manscara

With the invention of male cosmetics such as 'guyliner' and 'manscara' by Superdrug, fashion-conscious young men have no excuse to avoid this autumn's dark romantic goth trend just because they don't have a girlfriend to steal eyeliner from.

2008, Renyi Lim, "Nailing the Look: Men", in "Graveyard Glamour", Quench (Cardiff University), Issue 72, October 2008, page 24 (approx.)

Dad had dyed his hair and may even have been wearing manscara.

2009, Lara Fox, Miss Understanding: My Year In Agony, Hodder Children's Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

Annah Baines and David Leighton discuss their views on whether they think a bit of 'manscara' and 'guyliner' is acceptable, or whether it's a crime against hu-man-ity

2013 December 2, “Blokey Beauty: guyliner?”, in The Courier, number 1282, Newcastle University, page 19:

(slang) Mascara designed for and/or marketed toward men.


boyzilian

Blend of boy + Brazilian (“a style of pubic hair removal”).

blend

"It's safe to say l would never get a 'boyzilian' (male bikini wax)," he says. "Seriously, l don't know how women do it."

2007, Vegetarian Times, numbers 346-354, page 95:

Since when did American society decide that a man's hotness is achieved through aggressive chest waxing? Or “boyzilians”?

2013, Amy Webb, Data, A Love Story: How I Cracked the Online Dating Code to Meet My Match, Dutton, →ISBN:

Meanwhile, men in the West are becoming more comfortable with what's termed “manscaping” (or “grooming”), using a variety of beauty products, shaving their chests and even having “boyzilians” (a male Brazilian wax).

2014, Niall Richardson, Adam Locks, Body Studies: The Basics, Routledge, →ISBN, page 39:

Yet we know men are getting boyzilians, because salons do offer them.

2024 August 29, Zoe Williams, “‘They handled me like a carcass!’: why are so many men now ‘manscaping’?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(slang) A cosmetic treatment involving complete removal of a man's pubic hair by waxing.


gomerette

gomerettes (plural)
Gomerette (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


shark week

en-noun

shark week (countable and uncountable, plural shark weeks)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


babymaking

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

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

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


womanifesto

womanifesto (plural womanifestos or womanifestoes)

womanifestos (plural)
womanifestoes (plural)

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

2002, Elaine Showalter, Inventing Herself, page 28:

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

1992, Contemporary American Voices, page 316:


antifem

antifems (plural)
anti-fem (alternative)


spokeslady

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

2010, George Pontius, Grace over the Long Run:


shahidka

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


mountain man

In the frost-stunted birch forests on the Siberian border, sturdy, windburned mountain men trap beaver and pan for gold.

1963, Loren Fessler, The Editors of LIFE, “An Immense and Crowded Land”, in China (LIFE World Library), New York: Time Incorporated, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10, column 1:

(Canada, US, historical) A male trapper and explorer who lives in the wilderness.


mummykins

mummykins (plural)
mommykins (alternative)

Affectionate term of address for one's mother.


undermatron

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

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


tankman

tankmen (plural)
tank-man (alternative)
tank man (alternative)

From tank + -man (suffix denoting someone (possibly implied male) who is employed or holds a position in an area).

affix

(military) The (male) operator of a military tank.


hypermenorrhea

/ˌhaɪpəɹmɛnəˈɹiːə/


matristic

en-adj

matristic (comparative more matristic, superlative most matristic)

more matristic (comparative)
most matristic (superlative)

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


retransition

en-verb

retransition (third-person singular simple present retransitions, present participle retransitioning, simple past and past participle retransitioned)

retransitions (present singular third-person)
retransitioning (participle present)
retransitioned (participle past)
retransitioned (past)

/ˌɹiː.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/

/ˌɹiː.tɹɑːnˈzɪ.ʃən/

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Finally, some who embrace the psychological paradigm critique transition-affirmative approaches by pointing to studies showing that a statistically significant number of people who have undergone transition – one 2009 study suggests up to 8 percent – have later expressed regrets, with some even deciding to retransition back to their birth sex.

2019, Paul Rhodes Eddy, James K. Beilby, “Understanding Transgender Experiences and Identities: An Introduction”, in Understanding Transgender Identities: Four Views, unnumbered page:

If a socially transitioned child desists and later comes to identify with their birth-assigned gender, the child must then retransition to that gender, which could be difficult and pose risks for the child at that older age.

2019, Shervin Shandianloo, Richard R. Pleak, “Mental Health Issues in Caring for the Transgender Population”, in Leonid Poretsky, Wylie C. Hembree, editors, Transgender Medicine: A Multidisciplinary Approach, page 122:

In some cases, individuals may “detransition” (or retransition) to their assigned/biological gender, further complicating identity and family relationships.

2022, Denise Ann Bodman, Bethany Bustamante Van Vleet, Randal D. Day, Introduction to Family Processes: Diverse Families, Common Ties, unnumbered page:

(LGBTQ) To return to one's birth-assigned gender after having undergone gender reassignment; to detransition.


flagwoman

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


Rokitansky nodule

en-noun

Rokitansky nodule (plural Rokitansky nodules)

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

Baron Carl von Rokitansky
Rokitansky nodule


clarissa

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

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

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

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


transsexualize

en-verb

transsexualize (third-person singular simple present transsexualizes, present participle transsexualizing, simple past and past participle transsexualized)

transsexualizes (present singular third-person)
transsexualizing (participle present)
transsexualized (participle past)
transsexualized (past)

[…] which he liked to compare to an archduchess's urine, fetishizing it as a kind of elixir of femaleness by which he can transsexualize himself […]

1996, Christine Froula, Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce, →ISBN, page 217:

(transitive, uncommon) To make transsexual.

these embodied female waters are actually present in full flood despite [...] the embrace of the English translation of "Father of Waters" [...]. This is to say that waters that are turbulent and torrential are not always transsexualized as males via the rhetorical strategies of birth (The Columbiad) or metamorphosis (The Johnstown Flood). They are also at times imaged as female.

