Jack Frost

From Jack (“placeholder or conventional name for any man”) + frost.

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Arthur Henry Brown ([1863]) Little Jack Frost Quadrilles, London: B. Williams, →OCLC.

This time of Year being cold and frosty generally speaking, or when Jack Frost commonly takes us by the Nose, the Diversions are always within Doors, either in Exercise or by the Fire-side.

1740, “Of Mirth and Jollity, Christmas Gambols, Eating, Drinking, Kissing, and Other Diversions of the Holydays”, in Round about Our Coal-fire, or Christmas Entertainments …, London: […] J. Roberts […], →OCLC; republished as Christmas Entertainments: […], London: Field & Tuer, Yᵉ Leadenhall Presse; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1883, →OCLC, page 6:

Well, and the inside is all lined with skins, warm enough; and there's a fire in the middle; [...] Jack frost may whistle out doors if he pleases, but he can hardly get his nose in here.

1818, Isaac Taylor, “Lapland. 10. Lapland Witch Selling a Wind.”, in Scenes in Europe, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-home Travellers, London: […] J. Harris, […], →OCLC, page 11:

December's severely cold nights made dreadful havoc with the soldiers[’] toes on the out posts, where for six long hours without fire or aught to shield from Jack Frost’s intrusion, they trod their lonely beat, dreaming of home and friends far away.

1870, George Wise, “Falls Church, Upton’s and Munson’s Hills”, in History of the Seventeenth Virginia Infantry, C.S.A., Baltimore, Md.: Kelly, Piet & Company, →OCLC, page 47:

Autumn has given way to winter once more, and happily the late and heavy rains fattened the ripening crops now reaping; and left everywhere through this district a thick growth of grass, for winter grazing; long enough, generally, to shield from Jack Frost, by its ample tops and seed heads, a bite of succulent stalk above the roots.

1901 June 1, Maynard Matthews, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume IV, number 7, Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province: Times Printing and Publishing Company, published 7 June 1901, →OCLC, pages 196–197:

Ma said that Jack Frost came in the night and made the pictures, while everyone was asleep. Laura thought that Jack Frost was a little man all snowy white, wearing a glittering white pointed cap and soft white kneeboots made of deerskin.

1932, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods, New York, N.Y.: Harper, published 2016, →ISBN:

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire / Jack Frost nipping at your nose / Yuletide carols being sung by a choir / And folks dressed up like Eskimos

1945, “The Christmas Song: Merry Christmas to You: S.A.T.B. with Incidental Soprano Solos and Piano Accompaniment”, Mel Tormé, Bob Wells (lyrics), Mel Tormé (music), New York, N.Y.: E. H. Morris, published 1946, →OCLC:

Winter is damp, dark and cold, but the new year makes me hopeful of the spring and summer to come, [...] Animals need extra care, logs are brought in to unfreeze by the fire, the ice is scraped off the car. Jack Frost paints glorious pictures on (single-glazed) windows.

2006, Sally Schweizer, “Celebrations: ‘She’s Crying for Joy!’”, in Well, I Wonder: Childhood in the Modern World: A Handbook for Parents, Carers and Teachers (Bringing Spirit to Life), Forest Row, East Sussex: Sophia Books, →ISBN, page 169:

Elves, flying reindeer, wood sprites, talking snowmen, and even Jack Frost, or Grandfather Frost in Russia, are all out and about during Advent. [...] Jack Frost, as those of us who live in northern climates well know, can be an annoying sprite who will make winter icy or stormy on a whim.

2013, Marci Alborghetti, “December 15: Jack Frost … and Friends”, in It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ’s Mass, Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 15:

A personification of frosty weather or winter.


ovular

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From ovule + -ar. In the feminist sense, chosen as an opposite to seminar because of that term's etymological link with semen, the male sexual fluid.

Trebilco considers 'seminar' offensively 'masculinist', so she has replaced it with ovular, which she regards as its feminist equivalent.

1994, Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism?:

(feminism, rare) A seminar for feminists.


knight-errant

knights-errant (plural)
knight errant (alternative)
knight-erratic (alternative)

In short, his wits being quite gone, [Don Quixote] hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant; righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame.

1885, John Ormsby, chapter 1, in Don Quixote, volume 1, translation of original by Miguel de Cervantes:

A knight in a medieval romance who wanders in search of adventure and opportunities to prove his chivalry.


fluff girl

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John walked over to the women on the couch with a pandering smile. "I really hate to break this up, but we're ready to roll tape." Rod switched position with Karen's fluff girl, waited for his cue, then it was back to the races.

2000, Peter Scott Harmyk, Say Good-Bye to Johnnie Blue, Ivy House Publishing Group, →ISBN:

Buck looks down at his crotch then back up again, "There's nothing to pick up anymore." Cliff peers around. "Who's the fluff girl today?" The young woman on the sideline steps forward, "I am." "Okay, Annie, please take care of Buck," says Cliff.

2003, Lynn Isenberg, My Life Uncovered, Don Mills, Ont.: Red Dress Ink, →ISBN:

(pornography) A woman who arouses male pornographic actors before filming.


hormones

'mones (alternative)
mones (alternative)

If the doctor gives the OK, I should be able to start hormones by the end of the month.

Hormone replacement therapy
hormone replacement therapy

(chiefly transgender slang) Hormone replacement therapy.


menstrual cycle

en-noun

menstrual cycle (plural menstrual cycles)

The recurring cycle of physiological changes in the uninseminated females of some animal species that is associated with reproductive fertility; especially the cycle in a human.


PMT

PMT (countable and uncountable, plural PMTs)

Other circumstances, such as sunburn, travel, or emotional crisis, can also aggravate fluid retention and "PMT".

1978, Barbara Seaman, Gideon Seaman, Women and the crisis in sex hormones:

Fraser knew girls had periods but he'd never heard of PMT.

In the 20th century Frank coined the term premenstrual tension (PMT).

2006, Peter Clark, Ian A Greer, Practical Obstetric Hematology:

"It's PMT - she'll be back." "I expect that's your father - let's eat."

2006, Rachel Loosmore, Saucy Shorts for Chefs:

premenstrual tension
premenstrual tension#English

(uncountable, medicine, now chiefly UK) Initialism of premenstrual tension.


femininity

femininity (usually uncountable, plural femininities)

From Middle English femynynytee, femyninytee, variants of femynyte (archaic modern English feminity), equivalent to feminine + -ity.

It's almost eerie, in the wake of the Lawrence Summers controversy, to encounter the words of an earlier Harvard president, John Kirkland, a "friend and mentor" of Elizabeth's, who advised her that if any woman "is raised by genius and knowledge above the level of her sex, her neglect of attention appropriate to the best half of creation, attentions called femininities, will more than counterbalance all her advantages and reduce her below other women."

2005 April 17, Francine Rose, “'The Peabody Sisters': Reflected Glory”, in The New York Times:

One outcome of the idea of fluid masculinity and femininity is the notion of genderqueerness.

2012, Jo Reger, Everywhere and Nowhere, page 160:

The sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood.


masculinist

We live in a masculinist-oriented (as opposed to a feminist-oriented) society. That is, we live in a society which rewards masculine action, even if such action is taken by a woman.

1985 April 27, Michael Zonta, “Men and the Sexual Revolution”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

But evolutionary psychology, as it has been disseminated across mainstream consciousness, is a cranky and despotic Cyclops, its single eye glaring through an overwhelmingly masculinist lens. I say "masculinist" rather than male because the view of male behaviour promulgated by hard-core evolutionary psychologists is as narrow and inflexible as their view of womanhood.

1999 March 19, Natalie Angier, The Guardian:

This includes research that examines the role that adolescent "tinkering" plays in developing mechanical interests and aptitudes; male and female patterns of participation in Internet-based communications; the prevalence of masculinist "search and destroy" narratives in video and computer games; the masculine subcultures of computing, including the close links between technophilia and technoporn; and the cultivation of gendered differences in consumer desire in technomarketing.

