breastaurant

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Two things attracted Andrew Rodgers and his bachelor-party buddies to Hooters of Virginia, Inc., Roanoke's first and only “breastaurant.”

1993 October 6, “Cheap Thrills”, in The Roanoke Times:

And feminists aren't the only ones complaining about the Island's inaugural “breastaurant”: Concerned parents whose broods play in the park across the street wonder how to shield them from the chain's double-entendre name, which is about as sophisticated as those looseleaf notes you furtively passed in high school health class.

1995 June 4, Denise Flaim, “Is Hooters Too Hot for the Island?”, in Newsday:

Busting out of Las Vegas and onto the local pub scene is this breastaurant. Think Hooters girls in micro-kilts and push-up bras.

2012, Josh Pahigian, Kevin O'Connell, The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums, Lyons Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(informal) A restaurant featuring scantily clad female waitstaff.

波霸餐廳 /波霸餐厅

restaurant featuring scantily clad waitresses


Gilmanian

en-adj

Gilmanian (comparative more Gilmanian, superlative most Gilmanian)

more Gilmanian (comparative)
most Gilmanian (superlative)

While the representation of the ideal is obvious in Herland and in other works featuring utopian landscapes, the impact of Gilmanian idealism spills over, perhaps more subtly, into much of her short fiction as well.

1997, Denise D. Knight, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction, page 79:

In Gilman's union, acceptance for membership requires an initiation ritual of Gilmanian feminism both for men and women.

2011, Carolina Núņez Puente, Feminism and Dialogics, page 159:

Of or relating to Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), American sociologist, feminist, writer, and lecturer for social reform.


conductrix

Oberlin recruited teachers — whom he called “conductrices” — to sit among small groups of children and encourage language interaction through storytelling and start-up points for art and small construction projects, while the conductrices completed their knitting.

1999, Harry Morgan, The Imagination of Early Childhood Education, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 21:

(uncommon) A female conductor; a woman who conducts.


mama-san

From Japanese ママ with the honorific title さん.


Friedanian

Friedanian (comparative more Friedanian, superlative most Friedanian)

more Friedanian (comparative)
most Friedanian (superlative)

Relating to Betty Friedan (1921–2006), American writer, activist, and feminist.


femcee

Why was Emerson a failure in 1940s Hollywood but a blazing success as a femcee on early 1950s television?

2008, Christine Becker, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 80:

In addition to radiating personality, a femcee had to sell products. When she wasn't demonstrating a kitchen appliance, as Furness did in commercials, a femcee often hosted game shows, where the prizes were wonderful new consumer goods on display in department stores and on supermarket shelves.

2008, Catherine Gourley, Gidgets and Women Warriors: Perceptions of Women in the 1950s and 1960s, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 48:

Francis, a regular panelist on What's My Line?, was a poised and dignified “femcee,” and she also served as the program's managing editor.

2015, Charles L. Ponce de Leon, That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America, The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 34:

[…] to arguably rap's greatest emcees Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. and femcee Lauryn Hill.

2009, Dalton Higgins, Hip Hop World, Groundwood Books, →ISBN, page 67:

She's been featured on dozens of rap and R & B tracks, and she's the only femcee [female MC] currently on the rap charts.

2010, Steve Jones, "Listen Up: Thank God for Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday", USA Today, 22 November 2010, quoted in Felicity Britton, Nicki Minaj: Conquering Hip-Hop, Twenty-First Century Books (2013), page 38

The most well-known Tanzanian femcee to live abroad is Rah-P, who continues to live in Houston, Texas.

2014, Msia Kibona Clark, “Gender Representations among Tanzanian Female Emcees”, in Misa Kibona Clark, Mickie Mwanzia Koster, editors, Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa: Ni Wakati, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 151:


eumenorrhea

From eu- + meno- + -rrhea or eu- + menorrhea.

Runners with amenorrhea experience more running-related injuries than runners with eumenorrhea, and an increased incidence of stress fractures.

1998, Emily M. Haymes, Priscilla M. Clarkson, “Minerals and Trace Minerals”, in Jacqueline R. Berning, Suzanne Nelson Steen, editors, Nutrition for Sport and Exercise, Aspen Publishers, →ISBN, page 80:

The prevalence of eumenorrhea among women with PCOS is significantly increased if the Rotterdam diagnostic criteria are applied, because hirsute eumenorrheic women with polycystic ovaries are included.

2010, Marc A. Fritz, Leon Speroff, Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility, Wolters Kluwer Health, →ISBN, page 514:

In eumenorrhea, menstrual cycles occur at intervals of 25 to 35 days.

2013, Anne B. Loucks, “Menstruation Function and Dysfunction in the Female Athlete”, in Katherine A. Beals, editor, Nutrition and the Female Athlete: From Research to Practice, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 208:


eumenorrheic

eumenorrheic (comparative more eumenorrheic, superlative most eumenorrheic)

more eumenorrheic (comparative)
most eumenorrheic (superlative)

At the start of a competitive collegiate season, healthy eumenorrheic (normally menstruating) gymnasts will have a lower body fat percentage and higher average bone mineral density than eumenorrheic non-athletic controls.

2010, Michael Brunet, Unique Considerations of the Female Athlete, Delmar Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 137:

Equations that have been developed for eumenorrheic females (normal menstruating females) may overestimate the percentage of BF for females with anorexia nervosa (AN) because the bone mineral content levels of eumenorrheic females may be higher than those of amenorrheic females […]

2012, Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb, Vanessa Bayer, “Exercise Guidelines: Specific Recommendations for Women and Children with Eating Disorders”, in Kristin L. Goodheart, James R. Clopton, Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb, editors, Eating Disorders in Women and Children: Prevention, Stress Management, and Treatment, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 324:

Of, pertaining to, or experiencing eumenorrhea.


oligomenorrheic

oligomenorrheic (comparative more oligomenorrheic, superlative most oligomenorrheic)

more oligomenorrheic (comparative)
most oligomenorrheic (superlative)

While more than 90% of oligomenorrheic patients will ovulate, those patients who fail to ovulate need to be informed of alternatives to clomiphene administration.

2010, Marsha B. Baker, Kristin A. Bendikson, “Induction of Ovulation”, in T. Murphy Goodwin, Martin N. Montoro, Laila Muderspach, Richard Paulson, Subir Roy, editors, Management of Common Problems in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 435:

If this patient had also become oligomenorrheic or amenorrheic in the process of losing weight, return of menses—which may occur with increased fat consumption and minimal weight regain—can also serve as a functional marker of improvement.

2011, Katharine L. Loeb, Katherine E. Craigen, Michel Munk Goldstein, James Lock, Daniel Le Grange, “Early Treatment for Eating Disorders”, in Daniel Le Grange, James Lock, editors, Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Clinical Handbook, The Guilford Press, →ISBN, page 343:

In bed rest studies, women with normal reproductive function exposed to simulated microgravity frequently become oligomenorrheic.

2011, Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era, The National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 224:

Of, pertaining to, or experiencing oligomenorrhea.


dysmenorrheic

dysmenorrheic (comparative more dysmenorrheic, superlative most dysmenorrheic)

more dysmenorrheic (comparative)
most dysmenorrheic (superlative)

/ˌdɪsmɛnəˈɹiːɪk/

It is more recently the opinion of specialists that psychogenic symptoms may be associated with some dysmenorrheic patients, but that these symptoms are not necessarily the cause of physical complaints.

2000, Rebecca G. Stephenson, Linda J. O'Connor, Obstetric and Gynecologic Care in Physical Therapy, SLACK Incorporated, published 2000, →ISBN, page 53:

In severely dysmenorrheic women, there is exaggerated uterine contractility and a significantly higher prostaglandin content in the menstrual blood with a twofold to tenfold increase when compared with women who do not have menstrual pain.

2002, Ethel Sloan, Biology of Women, Delmar Thomson Learning, published 2002, →ISBN, page 99:

Baker and colleagues (1999) reported that dysmenorrheic women had reduced sleep efficiency when experiencing menstrual pain, with increased wakefulness, movement, and stage 1 sleep compared to pain-free phases of their cycle.

2012, Helen S. Driver, “Sleep and Gender: The Paradox of Sex and Sleep?”, in Charles M. Morin, Colin Espie, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Sleep and Sleep Disorders, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 276:

Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.


designer dyke

lipstick lesbian
lipstick lesbian#English

(LGBTQ slang) Synonym of lipstick lesbian


eldermother

She was his kindred now, being Eliani's eldermother. Smiling at the thought, he hastened into the palace and down to the council chamber, hoping he was not late for the session.


nonstress test

A screening test used in pregnancy, in which a cardiotocograph is used to monitor the fetal heart rate.


groomsmaid

From groom + -s- + maid, by analogy with groomsman and bridesmaid.

The groom's sister, Brüch Clift of Anchorage, was groomsmaid.

2008 September 10, “Clift, White exchange vows”, in Carroll County Comet:

The groomsmaid dress: I was a groomsmaid — meaning, I stood on the groom’s side in support of my male friend.

2011 March 9, Meredith Goldstein, “Bridesmaid revisited”, in Boston Globe:

Now that I think about it, I also tried the brewery’s East India Pale Ale, while hanging out at the apartment of my friend Michelle, who served as a groomsmaid at the big event, on the afternoon of the wedding.

2011 September 6, Sara Foss, “A wedding at a brewery”, in The Daily Gazette:

A woman who attends a groom during his wedding ceremony, as part of the wedding party.


unnie

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Borrowed from Korean 언니 (eonni, “older sister of a woman”).

bor+

(manhwa, women's speech) An affectionate term of address for an older sister or somewhat older woman.

(South Korean idol fandom) An older female member of an idol group.


slutwalk

One of the organisers of the slutwalks in the UK said: 'Comments like these only serve to shame victims into silence.'

2013, Janet Batsleer, Youth Working with Girls and Women in Community Settings:

A kind of protest march against rape culture and slut-shaming, generally led by young women who dress in revealing clothing.


motherling

First, to resolve gender ambiguity in links to collateral relatives, he introduced the symbols F (“fatherling”) and M (“motherling”) to refer to a “man's child” and a “woman's child,” respectively.

2012, Thomas R. Trautmann, Peter M. Whiteley, Crow-Omaha:


midpregnant

In the middle of pregnancy; during pregnancy.


wankette

From wank + -ette, by analogy with wanker.

When I first started living with my present SO, we had a discussion about masturbatory frequencies, and since mine was by far the more prolific, I couldn't help but give a guesstimate for my lifetime total. Needless to say, from my SO's perspective, this was an astounding number. Using a consertive^([sic]) estimate of an average of 5 times a week for the last 26 years, a very rough, but up to date total would be:
5 * 52 * 26 = 6,760.
So any of you old fart wankers and wankettes out there care to give an estimate?