2009, Cecelia Tichi, Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places, →ISBN, page 204:

(uncommon) To cause (something such as an anthropomorphized natural phenomenon, like a flood) to have the opposite sex or gender.


pregender

en-adj

pregender (not generally comparable, comparative more pregender, superlative most pregender)

more pregender (comparative)
most pregender (superlative)

Before (the advent or consideration of, or division by) gender.


intersexually

en-adv

intersexually (comparative more intersexually, superlative most intersexually)

more intersexually (comparative)
most intersexually (superlative)


transgenderization

(rare) The act or process of making transgender.


misogynoir

/mɪˌsɒd͡ʒəˈnwɑː/

/məˌsɑd͡ʒəˈnwɑɹ/

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

coinage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

misogynoir

contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against black women


ladyfolk

(now chiefly dialectal and humorous) Women.


momzilla

momzillas (plural)
Momzilla (alternative)

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

suffix

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


homme fatal

From French homme fatal (literally “fatal man”), after femme fatale.

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However, the danger of the homme fatal, as embodied in today's boyish male hustler, is that he will leave, disappearing to other loves, other lands.

Though mysterious, treacherous men are common characters in most Gothic works, some of the closest archetypes to the homme fatal can be found in the novels of Ann Radcliffe.

2015, Samantha Lindop, Postfeminism and the Fatale Figure in Neo-Noir Cinema:

An ultimately seductive and dangerous man; a womanizer.


transromantic

en-adj

transromantic (comparative more transromantic, superlative most transromantic)

more transromantic (comparative)
most transromantic (superlative)

Often, however, asexual people will also identify with a particular sexual orientation, minus the sexual aspect, and may define themselves as heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic, transromantic or panromantic.

2009, Jennifer Byrne, "He's Just Not That Into Anyone, Pop Matters, 31 August 2009

(neologism) Romantically attracted to persons of variant or ambiguous gender, or to transgender persons.


manspreading

From man + spreading. Popularized in 2014, perhaps patterned after mansplaining. Equal to manspread + -ing.

/ˈmænˌspɹɛdɪŋ/

Coordinate term: womanspreading

The new ads — aimed at curbing rude behavior like manspreading and wearing large backpacks on crowded trains — are set to go up in the subways next month.

2014 December 20, Emma G. Fitzsimmons, “A scourge is spreading. M.T.A.’s cure? Dude, close your legs”, in The New York Times:

Manspreading is certainly bad manners in a crowded subway – and so is other stuff, like people wielding giant backpacks.

2015 January 10, Margaret Wente, “Advice to younger women: Practise manning up”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto:

Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram show thousands pictures of men engaging in this behaviour, and New York's transit authority launched a campaign against ‘manspreading’, with a Tumblr dedicated: Men Taking Up Too Much Space On The Train.

2015 January 16, Natasha Devon, “The rise of stranger shaming: How humiliating others became acceptable”, in The Independent, London:

Manspreading creates stability for your pelvis and lower back. You can either position your feet together and let your knees fall to the sides or spread your feet wide.

2016, Kelly Starrett, Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World, page 190:

(informal, derogatory) The practice of men splaying their legs open wide when sitting on public transport, thus occupying more than one seat.


fourth gender

en-noun

fourth gender (countable and uncountable, plural fourth genders)

fourth genders (plural)
fourth-gender (alternative)

(colloquial) A trans man/trans boy/transmasculine


transfeminine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


transploitation

Created by photographer Austin Young and Saskia Wilson-Brown, the series was first screened in 2007 as part of the Silver Lake Film Festival, and last week’s follow-up sought to probe the “transploitation” genre (as the creators have coined it) further, with short films and music videos by and about their favorite gender-blender superstars.

2009 December 9, Lina Lecaro, “Drag-Hagging With The Best Of 'Em”, in LA Weekly:

[…] and finally climaxing in a buckets-of-gore showdown in a suburban kitchen where a sexy bad guy is killed 42 ways to Sunday, this cheesy, way beyond camp "transploitation" snuff film has a truckload of chills and giggles.

2010 July 8, David Lambe, “Queer eye for the gore fest”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume 40, number 27, page 22:

In the same way that the transploitation film Ticked Off Trannies with Knives was so named in order to take ownership of a term that can be used derisively, couldn’t we all agree that “she-mail” was meant in good fun and leave it at that?

2014 April 18, Anna Waugh, “'Drag Race' promises to drop 'transphobic' gags”, in Dallas Voice, volume 30, number 49, page 4:

The exploitation of transgender/transsexual people in the media (especially film and television).


paternal half-uncle

paternal half-uncle (plural paternal half-uncles)


maternal half-uncle

maternal half-uncle (plural maternal half-uncles)


paternal half aunt

paternal half aunt (plural paternal half aunts)


maternal half aunt

maternal half aunt (plural maternal half aunts)


feminerd

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

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

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

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

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

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

(slang) A feminist nerd, especially a woman.


en homme

From the French phrase en homme, as in s’habille en homme.

Coordinate term: en femme

(chiefly of a trans, non-binary or cross-dressing person) Dressed in masculine clothing.


disorder of sex development

disorder of sex development (plural disorders of sex development)

Recently, growing patient and parental concerns about the stigma associated with the term intersex, along with advances in treatment and diagnosis, have led to the adoption of the term disorders of sex development (DSD) in its place.

2008, Harvey J. Makadon (Ed.), The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, page 393:

There are also several states of disorders of sex development in males, namely gonadal dysgenesis or defects in androgen biosynthesis which cause insufficient synthesis of androgens and hypoandrogenisation in consequence.

2009, Konrad Janowski, Biopsychosocial Aspects of Health and Disease, volume 1, page 69:

Parents of children with these kinds of conditions — known as intersex conditions, or differences or disorders of sex development (DSDs) — often face difficult decisions about whether to bring up their child as a boy or a girl.

2015, Claire Ainsworth, ‘Sex redefined’, Nature, volume 518, number 7539:

A medical condition whereby the development of chromosomal or anatomical sex is in some way atypical; an intersex condition.


omnigender

From omni- + gender; title of a 2001 book by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott.


progenitrix

From Latin prōgenitrīx; equivalent to progenitor + -trix.

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


andromimetic

From andro- + mimetic. Literally “male mimic”.

An andromimetic...is the counterpart of a gynemimetic. He lives full-time as a man. If he has access to male hormone and undergoes hormonal masculinization, it is more likely than not that he will seek hysterectomy and breast removal...

1988, John Money, Gay, Straight, and In-between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation, →ISBN, page 98:

(dated, nonstandard, rare, sexology) A transmasculine individual or trans man.


homogender

All three settings—the shop, the military, and the world of team sports—have been homogender worlds of cultural masculinity, with much resistance to changing that fact.

