirian

en-adj

Beauvoirian (comparative more Beauvoirian, superlative most Beauvoirian)

more Beauvoirian (comparative)
most Beauvoirian (superlative)

Of or relating to Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), French writer, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist.


female condom

sexually transmitted infection
sexually transmitted infection

(sometimes proscribed) A device that is inserted into the vagina or anus during sexual intercourse as a barrier contraceptive to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy.


femidom

From female or feminine and condom; originally a trademark.


femifascism

From femifascist, or blend of feminism + fascism.

(slang, offensive, derogatory, rare) Radical or militant feminism, intolerant of opposing views.


fetoscopy

en-noun

fetoscopy (countable and uncountable, plural fetoscopies)

An endoscopic procedure during pregnancy to allow access to the fetus, the amniotic cavity, the umbilical cord, and the fetal side of the placenta.


Bhabhi

(South Asia) A title used for a sister-in-law

(South Asia) A title used for an elder brother's wife

(South Asia) A term of address for any woman of one's age


in the club

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gynocriticism

gynocriticism (usually uncountable, plural gynocriticisms)

From gyno- + criticism, coined by Elaine Showalter in the essay Toward a Feminist Poetics.

The historical study of women writers as a distinct literary tradition.


womanist

en-adj

womanist (comparative more womanist, superlative most womanist)

more womanist (comparative)
most womanist (superlative)

For Walker, the battle against patriarchal society and its multiple sins of sexism, racism, classism and homophobia (among others) needs the womanist spirit of defiance and irreverence, on the one hand, and the desire for social integration, on the other.

2000, Tuzyline Jita Allan, “The Color Purple: A Study of Walker's Womanist Gospel”, in Harold Bloom, editor, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 120:

Relating to or in accordance with womanism.


Showalterian

Showalterian (comparative more Showalterian, superlative most Showalterian)

more Showalterian (comparative)
most Showalterian (superlative)

Of or relating to Elaine Showalter (born 1941), American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues.


hematocolpos

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + κόλπος (kólpos, “any hollow space; womb”); essentially equivalent to a surface analysis of hemato- + colp- + -us.

(medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.


hematometra

(medicine) A medical condition in which the uterus fills with menstrual blood.


hymenotomy

(surgery) The surgical removal or opening of the hymen.


femanon

All it needs is a "Cum to my protest on April 12th". Guaranteed turnout increase! (not that turnout isn't already excellent) Could use a male version though, for gay and femanons.

2008 March 27, Psyborgue, “AnonyPr0n - San Francisco style (NSFW)”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

Alternate universe where femanons comprise a majority of 4chan’s users.

2022 June 26, u/Visible-Original4561, “Femanons Talk about Underwear”, in Reddit, r/greentext:

(Internet slang) A female member of an anonymous online community, especially 4chan.


Braxton Hicks contraction

en-noun

Braxton Hicks contraction (plural Braxton Hicks contractions)

Named after John Braxton Hicks, English doctor who described them.

(obstetrics) A sporadic uterine contraction during pregnancy; false labour.

Braxton Hicks contraction
John Braxton Hicks


transfeminism

transfeminism (countable and uncountable, plural transfeminisms)

A branch of feminism concerned with transgender issues.


primigravida

primigravida (plural primigravidas or primigravidae or (archaic) primigravidæ)

primigravidas (plural)
primigravidae (plural)
primigravidæ (archaic plural)

/ˌpɹaɪmɪˈɡɹævɪdə/

/ˌpɹaɪməˈɡɹævɪdə/

From Latin prīmus (“first”) (modelled after primipara) + Medieval Latin gravida (“pregnant woman”), feminine singular of Latin gravidus (“pregnant, gravid”), from gravō (“to burden, weigh down; to make pregnant”) + -idus (adjective-forming suffix meaning “tending to”).

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[...] [Friedrich] Schatz advises all pregnant women, especially primigravidæ, to consult a physician during the last portion of their pregnancy, and ascertain from him the position of the child, and the necessity, if present, of altering it before labor sets in.