2002, Sue Curry Jansen, Critical Communication Theory, page 84:

Relating to or in accordance with masculinism.


moms

but I remember this, moms would lick her finger tips / to wipe the cold out my eye before school with her spit

1996, Ghostface Killah, All That I Got Is You:

My moms, Noojie, had told me that the two little stumps on the sides of my hands came from being born with six fingers, and that's why I was always stealing something.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 34:

(African-American Vernacular) Affectionate term of address for one's mother.


Franciscans

Order of Friars Minor
Order of Friars Minor#English

(Catholicism) Synonym of Order of Friars Minor: the religious order of friars founded by St Francis of Assisi.


premenstrual tension

Coined by Robert T. Frank in 1931 of New York, the first doctor to treat PMS's physical and psychological components as related to a single cause.

There may be an actual distaste for sexual relations for a week or so prior to the period, perhaps as part of a picture of general irritability and vague feelings of discomfort of which some women complain; the name "premenstrual tension" has been applied to this.

1950, Louis Portnoy, Jules Saltman, Fertility in Marriage: A Guide for the Childless:

However, the pervasive social impact of the premenstrual tension comes from psychological, behavioral change, and this is the time of month that women are likely to be admitted to psychiatric wards.

1950, Public Health Service publication no. 263, sect. 20, 1969:

In 1931, Frank coined the term premenstrual tension, in reference to the cyclical recurrence of tension, anxiety, and suicidal ideation in 15 women during their premenstrual phase.

2006, Corey L.M. Keyes, Sherryl H. Goodman, Women and Depression: A Handbook for the Social, Behavioral, and Biomedical Sciences:

premenstrual syndrome
premenstrual syndrome#English

(now chiefly UK) Synonym of premenstrual syndrome: the physical and psychological malaise experienced by many women between ovulation and the onset of menstruation.


premenstrual syndrome

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Coined by Katharina Dalton in 1953 to replace the earlier premenstrual tension, which she considered accidentally created the impression of focusing solely on PMS's mental aspects.

The thiazides and similar compounds have also been used in patients with edema associated with nephritis and …the premenstrual syndrome….

1968, Diet Pill Industry: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 26 . Part 56, p. 702:

In The Premenstrual Syndrome, Dr. Katherina Dalton summarizes many studies of behavior change that show a large portion of crimes (63 percent in an English study, 84 percent in a French) are not distributed evenly over time, but clustered in the premenstrual interval along with suicides, accidents, a decline in the quality of schoolwork, decline in intelligence test scores, visual acuity, and response speed.

1969: Public Health Service publication no. 263, sect. 20, 1969

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) takes a lot of bashing in the media. It is true that many women become more aggressive during this period, though they are rarely out of control...Therefore, any PMS symptoms that are perceived as unstable are due to the fact that women act more like men during this phase than at any other time in their cycles.

1998, Edain McCoy, Celtic Women's Spirituality:

The term "premenstrual syndrome" first emerged in 1953 when Dr. Katharina Dalton used it to describe the same symptoms delineated by Dr. Frank [who coined premenstrual tension in 1931].

2006, Kristen Brown, Nietzsche And Embodiment: Discerning Bodies and Non-Dualism:

The physical symptoms of this premenstrual syndrome include bloating, weight gain, breast tenderness, abdominal discomfort, lethargy and headache whilst the psychological symptoms include anxiety, irritability, aggression and loss of control.

2006, Geoffrey P Webb, Dietary Supplements And Functional Foods:

premenstrual tension
premenstrual tension

The physical and psychological malaise experienced by many women between ovulation and the onset of menstruation; premenstrual tension.

dysmenorrhea

which in its sense as a symptom can be meronymic to premenstrual syndrome


catamenial

Of or relating to the menses or menstruation


menses

From Latin mēnsis (“month”), the plural being mēnsēs (“months”), corresponding to the monthly courses of women. Compare month.

The discharge of blood mixed with pieces of cellular tissue from the uterus out through the vagina, which occurs roughly every month in uninseminated women; menstrual flow.


washerwoman

‘I wish it would rain,’ continued she; ‘only we are going to have a six-week’s wash to-morrow, and that’s a heavy job for the poor creatures. La! don’t you pity washerwomen in hot weather; it’s the hardest work that’s done.’

1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XXVIII, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 123–124:


herstory

herstory (countable and uncountable, plural herstories)

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Wordplay: blend of her + history, derived as though the first syllable in history were his, the male pronoun.

(feminism) Any historical writing by or about women.


have a bun in the oven

en-verb

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

has a bun in the oven (present singular third-person)
having a bun in the oven (participle present)
had a bun in the oven (participle past)
had a bun in the oven (past)

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Her parents were surprised to learn that she had a bun in the oven.

You really think it's cool for you to hit the sauce with a bun in the oven?

2004, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, spoken by Steve Zissou (Bill Murray):

(informal, sometimes considered vulgar) To be pregnant; to be expecting a baby.

有了

(informal) to be pregnant; to be expecting a baby

olla pulla uunissa (subject in adessive)


frou-frou

en-adj

frou-frou (comparative more frou-frou, superlative most frou-frou)

more frou-frou (comparative)
most frou-frou (superlative)
froufrou (alternative)
froo-froo (alternative)
fru-fru (alternative)
froofroo (alternative)
frufru (alternative)

Borrowed from French frou-frou, an onomatopoeia.

They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.

Kinda like a frou-frou dessert at a chichi restaurant, restaurant.

2009 September 1, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #204: dictionary”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

This is a column for a Sunday paper, designed to be absorbed at leisure, over coffee and frou-frou pastries, at around noon.

2012 June 30, Miranda Sawyer, “Rewind radio: Love Love Love Like the Beatles; Is It Worth It?; 6-Love-6”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

For the price of a frou-frou Starbucks drink, a Netflix subscriber could binge this content ad nauseam without suffering through a single commercial – the ideal home viewing experience.

2023 January 21, Andrew Lawrence, “Netflix’s Reed Hastings changed the way we watch TV – for better or for worse”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.


giantess

From Middle English geauntesse, geaunesse, from Old French; equivalent to giant + -ess.

He spide far off a mighty Giauntesse / Fast flying, on a Courser dapled gray […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

In the corner lay against the wall a stringed instrument not unlike a dulcimer, which, as people believe, the Giantesses used to play on.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 218:

The giantess picked him up and gave him such a squeeze that he felt he was going to choke.

1926, Enid Blyton, The Book of Brownies:

The giantesses lift arms like the trunks of sycamores, each finger tipped with an amaranthine talon.

1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 72:


poppa

(US, colloquial, sometimes childish) father, papa.


antiabortion

antiabortion (comparative more antiabortion, superlative most antiabortion)

more antiabortion (comparative)
most antiabortion (superlative)
anti-abortion (alternative)

Antiabortion activists pointed out that immigrant families, many of them Catholic, were larger and would soon outpopulate native-born white Yankees and threaten their political power.

1996, Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime:

The news reporters tell us that conservatives are antiabortion, anti–gun control, antidiversity, antienvironment, antieverything.

2001, Gordon K. Durnil, The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist, page 182:

Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.


antiabortionist

antiabortionists (plural)
anti-abortionist (alternative)

From antiabortion + -ist or anti- + abortionist.

One who is opposed to the practice of abortion, or to it being legal.

antiavortista

one who is opposed to the practice and/or legality of abortion


postpartum

1844, from Latin post (“after”) + partum (“giving birth”), form of partus, from pariō (“I give birth”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).

der

(of a mother, a symptom, a diagnosis or treatment, etc) After giving birth (often defined as within 30 days after childbirth).

a symptom; a diagnosis or treatment; etc; a symptom; a diagnosis or treatment; etc


postoperative

postoperatives (plural)
post-operative (alternative)

/pəʊstˈɒpəɹətɪv/

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A transgender person who has undergone gender reassignment surgery.


shero

Packing estrogen and, not infrequently, a pen and a sword, sheroes come in every imaginable shape, size, and color, and manifest their sheroism in infinite ways.