1993 September 9, Red Crow [username], “6,760 times...”, in alt.sex.masturbation (Usenet):

What really gets me off is reading the stories of other folks. True stories from fellow wankers. (I guess the women would be wankettes?)

2002 June 6, PlumpLvr [username], “Re: what a tight group of folks”, in alt.masturbation (Usenet):

Of the 40 percent of wankettes, only one in ten admitted to petting the kitty weekly.

2007, Jamye Waxman, Getting Off: A Woman's Guide to Masturbation, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 215:

(vulgar, slang) A woman who masturbates.


hotsy-totsy

en-adj

hotsy-totsy (comparative more hotsy-totsy, superlative most hotsy-totsy)

more hotsy-totsy (comparative)
most hotsy-totsy (superlative)

I could never forget his supercilious sarcasm when I walked out on the practice field of his hotsy-totsy college, and he listened to my Flats accent, and listened to me asking him with Flats words how did I go about playing the game of football for his school.

1952, Lester Dent, Cry at Dusk, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media, published 2012, →ISBN:

[…] and every spring, in the fullness of their benevolence, they sent him and my mother for a hotsy-totsy free weekend in Atlantic City, to a fancy goyische hotel no less, there (along with all the other insurance agents in the Middle Atlantic states who had exceeded the A.E.S., their annual expectation of sales) to be intimidated by the desk clerk, the waiter, the bellboy, not to mention the puzzled paying guests.

1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Vintage International, published 1994, →ISBN:

So unlike some of these hotsy-totsy movie stars athletes rappers and rock and roll stars who spend all their money on expensive cars clothes mansions and go bankrupt from excessing, I will not.

1996, Terry McMillan, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Signet, →ISBN:

(slang, usually derogatory) Fancy, sophisticated.


artillerywoman

Her ordinary attire, she said, was in the way for an artillerywoman, and she asked permission to wear the male garb.

1871, Thomas Gibson Bowles, The Defence of Paris: Narrated as it was Seen, page 53:

(military) A female soldier who uses artillery.


great-grandma

Yet, according to recent research, the alleged grumpiness of great-grandma and great-grandpa is more myth than reality.

2010, Gerald Leinwand, Intimations of Immortality: Do You Want to Live Forever?, page 98:


Paglian

Sheaffer takes a Paglian position on the necessity for feminists to confront the darker aspects of sexuality.

1999, Mimi R. Gladstein, Chris M. Sciabarra, Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, page 16:

The new goddesses are butch Amazon women; they are the vanguard of the Dionescian/Paglian reaction against dogmatic feminism.

2003, Julie V. Gottlieb, Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-45:

She manages to shoehorn in cameos by Brian Freeman of the former performance group Pomo Afro Homos (1990-95), the singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon, whose hilarious explication of watermelon's cultural significance leaves the viewer baffled as to whether it's self-parody or a full-court display of Paglian earnestness.

2013, B. Ruby Rich, New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut, page 69:

Of or relating to Camille Paglia (born 1947), American teacher, feminist, and social critic.


yellow cab

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Shōko Ieda
Universal Studios
Yellow Cab (novel)
Yellow cab
Yellow cab (stereotype)

Originally selected owing to yellow's high visibility and common in horsedrawn form in Paris and London in the 1800s and New York in the 1880s. Now chiefly associated with the yellow automotive taxicabs popularized around New York by the Yellow Taxicab Co. In reference to sexually available Asian women, a calque of Japanese イエローキャブ (ierō kyabu), from English yellow cab and popularized by Shōko Ieda's 1991 novel by that name, from its female characters' supposed "yellow" skin and the notion they provided "rides" to the general public.

Despite its ubiquity in 1990s Japanese culture, one telephone survey of 200 people conducted in the New York area did not find a single individual familiar with the use of the term "yellow cab" in reference to Japanese or Asian women.

(Japanese, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Asian woman who sleeps with white men, particularly such Japanese women when regarded as a race traitor.


housegirl

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A girl or young woman employed in a private home to do housework.


girl crush

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S. is a woman. I don't want to sleep with her — S. and I are both unambiguously heterosexual and my feelings for her are decidedly nonphysical — but I have a major crush on her all the same. This is a girl crush, big time.

2004, Caroline Knapp, The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Counterpoint, published 2004, →ISBN, page 16:

“You look awesome,” she says, beaming. “Somewhat conservative and understated but with loads of style. If Tucker comes, she's going to be insanely jealous. I mean, she might even develop a girl crush.”

2006, Emily Giffin, Baby Proof, St. Martin's Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 181:

“Last week you hated her, and this week you're making her mixtapes? You totally have a girl crush!"

2010, Jill Murray, Rhythm and Blues, Doubleday Canada, published 2010, →ISBN, page 141:

(informal) A strong but usually nonsexual fondness experienced by one woman or girl for another.


fujoshi

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Borrowed from Japanese 腐(ふ)女(じょ)子(し) (fujoshi, literally “rotten girl/woman”).

ja-r

(fandom slang) A female fan of yaoi. A female shipper.


transwomyn

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transwomyn.

(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of trans womyn


Bechdel test

After cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of a 1985 Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip that popularized the test. Reportedly first used in 2007.

It also will enable users to determine if a project passes the Bechdel Test, measuring whether two female characters speak to each other about anything other than a man.

2019 April 26, Melena Ryzik, “Screenplay Software Adds Tool to Assess a Script’s Inclusiveness”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Finally, the percentage of musicals that pass the Bechdel test but not the jobs test has also remained consistent―at under 10% for the entire 75 years studied. These results imply that it is far more likely for a musical to pass the Bechdel test if a female character is employed in it; perhaps having a focus other than men for a character aids in more progressive portrayals.

2019 September 5, Jessica Sternfeld, Elizabeth L. Wollman, The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical, Routledge, →ISBN:

A feminist test for evaluating a work of fiction by whether it contains (i) at least two women (especially, named female characters) (ii) who talk to each other (iii) about something other than a man.

Alison Bechdel
Bechdel test
Dykes to Watch Out For


Muslimah

From Arabic مُسْلِمَة (muslima, “female Muslim”); compare Muslim.


cryptomenorrhea

From crypto- + meno- + -rrhea or crypto- + menorrhea.

A condition in which menstruation occurs, but the flow of the discharge is blocked.


gam gam

Turns out Ruth is actually the "Gam Gam" of one of Manning's most notorious rivals: Tom Brady.

2017 July 13, Nicole Yang, “Watch Tom Brady's 'grandma' deliver a burn to Peyton Manning”, in Boston.com, archived from the original on 2023-01-05:

"I'm pregnant," Jazmyne says as she cradles her belly. Lizzie quickly, and excitedly, jumps back in. "So I'm gonna be a gam gam!"

2022 July 7, Asa Hawks, “LOVE AFTER LOCKUP Lizzie Kommes to be a grandma, daughter Jazmyne is pregnant!”, in Starcasm, archived from the original on 2022-08-17:

Imagine you get to the cemetery with some flowers, prepared to spend the day at Grandma's grave, joking and laughing and crying with the family, reflecting on all your memories of Gam Gam.

2022 October 28, Eric Nathan, “It Would Be An Absolute Honor If This Woman Would Twerk On Grandma's Grave”, in Barstool Sports, archived from the original on 2023-01-05:


chill girl

[Chill girls naturally] have tons of dude friends, they're not invested in the person they're casually sleeping with, and they like sports and beer.

2014 October 19, Anna Breslaw, “What Happens When the Chill Girl Falls in Love”, in Cosmopolitan:

(slang) A girlfriend considered by her boyfriend to be self-sufficient, "low-maintenance" and "chilled out".


lactonazi

We have a phrase for some of the more zealous advocates of the Le Leche League……LactoNazis. Which refers to a person who would advise risking dehydration rather than giving an infant formula.

1993 July 31, David Pollard, “______-NAZIS!”, in bit.listserv.uus-l (Usenet):

On the other hand, if you know nothing about the differences between artificial feeding and breastfeeding, or if you DO know the differences, and *choose* to feed your baby formula instead of breast milk, your guilt comes from YOUR OWN knowledge that breastfeeding is better. Not from "lactonazis" or "militants," but from your own mind.

1996 May 10, Van Piercy (quoting Heidi Murphy), “Guilt and formula: Heidi's LACTNET post”, in alt.parenting.solutions (Usenet):

I'm very happy out her^([sic]) in the far left of lactonazi land, and I couldn't be here without all of you!

1996 May 15, Dave & Colette, “Re: Guilt and formula: Heidi's LACTNET post”, in alt.parenting.solutions (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory) An overzealous lactivist.


feministly

en-adv

feministly (comparative more feministly, superlative most feministly)

more feministly (comparative)
most feministly (superlative)

I would like to acknowledge […] Sue Wright for sharing her knowledge feministly […]

2000, Stephen Hussey, Paul Richard Thompson, The Roots of Environmental Consciousness:

So we have Hero writing not very feministly to Leander: 'I cannot be patient for Love! We burn with equal fires, but I am not equal to you in strength; men methinks must have stronger natures. […]

2013, John O'Connell, For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication:


feminazism

Mike Schwartz raised the "matriarchal society in Sci Fi" issue as indicating that Sci Fi writers had experienced "feminazism."

1993 September 23, Tom Tilley, “Re: Who are the Feminazis?”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), message-ID <1993Sep23.011720.16180@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>:

(derogatory) Aggressive militant radical feminism.


captainess

From Middle English captensse; equivalent to captain + -ess. Piecewise doublet of chieftainess.

the captainesses of industry


menoxenia

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From meno- (“month, menstrual”) + Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “strange”) + -ia.


slut-shaming

But now the hit musical Grease has become the latest target of ‘woke’ critics who have condemned it for racism, sexism, homophobia and ‘slut-shaming’.

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

(uncountable) The act of making a person (especially a woman) feel guilty or inferior for sexual activity, desires, expression, or circumstances that deviate from traditional or orthodox gender expectations or religious or cultural standards.


genderism

en-noun

genderism (countable and uncountable, plural genderisms)

[pages 108-109:] Virtually all networks and platforms mobilizing against more pluralistic and non-heteronormative (and less biologistic), sexual education at schools systematically equal gender with "genderism", that is with "gender ideology".
[page 183:] [...] in Poland examples of women made famous by their opposition to "genderism" include [...]