1997, Judith L. On, “Hard Work, Hard Lovin', Hard Times, Hardly Worth It: Care of Working-Class Men”, in Christie Cozad Neuger, James Newton Poling, editors, The Care of Men, Abingdon Press, →ISBN:

Same-sex heterogender relationships are more openly acknowledged in Bugis society than same-sex homogender relationships.

2007, Sharyn Graham Davies, Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders Among Bugis in Indonesia, Thomson Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 26:

Not all friendships are homogender, as it were, nor within the same class or age group.

2008, Merle B. Turner, Friendship, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 20:


heterogender

It was in the subtle sociolinguistic cues and gestures associated with Labrang Tibetan femininity I gradually took on in encounters, such as the way I came to talk and think about my "husband"–feeling extremely uncomfortable with public displays of heterogender affection, yet learning to participate in and expect the micropractices of bodily touch signifying homogender affection.

2007, Charlene E. Makley, The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 19:

It is also quite likely, given the hegemonic status of marriage in Malay culture and throughout the entire Southeast Asian region both historically and at present, that most sexual relations between Malays at this time occurred in the context of marriage, which was invariably heterogender although not necessarily heterosexual.

2009, Michael G. Peletz, Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times, Routledge, →ISBN, page 62:

Involving people with different genders.


vindicatress

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

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

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

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

A female vindicator; a woman who vindicates.


andromorph

An organism with male physical characteristics; male mimic.


gynomorph

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

An organism with female physical characteristics; female mimic.


menstrual synchrony

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


womb-brother

womb-brother (plural womb-brothers or womb-brethren)

womb-brothers (plural)
womb-brethren (plural)

Only womb-brothers could look so much alike, and Thamalon had been present at Tamlin's birth.

2012, David Gross, Lord of Stormweather: Sembia: Gateway to the Realms - Book 7:

Father to son inheritance is a key feature of patrilineal succession but is often absent from matrilineal systems where a man is normally succeeded by the son of his sister or by his own womb-brother.

2012, Tim Clarkson, The Picts: A History:

An Anglican bishop and a Chief Imam could be womb-brothers in Africa.

2015, Robert J. Schreiter, Mission in the Third Millennium:


bro-hug

It wasn't even one of the one-armed bro-hugs that we usually do, it was a full-on hug with my arms wrapped all the way around his pudgy body.

2012, John G. Hartness, Back in Black, Bell Bridge Books, →ISBN:

“I'm proud of you,” Brees whispered in Griffin's ear when they met at midfield after the game for the traditional quarterback bro-hug.

2013, Dave Sheinin, RG3: The Promise, Plume, →ISBN:

He and Joe did that bro-hug thing that guys did that was not quite a hug but was more than a handshake.

2014, Erin Nicholas, Getting in the Spirit, →ISBN:

(US slang) A hug shared between male colleagues or friends, especially a quick, physically reserved one.


brodown

After a few false starts I finally meet the Swiss French snowboarder at Europe's winter sports brodown Babylon.

2009, Gemma Freeman, "Just A Girl?", Huck, Issue 14, April/May 2009, page 53

“Probably the same old thing—another Saturday-night brodown.”
Becka laughed. “A brodown, huh? Sounds fierce. What do you boys do? Play video games and burp a lot?”

2012, James Preller, Before You Go, Feiwel and Friends, →ISBN:

All these developments are a sign of the times ahead: the drink, mostly associated with brodowns, is slowly but surely making its way onto the fancy part of the menu.

2013, Nick Green, "A year in beer", City Bites, Issue 49, November/December 2013, page 6

(slang) A gathering featuring and/or appealing primarily to men.


brodeo

Dude! The hottest chick just walked in. The ratio just got a bit better, but this party is still a brodeo.

2007, Robert Morris, "This punch is way better, bro", Texas Travesty (University of Texas), Volume 9, Issue 6, September 2007, page 14

It's Jell-O shots, beer pong, backwards baseball caps and a full-on brodeo every day of the week in this three-barred behemoth. It's a club for the sports-bar set.

2010, "10th Annual Coldest Beer", Boise Weekly, Volume 20, Issue 1, 29 June 2010 - 5 July 2010, page 35

Chillin' with the Chet-meister waiting for the rest of the brodeo to show up so the foosball tournament can begin.

2014, "What Did You Give Wee Baby Jesus For Christmas?", The Black Sheep (University of Kentucky), 11 December 2014, page 16

(slang) A gathering featuring or primarily appealing to men.


in the pudding club

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

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


clatch

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

cog

to throw a clatch of mud

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


sistah

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

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

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of sister.


in pig

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

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

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


WBW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


woman-born-woman

women-born-women (plural)
womyn-born-womyn (alternative)
WBW (alternative)

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

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

(feminism) A cisgender woman; a cis woman.


womyn-born-womyn

For the spelling, see womyn; for information about the phrase itself, see woman-born-woman.

Lesbians for Justice therefore appeals to the organizers of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival to nullify its "womyn-born-womyn only" policy, and to allow the attendance of post-operative male-to-female transsexuals at all future festivals.

1992 May 8, Tamara Severns, “Open Letter To Michigan Festival Organizers”, in Gay Community News, page 4:


pussy pass

From pussy + pass, modelled after hall pass, etc.

This is very strange. Her execution might have "stirred an unusual amount of attention because of her gender", but she got the death penalty and her two male accomplices didn't. Why didn't the pussy pass work here?

2010 September 24, Ted, “Re: Woman executed for double killing”, in soc.men (Usenet):

We notice the Sarah Palin-type Republican women that seem to be an embarrassment to everyone. They're beneficiaries of the pussy pass - that sort of ignorance and idiocy would never be tolerated in a man.

2010 October 19, Andrew Usher, “Women politicians!”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet):

Affirmative action and the pussy pass in all matters costs men not only in terms of their rights, identity and dignity, but it costs women in terms of their psychological and emotional development.

2013, Stephen Jarosek, Tyrants of Matriarchy: Debunking Feminism and the Myth of Patriarchal Oppression, Lulu.com, →ISBN:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory, masculism) The tendency of women to receive lighter criminal sentences or be held to a lesser standard of personal accountability than men.

"It won't buy you any wine," Paxton told him.
"I know that," the drunk replied in an insulted tone. "It's a pussy pass, ain't it?"
Paxton grinned wearily. "How would you know that? You'd rather have a snort than a screw any day."

1978, George G. Gilman, Edge: Red River, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 45:

Or when some gorgeous piece of ass in a Blades Jersey offers you a pussy pass good for one night only and you have to turn her down.