1874 February, “The Conversion of a Facial into a Vertex Presentation by External Manipulation only. By Friedrich Schatz, Rostock. (Archiv für Gynäkologie, v. 2. 1873.)”, in B. F. Dawson, editor, The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, volume VI, number 4, New York, N.Y.: William Wood & Co., publishers, […]; London: John Churchill’s Sons, […], →OCLC, page 659:

In connection with the case, I should like to remind you of the fact that extra-uterine pregnancy occurs more frequently in multigravidae than in primigravidae. This has an important bearing on the etiology of ectopic gestation.

1906 February 12, George Gellhorn, “The Diagnosis of Tubal Pregnancy before Rupture”, in Albert E. Taussig, A. S. Bleyer, editors, Quarterly Bulletin: Medical Department of Washington University, volume IV, number 3, St. Louis, Mo.: [Medical Department of Washington University] office of publication, 1806 Locust Street, […], published March 1906, →OCLC, page 167:

The overwhelming majority of primigravidas seen at the clinic are in their middle teens. All but two of these primigravidas were pregnant before their eighteenth birthday. Of thirty-eight primigravidas interviewed none had completed high school; and of these, the ones that were married had husbands who were engaged in low-skill, manual, low-paying occupations.

1975, María-Luisa Urdaneta, “Fertility and the ‘Pill’ in a Texas Barrio”, in Stanley R. Ingman, Anthony E. Thomas, editors, Topias and Utopias in Health: Policy Studies (World Anthropology), The Hague, Paris: Mouton Publishers, →ISBN, page 75:

In the second stage [of labour] for a primigravida, Caesarean section is the method of choice; with a multigravida, a vaginal delivery should be attempted.

1978, Lance Townsend, “Caesarean Section: The Types of Operation”, in Obstetrics for Students, 3rd edition, Melbourne, Vic., Sydney, N.S.W.: The Macmillan Company of Australia, →DOI, →ISBN, page 566:

Primigravidas who find themselves pregnant before they are ready may be more amenable to acceptance if social and financial circumstances are deemed adequate. Multiparas, on the other hand, who feel they have more children than they want may not be abl to overcome feelings of rejection.

1984, Regina P. Lederman, “Anxiety and Conflict in Pregnancy: Relationship to Maternal Health Status”, in Harriet H[elen] Werley, Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, editors, Annual Review of Nursing Research, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, part I (Research on Nursing Practice), page 35:

In the primigravida, particularly the heifer and bitch, it is often found that the cause of the dystocia is relatively simple, such as a slight fetomaternal disproportion, and the application of a little assistance is all that is required.

2009, David Noakes, “The Approach to an Obstetric Case”, in David E. Noakes, Timothy J. Parkinson, Gary C. W. England, editors, Veterinary Reproduction and Obstetrics, 9th edition, Edinburgh, London: Saunders Elsevier, →ISBN, pages 223–224:

A 24-year-old primigravida presents for routine ultrasound at 20 weeks gestation. Based on the ultrasound findings, the patient is diagnosed with twin boys.

2012, Karen M. Schneider, Stephen K. Patrick, “Maternal–Fetal Physiology and Placentation”, in Obstetrics and Gynecology: PreTest™ Self-assessment and Review (PreTest), 13th edition, McGraw-Hill Medical, →ISBN, page 39:

(obstetrics, veterinary medicine) A woman or female animal who is pregnant for the first time, or who has been pregnant once.

primigràvida

woman who is pregnant for the first time, or who has been pregnant once


jill of all trades

en-noun

jill of all trades (plural jills of all trades)

Sitting in a dive in Central Square, the one where she works as a dishwasher, barmaid, jill of all trades (illegal, no papers, below-the-minimum cash payments, afternoon and early evening shifts), she stared into a mug of beer and told herself: There comes a point.

1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades, University of Queensland Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 268:

If you intend to work primarily in one field, that approach would be reasonable. But if you aspire to be a jack or jill of all trades, you may want to begin by looking at some general guides for nonspecialized writers.