2017, Roman Kuhar, David Paternotte, Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:

The letter reads: 'Gender ideology results from many decades of ideological and cultural changes rooted in Marxism and neomarxism promoted by some feminist movements and from sexual revolution. Genderism [...] claims that biological sex does not have any social significance and what matters is gender, cultural sex, […] According to this ideology, one can freely choose whether to be a man or a woman; one may also select their own sexual orientation' (List Pasterski 2013).

2020, Suzanne Clisby, Mark Johnson, Jimmy Turner, Theorising Cultures of Equality, Routledge, →ISBN:

(in right-wing usage, derogatory) Opposition to traditional gender roles; belief that gender exists separate from sex; "gender ideology"; a variously-defined catch-all for things like transgender rights and feminism to which antigenderism is opposed.


skin and blister

skin and blister (plural skin and blisters)

'Are you Lizzy?' asked Nurse Wharton of my skin and blister. 'Yes,' said Lizzy, suddenly shy in the face of uniformed authority.

2011, Mary Jane Staples, Down Lambeth Way:

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang


Boston marriage

Boston marriage (plural Boston marriages)

Unknown, first used in late 19th century New England, and sometimes connected to The Bostonians (1885) by Henry James, which describes such a relationship.

Two women, as well known as Susan Channing and Edna D. Cheney, have made separate appeals for this new departure of female habit. A Boston marriage is described to be a sympathetic union of two women who have not been able to make good and agreeable matches with members of the opposite sex.

[1894 May 3, “Vanity Fair”, in The Argonaut, page 9:

[…] several times I was within an inch of coming down here and asking you out for a ride in my red convertible, but the Weird Sisters (indicating Meg and Louisa) told me not to disturb you. But I'm big enough to understand; I wasn't born yesterday. I understand this sort of menage, you know; it's called a Boston Marriage.

[1952, John Horne Burns, Cry of the Children:

Often, in marked contrast to Boston marriages in previous times, these lesbians keep their asexuality hidden from the community.

2002, Marilyn Yalom, Laura L. Carstensen, Inside the American Couple: New Thinking, New Challenges, University of California Press, page 81:

Thus, unlike in contemporary relationships, participants in a Boston marriage may or may not have considered genital activity to be an important element in their relationship.

2006, Laura Castañeda, Shannon B. Campbell, News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity, SAGE, page 217:

(historical) A long-term monogamous relationship between two unmarried women, especially in New England between the 18th and early 20th centuries.


phallocrat

One who advocates or imposes phallocracy.


War on Women

(US, politics, US politics, derogatory) Political efforts and initiatives to reduce women's rights, especially their reproductive rights.


reproductive right

reproductive right (plural reproductive rights)

If the reproductive right is interpreted as basic rights of one individual in contrast to the right to life of another, especially that of a defenseless unborn baby, it raises certain fundamental moral questions.

2007, Alex Vadakumthala, Reproductive Health: Catholic Ethics and Praxis in India, New Delhi: Health Commission, Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 15, →ISBN:

But the vacancy on the court is a reminder that the next president will have great influence over the future of reproductive rights.

2016 March 3, “What the Election Means for Reproductive Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

When this reproductive right extends to a control over someone else's body it is an intrusion into another person's body to have children. […] Surrogacy practice involves a control of another human being's body to fulfil one's own reproductive desires and this procedure violates another person's human dignity and reproductive rights.

2018, Sheela Saravanan, A Transnational Feminist View of Surrogacy Biomarkets in India, Singapore: Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174, →ISBN:

(chiefly in the plural) Any right associated with family planning, such as the right to birth control and the right to abortion.


saas

(India) A mother-in-law, especially the mother of the groom, who lives with the married couple.


phantom pregnancy

phantom pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural phantom pregnancies)

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second-wave feminism

Obviously, the second-wave feminism of the ’60s and ’70s could be pretty factional as well; there were vicious internal fights over issues like lesbianism and pornography, as well as over white feminists’ blind spots about race.

2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times:

A period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s in the United States and broadened the gender equality debate to include family, the workplace, reproductive rights, etc.


third-wave feminism

A period of feminist activity that began in the early 1990s as a response to perceived failures of second-wave initiatives to address the needs of women of many races, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and cultural backgrounds.


first-wave feminism

The question that many lesbians asked was whether all this work was being accomplished at the expense of other goals of the organization. Some made the frightening comparison to the "First Wave" of feminism, which dissolved after women achieved the right to vote.

1978 December 16, Cnidy Stein, “The Lavender Menace Lives”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 21, page 9:

The original period of concerted feminist activity during the 19th and early 20th century, focusing on de jure gender inequalities, primarily that of suffrage (the right to vote).


Norplant

A form of birth control consisting of levonorgestrel capsules implanted under the skin.


beanflicker

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womance

en-verb

womance (third-person singular simple present womances, present participle womancing, simple past and past participle womanced)

womances (present singular third-person)
womancing (participle present)
womanced (participle past)
womanced (past)


v-ring

a vaginal or intravaginal ring that releases hormones for the purpose of contraception


tube tying

en-noun

tube tying (countable and uncountable, plural tube tyings)

The procedure of tying the Fallopian tubes for the purpose of contraception.


rachipagus

(medicine, obstetrics) A conjoined twin, or a pair of conjoined twins, exhibiting fusion of the back.


Breastapo

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In that vulnerable post-natal daze, brainwashed by the NCT and other hard-line members of the Breastapo, I almost believed it was better to starve my son than pollute him with formula.

2011 May 11, Anna Maxted, “Breastfeeding: Protect us from the Breastapo”, in The Telegraph:

Not all women can produce enough milk to feed their babies, and many push themselves to the brink of sanity in the attempt to do so, partly because of the pressure piled on to them by the Breastapo.

2011 June 21, Emma Cowing, “The 'Breastapo' need to lay down their arms”, in The Scotsman:

I'd heard about the Breastapo but hadn't encountered a member yet. These are midwives and nurses whose keenness on breastfeeding somewhat overwhelms their ability to be kind and considerate.

2013, Jen Wight, Day 6: When Motherhood & Madness Collide, Green Olive Press, →ISBN:

(slang, derogatory) Overzealous lactivists who pressure women to breastfeed and criticize formula-feeders, taken as a group.


hooksian

en-adj

hooksian (comparative more hooksian, superlative most hooksian)

more hooksian (comparative)
most hooksian (superlative)

The book is unquestionably fashionable: the hot pink cover, littered with bell hooksian typography, opens to reveal overdesigned pages full of the trendiest graphics […]

1999, New Art Examiner, volume 26, numbers 5-10, page 67:

Ultimately, the play centers on signs, language, and back talk in a bell hooksian guise: how black women gain control over their environment by calling out and redressing the governing social constructs […]

2005, Carol Allen, Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000, page 110:

The most brutal character, O'Dog, (and therefore in hooksian logic the character who has swallowed the white myth, hook, line and sinker) survives at the end of the film.

2005, Paul Gormley, The New-brutality Film: Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema:

Of or relating to bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952), American feminist author and social activist.


poor little rich girl

en-noun

poor little rich girl (plural poor little rich girls)

One is a cheerful and spunky orphan, another is a poor little rich girl. (The poor little rich girl speaks with a British accent. The spunky orphan wears her baseball cap backwards, so you don't have a problem figuring out who's who.)

2003, Svetlana Boym, Ninochka, page 172:

Not all of the girls in my Guide Company were poor little rich girls. Mandy was a poor little poor girl, a mousy waif who lived out Thika Road, far from Muthaiga.

2006, Dorothy Stephens, Kwa Heri Means Goodbye: Memories of Kenya 1957-1959, page 96:

So, are you a poor little rich girl, slumming it and hiding from boyfriends who only want your trust fund instead of you?

2010, Michelle L. Levigne, Have Yourself a Faerie Little Christmas:

(idiomatic) An unhappy young woman from a wealthy background.


biomother

Biological mother (especially one who does not act as a mother)


bean flicker

From bean (“clitoris”) + flicker, referring to masturbation.

2001, Silverbullet, Re: rosie the grade school drop-out gets put in the corner again.., in usenet alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater
It's called the 21st century, beanflicker. Ever plan on visiting some day? You fucking right wingers are all alike. Really? I don't find them to be. Of course you don't, you fuckwit. That's why you racist, corrupt, homopobic nazi fascist bastards all stick together

2004, The Saltex Brujo, Beware that cockbiting muff diver upstairs! Group: alt.galactically.pointless
Fucking muff diving butt sucking bean flicker! On and on...

You 're lezzers. A couple of beanflickers, gaplappers, switch hitters.

2006, Mike Edwards, Friendly Fire - Page 258

(slang, vulgar) A person who stimulates their own clitoris; a masturbator.


minipill

A contraceptive pill containing only synthetic progestogens (progestins), not estrogen.


femmage

femmage (countable and uncountable, plural femmages)

Coined by Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer in the 1970s.

Any artwork created by women by assembling objects, as by collage, photomontage, etc.


Gilliganian

en-adj

Gilliganian (comparative more Gilliganian, superlative most Gilliganian)

more Gilliganian (comparative)
most Gilliganian (superlative)

Of or relating to Carol Gilligan (born 1936), American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist.


stationmistress

At Corris the present G.W.R. operations are in charge of a stationmistress, recalling earlier days at Tan-y-Bwlch on the Festiniog line.

1943 March and April, “Notes and News: On the Corris and Festiniog Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 114:

(rail transport) The woman in charge of a railway station; a female stationmaster.


fauxminist

This organization exists to take away a freedom that is important to every woman of childbearing age. It is more accurate to call them FAUXminists against Choice!

1992 October 6, Mark Ira Kaufman, “Feminists For Life...Huh?”, in talk.abortion (Usenet):

"And you call yourself a feminist!" the baby sneers, her contempt as ill-concealed as a teenage boy's designer underpants. "Fauxminist! Fauxminist!" her big sister shrills.

2008 November 15, Susan Maushart, “Lippy pitbulls”, in The Australian:

2012, Bianca Pencz, "Beyoncé: feminist or fauxminist?", Vancouver Observer, 25 April 2012 (used in title only)

(slang, derogatory) An insincere or inauthentic feminist.


cockaludicrous

cockaludicrous (comparative more cockaludicrous, superlative most cockaludicrous)

more cockaludicrous (comparative)
most cockaludicrous (superlative)

From cock + -a- + ludicrous. Introduced in a 1987 book by feminist Mary Daly.

If we consent to this cockaludicrous conceit—if we believe that the Earth is a lump of unconscious matter owned by elite men—we are far more susceptible to the belief that we are equally powerless, passive, and possessed.