1998, Varla Ventura, Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xena, Conari Press, →ISBN, →OL:

Every human grouping, whether it's just two people, a family, people in the neighborhood, people in the city, in a nation, a tribe, a species; people live in direct relation to the heroes and the sheroes they have.

2006 November 30, Dave Chappelle & Maya Angelou (Iconoclasts), season 2, episode 6, Maya Angelou (actor), via Sundance:

He talks about how we must remember the unsung heroes and sheroes of the Talahassee boycott, of the movement in general, and finally, he wonders how C. K. Steele would be accepted here.

2010 April 1, Ana Maria Spagna, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN:

“They are nobodies. They could be silenced tomorrow. They are sheroes, to the world.”

2012 August 17, Melena Ryzik, quoting Kate Conroy, “In New York, a Show of Solidarity for Russian Punk Band”, in New York Times:


TOM

(cytology) Acronym of Translocon on Outer Membrane.


womenfolk

“Ain’t she a splendid specimen of Southern womanhood?” Rufus asked. “Down yonder, they teach their womenfolks to serve.”

1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, page 25:

The adult female members of a community.


workingman

The workingman, through the invention of many time and labor saving devices, has been freed from much drudgery and now finds his day portionable into eight hours for rest, eight hours for work and eight hours for recreation.

1917, New Catholic World, volume 105, page 725:

To her it seemed indecent that a pregnant woman of her standing (Government Service) should have to board the steamer without a husband to go with her and dispute about her accommodation and whisper anxiously to the doctor and stewardess—almost as indecent as a Government Service woman's having her baby in the hospital in Port Zodiac with the wives of workingmen and Greeks.

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia (fiction), D. Appleton & Company, page 131:

Every workingman can have his own house.

1997 May 14, Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential, spoken by Sid Hudgens (Danny DeVito), Regency Enterprises; distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures:

A man who works in exchange for payment, especially a labourer who does manual labour.


bosomy

en-adj

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


paternal grandmother

en-noun

paternal grandmother (plural paternal grandmothers)

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


highwayman

[…] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:

And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza I, page 45:

I was a highwayman / Across the coach roads I did ride / With sword and pistol by my side.

(historical) A person, usually mounted on horseback, who robbed travelers on public roads.


boatman

From Middle English boteman, botman, bateman. Equivalent to boat + -man.

A sailor on a small vessel (boat), particularly its captain.


bull dyke

bull dykes (plural)
bull-dyke (alternative)
bulldyke (alternative)
bull dike (alternative)
bull-dike (alternative)
bulldike (alternative)

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

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


muffing

muffing (countable and uncountable, plural muffings)

In the sexual sense, popularized by Mira Bellwether's 2010 zine "Fucking Trans Women".

Muffing is a penetration technique enjoyed by some non-op trans women. It involves fingering (or otherwise penetrating) the inguinal canals, the canals through which the testes drop during puberty. […] Sometimes the testes are pushed back up into the body during muffing, and sometimes they're simply moved aside […]

2015, Allison Moon, Girl Sex 101, Allison Moon, →ISBN, page 153:

[…] she says she and her partner were having a great time last night and she really enjoyed the muffing.

2018, Eric Yarbrough, Transgender Mental Health, page 177:

(slang, uncountable) Penetration of the inguinal canal (e.g. with a finger, or by pushing the testicle back inside it) as a form of sexual activity among trans women and other people with testicles.


on the pill

Jane went on the pill when she left for college.

(idiomatic, of a woman) Using oral contraceptives.


new laddish

en-adj

new laddish (comparative more new laddish, superlative most new laddish)

more new laddish (comparative)
most new laddish (superlative)

(British) Having the characteristics of a new lad.


new lad

Modeled on New Man, coined by Northern Irish music and photography journalist Sean O'Hagan in 1991.

coin

What we are dealing with here is the New Lad, a rather schizoid, post-feminist fellow with an inbuilt psychic regulator that enables him to imperceptibly alter his consciousness according to the company he keeps. Basically, the New Lad aspires to New Man status when he's with women, but reverts to Old Lad type when he's out with the boys. Clever, eh?

1991 May/June, Sean O'Hagan, “The Reinvented Man”, in Arena, page 22:

When the economy picked up and men, becoming more confident, realised that women didn't fancy new men... along came the New Lads. Which was refreshing for about two- and-half minutes. But the New Lads had a similar lifespan to the New Man.

2000 November 5, Will Buckley, “New Man is back—again”, in The Observer:

(British) A sexist young man who embraces traditional male attitudes.


gynecocracy

en-noun

gynecocracy (countable and uncountable, plural gynecocracies)

gynecocracies (plural)
gynaecocracy (alternative)

Gynaecocracy may not, however, be an idyllic affair.

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

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


sculptress

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

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

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

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


ferryman

(Greek mythology, usually preceded by the) Charon.


seamstress

seamstresses (plural)
sempstress (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

A woman who sews clothes professionally.


schoolmarm

schoolmarms (plural)
school marm (alternative)
school-marm (alternative)

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

2013, Josh Rountree, Lon Prater, Alamo Rising:

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


Vatican roulette

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


materteral

en-adj

materteral (comparative more materteral, superlative most materteral)

more materteral (comparative)
most materteral (superlative)

/məˈtɜːtəɹəl/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


hydrocele

From French hydrocèle or Latin hydrocēlē, from Ancient Greek ὑδροκήλη (hudrokḗlē), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + κήλη (kḗlē, “tumour”).

For while he refers to his gout (a good disease), he does not mention the complaint which indirectly killed him, his hydrocele – an enlargement of the scrotum.

2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 205:

An abnormal build-up of fluids at a site in the body, especially in the membranes around a testicle.


cragsman

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/ˈkɹæɡzˌmɛn/

From crag (“rocky outcrop; rugged steep rock or cliff”) + -s- (genitival interfix equivalent to -’s) + -man.

affix

Francie o'Fowlsheugh, and he was the best craigsman that ever speel'd heugh, (mair by token, he brake his neck upon the Dunbuy of Slaines,) wadua hae ventured upon the Halket-head craigs after sun-down— […]

1816, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in The Antiquary. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 166:

Meanwhile I had become a daring cragsman, a character to which an English lad has seldom opportunities of aspiring; for in England there are neither crags nor mountains.

1851, George Borrow, chapter VIII, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume I, London: John Murray […], →OCLC, page 109:

Those who "halt between two opinions," in the matter of religion, are like travellers who halt in indecision at cross-roads, with tempest and the night hurrying up behind them; […] like a cragsman, who has quitted hold on the rope by which he has let himself down from the overhanging brow of the cliff to the eagle's nest, and hesitates to spring and seize the rope in its rapidly diminishing oscillations.—Union Magazine.

1860s, The Biblical Treasury: A Collection of Scripture Illustrations, for the Use of Sunday School Teachers and Bible Students, volume VI, London: Sunday School Union, […], →OCLC, paragraph 1261, page 100:

A boyhood spent on the cliffs at Kirkcaple had made me a bold cragsman, and the porphyry of the Rooirand clearly gave excellent holds.

1910, John Buchan, “My Journey to the Winter-veld”, in Prester John, London, Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, →OCLC, page 86:

[H]ere and there are traversed by a winding footpath like a staircase, which few but native cragsmen are venturesome enough to scale.

1922, W[illiam] Barclay, “Along the Coast”, in Banffshire (Cambridge County Geographies), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 40:

Let us suppose that we are doing a mountain walk to the village which is our home. At mid-day we come to the top of a cliff where we are, in space, very near it because it is just below us. We could drop a stone into it. But as we are no cragsmen we can't get down. We must go a long way round; five miles, maybe.

1960, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “Introduction”, in The Four Loves, London: Geoffrey Bles, →OCLC, page 13:

A skilled cragsman himself, he told his officers that he believed that a determined party of Gurkhas and other experienced climbers could reach the enemy by this route.