2000, Amy Einsohn, The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, University of California Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 64:

Sister Josephine was a jill of all trades. She served as bursar, school secretary, meals supervisor, welfare officer and troubleshooter.

2012, Ruth Hamilton, The Bells of Scotland Road, Macmillan, published 2012, →ISBN:

(idiomatic) A woman competent in many endeavors rather than only one.


female-assigned

White believes that female-assigned trans people can support the work of her organization […]

2007, Z magazine, volume 20, numbers 1-6, page 20:

[…] a world much more complex than one divided into female-assigned women and male-assigned men.

2009, Eli Clare, Dean Spade, Exile & Pride: disability, queerness & liberation, →ISBN, page 148:


transfemale

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transfemale.


dime piece

Suggesting a score of 10/10 on the informal scale of beauty, since a dime is worth 10 cents. Possibly in imitation of timepiece.

You're not a dime piece, you're a diva

2004, “Girl Like U”performed by Snoop Dogg ft. Nelly:

Carmiesha "Lil' Muddah" Vernoy had been with me since back in the day. She was more than a dime piece. She was drop-dead gorgeous and had the best pussy in the world.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 21:

"Don't act like we didn't kick it something fierce back in the day." Drew smiled. "My homies knew what I was working with back then," he said. "It ain't too often a brotha lucks up on a bona-fide dimepiece like you, Lachez."

2012, Tucker, Pat, Daddy's Maybe, Largo, M.D.: Strebor Books, →ISBN, page 188:

So tell me sugafoot. Why is a dimepiece like you single?

2014, Keisha Ervin, Cashmere Mafia, →ISBN, page 137:


husbandwoman

Along with her daily chores the husbandwoman salted, pickled, preserved, and manufactured enough beer and cider to see the family safely through the winter.

1999, Marilyn C. Wesley, Secret Journeys, page 8:


crimson tide

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keep the baby

en-verb

keep the baby (third-person singular simple present keeps the baby, present participle keeping the baby, simple past and past participle kept the baby)

keeps the baby (present singular third-person)
keeping the baby (participle present)
kept the baby (participle past)
kept the baby (past)


New Woman

These ladies, actuated by the modern spirit of independence, have yet nothing in common with the “New Woman”—if, which we doubt, this feminine Frankenstein be indeed among us, waiting to fall upon us to our undoing.

1896–1897, Wilhelmina Wimble, “Incomes for Ladies”, in The Lady's Realm, volume 1, page 104:

(historical) An educated, independent feminist of the late 19th century.


forced-birther

[…] that we are English, for there is something peculiarly English about modern abortion, and that is why we can bravely claim to be, as the forced-birthers snarl, the abortion capital of the world, no less.

1997, The American Spectator, volume 30, page 88:

(chiefly US, Canada, politics, informal, derogatory, dysphemistic) One who desires that abortion be illegal, and thus that pregnant women be required to carry to term and give birth in all or most cases; a pro-lifer.


prepregnant

The abdominal wall remains lax for 6-8 weeks when it has nearly returned to its prepregnant condition.

2005, Bob Flaws, Chinese Medical Obstetrics, page 214:


have one's tubes tied

have one's tubes tied (third-person singular simple present has one's tubes tied, present participle having one's tubes tied, simple past and past participle had one's tubes tied)

has one's tubes tied (present singular third-person)
having one's tubes tied (participle present)
had one's tubes tied (participle past)
had one's tubes tied (past)

My sister had her tubes tied after her fifth pregnancy.

(colloquial, medicine) To undergo a tubal ligation.

se faire ligaturer les trompes (de Fallope)


tubal ligation

en-noun

tubal ligation (countable and uncountable, plural tubal ligations)

Coordinate term: vasectomy (analogous procedure for male anatomy)

(medicine) A surgical procedure for female sterilization in which the Fallopian tubes are blocked or severed.

輸卵管結紮術 /输卵管结扎术

procedure in which the Fallopian tubes are blocked or severed