1993 October 1, Jane Caputi, Gossips, Gorgons & Crones: The Fates of the Earth, Santa Fe: Bear & Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 5:

What bothers me most is her dualistic outlook - and "men = bad, women = good" -- even *if* as she's stated it isn't *all* men and *all* women; Goddess Knows that men in power have been *such* jerks!!! so it's not hard to see where she's coming from, and in certain moods it just gives me great pleasure to see her blast 'em and expose their "cockaludicrous" commentary […]

1997 October 31, Richard Holmes, “Re: Feminist Theology ???”, in alt.feminism (Usenet):

The world could be so cockaludicrous, so full of snools and dickspeakers.

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

(rare, slang, vulgar, derogatory) Ridiculously androcentric or patriarchal.


womanistic

womanistic (comparative more womanistic, superlative most womanistic)

more womanistic (comparative)
most womanistic (superlative)


Richian

Richian (comparative more Richian, superlative most Richian)

more Richian (comparative)
most Richian (superlative)

Of or relating to Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), American poet, essayist and feminist.


male gaze

(sociology) The implicit assumption or presentation of the viewpoint of a heterosexual man in films and other visual media, often manifesting in lingering, eroticized shots of women's bodies.


queen dowager

en-noun

queen dowager (plural queen dowagers or queens dowager or queens dowagers)

queen dowagers (plural)
queens dowager (plural)
queens dowagers (plural)

The new Royal Saloon rode roughly at first. It was originally a four-wheel carriage, and as such it was used by Adelaide, the Queen Dowager, but before the Queen [Queen Victoria] travelled in it the body was mounted on an eight-wheel frame.

1953 June, “Royal Railway Journeys”, in Railway Magazine, page 363:


triggerwoman

Again, Union men arrested not just the triggerwoman, but the men in the house as well, holding them equally accountable for the actions of anyone in the household.

2011, Judkin Browning, Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina, page 75:


MFPR

Abbreviation of multifetal pregnancy reduction. The abortion of one or more fetuses in a multifetal pregnancy.


COCP

Initialism of combined oral contraceptive pill.


ECP

For maximum effectiveness, ECP treatment should be started as soon as possible after unprotected intercourse, and within 120 hours.

2007, Felicia Stewart with James Trussell and Paul F.A. Van Look, “Emergency Contraception”, in Robert A. Hatcher, James Trussell, Anita L. Nelson, Willard Cates Jr., Felicia H. Stewart, Deborah Kowal, editors, Contraceptive Technology, 19th edition, Ardent Media, page 106:

Initialism of emergency contraceptive pill.


ECP

(Singapore, in road signs) Initialism of East Coast Parkway.


bamboo ceiling

Modeled on glass ceiling, popularized in 2005 by Jane Hyun in Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, see quotations.

The title Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling was selected because it acknowledges that Asian Americans do indeed face obstacles in the workplace and it asserts that there are cultural barriers that play a role in impeding career advancement.

2005, Jane Hyun, Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, Harper Business, →ISBN, page xx:

Schools where admission is purely through a test, like the elite public New York City high school Stuyvesant, often have large percentages of Asian-Americans. The University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles are more than half Asian. That doesn’t help them integrate effectively, to pierce what some call the bamboo ceiling in the corporate and political worlds.

2012 November 1, Ethan Bronner, “Asian-Americans in the Argument”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-04-28:

Many Asian American attorneys are finding they may have excelled in law school and were able to land their first job, but their careers are not moving forward the way they would like. It has been described as a “bamboo ceiling.”

2014 April 14, Ed Silverstein, “Asian-American GCs meet in Chicago to expand career opportunities”, in Inside Counsel, retrieved 2014-04-28:

Especially in America, a social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a person of East Asian ethnicity.


milk knot

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(medicine) A hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands.


femme fan

femme fan (plural femme fans or femme fen)

Here was a picture whose screen fortunes must have caused much uncertainty as to the femme fan reaction. As it turns out all the signs are that the woman angle is favorable and that sets the picture for better than average money at the box office

1931 February 18, Alfred Rushford Greason, “Dracula”, in Variety:

Samuel Merwin, Jr., editor of Thrilling Wonder Stories, said much the same when he lamented in the December, 1946 (p. 100) that he didn't have a letter from a "femme fan" to publish that month and encouraged his female readers to send in letters.

1946 December, Eric Leif Davin, quoting Samuel Merwin, Jr., Partners in Wonder, published 2006, →ISBN:

Both reviews singled out the fact that Como's songs were greeted by a "frenzied screaming from the teenage femme fan fringe that follows Como around."

c. 1953, Malcolm Macfarlane, Ken Crossland, Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record, published 2009, →ISBN, page 86:

Trust a femme-fan to start a stream-of-consciousness conversation every time.

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

(dated, fandom slang) A female fan, particularly of science fiction.


femfan

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

1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, page 31:

So, at last, backed by a formidable phalange of femfans, I dare speak up, brave lassie that I am.

1953 August, Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 42, number 3, page 133:

When I went to my first science fiction convention in 1961, fandom was entirely white and 80 percent male. Women were marginalized as "femfans." Gay people were in the closet.

2010, Eleanor Arnason, Mammoths of the Great Plains, →ISBN, page 120:

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


anarcha-feminist

(politics, economics) A person who advocates anarcha-feminism.


women's troubles

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(dated, euphemistic) Unpleasant symptoms associated with menstruation.


younger sister

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

妹

for younger sisters in general or one's own

妹さん

used when referring to someone else's younger sister


chilly climate

chilly (“unfriendly or distant and cool”) + climate (“the context in general of a particular situation”)

A chilly climate is not conducive for women students' learning...

2008, Kimberly Turner Helms, Self-reflection During Transition to College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, page 39:

Most frequently, issues of chilly climate are noted among women pursuing doctorates in the sciences and engineering.

2012, Margaret W Sallee, “The Individual and the Institution”, in On Becoming a Scholar: Socialization and Development in Doctoral Education, page 141:

(idiomatic) A male-dominated environment where both overt and subtle forms of discrimination lead to the unequal treatment of women


menstruality

Voraciousness was connected to menstruality—Aristotle mentions that barren women whose menses collect but do not get expelled are prone to sexual incontinence.

2013, Joan Cadden, Nothing Natural Is Shameful:


korephile

/ˈkɔːɹɪfaɪl/

/ˈkɔːɹɪfʌɪl/

From the Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl”) + -φῐ́λης (-phĭ́lēs, “-lover”), coined after korephilia and by analogy with paedophile.

compound

For quotations using this term, see Citations:korephile.

(rare) A woman or older female who is erotically attracted toward young (chiefly pre- and/or peripubescent) girls.

parthenophile

a person attracted to young women, virgins


TERF

Acronym of trans-exclusionary radical feminist. The earliest recorded use is from 2008 by trans-inclusive cisgender radical feminist Viv Smythe.

acronym

Dear “A Lesbian Democrat”
Your TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) agenda and what it represents is no better than the bigoted regressive agenda of the religious right.

2013, Toni Browning-Early, letter to the editor, QNotes, Volume 28, Number 6, 19 July - 1 August 2013, page 4

At the further extreme TERF’s^([sic]) actively promote the message that banning trans women from feminist gathering implies—that trans women are not really women at all.

2013 December, Rachel Eliason, “Wired This Way”, in ACCESSline, volume 27, number 12, page 13:

Perhaps the sheer nastiness of TERFs comes from the fact that they don’t just know they’ve lost; they know they were on the wrong side from the beginning.

2014, Roz Kaveney, "Woman Enough, The Advocate, 16 July 2014

Although some TERFs attend the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, none of my interviewees or other land-women have identified as a TERF, nor have any TERFs, to my knowledge, ever lived on women's land.

2018, Keridwen N. Luis, Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States:

The point here isn't that some TERFs aren’t XX and some Nazis aren’t “purely” white (an imaginary category); it’s that their bigotry rests on assumptions about biology and genetics which are scientifically lazy, as if you can “see” race and gender in a meaningful yet simplistic and binary way.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A–Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 252:

That Rowling used terms like “gender critical” (the preferred descriptor of TERFs rather than, well, TERF); that she believes laws that enable trans people to use the bathrooms and changing rooms that match their gender identity will “open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside,” which she says is the “simple truth” but is not backed up by any evidence whatsoever; and that she paints the movement for trans rights as one that is “doing demonstrable harm” to women and girls and is “offering cover to predators like few before it” is proof enough of what her views are and who she aligns herself with, for all of her protestations that she has trans friends and cares about the safety of trans women.

2020 June 10, Esther Wang, “For the Love of God, Please Make J.K. Rowling Stop”, in Jezebel, archived from the original on 2022-11-10:

(see usage notes) A trans-exclusionary radical feminist; a radical feminist who does not consider trans women to be women, or thinks they should not be included in female spaces or organisations, and who considers trans men to be women; a person whose transphobia is expressed in feminist terms.


up the stump

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Science is up the stump. She can't find out why green sorghum should be so quickly fatal to cattle, says an exchange.

1900, Queensland Agricultural Journal, volume 7, page 216:

He said old Dr. Blank had been attending to him all day, but was “up the stump” and wanted me to help.

1907, The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, volume 14, page 662:

Just today I gave his history class a few questions to answer and hand in, but when it came time to answering the last two he was up the stump.

2001, Suzanne L. Bunkers, Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern American Sampler, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 218:

(informal) At a loss, puzzled, in a bind.


femtard

Thus, these femtard bitches, with their belief that women are great and men are useless, and their conviction that women need to given lots of leg-ups and help, will be able to put this into practice and concentrate on hiring women only.

2005, MCP, “Re: Pointless personel ^([sic]) managers”, in soc.men (Usenet):

This Forbes article has been discussed on plenty of anti-feminist websites. It's fantastic, it's really pissed off a load of dim-witted femtards.

2006, Avenger, “Re: Guy talk hits career women where it hurts”, in soc.men (Usenet):


bowwoman

And if we may compare modern with ancient archery the performances of some of our bowmen and bowwomen may be said to fairly rival the historic and partly fabulous exploits of famous mediaeval archers […]

1874, The Gentleman's Magazine (part 2, page 164)


bobby soxer

From the bobby socks that they wore; bobby sox + -er.

Coordinate term: teenybopper

From my mother I’d learned that “nice” people should always frequent “nice” places, but here was Maria, certifiably nice, who relished the diner, twirled on the metal stool like a bobby-soxer, and punched out tunes on the jukebox.

1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room Is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:

After having played both Judy Graves and Corliss Archer, Shirley Temple finally cemented her latter-day reputation as Hollywood's ultimate bobby-soxer when she starred in the only film to use the term in its title: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947).