2007, Deirdre Martin, Chasing Stanley, Berkley Sensation, →ISBN:

Maybe it was the fact that women allowed their exes an all-access pussy pass, or men were too egotistical to believe their exes didn't want the dick anymore.

2013, Mary B. Morrison, Unconditionally Single, Dafina Books, →ISBN:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) A notional ticket allowing a man to have sex with a woman.


grid girl

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

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


brolly dolly

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


daygirl

A girl who attends a boarding school only during the day


womanhater

womanhaters (plural)
woman-hater (alternative)
woman hater (alternative)

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I suppose, the gentleman’s a womanhater; but, Sir, I think you ought to remember, that you had a mother: and pray, if it had not been for a woman, where would you have been, colonel?

1738, Jonathan Swift, A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, page 311:

From his insertion of these strictures on women, which are not the most courtly, it has been inferred that he was a womanhater; but that he was not so, appears from some of his prologues, especially from that to the ‘Knight of the Tower.’

The petticoated-intrusion may be resented by a few cross-grained “theologs,” bachelors before their time, or womanhaters because some boarding-school miss has failed to fulfill their idea of fidelity.

1895–6, Florence Guertin, "The Yale Prom", in Bachelor of Arts, page 365

One who hates women or the female sex; a misogynist.


fakaleitī

en-noun

fakaleitī (plural fakaleitīs or fakaleitī)

fakaleitīs (plural)
fakaleitī (plural)
fakaleiti (alternative)

From Tongan fakaleitī; the second part comes from English lady.

(Tonga) A man who behaves in an effeminate manner.


transgenderize

en-verb

transgenderize (third-person singular simple present transgenderizes, present participle transgenderizing, simple past and past participle transgenderized)

transgenderizes (present singular third-person)
transgenderizing (participle present)
transgenderized (participle past)
transgenderized (past)


momsy

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


hit the wall

hit the wall (third-person singular simple present hits the wall, present participle hitting the wall, simple past and past participle hit the wall)

hits the wall (present singular third-person)
hitting the wall (participle present)
hit the wall (participle past)
hit the wall (past)

Don't tell Heather Locklear. She won't be able to hear you anyway, as she is over forty and will have to turn up her hearing aid. By the way, please note that, according to urbandictionary.com, men don't hit the wall.

2014, Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella, Have a Nice Guilt Trip, page 50:

N. L. Shraman, How to Seduce a Girl? The Science of Seduction
Ninety percent of girls hit 24, they hit the wall; 25 they hit the wall because they don't care take care of themselves. They don't know any better because they hit their peak so young.

(informal, idiomatic, seduction community) Of a woman: to lose her physical attractiveness through growing older.


ungenderable

At the same time, she crossed the boundaries separating men from women not with a cozy androgyny, nor even with the 'glam rock' stylizations of the period, but by displaying a cold and forbidding, more-than-masculine, and ultimately ungenderable hardbody.

2010, Steven Shaviro, Post Cinematic Affect:

A notable instance is the placing of burnt, and hence ungenderable, fragments of human cranial bones inside a complete female anthropomorphic vessel deposited in the Koros settlement of Hodmezovasarhely-Gorzsa […]

2013, John Chapman, Fragmentation in Archaeology:


monster-in-law

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

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

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


grandma'am

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


translesbian

translesbians (plural)
trans lesbian (alternative)
trans-lesbian (alternative)

There are many femisexuals who never consider taking a male lover after their treatments, immediately becoming translesbians.

1997, Tracie O'Keefe, Katrina Fox, Trans-X-U-All: The Naked Difference, Extraordinary People Press, →ISBN, page 155:

It is both irresponsible and disingenuous to talk about safe space as if translesbians make space unsafe.

1999, Deke Law, “Evolution”, in Kris Kleindienst, editor, This is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century, Firebrand Books, →ISBN, page 139:

Many issues like transphobia, homosexual transsexuality (of both translesbians and transgay individuals), the transfeminist project, […]

2009, Izzo Mirella (translated from the Italian by Simona Continente), AzioneTrans Manifesto, Lulu.com (2009), page 7


transgay

Justin Tanis, a transgay male, reads the story of Jesus turning the Canaanite woman away.

2000, Robert Goss, Mona West, Take Back the Word: A Queer Reading of the Bible, →ISBN, page 6:

Simon, who is 64 and the only self-identified transgay man of the interviewees, explained that growing up, "I hated girly clothes all along. I never wanted to show my body or wear a dress. I never dated at all ... it does make you feel different. When I came out as a lesbian, I was already divorced ... my sexual sensation had already increased ... what I discovered is that I was gay."

2008, Brian Reed Singer, "On the gender continuum: the stories of transmen", thesis submitted to San Jose State University, pages 73-74

2009, Izzo Mirella, AzioneTrans Manifesto, →ISBN, page 7:

Being, or pertaining to being, both a trans man and attracted to men (gay).


trans lesbian

trans lesbians (plural)
translesbian (alternative)
trans-lesbian (alternative)

A trans woman who is a lesbian, i.e. attracted to women.


transbian

Our trans meeting at the clinic breaks up, after a discussion about transbians.

2010, Red Jordan Arobateau, Autumn Changes: Part III, page 930:

To give an opinionated answer, I'd say no, I do not think that there is a trend toward all transsexuals becoming transbians.

2011, Shannon Leigh O'Shea, Blue Life, Pink Hair: What It's Like Being The Pink Sheep Of The Family, page 186:

“So, I'm a butch transbian, so by most standards I'm literally just a cis-het dude-”

2018 March, Valerie Pleasant, “Women Problems”, in Montréal Writes, page 16:


lumbersexual

From lumber(jack) + -sexual, modelled after metrosexual.

From the rise of the lumbersexual, outdoorsmen's answer to the metrosexual, to the use of beards to sell anything from clothing to beer, beards are cool once again.

2014 November 9, Aaron Swaney, “It's November: Put the razor down”, in The Daily Herald, Everett, Washington, page D1:

Trend-hunters announced last year that we had reached “peak beard”, saturation point with the sort of facial hair that has become the calling card of the urban hipster or “lumbersexual”.

2015, Harriet Walker, "Bristling with style: the hairy upper lip", The Times (UK), 10 January 2010

My beef isn’t with glamping, despite its issues (unfortunate portmanteau, the image of lumbersexuals playing Ralph Lauren at summer camp). But keep it out of our parks.