1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia, London: Folio Society, published 2010, →OCLC, page 424:

The cragsman was dragging a yearling kid by its hind leg. He seemed happy enough to set his own butchering duties aside to advise on the best cuts to preserve the tail and legs.

2007 October 16, J[ulie] V[ictoria] Jones, A Sword from Red Ice (Sword of Shadows; 3), New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN:


gynoid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


whimsical sex

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eonism

Coined 1920 by British physician and sexologist Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) after Chevalier d'Eon (1728–1810), a French diplomat, spy and soldier who presented as male for 49 years, then as female for 33. Ellis had previously used the term sexo-aesthetic inversion.

The chief of these intermediate sexual anomalies are: (1) physical hermaphroditism in its various stages; (2) gynandromorphism, or eunuchoidism, in which men possess characters resembling those of males who have been early castrated and women possess similarly masculine characters; (3) sexo-esthetic inversion, or Eonism (Hirschfeld's transvestism or cross-dressing), in which, outside the specifically sexual emotions, men possess the tastes of women and women those of men.

1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):

Ellis seems, however, to regard this 'less common but more complete' type as embodying the essence of eonism, and he objected to the term transvestism because it focused attention solely on the element of cross-dressing.

2006, Richard Ekins, Dave King, The Transgender Phenomenon, SAGE Publishing, page 63:

2013, C. N. Armstrong, 12: Transvestism, D. Robertson Smith, William M. Davidson (editors), Symposium on Nuclear Sex, Elsevier (Butterworth-Heinemann), page 88,
Homosexuals do not as a rule want to change their sex and identity. This is the fundamental anomaly in eonism.

(sexology) The pretence of being the opposite sex, especially that by a man of being a woman; transvestism.

éonisme

pretence of being the opposite sex — see also transvestism


nulliparous

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


gestate

en-verb

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

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

Back-formation of gestation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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

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

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


Teddy boy

Teddy boys (plural)
teddy boy (alternative)

From Teddy (“Edward”), from their style of clothing, reminiscent of the Edwardian era.

Mitch (Precious Pearl) is a smooth, impassive young man utterly dripping with the ambivalent sensuality of a teddy-boy in tap shoes.

1991 April 6, Ron Caldwell, “Kind of Stranger”, in Gay Community News, page 16:

(historical) A member of a male youth culture which originated in London in the early 1950s, later associated with American rock and roll music.


bahu

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

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


bubbe

bubbes (plural)
bobbe (alternative)
bobeh (alternative)
bubbeh (alternative)
bubbie (alternative)
bubby (alternative)
bubah (alternative)
bube (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


ladyboy

(colloquial, chiefly Thailand) A trans woman or transfeminine person in or from Asia.

人妖

effeminate homosexual man, especially an intergender person — see also kathoey

ニューハーフ ((pseudo-anglicism: from "new half"), レディーボーイ


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


mifepristone

Dutch: mifepriston

French: mifépristone

German: Mifepriston

Italian: mifepristone

Vietnamese: mifepristone

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

af

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

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

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

mifepriston

steroid medication used to induce abortion

-pris-

steroid compound acting on progesterone receptors


zayde

zaydes (plural)
zada (alternative)
zaida (alternative)
zaide (alternative)
zaidy (alternative)
zayda (alternative)
zaydee (alternative)
zaydeh (alternative)
zaydie (alternative)
zeda (alternative)
zeideh (alternative)
zeidi (alternative)
zeidy (alternative)
zeyde (alternative)
zeydie (alternative)

From Yiddish זיידע (zeyde, “grandfather”).

Perhaps, in these circumstances, he would greet his granddaughter as a zayde should, with love and affection.


MCP

If that makes him sound like a male chauvinist, well, he appeared at a recent conference in Houston wearing a tie emblazoned with boar heads and the monogram MCP.

1976 January 23, Nicholas Wade, “Edward Goldsmith: Blueprint for a De-industrialized Society”, in Science, volume 191, number 4224, →JSTOR, page 270:

Bottom line, an MCP was a guy who put more value on men than he did on women. Paradoxically, some MCPs put their women up on a pedestal—a statue of his fantasy—and that's where their women were supposed to stay.

2012 May 1, Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN:

(dated) Initialism of male chauvinist pig.


city boy

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


city girl

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


Stepford

en-proper noun

Stepford (countable and uncountable, plural Stepfords)

Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway#English

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


Rosie

en-noun

Rosie (countable and uncountable, plural Rosies)

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

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

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


noblewoman

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

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

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


nurseryman

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More and more I am coming to the conviction that in the north the orchard-grower will do better to be his own nurseryman—that is, to grow his own trees from the ground up.

1890 January 8, T. H. Hoskins, edited by Charles S. Sargent, Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art and Forestry, volume III, number 2, New York: The Garden and Forest Publishing Co., page 19:

[H]e said he was a nurseryman and gave his address as "Leawood Nursery, Glen Osmond".

1974 October 27, Ronald Parsons, “Part I: The Village”, in Hindmarsh Town: A History of The Village, District Council and Corporate Town of Hindmarsh South Australia, page 13:

A person who rears and sells plants in a nursery.


luteal phase

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


cailleach

cailleachs (plural)
caillach (alternative)
cailliach (alternative)

From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic cailleach.


vulvectomy

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


intersexuality

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The state of having the physical features of both sexes, or of having ambiguous sex, i.e. not unambiguously male or female.

intersexualitate

the state of having physical features of both sexes


vaginectomy

vaginectomy (countable and uncountable, plural vaginectomies)

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


gender-blind

en-adj

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


phalloplasty

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sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery

(surgery) Plastic surgery to construct or repair a penis, performed to repair injury or as part of sex reassignment surgery.

siittimen korjausleikkaus

plastic surgery to construct or repair a penis


tuboplasty

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


damsel in distress

en-noun

damsel in distress (plural damsels in distress)

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

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

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

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

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

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

فَتَاة فِي مِحْنَة

young woman perceived as being in a dangerous situation.


eat for two

en-verb

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

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

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blacktress

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

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


papergirl

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

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


chairwoman

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


girl band

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


adjudicatrix

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A woman or girl who adjudicates; a female adjudicator.


steely-eyed missile man

en-noun

steely-eyed missile man (plural steely-eyed missile men)

From steely-eyed (“having a hard, strong, and determined mentality or mindset”) + missile + man, probably popularized by its use in the book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (1994) by the American astronaut Jim Lovell (born 1928) and the American author and journalist Jeffrey Kluger (born 1954); and the film based on the book, Apollo 13 (1995), where capsule communicator 1 Andy (acted by Brett Cullen) says to a technician (Walter von Huene) whose team has devised a solution to a problem with the spacecraft’s carbon dioxide filters: “You, sir, are a steely-eyed missile man.” The book implies that the term was in use at least during the early years of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which was established in 1958: see the quotation.

compound

The "hold" in the countdown of a rocket firing has a long and infamous history. It doubtless is as old as the "countdown" itself. We Brevardians have seen thousands upon thousands of pictures of countdowns in progress, of green lights flashing, green buttons being pushed, fuming LOX [liquid oxygen] boiling off, steely-eyed missile men battening hatches and astronauts climbing aboard.

1973 May 13, Emsley Armfield, “Picture this … a countdown stops”, in Brevard Sentinel: An Edition of the Orlando Sentinel Star, Orlando, Fla.: Sentinel Star Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 4:

Among the men in the Canaveral blockhouse and the Houston control room, there was no greater tribute a controller could be paid than to describe him, in the rough poetry of the rocketry community, as a "steely-eyed missile man." There weren't many steely-eyed missile men in the nasa family. [Wernher] Von Braun was certainly one, [Christopher Columbus] Kraft was certainly one, [Gene] Kranz was probably one too. John Aaron, a twenty-seven-year-old wunderkind from Oklahoma, had recently become one as well.