2006, Ilana Nash, American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-century Popular Culture, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 165:

(historical) In the 1940s, a young woman or teenage girl who was a zealous fan of traditional pop, especially of Frank Sinatra.


autoandrophilia

/ˌɔː.təʊˌæn.dɹəʊˈfɪ.li.ə/

Coordinate term: autogynephilia

In Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the proposed paraphilic tendency of a female person to be sexually aroused by the thought of becoming a male.


shviger

As soon as she hears the news, Miriam's shviger Fay goes to visit her daughter-in-law in hospital.

2009, David Minkoff, Oy Vey: More!: The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes, Part 2, page 77:

‘Come back to the apartment,’ Elaine giving Horst the usual shviger evil eye, ‘we'll have coffee.’

2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 96:


salpingotomy

(obstetrics, surgery) The operation of making an incision into a Fallopian tube to remove an ectopic.


generaless

I tried to shield my nakedness with hands and leaves, but Tatu the amazon generaless, pulled away my fingers and put one of those many-thonged whips into them.

1959, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King, Viking:

Bamie—Bamie “the Major Generaless,” as Ellie called her—was sent on in advance to Cambridge that summer to find suitable quarters off campus.

1982, David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback, Simon and Schuster, page 161:

If it had pleased her Majesty's Ministers to appoint a lady as next successor to Lord Dufferin, for instance, they could scarcely have given her the rank of Governess General—or Governor Generaless of India.

2005, Amelia Blandford Edwards, lecture, 1889–90, first published as "The Social and Political Position of Woman in Ancient Egypt", PMLA (120) No. 3 (May, 2005), pp. 843-857 p. 851

Back then, Annibale spoke of the tenants with deference. He said "Signor Commendatore Pirco." He said "Her Excellency the generaless Puti di Valmescia" (the tenant of the third floor).

2014, Alberto Savinio, "A Head Goes Flying", in Signor Dido: Stories, Richard Pevear (tr.) (Counterpoint Press), p. 26


Aunt Thomasina

A feminization of Uncle Tom. See Thomasina.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A black woman who is obsequiously servile to white authority, a black female race traitor.


Wittigian

en-adj

Wittigian (comparative more Wittigian, superlative most Wittigian)

more Wittigian (comparative)
most Wittigian (superlative)

Of or relating to Monique Wittig (1935–2003), French author and feminist theorist who wrote about overcoming socially enforced gender roles.


GCF

Now imagine that, as is the case with many British GCF philosophers, the instructor believes that trans women in women’s prisons pose an unacceptable threat to the safety of inmates in those prisons.

2019 August 6, Shannon Dea, “Academic freedom, scholarly responsibility and the new gender wars”, in University Affairs:

A GCF might claim that transwomen should not be included in the category ‘women’.

2019 August 12, Taryn Knox, Lynley Anderson, Alison Heather, “Transwomen in elite women’s sport – clarifying the nuances of our approach”, in Journal of Medical Ethics:

GCFs talk of my body and flesh and find it to be mutilated.

2019, Saoirse Caitlin O'Shea, “Cutting my dick off”, in Culture and Organization, volume 25, number 4, page 281:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

A gender-critical (trans-exclusionary) feminist; an adherent of gender-critical feminism.


slut-shame

en-verb

slut-shame (third-person singular simple present slut-shames, present participle slut-shaming, simple past and past participle slut-shamed)

slut-shames (present singular third-person)
slut-shaming (participle present)
slut-shamed (participle past)
slut-shamed (past)

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There seems to be no middle ground between embracing one's inner porn star and slut-shaming the women who find themselves pressured or lured into sex-related work because they have few other options.

2013, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Heather Wood Rudúlph, Sexy Feminism: A Girl's Guide to Love, Success, and Style, Mariner Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 119:

His accuser was publicly reviled—viciously slut-shamed, in some cases—and withdrew from classes.

2014, Steve Almond, Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto, Melville House, published 2014, →ISBN:

Further, why is it OK for a prepubescent girl to play at sexy, but a teen girl gets slut-shamed for expressing and experimenting with her sexuality?

2014, Melissa Atkins Wardy, Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween, Chicago Review Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 6:

To make a person (especially a woman) feel guilty or inferior for sexual activity, desires, expression, or circumstances that deviate from traditional or orthodox gender expectations or religious or cultural standards.


village bicycle

en-noun

village bicycle (plural village bicycles)

Doug Giles (2007) 10 Habits of Decidedly Defective People: The Successful Loser's Guide to Life, →ISBN, page 143: “[...] wholesome people typically won't want to marry the over-used sexual village bicycle that you now have foolishly become.”

Kristen Simmons (2012) Article 5, →ISBN, page 33: “"You got hauled into rehab because your mom's the village bicycle."”

Hilary Bailey (2012) Polly Put the Kettle On, →ISBN: “And she, Polly, had come with the Honourable Julian Powys, old university pal, and Clancy had come with Betty Fawkes, the village bicycle, with her piled-up hairdo, stiletto heels and jammy lips, andy they'd all got drunk”

Fiona Walker (2012) The Love Letter, →ISBN: “She wouldn't say who the father was, but a few discreet enquiries made it pretty obvious that by then she was thought of as little more than the village bicycle.”

(slang, derogatory) A local woman who sleeps with many men.


Surrey girl

I'm not a slut either. I make fun of Surrey girls heheehe it's fun. I live kinda near guildford mall so I walk up there and laugh at them hehehe

1999 April 12, Emily, “Re: AJ WAS ARRESTED”, in alt.fan.backstreet.boys (Usenet):

'Surrey Girl' jokes are the rage in Greater Vancouver. They're all old ("Why do Surrey Girls wear panties? To keep their ankles warm."), but that's the part of GV that those jokes are told about, which says something.

2000 April 28, Robert Slaven, “Re: Vancouver Sights: Repost of "Teddy Takes a Day Trip"”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet):

Yes, like a drunk Surrey girl he sucks badly almost every night.

2006 January 30, Monster [username], “Re: Weight trade to Carolina”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.vanc-canucks (Usenet):

(British Columbia, derogatory) A stereotype of a young woman from Surrey, British Columbia, characterized as unintelligent and promiscuous.


Aunt Jane

By analogy with Uncle Tom through use of Jane as a similarly general name in popular culture.


femcunt

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Femcunts love to say that we men need to fight against rape, and it's true, we do. I'd fight against rape, I wouldn't fight rape alongside feminists, but I'd fight it. But where are the feminists fighting for victims of slander?

2007, MCP [username], “Feminists love to claim that of all rapes reported, only 5% end up in prosecution”, in soc.men (Usenet):

This is an excellent example of female supremacist femcunts using whatever shitty logic they can to gain as many advantages that^([sic]) they can.

2007 October 5, MCP [username], “Equality Means Only Help Girls - Says Feminist Report To EOC”, in soc.men (Usenet):

You femcunts are all alike lol

2008 March 7, Avenger [username], “Re: Boy Age 8 Passes Law School Exam (Hillary and Obama failed lol)”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet):

“Some bitch,” Political mumbled. “You should know. She's always on the news. Her and Ribit the Horrible. Flapping their lips about something. Never thought I'd say this, but your femcunts are worse'n ours.”

2010, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood, iUniverse, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) An intolerant feminist, often used by anti-feminists to refer to a feminist in general.


titty juice

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Daddy's girl

(informal, sometimes derogatory) A girl or woman who has a very close bond with her father.


nonmenstruation

Absence of menstruation; failure to menstruate.


gomerette

Taking one of those nuisance trips to the store I spy a gomerette walking a snow white miniature poodle decked out in the stereotypical pom pom cut.

2004 February 9, RobZip [username], “I feel GOOOD!”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet):

And now this Gomerette is combing through the pizza boxes and cat litter beneath her mattress and finds one of Babe Ruth's home run bats.

2007, Sam Venable, Someday I May Find Honest Work: A Newspaper Humorist's Life, The University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 179:

did you overlook the fact that 50 million of you gomers, and gomerettes voted for these war mongering hillbillies, but the United States Army can't find 10,000 out of you 50 million to sign your gutless, yellow, sissy asses up ?

2007 September 11, Al E. Gator [username], “Re: AMNESTY 2008”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

(rare, slang, derogatory) A stupid woman or girl.


shark week

shark week (countable and uncountable, plural shark weeks)

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A jocular reference to Shark Week, an annual week-long marathon of shark-related programming on Discovery Channel, which, like a menstrual period, is bloody.

There are several ways to green your Shark Week, ranging from bare-minimum "shucks, why not?" consciousness to Burning Man aggro hippie.

2008, Coco Tanaka, "Shark Week!", LA CityBeat, Volume 6, Number 36, 4 September 2008 - 10 September 2008, page 17

If you've booked a hotel room, STAIN, and it's shark week for the wife, or a certain former senator drops in (drops out?) when you have anal sex, there's always the option of bringing your own santorum- and/or menstrual-blood-coloured/stained towels from home.

2012, Dan Savage, "Hotel room clean-up", Now (Toronto), Volume 31, Number 29, 15 March 2012 - 21 March 2012, page 102

Imagine my shock at discovering what those little bins with the flaps in bathrooms were really for, or that when girls mentioned shark week they didn't mean there was a Jaws marathon on SBS.

2014, Michael Walsh, "Christening the backyard," Catalyst Magazine (RMIT University), Volume 70, Issue 2, April 2014, page 43

(informal, humorous, chiefly Canada, US) The week during which a woman menstruates.


babymaking

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But for our own peculiar species of primate, sex is about something more. Sex is about babymaking.

2017 August 9, Holly Dunsworth, Anne Buchanan, “Sex makes babies”, in Aeon:

The act or process of conceiving or giving birth to a baby.


womanifesto

womanifesto (plural womanifestos or womanifestoes)

womanifestos (plural)
womanifestoes (plural)

Two centuries later, feminist literary critics analyzed these feminist polemics, or womanifestos, as texts that embody a struggle between reason and emotion.

2002, Elaine Showalter, Inventing Herself, page 28:

On that date, whatever else we demonstrate, let us not fear to demonstrate by our presentation of womanifestos everywhere that feminism has universal potential and imperatives.

1992, Contemporary American Voices, page 316:


spokeslady

Unfortunately I took the rejection personally and replied in my own fear of rejection. Angrily I ask the spokeslady if she could tell me what the sermon was about. She ignored me and went on with her tirade against the youth.

2010, George Pontius, Grace over the Long Run:


shahidka

Russian шахидка (šaxidka); from Arabic شَهِيد (šahīd) + -ка (-ka, “feminine ending”)


mummykins

Affectionate term of address for one's mother.


undermatron

Freda, the German undermatron, once discovered him sunbathing nude in the spinney.