2015 May 23, Christopher Solomon, “Our Pampered Wilderness”, in The New York Times:

(slang, sometimes used attributively) A male hipster who affects a rugged, outdoorsy look, typified by plaid shirts and a full beard.


trans female

trans-female (alternative)
transfemale (alternative)

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

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


nuchal cord

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

臍帶繞頸 /脐带绕颈

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


nuchal scan

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


transperson

en-noun

transperson (plural transpersons or transpeople)

transpersons (plural)
transpeople (plural)

As a group of men, the "Sisters" trivialize a group of women (nuns). Likewise, by the particular form of their "drag" they trivialize those transpersons (transsexuals and transvestites) who cross-dress out of a genuine need of their self-identity.

1982 April 10, Mikhael Iktin, “Over-indulgence”, in Gay Community News, page 4:


fembitch

fembitches (plural)
femibitch (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


hangwoman

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

A woman who carries out executions by hanging.


transgenderise

en-verb

transgenderise (third-person singular simple present transgenderises, present participle transgenderising, simple past and past participle transgenderised)

transgenderises (present singular third-person)
transgenderising (participle present)
transgenderised (participle past)
transgenderised (past)

Non-Oxford British English standard form of transgenderize.


Mixter

Blend of mix + Mister or Mister + -x-, probably influenced by the earlier abbreviation Mx.

(uncommon) A gender-neutral title (coordinate with Mr. and Ms.), used especially for genderqueer/non-binary people.


femmie

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

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


knightess

knightesses (plural)
knightress (alternative)


XXY

Having an aneuploidy in the configuration of chromosomes by having an extra Y chromosome.


truscum

Clipping of the derogatory epithet “true transsexual scum”; by surface analysis, tru- (“true, genuine”) + scum.

The term 'truscum', meant to be an epithet directed at the medicalization supporters, came into usage through an often-referenced post by tumblr user transstingray [... in 2012] a 'truscum' individual believes that all trans people should identify as transsexual, identify within the binary, use only male or female pronouns […] . The term is derived from 'true transsexual' and 'scum' […] . Although 'truscum' was originally meant to be a derogatory term, it has since been reclaimed and redefined to mean an individual who believes that one needs to experience sex-based dysphoria in order to be trans, and that transsexualism is a medical condition. It has now transcended its original purpose and has become a term with which the supporters of medicalization identify themselves.

2013, Alexander Wijnants, "Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People", Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures, ISSN 1883-5953, Volume 1, Number 4, Spring 2013, page 131

The truscum, or medical supporters, use basic, non-radical goals and a reliance on empirical evidence to develop and support a self-concept of being the more rational and realistic group within the debate.

2013, Alexander Wijnants, "Identity of Neurology Social Media and the Politician versus Medicalization of Trans People", Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures, ISSN 1883-5953, Volume 1, Number 4, Spring 2013, page 134

That, in summary, is the tone taken by the very recently developed factions of quote unquote social justice warriors, trans and trans* activists, truscum, radfems; […]

2014, Zoe Kilbourn, "PSA, UWU: Tumblr, Gender, and Gaga", Pelican (University of Western Australia), Volume 85, Edition 6, circa September 2014, page 9

Even among wonderful and truscum-battling friends I still avoid the label trans, instead occasionally asking for 'they' pronouns to be used and trying to talk of men as an outsider.

2015, Henrx Holmes, "Unmanned", No HeterOx (Oxford, UK), page 7 (approx.)

(slang, usually derogatory) A person who believes that gender dysphoria is an essential trait to being transgender.


transness

Green recognized that there are “little beehives of transness” in a few major US cities and abroad and F2M individuals who take upon themselves the role of educator and activist

1996, R. Scott Gerdes, “Extraordinary Lives—A Personal History of the F2M Movement (Part Ⅱ): Where have we been? Where are we going?”, in Jean Marie Stine, editor, Transgender Tapestry, volume 1, number 77, Waltham, Massachusetts: International Foundation for Gender Education, →ISSN, →OCLC, UPC 07447074121377, page 42, column 2:

Clearly, these were folks who chose to view my transness as an “affliction” (despite the fact that I did not portray it that way myself).

2013, Julia Serano, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, Seal Press, published 2013, →ISBN:

Now though, I've been thinking more about the idea that one can be attracted to transgender men (or women) in part because of their transness, not (as mainstream culture seems to think) in spite of it.

2014, Diane Anderson-Minshall, Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders, Bold Strokes Books, published 2014, →ISBN:

My transness felt irrelevant to most of my informal, passing relationships. It was not something I discussed upon meeting someone.

2014, Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, Atria, published 2014, →ISBN, page 248:

The condition or quality of being transgender or transsexual.


male-gazey

en-adj

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


hucow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


cisfemale

I think about the horror of going bald—a permanent loss of vitality. I think about how it would destroy the feeble androgyny that is my only comfort in this body. I think about my grandmother, bald from cancer, and what that did to her. And I hear my proudly misandrist-identifying cisfemale friends making fun of bald men as if it were a shortcoming or decision of the men themselves.

2016 March 11, Jennifer Coates, “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.”, in Medium:


transmisogynist

transmisogynist (comparative more transmisogynist, superlative most transmisogynist)

more transmisogynist (comparative)
most transmisogynist (superlative)
trans-misogynist (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


transmisogynist

transmisogynists (plural)
trans-misogynist (alternative)

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


transmisogynistic

transmisogynistic (comparative more transmisogynistic, superlative most transmisogynistic)

more transmisogynistic (comparative)
most transmisogynistic (superlative)
trans-misogynistic (alternative)

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

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

But I am asking us to examine a comedic device that not only degrades women but also reinforces the absolutely incorrect and harmfully transmisogynistic idea that trans women are really just "men in dresses."

2014 November 4, Morgan Philley, “Dressing down the gender binary”, in The Daily Mississippian, volume 103, number 49, University of Mississippi, page 2:

As far as I'm concerned, Leelah's death wasn't suicide – it was murder at the hands of a transmisogynistic society.