1994, Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger, chapter 6, in Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 157:

At first glance, the stolid engineers and impassive pilots of the Apollo program weren't colorful movie characters. As [Ron] Howard [director of Apollo 13 (1995)] got to know the stoic astronauts and "steely-eyed missile men" of Mission Control, he saw their sense of humor, their wilder sides and the doubts they carry like everyone else.

1995 June 28, Jane Summer, “Tom Hanks, co-stars relive ‘NASA’s finest hour’”, in Dave Long, editor, Pharos-Tribune, volume 151, number 153, Logansport, Ind.: Logansport Newspapers, page A10, columns 5–6:

When [Ron] Howard toured nasa, he learned that the visitors' favorite question was: How do you pee in space? "Well," he decided, "that means we'll have to show it in the movie." So they do. Added [Tom] Hanks: "Maybe in the sequel we'll show how they go doo-doo." Spoken like a steely-eyed missile man.

1995 July 3, Richard Corliss, “Hell of a Ride: With Tom Hanks as the Pilot, Apollo 13 is a Stirring Tribute to the Heroes who Fly High in the Face of Failure [film review]”, in Time, volume 146, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 53, column 1:

“Message reads: ‘Houston, be advised: Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man’.” / “What?” Brendan asked. “Who the hell is Rich Purnell?”

2011, Andy Weir, chapter 16, in The Martian, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishing Group, published 2014, →ISBN, page 213:

NASA Entry Flight Director Tony Ceccacci said the motto in Mission Control is "flight controllers don't cry." He tried to remain stoic – like a steely eyed missile man – after his team guided Atlantis and its crew through an era-ending atmospheric re-entry. "This will be the last time this team will be together," Ceccacci said, struggling to maintain his composure.

2012 February, Elaine E. Liston, “July”, in Chronology of KSC [Kennedy Space Center] and KSC Related Events for 2011 (NASA/TM-2012-216309), Merritt Island, Fla.: John F. Kennedy Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, →OCLC, page 210:

The three astronauts – Commander Yuri Malenchenko, a steely eyed missile man and veteran of six space flights; Tim Kopra, the American NASA flight engineer, who doesn't seem to mind being 'the other Tim,' for today at least; the man of the moment, Major Tim Peake, second flight engineer, the first British ESA [European Space Agency] astronaut, who is grabbing all the headlines in the UK – have a busy morning ahead of them.

2017, Dallas Campbell, “Preface”, in Ad Astra: An Illustrated Guide to Leaving the Planet, London: Simon & Schuster UK, →ISBN, page 10, column 1:

D[avid] M[arshall]: […] Tell me about your steely-eyed missile man nickname. […] J[ohn] A[aron]: Well you know, I ran across the term, steely-eyed missile man a year before that. There was a group of thinkers even back in the—maybe it goes all the way back to military that they were kicking around this thing called steely-eyed missile man. […] I think it, particularly in the early days of NASA, […] it just had to do with the way people react when calamities happen. If they act calmly. It was not a term that was used much in Houston. In fact, it was not even a term that they coined, I don't think, having to do with anything I did in real time. It just kind of evolved. People kind of discovered that term. […] DM: Did anyone call you that at NASA? JA: No. Unh-uh. […] I probably didn't go through all the wickets to deserve that reputation. I mean, I probably do fit the mold. But I'm not the only guy there who was a steely-eyed missile man.

2017 October 26, John Aaron, interviewee, David Marshall, interviewer, Oral History Interview of John Aaron (NASA Interview Project), Lubbock, Tex.: Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, archived from the original on 2024-03-15, pages 65–66:

(US, astronautics, often humorous, slang) An astronaut or engineer who quickly comes up with a solution to a difficult problem while under extreme pressure.

Apollo 12
Apollo 13
Brett Cullen
Jeffrey Kluger
Jim Lovell
John Aaron
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YouTube


tranny chaser

(slang, derogatory) Someone who is sexually attracted to transgender or transsexual people, generally in a fetishistic way.


UMOC

(US university and university slang) Initialism of ugly man on campus.


childbearing

en-noun

childbearing (usually uncountable, plural childbearings)

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

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

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

The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition.


puerperium

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

af

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

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

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


swagman

From swag (“items stolen by a thief; unlawfully obtained goods; (Australia, New Zealand) bundle of personal items carried by a tramp, traveller, etc.”) + man.

compound

And then the swagman was such a companionable little fellow, and told such funny little yarns, and sung so many snatches of odd songs whilst he was at work that once or twice the old man relaxed the cross expression of his facial muscles, and allowed himself to be betrayed into a grim smile, and at last suffered himself to be drawn into conversation, although his answers were short and snappish.

1865 November 18, Robert P. Whitworth, “Mary Summers: A Romance of the Australian Bush”, in The Australian Journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and the Arts, volume I, number 12, Melbourne, Vic., Sydney, N.S.W.: Clarson, Massina, and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC, chapter XVIII (The New Hut), page 177, column 2:

Then the bells struck up for church, and the streets became crowded with well-dressed, warmly-clothed people, hurrying to their various places of worship, and casting glances of pitying curiosity at the two miserable, half-drowned swagmen as they passed.

1867 September 14, “a swagman”, “In Forma Pauperis”, in The Australian Journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and the Arts, volume III, number 107, Melbourne, Vic.: William Clarson and Albert Massina, […]; Sydney, N.S.W.: Joseph T. B. Gibbs and Joseph T. Shallard, […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 44, column 2:

[T]he class who exercise the most depressing influence on these rates, little as the unhappy men think themselves so, will be found to consist of idlers and swagmen.

1869 December, “The Australian Farmer”, in The Farmer’s Magazine, volume XXXVI (Third Series; volume LXVI overall), number 6, London: Rogerson and Tuxford, […], →OCLC, page 490, column 2:

Some men, under this plea of "wanting a job," are merely travelling from one part of the country to another for private reasons, and they pick up meat, bread, and tea at each station they pass. [...] We have already remarked that these bush- or swagmen carry "swags," i.e. a blanket made up into a roll six feet in length; the two ends lashed together making the whole resemble one huge horse-collar: this is carried either hanging from one shoulder or resting on the head and back like a coalheaver's pad.

1872, George S[myth] Baden-Powell, “Wayfarers”, in New Homes for the Old Country. A Personal Experience of the Political and Domestic Life, the Industries, and the Natural History of Australia and New Zealand, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], →OCLC, page 122:

Oh! there once was a swagman camped in a Billabong, / Under the shade of a Coolabah tree; / And he sang as he looked at his old billy boiling, / "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

1895 August (date composed), A[ndrew] B[arton (“Banjo”)] Paterson, “Waltzing Matilda: (Carrying a Swag.)”, in The Collected Verse of A. B. Paterson: […], Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, published 1921 (1965 printing), →OCLC, page 213:

She was not afraid of horsemen; but swagmen, going to, or worse, coming from the dismal, drunken little township, a day′s journey beyond, terrified her. One had called at the house today, and asked for tucker.

1902, Barbara Baynton, “The Chosen Vessel”, in Bush Studies (The Greenback Library; 5), London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:

In his prose works Landlopers and Knocking Round, [John Le Gay] Brereton penned affectionate portraits of shearers, swagmen and farmers' wives, based on people he had met on his walks.

2007, Melissa Harper, “The Bush, My Lover”, in The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia, Sydney, N.S.W.: University of New South Wales Press, →ISBN, page 100:

The policeman thought it best to surprise the man, since he might be armed, so he disguised himself as a swagman and pounced as the man returned from his bridge-painting job.

2009, Bronwyn Sell, “John Caffrey, c. 1850–87”, in Law Breakers & Mischief Makers: 50 Notorious New Zealanders, [U.S.A.]: ReadHowYouWant.com, published 2010, →ISBN, page 72:

(Australia, New Zealand, historical) A man who travels around with a swag (“bundle of personal items”); specifically, an itinerant person, often seeking work in exchange for food and lodging.

boemelaar

person who travels around with a swag; specifically, an itinerant person, often seeking work in exchange for food and lodging

The practice of selling by commission, the same as I have shown to prevail among the costers, exists among the miscellaneous dealers of whom I am treating, who are known among street-folk as "swag-barrowmen," or, in the popular ellipsis, "penny swags;" the word "swag" meaning, as I before showed, a collection—a lot. The "swag-men" are often confounded with the "lot-sellers"; [...]