1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 16:


hypermenorrhea

/ˌhaɪpəɹmɛnəˈɹiːə/


matristic

en-adj

matristic (comparative more matristic, superlative most matristic)

more matristic (comparative)
most matristic (superlative)

(feminism) Being or relating to a prehistoric female-led society based around Mother Goddess worship.


flagwoman

A woman who carries a flag, especially one used for signalling.


Rokitansky nodule

en-noun

Rokitansky nodule (plural Rokitansky nodules)

(gynaecology) A mass or lump in an ovarian teratomatous cyst.

Baron Carl von Rokitansky
Rokitansky nodule


clarissa

Borrowed from Italian clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Doublet of Clarisse, Clare, and Clarist.

[…] all these obscene references of a sexual nature punctuate the ritualistic prodigality of the Northeast and its winter cycle, and if in the main popular qualification of the character of the clarissa nun called Maria Ermelinda Correia, the composer of the sweet in the mouth of the people, as an expression of her overblown greediness.

2020, Richardo Ferreira de Almeida et al., “Popular Sweets in Douro Valley”, in Advances in Tourism, Technology, and Systems, page 188:

(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Clarissa: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.


misogynoir

/mɪˌsɒd͡ʒəˈnwɑː/

/məˌsɑd͡ʒəˈnwɑɹ/

Blend of misogyny (“contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against women”) + French noir (“black”), coined by the African-American feminist activist and scholar Moya Bailey and first published in a 2010 online essay: see the quotation below.

coinage

My reorientation to the misogynoir ruling the radio took place when I tried to make the argument that “All the Way Turnt Up” was a great song because it didn’t objectify women. This was something I could get behind; a song simply extolling the youthful value of keeping the bass bumping in your vehicle. That was until I read the lyrics and found the choice lyric “three dike bitches, and they all wanna swallow.”

2010 March 14, Moya Bailey, “They Aren’t Talking about Me …”, in Crunk Feminist Collective, archived from the original on 2022-03-15:

Hip-hop feminist studies continues to tackle black sexual politics by discussing and challenging the persistence and prevalence of hip-hop "misogynoir" (the hatred of black women and girls), respectability politics, and compulsory heterosexuality within the music and the culture at large.

2013 spring, Aisha Durham, Brittany C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, “The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay”, in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, volume 38, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 730:

Unfortunately, the idealization of white women is most often paired with the condemnation of black women, creating the intersectional problem of misogynoir: the combined racism and sexism black women face.

2014 September 24, Monica Cruz, “Someone Tell Kanye West to Stop Insulting Black Women”, in The Paper: Fordham University’s Student Journal of News, Analysis, Comment and Review, volume 43, number 6, Bronx, New York, N.Y.: Fordham University, →OCLC, page 9:

Drawing upon a history in which racism, heteropatriarchy, and inter-racial gender ideology rendered Black women invisible and marginalized, Pough compels Black feminists attempting to reject hip-hop feminism to revisit the historical record of Black women pushing back against Black male sexism and misogynoir in Black political, cultural, and social spaces.

2015 January, Treva B. Lindsey, “Let Me Blow Your Mind: Hip Hop Feminist Futures in Theory and Praxis”, in Urban Education, volume 50, number 1, Beverly Hills, Calif.: SAGE Journals, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-03-19, pages 57–58:

[A] Black woman as the arbiter of racialized sexism against a young Black girl is an example of misogynoir.

2016, Sonita R. Moss, “Beyoncé and Blue: Black Motherhood and the Binds of Racialized Sexism”, in Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, editor, The Beyoncé Effect: Essays on Sexuality, Race and Feminism, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 157:

To me, his words seemed a form of “misogynoir” – discrimination prejudice, and violence aimed specifically at women of colour.

2022 December 21, VV Brown, “The Sun will protect Jeremy Clarkson. Who will protect women who suffer violence every day?”, in The Guardian:

(neologism) Contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against black women.

misogynoir

contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against black women


ladyfolk

(now chiefly dialectal and humorous) Women.


momzilla

From mom + -zilla (suffix forming nouns suggesting a monster or a thing of extremely large size or great destructiveness, from the fictional monster Godzilla).

suffix

suffix forming nouns suggesting a monster or a thing of extremely large size or great destructiveness, from the fictional monster <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Godzilla</i>

"I've definitely got more boy energy going on right now," she [Sally Norvell] admits. "For one thing, I've got a four-year-old boy who I have to run around and play Godzilla with all day long." She chuckles. "I'm Momzilla."

[1996 November, Kurt B. Reighley, “Congo Norvell: Music to Disremember Him by”, in Scott Frampton, editor, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 39, Great Neck, N.Y.: College Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:

I tried to breathe, but it was too late. Momzilla had emerged. I could feel her low rumbling growl as she straightened up that last nerve. [...] Momzilla heard the children in the background promising never to be clowns again if Mommy would just come back. Momzilla took a slow deep breath, and then another. As Momzilla returned to the cage that I keep her in, I noticed how cute my little clowns were.

2002, Elisa Morgan, Carol Kuykendall, “Monster Mom: Real Moms Get Angry”, in Real Moms: Exploding the Myths of Motherhood, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, part 1 (Myths about Me), page 55:

It's never too early to become a Momzilla. Momzillas are mothers whose lives are defined by their children, and more specifically, by their children's accomplishments.

2005, Judith Newman, You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: The Diary of a New Mother, New York, N.Y.: Miramax Books, →ISBN, page 70:

It was embarrassing and stupid and yet, once bridezilla became momzilla, no power in the Universe could derail me from my mission of toddler birthday terror.

2006, Sheri Lynch, “The Surly Llama”, in Be Happy or I’ll Scream!: My Deranged Quest for the Perfect Husband, Family, and Life, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, published February 2007, →ISBN, page 62:

Serena's transformation from sexy executive to momzilla had been swift and ugly. The more involved she became with the children, the more she squeezed him out of their lives.

2009, Karen Quinn, “Elliott”, in The Sister Diaries, London: Pocket Books, →ISBN:

In the past, Ali had found the term "bridezilla" mildly amusing, but when it came to dealing with an Edie who had suddenly morphed into what could only be called the bride's "momzilla"? That wasn't amusing in the least.

2014, J[udith] A[nn] Jance, “A Last Goodbye: An Ali Reynolds Novella”, in Moving Target: […], 1st Touchstone hardcover edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

But difficult clients did suck some of the joy out of her job. Everyone talked about Bridezillas, but in Anne's opinion Momzillas were ten times worse. And she was sure Seattle had ten times more Momzillas per capita than any other city in the country.

2015, Sheila Roberts, chapter 1, in A Wedding on Primrose Street, Don Mills, Ont.: Mira Books, →ISBN, page 9:

(Canada, US, humorous, informal) A controlling or overinvolved mother.


transfeminine

[…] the same masculinity at the heart of the military’s pervasive homophobia, tolerance of sexual assault, and transmisogynistic practice of court-martialing transfeminine soldiers for “cross-dressing.”

2011, "An open letter to the organizers of TEDxMiddlebury", The Middlebury Campus (Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont), Volume 110, Issue 8, 10 November 2011, page 11

Born as a physical male, she now identifies as transfeminine, or pangender.

2012, Alessandra Robertson, "Trans Stories", Sex and the Steel City (The Silhouette special edition), page 14

[...individuals for whom] “man” or “woman” may not accurately reflect identity but are nonetheless on the transmasculine or transfeminine spectrum. We also acknowledge the limitations of language in reflecting agender clients who do not identify as masculine or feminine ...

2017, Michael R. Kauth, Jillian C. Shipherd, Adult Transgender Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Training Mental Health Professionals, Routledge, →ISBN:

Hormonal and surgical options, [...] for transgender women and transfeminine spectrum persons, 99-111

2017, Lynne Carroll, Lauren Mizock, Clinical Issues and Affirmative Treatment with Transgender Clients, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, index:

Pertaining to people who were assigned male but whose gender identities are feminine.


paternal half aunt

en-noun

paternal half aunt (plural paternal half aunts)


maternal half aunt

maternal half aunt (plural maternal half aunts)


feminerd

The rise of the Internet poured gasoline on the fire, creating spaces for feminerds to come out of the woodwork and share their passions.

2012, Rob Salkowitz, Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture: What the World’s Wildest Trade Show Can Tell Us About the Future of Entertainment, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 82:

This 'boys' club' attitude that girls can't be geeks is still a major stumbling block for feminerds and girls who want to break into geek culture.

2012, Jessica Bickford, "No girls allowed", The Carillion (University of Reginia), Volume 55, Issue 2, 2 August 2012 - 5 September 2012, page 14

Bored with assumptions that women and girls who participate in nerd culture are somehow faking it—or worse, that they are only doing it to appease their geeky boyfriends—feminerds are turning up the volume to air their grievances with widespread sexism in geek communities.

2014 October 21, Whitney Beyer, “Women fight to be nerd”, in Vanguard, volume 69, number 11, Portland State University, page 18:

(slang) A feminist nerd, especially a woman.


progenitrix

From Latin prōgenitrīx; equivalent to progenitor + -trix.

A female progenitor, a foremother, any of a person's direct female ancestors (ancestresses).


vindicatress

When our readers have gone through this article, and have heard us declare our perfect conviction of its truth; when they have heard us say, that it is agreeable, as far as it goes, with the enquiries which we have made, when they have further heard, that the scene of the brutal transaction was in a back room of the public-house above mentioned: that the parties had drawn the curtains to the room, but had left a part that the curtains did not cover but that might be seen through: that a little girl (vindicatress of her sex!) happening to go into the back court into which the window looked, Wondering to see the curtains drawn, had the curiosity to look in, where she saw the parties engaged in a way not to be described; that the little girl (better guardian of public morals than the "respectable" part of the press) ran to the landlord, who came out with other persons with him, who were all witnesses of the fact, to that certain extent, at least, of which the Observer speaks; that after this, the landlord and others laudably went, dashed in the door, took the parties in the state of Achilles as far as nakedness was necessary to their intentions; that they then dragged them to the watch-house, in that very same state: when our readers have heard all this, they will naturally cry aloud, 'why is the name of this Bishop suppressed?'

1822, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 43, page 220:

Had the vindicatress of the 'Rights of Women' lived in these days (fifty years later), when the iron pen is the almost universal instrument of writing, she would have bestowed upon Time a less common material for recording his doings.

1854, Charles Knight, Once Upon a Time - Volume 1, page 201:

A female vindicator; a woman who vindicates.


gynomorph

From gyno- (“female”) + -morph (“shape”).