2015, Casey Aldridge, "To the Charlotte Christian community after Chapel Hill", Niner Times (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Volume 27, Issue 19, 17 February 2015 - 23 February 2015, page 8

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


antitransgender

antitransgender (comparative more antitransgender, superlative most antitransgender)

more antitransgender (comparative)
most antitransgender (superlative)
anti-transgender (alternative)

Following the lead of the courts, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission then ruled that antitransgender bias was a form of sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

2015 August 29, Deborah Sontag, The New York Times:


poetress

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


polymenorrhagia

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

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

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


gynemimetic

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

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

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

(dated, nonstandard, rare) Transfeminine.


gynemimesis

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

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

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


andromimesis

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

(dated, nonstandard, rare) The state of being transmasculine or a trans man.


andromimetophilia

(paraphilia) An attraction to trans men or to females who look and act like men (andromimetics).


deadname

deadnames (plural)
dead name (alternative)
dead-name (alternative)

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From dead + name, because the old name is dead (“no longer used”). Attested since at least 2010 as a noun and 2013 as a verb by the OED.

And when people constantly refer to you as your deadname [a name that you previously went by], or use the incorrect pronouns, it really is like getting slapped with a wet fish.

2014, Natalia Moorin, “My Illness Is Not Your Inspiration”, in Damsel, University of Western Australia, page 21:

One of the articles in our last issue contained a major error: we referred to a transgender student by their deadname.

2018 February 27, Amy O'Kruk, “Apology to readers”, in Western Gazette, Western University, page 2:

“My deadname is everywhere because of my ID card, and not only do I have to look at it but lots of other people get to see. […]

2018, Alex McFadden, quoted in Noni Cole & Ruby Perryman, "The Unfair University ID Card", Farrago (University of Melbourne), Edition Three (2018), page 7

(neologism, especially LGBTQ) A previous name of a person (especially a transgender person) who has since changed their name.


deadname

en-verb

deadname (third-person singular simple present deadnames, present participle deadnaming, simple past and past participle deadnamed)

deadnames (present singular third-person)
deadnaming (participle present)
deadnamed (participle past)
deadnamed (past)
dead name (alternative)
dead-name (alternative)

Using trans peoples' dead names – names that they were born with which are either wrong through either legal or preferential means – has been and always will be an act of aggression, not just to the person you're deadnaming but to all trans people.

2015 June 17, Luca Kuchinka, “Caitlyn's story inspiring, spotlight should be shared”, in Estevan Mercury, page A7:

"Right now, it's unclear whether they are choosing to deadname me maliciously, or just can't be bothered to accommodate trans students in the way we require them to," he said.

2018, Alex, quoted in Sylvie Woods, "Students pay the price for 'tired' administration", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Volume 90, Week 9 (2018), page 12

Felix's dad deadnames him despite supporting his top surgery and hormone therapy, and he hates his mom for leaving when he was 10.

(transitive) To refer to someone (especially a transgender person) who has changed names by a previous name.

棄名錯稱 /弃名错称

to refer to someone by their previous name

dead-naming

act or instance of naming as the target of a death-curse


empress dowager

en-noun

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

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

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


genderist

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

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

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


meninism

As a man whose primary interests include neither beer nor bacon, I strongly object to the suggestion that these are issues which would define "the concepts and ideals of meninism." Furthermore, the idea of "meninism" does not currently exist as a movement because men's issues are in no way underrepresented in mainstream culture.

1996, Patrick Warren, "Stick to bacon, Todd" (letter to the editor), Imprint (University of Waterloo), Volume 19, Number 5, 28 June 1996, page 9

The really great thing about feminism, or meninism, is that as we become more and more egalitarian, there will be less of a need for either.

1997 December 28, Carol Ann Hemingway, “Re: FEMINISM IS IRRELEVANT”, in soc.men (Usenet):

One question to ask, however, is if meninism could be taken seriously, or if it really is just an online joke.

2015, Jay Woofter, "#Meninists Twitter trend reacts to feminism", The Collegian (Kansas State University), Volume 120, Number 82, 29 January 2015, page 3

A movement or philosophy, often presented satirically, in favour of the rights and interests of men.


tip drill

I said it must be ya ass, cause it ain't ya face
I need a tip drill, I need a tip drill...
It must be ya money, cause it ain't ya face
You a tip drill, nigga, you a tip drill

2007, Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. & al., "Tip Drill"

(African-American Vernacular, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A person with an attractive body but an ugly face.


anarcha-feminism

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


anarchist feminism

anarchist feminism (usually uncountable, plural anarchist feminisms)


FTM

Initialism of female-to-male (transgender or transsexual).


FTM

Abbreviation of first-time mom/mother/mum.

At the end of the 1960s doctors at UCLA's Gender Identity Research Clinic debated privately whether FTMs even qualified as transsexuals.

2013, Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle, The Transgender Studies Reader, page 373:


dykeling

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

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

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

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

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


machoistically

en-adv

machoistically (comparative more machoistically, superlative most machoistically)

more machoistically (comparative)
most machoistically (superlative)

He knew how to lead songs: just sing the first line, then smile and machoistically heave your arm.

so that our librarians at their annual rendezvous can no longer proudly and machoistically proclaim mine is bigger than yours?

1993, The law school and the university: the present and the future:

Yurtle the Turtle placed the citizens of his world one on top of the other in order to see more and more and more, and therefore take more and more and more, and therefore feel more and more and more machoistically important.

1989, Eartha Kitt, Confessions of a Sex-Kitten, page 224:


chantwell

chantwells (plural)
chantuelle (alternative)

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

der

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


mirdle

The Wall Street Journal has reported on the burgeoning market for "support boxers" to lift and firm the backside and "waist eliminators" to tame the gut. If your man wears a mirdle, then surely you should, too?

2009, Mimi Spencer, 101 Things to Do Before You Diet: Because Looking Great Isn't Just about Losing Weight, Rodale, →ISBN, page 57:

She knows about bras, body slimmers, boy shorts, and the new contraption: a mirdle for the guys!

2011, Sasha Charnin Morrison, Secrets of Stylists: An Insider's Guide to Styling the Stars, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 138:

In the early 2010s, shape underwear for men—modeled after the success of shape underwear for women—provided males with the opportunity to reshape their body using a variety of products, including mirdles or male girdles, compression shorts, waist eliminators, "bubble butt" enhancers, […]

2014, José Blanco F., “Underwear,”, in Michael Kimmel, Christine Milrod, Amanda Kennedy, editors, Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 227:

(informal) An abdominal support garment (girdle) designed for and/or marketed to men.


abortion tourism

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


sugartits

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


boobfeed

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


boob milk

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

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

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

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

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

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


brass ceiling

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

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

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

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


piscatrix

(historical) A female fishmonger in ancient times.