1861, Henry Mayhew, “Of the Street-sellers of Manufactured Articles”, in London Labour and the London Poor; a Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work. […], volume I, London: Griffin, Bohn, and Company, […], →OCLC, page 447, column 2:

(British, archaic) A person who sells or trades in trinkets or items of low value.

baratillero

He is, in the street talk, a swagman, one of perhaps hundreds of hustlers in the city who distribute an estimated $5-million worth of goods ripped off each year at New York's airports, waterfronts, factories and truck parts. [...] According to Tommy, the mob uses swagmen like himself as down-the-line distributors for these large jobs.

1971 November 22, Frank E. Emerson, “They Can Get It for You BETTER Than Wholesale”, in Clay S[chuette] Felker, editor, New York, volume 4, number 47, New York, N.Y.: NYM Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34:

(US, slang) A middleman who buys and sells stolen goods; a fence.


cross-dress

en-verb

cross-dress (third-person singular simple present cross-dresses, present participle cross-dressing, simple past and past participle cross-dressed)

cross-dresses (present singular third-person)
cross-dressing (participle present)
cross-dressed (participle past)
cross-dressed (past)
crossdress (alternative)
xdress (alternative)

/ˈkɹɔsˈdɹɛs/

/ˈkɹɒsˈdɹɛs/

The need to cross-dress is no more understood than the natural forms of differing sexual orientation.

1976 December 11, Sarah Montgomery, “Plea For Tolerance”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 4:

To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.

переодева́ться

в мужчи́ну OR в же́нщину


potboy

potboys (plural)
pot boy (alternative)
pot-boy (alternative)

(“Hoo-roa,” ejaculates a pot-boy in a parenthesis, “put the kye-bosh on her, Mary.”)

1837, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. The Second Series, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, chapter SEVEN DIALS, page 149:

(British) A boy or man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses.


MSM

Near-synonym: M4M

(in personal ads or Internet slang) Initialism of male seeking male, man seeking man, and masc seeking masc.


phallocentrism

en-noun

phallocentrism (usually uncountable, plural phallocentrisms)


phallogocentrism

phallogocentrism (usually uncountable, plural phallogocentrisms)

/fəˌlɒɡəˈsɛntɹɪzm̩/

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

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

1990, Judith Butler, 1990 Preface to Gender Trouble

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


clergywoman

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

女牧師 /女牧师

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


phallogocentric

en-adj

phallogocentric (comparative more phallogocentric, superlative most phallogocentric)

more phallogocentric (comparative)
most phallogocentric (superlative)

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

surf

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

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

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


pump and dump

en-noun

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

pump and dumps (plural)
pump-and-dump (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


bagboy

A man or boy employed to put clients' purchases (e.g. groceries) into bags at the checkout line of a store.

打包男孩

person employed to put clients' purchases in bags


footboy

Our troopes are now all confounded and disordered, by reason of bag and baggage, or carriages, of lackies, and foot-boies, which because of their masters armes they carry, can never leave them.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book II.9, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

(now historical) A serving boy, attendant, page with similar duties to those of an adult footman.


webmistress

webmistresses (plural)
Web mistress (alternative)


alley cat

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


morning sickness

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


premenstrual

en-adj

premenstrual (comparative more premenstrual, superlative most premenstrual)

more premenstrual (comparative)
most premenstrual (superlative)

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

premenstruační

occurring in the time period during the menstrual cycle

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


skivvy

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

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

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

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

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

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


business girl

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

(idiomatic, euphemistic) A female prostitute.


sempstress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


amenorrhoeic

amenorrhoeics (plural)
amenorrheic (alternative)
amenorrhœic (alternative)

/eɪˌmɛnəˈɹiːɪk/


amenorrhoea

en-noun

amenorrhoea (usually uncountable, plural amenorrhoeae or amenorrhoeas)

amenorrhoeae (plural)
amenorrhoeas (plural)
amenorrhea (alternative)
amenorrhœa (alternative)

/əˌmɛnəˈɹiːə/

/ˌeɪmɛnəˈɹiːə/

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

af

(medicine) Absence of menstrual discharge.


dreamgirl

dreamgirls (plural)
dream girl (alternative)

/ˈdɹiːmɡɜːl/

Coordinate term: dreamboy

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

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

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


gillie

gillies (plural)
ghillie (alternative)
gilly (alternative)

From Scottish Gaelic gille (“helper”), from Middle Irish gilla (“youth, young man; boy, male child; messenger, page, servant”), possibly borrowed from Old Norse gildr (“brawny, stout; of full worth”). Compare Irish giolla (“boy”).

der

A Highland chief being as absolute in his patriarchal authority as any prince, had a corresponding number of officers attached to his person. […] Our officer of Engineers, so often quoted, has given us a distinct list of the domestic officers, who, […] belonged to the establishment of a Highland chief. These are, […] 4. Gillie-more, or sword-bearer, alluded to in the text. 5. Gillie-Casflue, who carried the chief, if on foot, over the fords. 6. Gillie-comstrain, who leads the chief's horse. 7. Gillie-Thrusha-narinsh, the baggage-man. 8. The Piper. 9. The piper's gillie, or attendant who carries the bagpipe.

1847, Walter Scott, “[Notes to Canto Third.] Note XVI.”, in The Lady of the Lake, a Poem, illustrated edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey and Hart, →OCLC, pages 289–290:

But my good companion had nothing in his mind but kindness; and the next moment, two of the gillies had me by the arms, and I began to be carried forward with great swiftness (or so it appeared to me, although I dare say it was slowly enough in truth), through a labyrinth of dreary glens and hollows and into the heart of that dismal mountain of Ben Alder.

1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:

(Scotland, originally) A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief.


farmgirl

farmgirls (plural)
farm-girl (alternative)

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

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


counterman

I looked for the counterman, seeing him serving a plate of pork chops and grits to a man with a pale blond moustache.

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 179:

(US) A man who serves behind a counter, especially in a diner.


cross-dressing

The wearing of clothing which society considers appropriate for the opposite sex rather than the wearer's sex.

Now, a study published in Nature shows that cross-dressing does indeed occur and is important for boosting memory CD8+ T cell responses in vivo.

2011 April 21, Olive Leavy, “Cross-dress to impress”, in Nature Reviews Immunology, volume 11, number 302, →DOI:

(immunology) Display by antigen-presenting cells of antigens obtained from the surface of infected cells.


janitress

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Pipel

He had a Polish Schreiber, a homosexual who was attended to by a Pipel, a German Gypsy who was the Schreiber's valet, his cook, his shoe shine boy, his lover, and his alternate, in which capacity he proved to be as much of a trouble to us as his boss.
[…]
None of Kapo Rudi's three Pipels was German, but, knowing what was good for them, they learned all the songs by rote.

2001, Frank Stiffel, The Oxymoron Factor 2, pages 240 and 266:

A remedy for sexual distress that was customary in other concentration camps, in which no women were interned next to men, was frequently used in Auschwitz as well. Kapos kept Pipel, young fellows who in return for personal services were exempted from hard labor and enjoyed other privileges. Quite a number of capos abused their boys sexually.

2004, Hermann Langbein, People in Auschwitz, page 405:

The young boy was a “pipel”—camp slang for the young servant of a Kapo (and someone with whom the Kapo often had a homosexual relationship).

2005, Laurence Rees, Auschwitz: a new history, page 98:

1956, Also see Pg. 63 of Night by Elie Wiesel.))