An organism with female physical characteristics; female mimic.


menstrual synchrony

The alleged synchronization of the menstrual cycle of two or more women who live in close proximity


in the pudding club

* Possibly derived from the round shape of a pregnant abdomen, resembling that of a traditional boiled pudding.
* An alternative suggestion is an association with dialectal English pod (“belly”), German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Low German Puddek (“lump, pudding”).

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, colloquial, slang) Pregnant.


clatch

Compare Scots clatch (“a slap, the noise caused by the collision of soft bodies”); probably of imitative origin.

cog

to throw a clatch of mud

(UK, Scotland, dialect) A soft or sloppy lump or mass.


sistah

They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stank ho for fucking half the basketball team.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 204:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of sister.


in pig

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‘I am in pig, what d'you think of that?’
‘A most hideous expression, Linda dear,’ said Aunt Emily, ‘but I suppose we must congratulate you.’

1945, Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, Penguin, published 2010, page 84:

(of a sow) Pregnant; also (humorous) used of a woman.


WBW

When WBWs claim they are women because of their girlhood's^([sic]) the WBT can point to her trannie childhood and say […]

2001 March 6, Suzan Cooke, “Woman Born Transsexual: A Post Transsexual Manifesto”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):

Over the past years, we have ignored death threats as we choose to stand for sacred space for WBW and girls.

2008, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, →ISBN, page 54:

This pub is only open to WBW and their companion animals.

2012, Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet, page 122:

Abbreviation of womyn-born-womyn: woman-born-woman.


woman-born-woman

Coined by second-wave feminists to distinguish cisgender women from transgender women.

To the extent that she can pull it off, her gender is babe. But at Stayfree her babe outfit (long hair, big shirt, leggings, flats) makes her feel like an interloper—like some rude woman-born-woman intent on boycotting femininity because she can take it for granted.

(feminism) A cisgender woman; a cis woman.


grid girl

From the fact that the hostesses appear on the grid at the start of motor races.

(motor racing) A hostess at a motor racing event.


brolly dolly

From the umbrellas (“brolly”) they carry; chosen for the rhyme.


daygirl

A girl who attends a boarding school only during the day


momsy

(US, childish, informal) Alternative form of mumsy (“mother; mom”).


monster-in-law

So when we belatedly celebrated Caspar's third anniversary the following weekend, I was notably frosty towards her. But this is not a typical tale of monster-in-law woes.

2011 April 22, Anna Maxted, “Why I love my mother-in-law”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(colloquial, humorous) A very unpleasant mother-in-law (spouse's mother).


grandma'am

(archaic) The mother of one’s own mother.


trans female

For quotations using this term, see Citations:trans female.

Female and trans, that is, being a female who was assigned male at birth.


nuchal cord

An umbilical cord that has become wrapped 360 degrees around the neck of a foetus.

臍帶繞頸 /脐带绕颈

umbilical cord that has become wrapped around the neck of a foetus


nuchal scan

An ultrasound performed on a pregnant woman to help determine the chances that the foetus may develop chromosomal conditions such as Down syndrome.


fembitch

The whole notion of sexual harassment is a lie concocted by the fembitches.

1995 January 5, Gary Clark, “THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SEXUAL HARASSMENT”, in soc.men (Usenet):

Again, you're so busy assuming that I'm a woman, therefore I'm a selfish fembitch, that you didn't read my posts. I *do* support C4M. It's just that I support it in the direction of the default being no-paternity-option-to-assume-it, than being paternity-option-to-deny-it.

1997 May 19, Laurel Halbany, “Re: Incomprehension of Paternal Abandonment”, in or.politics (Usenet):

Nothing like the howling and gnashing of teeth heard from the fembitches in response to the accusations made against Clarence Thomas. The same goes for the Democrats.

2000 September 7, Tony Bounds, “Re: Al Gore, man of honor”, in soc.men (Usenet):

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) An intolerant feminist, often used by anti-feminists to refer to a feminist in general.


hangwoman

From hang + -woman; the male equivalent is hangman.

A woman who carries out executions by hanging.


femmie

A new generation of fighting femmies has been raising the steaks (no spelling error here), to the point where men must now do their own barbequing!

2006, Victor Schlatter, Who Told You That You Were Naked?:


male-gazey

en-adj

male-gazey (comparative male-gazier, superlative male-gaziest)

male-gazier (comparative)
male-gaziest (superlative)

For most of the movie, I’m torn between wanting to make a list of every overtly male-gazey shot, wanting to leave the theater to go get chicken tenders and wanting to take body shots off of Vanessa Hudgens.

2013 March 28, “Baked, Buzzed, Bored: 'Spring Breakers'”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan:

I “liked” the U of C Compliments page on Facebook. While its content tends to lean towards male-gazey compliments about foxy women at the gym, I still think it’s kind of sweet that people take the time and effort to say something kind anonymously with no incentive.

2014 March 6, Athena G. Csuti, “U of C confessions too revealing”, in The Gauntlet, volume 54, number 32, University of Calgary, page 9:

[…] Fudakowski reserves his greatest enthusiasm for exoticising, male-gazey images of Zhu in the altogether, or wearing one of the captain's crisp white shirts just so off the shoulder.

2014 June 26, Mike McCahill, “Secret Sharer review – stormy-seas drama remains rather flat”, in The Guardian:

(informal) Presenting women in a way which implicitly assumes the viewer or reader is a heterosexual man.


hucow

So when we were talking with your friends the other night they mentioned human-cow or hucow, and I am wondering where that goes here?

2012, Joseph Santiago, Lina Clark, Life by Association: Getting Furry, →ISBN, page 101:

But after that, she was at a loss, so she did a little research with the help of short erotica and a fetish website.
Milking? People actually did that?
What was a hucow, exactly?
But the description sounded interesting to say the least, even though she was far past the ability to breast feed.

2015, Jennifer Willows, Strangers with Benefits, Siren Publishing, →ISBN, pages 75–76:

And they'd all be getting a good drink of Gina's milk, as her production continued to rise. She's a regular hucow, Dan thought, his dick getting really hard.

2015, S. Randy, Shemale Adventure: Milking, →ISBN:

(chiefly erotic fiction) A person who engages in lactation for sexual purposes.


transmisogynist

transmisogynist (comparative more transmisogynist, superlative most transmisogynist)

more transmisogynist (comparative)
most transmisogynist (superlative)

Ropchan's assessment of the situation displays transmisogynist bias in the intentional misuse of the pronoun 'he,' […]

2012 April 4, Jil Jorgensen, Alexa DeGagne, “University must do more for transgendered people”, in The Gateway, volume 102, number 28, University of Alberta, page 10:

Well, speaking for myself as a trans woman: Certainly it's hard to argue that it doesn't repeat and reinforce all sorts of tired transmisogynist tropes, or that the song doesn't have a nasty hetero-cis sneer underneath it.

2012, Rachel Zall, quoted in Andrew Hickey, Preservation: The Kinks' Music 1964-1974, Lulu.com (2012), page 137, published 2 September 2012

Transwomen grow up in an incredibly transmisogynist culture, where we receive relentlessly negative messages about our identities, […]

2013, Leela Ginelle, "Parker Marie Molloy Elaborates on 'Gay Dudes, Can You Just Not?'", PQ Monthly, Volume 2, Number 12, December 2013/January 2014, page 12

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.


transmisogynist

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) One who exhibits transmisogyny.


poetress

From Middle English poetresse; compare Medieval Latin poētrix, Classical Latin poētris; equivalent to poet + -ress.


polymenorrhagia

After 3 years of embolisation, the patient started having chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhoea and polymenorrhagia along with inability to conceive.

2013 July 4, Nilanchali Singh et al., “Xanthomatous oophoritis following uterine artery embolisation: successful conservative surgical management with favourable outcome”, in BMJ Case Reports, volume 2013, →DOI:

(pathology) A shortening of the menstrual cycle (more frequent periods)


gynemimetic

From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “female”) + μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”); equivalent to gyne- + mimetic. Literally “female mimic”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.

In most large cities of the West there exists an unnamed gynemimetic community that corresponds to the social institution of hijras in India and xanith in Oman.

1984, John Money, Margaret Lamaczab, “Gynemimesis and gynemimetophilia: Individual and cross-cultural manifestations of a gender-coping strategy hitherto unnamed”, in Comprehensive Psychiatry, volume 25, number 4, pages 392–403:

(dated, nonstandard, rare) Transfeminine.


gynemimesis

From gyne- + mimesis. Literally “female imitation”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.

Gynemimesis is a subtype of gender transposition or gender dysphoria in which a person with male anatomy and morphology lives in society as a woman without genital sex-reassignment surgery, and with or without taking female sex-hormonal therapy. The lover of such a person is a gynemimetophile. The corresponding terms that apply to the female are andromimesis and andromimetophile.

(dated, nonstandard, rare) The state of being a transfeminine individual, or trans woman, who has not had sex reassignment surgery.


empress dowager

en-noun

empress dowager (plural empress dowagers or empresses dowager or empresses dowagers)

empress dowagers (plural)
empresses dowager (plural)
empresses dowagers (plural)

The mother or widow of an emperor, especially in a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese empire.


genderist

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The Feminist Movement, […] is split between two types of feminists: the equality feminists and the gender feminists. Those who demand equal rights, […] are the equality feminists, […] The others are the NOW type, […] the gender feminists, or genderists. This radical element attempts to remodel women into something other than what nature has determined women to be. […] The genderists address particular vitriol toward non-conforming women still "enslaved" to men, like those who get married and have babies, […] And for her apostasy, Sommers says, the genderists “wish to excommunicate me from my sex.” The genderists tend to position themselves among the far left politically, to reject all advances of women as inadequate, and to hate America.

2010, William Davis Eaton, Liberal Betrayal of America and the Tea Party Firestorm, ELDERBERRY PRESS, INC., →ISBN, page 47:

(uncommon, in right-wing usage, derogatory) One who believes in gender ideology or does not support traditional gender roles.


anarcha-feminism

(politics, feminism) A political and philosophical theory combining anarchism and feminism, which typically views the state as patriarchal and oppressive.


anarchist feminism

anarchist feminism (usually uncountable, plural anarchist feminisms)


dykeling

We encourage each GCN reader to sit in a comfortable place, close his/her eyes and dream of a NOLAG as nationally recognized recognized as the ACLU, NAACP, or NOW. Dream of little faglets and dykelings coming to you and asking what it was like to live in a time when people could hate you or kill you because of who loved.