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

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


mansplainy

en-adj

mansplainy (comparative more mansplainy, superlative most mansplainy)

more mansplainy (comparative)
most mansplainy (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


manbaby

I happen to enjoy sex very much. (Occasionally a little too much.) But I wouldn't with a snivelling manbaby who spends all his waking hours, on-line, whining about how life has fucked him over.

2003, catb...@fwiw.com, “What women want”, in alt.romance (Usenet):

(informal, derogatory) A childishly whiny man; a man child.


slut-shamey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


cislesbian

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

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

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

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

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

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


VAWG

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

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

Initialism of violence against women and girls.


transactivist

The transactivists who are trying to eliminate Gender Identity Disorder from the DSM-IV have not come up with any credible replacement for the diagnosis, which is the prerequisite for sex reassignment.

1997, Pat Califia, Sex changes: the politics of transgenderism, page 268:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transactivist.


Cinderfella

Keaton's new wife takes him home to her father and brothers, who all mistreat him terribly. His would be the lot of an overworked "Cinderfella" had the father not found the misappropriated letter, opened it, read of an inheritance, and assumed his son-in-law to be the beneficiary.

2007, Lisa Trahair, The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick, State University of New York Press, Albany, →ISBN, page 59:

All my life I was an underdog who was now finally living out my Cinderfella story.

2011, Karsheem White-Holman, It Is What It Is: Daze in Da Life of Mr. Can't Get It Right, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 203:

Of course I felt dreadful about using him, but still I somehow explained to Marty as we stood on the noisy sidewalk that I needed him to pose as my date for the night, and then like Cinderfella he would leave at midnight and go home like nothing had ever happened, although I suspected he had other plans.

2014, S. N. Weddle, It Starts With a Kiss, Mereo Books, Mereo Books, →ISBN, page 92:

(informal, sometimes used attributively) A man or boy who shares qualities with the character Cinderella.


genderphobia

Genderphobia is a more surreptitious form of discrimination than transphobia because it quietly adheres to hegemonic notions of gender behaviour.

2005 January, Vincent Stephens, “Pop goes the rapper: a close reading of Eminem's genderphobia”, in Popular Music, volume 24, number 1, page 23:

She characterized women's reactions to a masculine person in a public rest room as “an example of genderphobia” (1996, 117), viewing such women as policing gender boundaries rather than believing that there really is a man in the women's rest room.

2008, Joan Z. Spade, Catherine G. Valentine, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, Pine Forge Press, →ISBN, page 29:

Genderphobia was no hindrance to her [Margaret Thatcher's] ambitions; her husband took a back seat.

2015, Virginia Nicholson, Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s, Penguin Books, →ISBN:

Genderphobia works to reinforce gendered hierarchies and the heteropatriarchal state, disenfranchising not only women, but also sexual and gender minorities. Genderphobia is also very much used to enforce xenophobic and nationalist policies […]

2023 March 29, Jose Antonio Langarita, Ana Cristina Santos, Marisela Montenegro, Mojca Urek, Child-Friendly Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Diversity: Beyond Adultcentrism, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

Fear, dislike, or hatred of gender-nonconforming individuals or behaviour.


secundigravid

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

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


megamillionairess

From megamillionaire + -ess or mega- + millionairess.

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

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


bean-flicker

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peepaw

(US, dialect, Southern US) Synonym of papa (“father”)


pepaw

Alternative form of peepaw, synonym of pawpaw


milk-mother

milk-mothers (plural)
milk mother (alternative)

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

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


monthly friend

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

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

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

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

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

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

(euphemistic slang) The menstrual period.


monthly visitor

en-noun

monthly visitor (plural monthly visitors)

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

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

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

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

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

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


detransition

en-verb

detransition (third-person singular simple present detransitions, present participle detransitioning, simple past and past participle detransitioned)

detransitions (present singular third-person)
detransitioning (participle present)
detransitioned (participle past)
detransitioned (past)

People detransition because they may find it difficult to get jobs, or because of social ostracism, not passing in their target gender, family responsibilities, and so on.

2007, Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married, page 303:

I recently had an encounter in which I was asked if I was detransitioning simply because I was wearing a pair of jeans!

2014, Michelle Spicer, The Transgender Handbook:

“I wish there had been more open conversations,” Powell, now 23 and detransitioned, told me. “But I was told there is one cure and one thing to do if this is your problem, and this will help you.”

2024 February 2, Pamela Paul, “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(intransitive, LGBTQ) To revert to one's original gender presentation, role, or identity.


transfemininity

en-noun

transfemininity (usually uncountable, plural transfemininities)


mantrum

"My hubby's there with his kinsmen. He loathes girls' night out—throws a mantrum every week. So I suppose I could go relieve his misery."

2008, Kresley Cole, Dark Needs at Night's Edge, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 219:

Sometimes mirroring the bully's behavior puts a stop to things. It certainly is worth a try. In the middle of one of his “mantrums,” mirror him back and watch what happens.

2010, Lillian Glass, Toxic Men: 10 Ways to Identify, Deal with, and Heal from the Men Who Make Your Life Miserable, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 192:

Before me, the turnover rate on his assistant's desk was about three months due to his daily mantrums.

2014, Danube Adele, Quicksilver Dreams, Carina Press, →ISBN:

(slang, derogatory) An emotional outburst by an adult man.


hormone-replacement therapy

hormone-replacement therapy (plural hormone-replacement therapies)

hormone replacement therapy
hormone replacement therapy#English

Alternative spelling of hormone replacement therapy


Mako Mori test

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


female impersonator

female impersonator (plural female impersonators)

"About the only job left that a woman can beat a man in is female impersonator in vaudeville."

1908, O. Henry, “The Hand That Riles The World”, in The Gentle Grafter:

It was Gerald converted me to be a true corsetlover when I was female impersonator in the High School play Vice Versa.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

Danny La Rue, a female impersonator who became one of the highest-paid performers on the British stage by bringing sophistication and spectacle to a form of entertainment previously regarded as dubious, died at his home in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on Sunday.

2009 June 3, William Grimes, “Danny La Rue, Female Impersonator, Dies at 81”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-10-13:

(performing arts) A male entertainer who performs cross-dressed as a woman.


fussock

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

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


zha bo

zha bo (plural)
zha bos (plural)
zha bor (alternative)
cha bo (alternative)
cha bor (alternative)

[t͡sä˨.bɔ˦˨]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) Lady or woman.


sheroic

en-adj

sheroic (comparative more sheroic, superlative most sheroic)

more sheroic (comparative)
most sheroic (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

(feminism) Heroic in a female or feminist context.


jessie

From Jessie as a diminutive of Jane, Jean, etc., here used in their extended sense of any young working-class girl.