(historical, rare) Among Nazi concentration camp detainees, an attractive male child who receives special favor or privileges by maintaining a relationship with another detainee who has been granted some authority over other detainees.


two-spirit

two-spirits (plural)
two spirit (alternative)

Modern English neologism, coined in 1990 in English and also translated in 1990 into Ojibwe niizh manidoowag (“two spirits”, from niizh (“two”) + manidoo (“spirit”)). Replaced berdache (considered offensive) in anthropological literature.

cog

"'The elders will tell you the difference between a gay Indian and a Two-Spirit,' [Joey Criddle] said, underscoring the idea that simply being gay and Indian does not make someone a Two-Spirit."

2006, John Leland, “A Spirit of Belonging, Inside and Out”, in The New York Times:

"The term/identity of two-spirit does not make sense unless it is contextualized within a Native American frame." "Today, most people associate the term with LGBT Natives; however, the work of the two-spirit organizations is more akin with the traditional understanding."

2016, Harlan Pruden and Se-ah-dom Edmo for the National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center, “Two-Spirit People: Sex, Gender & Sexuality in Historic and Contemporary Native America”, in ReWire:

A Native (North) American gender-variant, homosexual or bisexual person (especially one belonging to a traditional tribal third-gender, fourth-gender or transgender cultural category that has a ceremonial role).

ayagigux̂

gender-variant Native American — see also berdache

a'yai-kik-ahsi (male-bodied; lit. "acts like a woman")

awau-katsik-saki (female-bodied, lit. "warrior woman")

ninauh-oskiti-pahpyaki (female-bodied, lit. "manly-hearted woman")

he'émáné'e

male-bodied trans person; hermaphrodite; gay man

he'émane (male-bodied; lit. "pretends to be woman")

hetanémáné'e (female-bodied trans person; lesbian; lit. "pretends to be man")

mixo'ge (transvestite or transgender person)

st'amia (intersex/bigender person; female-bodied trans person)

êyihkwêw

especially in Plains Cree; male-bodied trans-/bi-/third-gender person

tüdayapi (male-bodied; lit. "dress like other sex")

ikwekaazo (male-bodied; lit. "men who chose to function as women" / "one who endeavors to be like a woman")

ininiikaazo (female-bodied; lit. "women who functioned as men" / "one who endeavors to be like a man".)

mix'uga (male-bodied; lit. "instructed by the moon")

ckúsaat

Skiri Pawnee: male-bodied person who lives and dresses as a woman

ndéʼsdzan (male-bodied, lit. "woman-man")

tonoo'tcim (Kocheyali; lit. "undertaker" but sometimes used of two-spirits; see entry)

tonochim (Tachi Yokuts; lit. "undertaker" but sometimes used of two-spirits; see entry)

í-wa-musp (male-bodied, lit. "man-woman")

musp-íwap náip (female-bodied, lit. "woman man-girl")

iwap kuti (Huchnom; male-bodied, lit. "man-woman")

female-bodied two-spirit, lit. "girl-man, tomboy")


two-spirit

A Hupa two-spirit male told me: ‘I was real feminine as a child, from as early as I can remember.’

1996, Ritch C Savin-Williams, Kenneth M Cohen, The Lives of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals: Children to Adults, page 421:

With this etymology, it should come as no surprise that many Native American gay, lesbian, transgender, and other two-spirit people consider the term ‘berdache’ derogatory.

1997, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, Sabine Lang, Two-spirit People, page 4:

1997, Lester B. Brown, Two Spirit People: American Indian, Lesbian Women and Gay Men, The Haworth Press, page 88,
In Canada there are now aboriginal (as we are termed in Canadian English) AIDS projects in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Nova Scotia, due almost entirely to the efforts of two-spirit (gay/lesbian) people.

Instead of seeing two-spirit persons as transsexuals who try to make themselves into "the opposite sex", it is more accurate to understand them as individuals who take on a gender status that is different from both men and women.

2010 October 11, Walter L Williams, The Guardian:

hermaphrodite

two-spirits were formerly often called hermaphrodites


enchantress

enchantresses (plural)
enchauntress (alternative)
inchantress (alternative)

/ɪnˈt͡ʃæntɹɪs/

/ɛnˈt͡ʃæntɹɪs/

/ɪnˈtʃɑːntɹɪs/

/ɛnˈtʃɑːntɹɪs/

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

His desire for that enchantress led him to financial ruin.


Bluebeard

Calque of French Barbe-Bleue (literally “blue beard”).

calque

A famous fairy tale written by Charles Perrault in 1697 about a violent nobleman who has the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of his current wife to avoid the same fate.

The nobleman who is the title character of the story.


Bluebeard

Henry never lived down his reputation as a Bluebeard, and only a few years before his death sporting gentlemen in Antwerp were laying bets that the English Lothario would divorce and marry once again.

2012, Lacey Baldwin-Smith, Henry VIII, page c:

A man who marries and then murders one wife after another.


male chauvinist

en-noun

male chauvinist (plural male chauvinists)


male chauvinism

A belief in the innate superiority of men over women.


in vitro fertilization

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

in vitro fertilizations (plural)
in-vitro fertilization (alternative)
in vitro fertilisation (alternative)
in-vitro fertilisation (alternative)

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

體外人工受精 /体外人工受精

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


artificial insemination

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

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


menorrhagia

menorrhagia (countable and uncountable, plural menorrhagias)

/ˌmɛnɔːˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪə/

metrorrhagia

abnormal uterine bleeding at irregular intervals

colporrhagia

bleeding per vaginam with vaginal source

Excessive menstrual flow but regularly timed.


brownbagger

brownbaggers (plural)
brown-bagger (alternative)

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

(US, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface.


busgirl

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


hysterosalpingography

hysterosalpingography (countable and uncountable, plural hysterosalpingographies)

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


hysteroscopy

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


charlady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


ithyphallic

en-adj

ithyphallic (comparative more ithyphallic, superlative most ithyphallic)

more ithyphallic (comparative)
most ithyphallic (superlative)

/ˌɪθɪˈfælɪk/

/ˌɪθɪˈfælɪk/

Borrowed from Late Latin ithyphallicus, from Ancient Greek ἰθυφαλλικός (ithuphallikós), from ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος (īthŭ́phallos, “phallus carried in festivals of Bacchus; ode sung in honour of the phallus; dance accompanying such an ode; dancer performing such a dance”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος is derived from ἰθῠ́ς (ithŭ́s) (variant of εὐθῠ́ς (euthŭ́s, “straight”)) + φαλλός (phallós, “penis; image of a penis, phallus”). The English word can be analysed as ithyphallus + -ic.
As regards the noun, compare Latin ithyphallicum (“poem with the same metre as the hymns to Priapus”).

refn

From the collection of the Museum of London in London, England, UK.

cog

The title ΣΟΤΗΡ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ upon the composite priapic figure published by La Chausse is well known; and it is probable that the ithyphallic ceremonies, which the gross flattery of the degenerate Greeks sometimes employed to honor the Macedonian princes, had the same meaning as this title of Saviour, which was frequently conferred upon, or assumed by them.

1822 June, R. P. Knight, “An Inquiry into the Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology”, in The Classical Journal, volume XXV, number L, London: Printed by A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […]; sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [et al.], →OCLC, part VI, paragraph 138, page 243:

In late classical and Hellenistic times the theatre could be the site of a prolonged and climactic performance by phallic choruses: Hyperides mentions the ithyphalloi dancing in the orchestra and Semos' account of both ithyphalloi and phallophoroi focuses on the moment that the choruses enter the theatre. But the ithyphalloi remained primarily processional and non-theatrical, as is clear from Demochares' account of the ithyphallic procession to meet Demetrius the Besieger.

2013, Eric Csapo, “Comedy and the Pompe: Dionysian Genre-crossing”, in E[mmanuela] Bakola, L[ucia] Prauscello, M[ario] Telò, editors, Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 67–68:

(historical, Ancient Rome) Of or pertaining to the erect phallus that was carried in bacchic processions.

Ithyphallic verse, which, because it consists of one periodic order, ought to have all pure trochees, and admits no other foot, except a tribrach, […] and that scarcely in the last place, because the rhythm ought to be more remiss at the end, is used chiefly by lyric poets in place of an epode.