1981 December 12, Kathy MacDonald, Jay Darnell, Anne Simon, Maryanne Kirkbride, “NOLAG Eats Wheaties”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 4:

They will gather their own gaylings and dykelings and Miss Things at the hem of their own caftans. They'll wheel the old queen out.

2002, Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, page 253:

(LGBTQ slang, rare) A young or immature lesbian.


chantwell

Probably from French chanterelle (“female bird used by hunters as a decoy to attract other birds; treble string of a musical instrument”), from chanter (“to sing, crow”) + -erelle (variant of -elle (suffix forming feminine nouns, often with a diminutive sense)).

der

The weird, off-beat music known as "calypso" is played in all the English-speaking islands of the Caribbean, but the place to hear it at its best is in Trinidad, where it originated. Every year the calypso singers, or "chantwells," as they are called, hold a "war" to decide the championship. The singer whose songs are judged best by popular acclaim becomes "king" for the year.

1952, The American Magazine, volume 154, New York, N.Y.: Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 97, column 1:

Calypso began with the "chantwells." These were slaves who entertained plantation owners in colonial times. The chantwells made up songs about the people they knew and the things that happened to them.

1976, Robert J. Alexander et al., edited by John P. Augelli, Caribbean Lands, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Fideler Co., →ISBN, page 89, column 1:

Calypso has, however, been linked to the kalinda, to which stick-fighters chanted and fought. The chantwell, or lead singers, of the stick-fighting groups functioned as social commentator and haranguer and so may be considered very early calypsonians. The chantwells, however, were thought to possess supernatural powers, and so their pronouncements of the injury the opponent would receive were taken seriously.

2008, “Calypso”, in Richard M. Juang, Noelle Morrissette, Melissa Fullmer, editors, Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia (Transatlantic Relations Series), volume I, Santa Barbara, Calif., Denver, Colo.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 224, column 1:

Subaltern jamette women predominated as the chantuelle, the singers of topical song, who led bands of people in Canboulay rituals, including kalinda (stick-fighters). The chantuelle were the forerunners of the predominantly male calypso artists who emerged as popular singers in the twentieth century.

2013, Rochelle Rowe, “Cleaning Up Carnival: Race, Culture and Power in the Trinidad ‘Carnival Queen’ Beauty Competition, 1946–59”, in Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Contests, 1929–70, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 48:

(chiefly Trinidad and Tobago, music) A (generally female) lead singer of traditional cariso music, or of a calypso band.


abortion tourism

Travel for the purpose of obtaining an abortion where it is legal.


sugartits

(informal, vulgar) Nickname for somebody, especially a woman.


boobfeed

en-verb

boobfeed (third-person singular simple present boobfeeds, present participle boobfeeding, simple past and past participle boobfed)

boobfeeds (present singular third-person)
boobfeeding (participle present)
boobfed (participle past)
boobfed (past)

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Seems that somepeople^([sic]) are distressed that those awful ethnic Albanian refugees are accepting donated formula and AREN'T BOOBFEEDING, those awful lousy mothers.

1999 April 22, IleneB, “Guilty Admission”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

2000 December 10, Gutterboy [username], “Moo arrested for boobfeeding a 6-year-old”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

A goober told me it's ok for a moo to boobfeed in a pool because the chlorine will kill any germs.

2002 August 16, Lots42 [username], “Re: b-f-ing in starbucks”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):


boob milk

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Natalie said, "Esther's going to be none too pleased to find she's dining on formula this morning instead of her usual fare."
"Does that mean we're out of boob milk?" Kolt looked genuinely distraught.

2011, Laura Marie Altom, A Baby in His Stocking, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 81:

I used to watch Miles fall asleep from drinking boob milk late into the night.

2011, Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water: A Memoir, Hawthorne Books, →ISBN:

After all, you're the only one manufacturing that boob milk.

2013, April Peveteaux, Gluten Is My Bitch: Rants, Recipes, and Ridiculousness for the Gluten-Free, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, →ISBN:


brass ceiling

brass (“indicating high-ranking officers”) + ceiling (“suggesting a barrier to upward advancement”)

2004, Dorothy Moses Schulz, Breaking the Brass Ceiling: Women Police Chiefs and Their Paths to the Top, Greenwood Publishing, →ISBN:

2007, Breaking Through the Brass Ceiling: Elite Military Women's Strategies for Success, ProQuest., →ISBN:

(idiomatic) An unwritten, uncodified barrier to promotion or progression for women in law enforcement or the military.


piscatrix

(historical) A female fishmonger in ancient times.

Lady Eda was reckoned by the learned in such matters to be a piscatrix of the most dexterous order; so that she only permitted Pierce to tie on her flies, but would not condescend to have further assistance from any one.

1854, Mrs. Locke, Rosa St. Orme, and other tales, page 16:


mansplainy

en-adj

mansplainy (comparative more mansplainy, superlative most mansplainy)

more mansplainy (comparative)
most mansplainy (superlative)

So, have pity on the mansplainer. His is the merely the voice of a patriarchal world eclipsed by a new one ... wait, did that sound mansplainy?

2014 July 26, Wallace Baine, “A man explains 'mansplaining'”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel:

[…] in Little Women everyone's favourite tomboy Jo March is eventually tamed into a 'good wife' by the paternally mansplainy Professor Bhaer […]

2015, Emily Berry, edited by Antonia Fraser, The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, pages 306–307:

The nods to how women react to men stripping ranges from the inexplicable […] to the utterly mansplainy, as in the scene in which two men discuss why (they imagine) women like male strippers.

2015, Maryann Johanson, "Spoiled Beefcake", The Riverfront Times, Volume 39, Number 27, 1 July 2015 - 7 July 2015, page 26

It feels churlish — and, to be honest, at least a bit mansplainy — even to introduce the slightest hint of cold water on the growth of women’s soccer. The infusion of money is welcome, no question. The involvement of men’s clubs is, probably, necessary to accelerate the game’s growth. What matters most of all, of course, is the health of the structure as a whole.

2021 February 26, Rory Smith, “Have You Seen This Man?”, in The New York Times:

(informal) Engaging in, featuring, or characteristic of mansplaining.


slut-shamey

slut-shamey (comparative more slut-shamey, superlative most slut-shamey)

more slut-shamey (comparative)
most slut-shamey (superlative)

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One of the biggest myths about dating is that how soon you choose to have sex impacts the longevity of the relationship. So if you are a woman and you're looking for love, giving it up too early will preclude any possibility of a long-term relationship. Outside of being blatantly slut-shamey, this advice is plain wrong.

2011, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life, Seal Press, →ISBN, pages 92–93:

We should all know by now that hooker jokes are way passé and slut-shaming is wrong, but when tempers flare, a slut-shamey slur can occasionally pop out of one's mouth.

2015, Siouxsie Q, "A Happier, Hotter Year: Seven Sexual Resolutions for 2015, SF Weekly, 7 January 2015

Not to sound slut-shamey or anything here, coming from someone who was also sexually active at around the same age, but if I was getting my swerve on with dudes in their 20s, I’m pretty sure I would remember that sh*t.

2015 July 31, Jerome Khalid, “Khloé Kardashian Defends Kylie Jenner & Tyga: “At 16 I Was Probably””, in Press Examiner:

(informal) Engaging in, promoting, or characteristic of slut-shaming.


cislesbian

Because my identity is female, I present myself online as female. As such I'm able to meet a lot of cislesbians, in places like Second Life, dating websites or in chat rooms.

2013, Julia Hatch, "Prejudice in our own community", Out Front, Volume 37, Issue 5, 5 June 2013 - 19 June 2013, page 12

In the series, a cislesbian befriends a trans* heterosexual woman but derisively rejects a translesbian who sexually propositions her.

2014, National Women's Studies Association 2014 conference program, page 82

Lisa, a 46-year-old mixed-race cislesbian, discussed how her organization operates quite differently, in that she is required to work with queer and trans newcomers who have decided to settle in Canada.

2015, Cameron Greensmith, "Diversity Is (Not) Good Enough: Unsettling White Settler Colonialism within Toronto's Queer Service Sector", thesis submitted to the University of Toronto, page 138


VAWG

The most prevalent form of VAWG (as already stated) is IPV, not rape in public by a non-partner (which most firewood rapes are classed as) or conflict rape.

2021, Tamsin Bradley, Janet Gruber, Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls:

Initialism of violence against women and girls.


secundigravid

As per the study protocol, all women were secundigravid having previously delivered an infant weighing greater than 4000g.

2015 September 15, “The Effects of Fetal Gender on Maternal and Fetal Insulin Resistance”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


megamillionairess

From megamillionaire + -ess or mega- + millionairess.

Chita Rivera, celebrated for her long career as a Broadway dancer-actress, plays Claire Zachanassian, the much-married megamillionairess who returns to her hometown with more on her mind than happy reunions.

2008 May 31, Charles Isherwood, “Vengeance Revisited, With Singing”, in New York Times:


bean-flicker

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milk-mother

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Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb was the milk-mother of the Prophet Muhammad.

Wet nurse (especially in an Islamic context, or the literal translation of the Chinese term 奶媽).


monthly friend

Experiencing the visit of my monthly friend at work, I trudged out into the kiln today, across the car park to the little shop in search of some tampons.

2011, Becky Wicks, Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries: A True Story of Sun, Sand, Sex and Secrecy, Skyhorse Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN, page 26:

"Office sex; I've never done it, but Kat tells me it's amazing. We'll have to try it once my monthly friend leaves."

2014, Kelly Collins, Brownie Points, IndieWrites, Inc., →ISBN:

“That's what you're trying to do. You're trying to get pregnant!”
“I'm not! If it happens, I'll be glad. If not...”
“You're disappointed every time your monthly friend comes to visit. Will anyone else be glad if you got pregnant?”

2014, Holly Kerr, Coming Home, Etopia Press, →ISBN:

(euphemistic slang) The menstrual period.


monthly visitor

en-noun

monthly visitor (plural monthly visitors)

'The first thing was,' she lowered her voice, 'my, you know – monthly visitor – didn't appear. I didn't think much about it because I've never kept track of that very well. […]

2005, Annie Murray, Miss Purdy's Class, Pan Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

I bought a home pregnancy test yesterday and I'm praying that stress is the cause for the lack of my monthly visitor as I watch the stick that I just peed on.

2006, Tawanna Johnson, US Girls, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 178:

Once my “monthly visitor” arrived, the sports I'd always played were out of the question. My symptoms were so severe and I couldn't risk being on a team that depended on me.

2014, Jennifer Esposito, Jennifer's Way: My Journey with Celiac Disease – What Doctors Don't Tell You and How You Can Learn to Live Again, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 27:


transfemininity

transfemininity (usually uncountable, plural transfemininities)