1830, [Johann Gottfried Jakob] Hermann, “Of Ithyphallic Verse”, in John Seager, transl., Hermann’s Elements of the Doctrine of Metres, Abridged and Translated into English, London: Printed by A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […]; sold by Longman & Co. [et al.], →OCLC, § 131, page 29:

Archilochus and other writers of epodes frequently use the ithyphallic in distich composition, and in asynartete verses as the closing rhythm. The ithyphallic occurs sometimes in the beginning, or middle, […]

1844, Edward Munk [i.e., Eduard Munk], “Rhythms, the Fundamental Foot of which is Tripletimed; the Double or Trochaic-Iambic Class”, in Charles Beck, C[ornelius] C[onway] Felton, transl., The Metres of the Greeks and Romans. A Manual for Schools and Private Study. Translated from the German, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, part II (The Application of the Laws of Rhythm to Poetry by the Greeks and Romans), section I (Simple Rhythms), page 70:

(specifically) Of a poem or song: having the metre of an ode sung in honour of the bacchic phallus.

Phthas, the inscription in phonetic hieroglyphs Ptah, in close-fitting dress, with the feet joined together, leaning on the platform consisting of four steps[…]. Also dwarfish and ithyphallic as in the temple at Memphis[…].

1852, C[arl] O[tfried] Müller [i.e., Karl Otfried Müller], F[riedrich] G[ottlieb] Welcker, “Appendix. The Nations Not of Greek Race.”, in John Leitch, transl., Ancient Art and Its Remains; or A Manual of the Archæology of Art. … Translated from the German, new edition, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, section I.3.b (Subjects), page 232:

In a symbolism which does justice to the biologically sexual phase of life but which quickly transcends it, we find ithyphallic deities such as Thoth in Egypt and Hermes in Greece, as the spiritual messengers necessary to guide the souls of the dead to their resting place.

1963, Joseph L[ewis] Henderson, Maud Oakes, “Introduction”, in The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection (Patterns of Myth; Myth and Experience), New York, N.Y.: George Braziller, →OCLC, section III (Death and Rebirth as Cycles of Nature: The Descent of Inanna):

The phallic symbolism of the finger has long been popularly used. The middle finger is commonly held up as an ithyphallic insult, as is the thumb in the sign of the fig. The ancient Romans called the middle finger impudicus, "lewd."

1974, Rupert C. Allen, “Part One. Psyche and Symbol in Perlimplín.”, in Psyche and Symbol in the Theater of Federico García Lorca: Perlimplín, Yerma, Blood Wedding, Austin, Tex., London: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 77:

We have already referred to a stone sculpture suggestive of an ithyphallic dancer found at Harappa, a prototype of the Shiva at Nataraja. […] The sculptures of Shiva as an ithyphallic dancer are found in Orissa. At Asanpat in Keonjhar district an eight-armed ithyphallic sculpture of a dancing Shiva was found.

1987, M[anohar] L[axman] Varadpande, “Contribution of Religion”, in History of Indian Theatre, volume 1, New Delhi: Shakti Malik, Abhinav Publications, →ISBN, page 151:

Of or pertaining to an upward pointing, erect penis; (specifically) of an artistic depiction of a deity or other figure: possessing an erect penis.

(poetry) Pertaining to a metrical combination of two trochees followed by one spondee.


neutrois

Ostensibly coined by H. A. Burnham in 1995 as a self-description, see also the quotation from 1996. Compare neuter.

"To question my behavior is to deny your own." -Holly A. Burnham […] Neutrois Revolution!

1996 December 3, <GoSpangs@aol.com>, “You Can Never Go Home”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2021-10-10:

In some cases, these people self-identify as genderqueer, genderless, or neutrois.]

[2005, Matt Kailey, Just Add Hormones: an insider's guide to the transsexual experience

A social-media site famously proposes seventy-one gender options — neutrois, two spirit, bigender . . . any colour you like, Mr Ford.

[2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 145:

(rare, of a person) Having a null or neutral gender (being neither male nor female), and having or seeking to have no or reduced signs of physical sex.


Prince Charming

en-noun

Prince Charming (plural Prince Charmings or Princes Charming)

Prince Charmings (plural)
Princes Charming (plural)

Calque of French Roi Charmant (“Charming King”).

calque

She's still unmarried because she is waiting for her Prince Charming... and he may not exist.

She did not listen. She was free in her prison of passion. Her prince, Prince Charming, was with her.

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter V, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

However, I’ll tell you this much . . . and if nothing comes of it you must never breathe a word about it to a living soul. You see, Prince Charming is coming to-night.

1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “The Prince Comes Back to the Enchanted Palace”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC, pages 341–342:

There's always love for sale / A grown up fairy tale / Prince charming always smiles / Behind a silver spoon

1979, “Street Life”, Will Jennings (lyrics), performed by The Crusaders ft. Randy Crawford:

Friends say we app sceptics will download them at a certain age out of desperation. But for now, follow the sound advice of mums and mentors: there’s no rush, relationships don’t define you and you must keep your standards high. Just not Prince Charming high. Carrie Bradshaw will tell you that’s nothing but a fairytale.

2023 April 1, Maddie Thomas, “Even if you’re ‘on the apps’, it feels pretty hard to meet people these days”, in The Guardian:

(by extension) A heterosexual woman's prototypical ideal romantic partner, especially but not necessarily if he embodies common characteristics of the fictional princes, such as being courageous or chivalrous.


blood brother

en-noun

blood brother (plural blood brothers or (obsolete) blood brethren)

blood brothers (plural)
blood brethren (obsolete plural)

пабраці́м

unrelated male friend confirmed by a ceremonial mingling of blood

把兄弟

unrelated male friend considered to share such strong relationship

A brother by blood: a brother-german or half-brother, as distinguished from step-brothers.

täysveli

full brother or half-brother — see also brother-german, half brother


nuncle

From rebracketing of phrases an uncle, mine uncle, thine uncle, etc. Compare neam and naunt.
For the verb, OED suggests an evolution in sense "to claim to be one's uncle" > "to cheat". It compares this derivation with cozen, which it derives from cousin.
For the technical anthropological sense, compare nibling.

Fool: Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a gentleman or a yeoman?


Frenchie

I dreamt that Ruairi Quinn was smokin' marijuana in the Dail. Barry Desmond handing Frenchies out to scuts in Fianna Fail.

1985, “Delerium Tremens” (track 2), in Ordinary Man, performed by Christy Moore:

Gone are the terms we used in our youth the frenchies, frangers, rubbers, joes, french letters, gumboots, rubbers, johnnies, parachutes and plastic fantastics — these days they're just condoms.

2002 February 7, Janine Burgess, “Armour against pleasure?”, in The Timaru Herald:

The poster was designed by Aboriginal health workers in northern Queensland for use in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, where the slogan was sometimes modified to ‘Use Frenchies’ because the word ‘condom’ was not in common use.

2004, Paul Sendziuk, Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS:

(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A condom; abbreviated form of French letter.


gyno-

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

derived

Of or pertaining to the female reproductive system.


granddaddy

granddaddies (plural)
grandaddy (alternative)
grand-daddy (alternative)


grandniece

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

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

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


groomsman

The Scotchman, who assisted as groomsman, was of course the only one present, beyond the chief actors, who knew the true situation of the contracting parties.

1866, Thomas Hardy, chapter 13, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:

1888, Horatio Alger, The Errand Boy, Chapter XIV: Consulting the Oracle,
"Philip," said Mr. Wilbur, "when I marry, I want you to stand up with me--to be my groomsman."

There were eight bridesmaids and groomsmen, and I asked McClellan and Franklin to be of the number, but distant service prevented them from coming, and Burnside and Reno, of the Ordnance, took their places.

1894, Dabney Herndon Maury, Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars, section 6:

A man who serves as one of a number of attendants to a bridegroom at a wedding, one of whom is the best man.