(colloquial, dated) Synonym of sissy: a cowardly, effeminate, or homosexual man, a girly man.


Männlein

Männleins (plural)
männlein (alternative)
Mannlein (alternative)
mannlein (alternative)

Borrowed from German Männlein (“a little man”), from Mann (“man”) + -lein (diminutive suffix); compare English manling.

There was the wife of the männlein, dressed in a robe of silk, richer far than was ever worn by wife of burgomaster; and there were his brothers, and his daughter, with her fair hair falling over her shoulders, and her exquisitely soft blue eye.

1847 June 5, “Sketch of the Traditions of Germany”, in Sharpe's London Magazine: A Journal of Entertainment and Instruction for General Reading, volume IV, number 84, London: T. B. Sharpe, 15, Skinner Street, Snow Hill, →OCLC, page 83, column 2:

It is astonishing how this activity keeps up to the end of the day and how the child struggles against fatigue and sleepiness. After having looked at his Brownie book in bed awhile S. was laid down by his mother to be sung to sleep as usual and the gas was turned down. Whereat he said: "[…] right,—Yes. M., S. want those two pieces paper,—give S. some paper. 8. have to roll up. M. cover S. Where P.? Where P.? M., where P.? M. sing loud. M. lie down on P. bed," when the Männlein suddenly fell off to sleep.

1902 May, M. C. Gale, H. Gale, “Children's Vocabularies”, in J. McKeen Cattell, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume LXI, New York, N.Y.: The Science Press, →OCLC, page 4950:

Hungry for home and a husband sturdy Dorothea / Has wandered far to catch herself a man; a Männlein.

1968, Philip Toynbee, Views from a Lake: the Seventh Day of the Valediction of Pantaloon, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 115:

"To teach a lesson that you must learn, mannlein," she said harshly. "To strip away the final veil."

1983, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale, New York, N.Y.: Timescape Books, →ISBN:

He put his pistol under Hannibal's chin and patted him down. He kicked Hannibal's gun away. Grutas took a stiletto from his belt and poked the tip into Hannibal's legs. They did not move. "Shot in the spine, my little Mannlein," Grutas said.

2006, Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 300:


bronydom

Over the past two years the rising tide of adult male fans of the "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" cartoon has swept upon the shores of the internet. Forums, Facebook, YouTube and pop culture conventions alike have been caught up by bronydom.

2013, Sean Gleason, "Bronies: Who Are They?!", The Pinion (McKinley High School, Honolulu, Hawaii), Volume 92, Number 4, February 2013, page 4

Like many other subcultures considered perverse by much of the general public, bronydom has its roots in the infamous website 4chan.org.

2013 September 9, Thomas Raethel, “The Mysterious World of Bronies”, in Critic, number 22, University of Otago, page 33:

Though there are some female bronies (some call themselves “pegasisters”), bronydom — at its core — is simply about just being kind and having fun.

2014, Leah Sottile, "Imaginary Friends", Inlander, Volume 21, Number 43, 14 August 2014 - 20 August 2014, page 26

(fandom slang) The community or culture of bronies.


bronyism

Tens of thousands of adults around the globe have been drawn into the land of Equetria—into bronyism.

2013, Drew McLachlan, "Nothing phony behind bronies", The Navigator (Vancouver Island University), Volume 44, Issue 12, 6 March 2013 - 19 March 2013, page 9

My introduction to Bronyism brought me out of, as mentioned prior, a very dark place.

2013, Will Martin, "Proud To Be A Brony: How My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Changed My Life", Summer/Fall 2013, page 10

The Bronies like to challenge their skeptics to just watch one episode – you never know when your Bronyism might come out.

2013 August 15, Audra Stamp, “Pony Tales: An unexpected fandom”, in North Texas Daily, University of North Texas:

(fandom slang) The community, culture, or philosophy of bronies.


captain save a hoe

Either coined in, or popularized by, the 1993 song of the same name by American rapper E-40 (Earl Stevens).

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A man who spends an excessive amount of effort and money trying to please a woman, usually a promiscuous one, who doesn't really appreciate this, or doesn't particularly care about him.


femmephobia

Indeed, the existence of what has been labelled homophobia, I argue, may be more correctly analysed as a kind of "femmephobia", where same-sex relationships, particularly those between two men, are viewed as having the power to feminize men.

2007, Annie Paul, Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, page 368:

Probably the most visible and overt site of global(izing) patterns of femmephobia are male-male dating and sexual networking websites, ranging from Grindr, an Iphone application for sexual networking used primarily in the U.S., and Planetromeo, a dating site with a large following in India. […] A range of sample user profiles documented on the site include injunctions like the following: "Only into 101% masculine: Fems dnt fkin mssg me [sic]. College athlete (not some pansy sport"; "Looking for studs: no fats, fems [sic] or anyone above 30"; "If your only personality is gay, move on"; "Be masculine please! I'm gay don't want a girl!"; […]

2013, Aniruddha Dutta, “Masculinities of Desire, Derision and Defiance: Global Gay Femmephobia and Kothi-Hijra-Trans Heterosexualities”, in Rohit K. Dasgupta, K. Moti Gokulsing, editors, Masculinity and Its Challenges in India: Essays on Changing Perceptions, page 146:

In the sexual minority men's community femmephobia typically appears as an abhorrence to stereotypical "gay" things such as liking musicals, lim wrists, sounding effeminate (i.e. a higher pitched voice or a feminine cadence), dressing in clothing considered to be for women and much more.

2020, Emerson L. R. Barrett, “Sexing the Margins: Homonationalism in Gay Dating Apps”, in D. Nicole Farris, D'Lane R. Compton, Andrea P. Herrera, editors, Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Digital Age, page 126:

Dislike of, or hostility towards, stereotypically effeminate gay men, especially within the gay community.


side chick

side chicks (plural)
sidechick (alternative)
side-chick (alternative)

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


side bitch

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


'mones

I've been facing the trans issue "face on" since about 2-3 years ago, having really admitted it to myself about 4 years ago (freshperson in college), [...] So you can see I'm very confused, yet 99% sure I want to take 'mones and see how far I really need to go to be happy. do I live FT?

1996 November 23, so...@triax.com, “not stereotypical”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet):

another bi m2f for a lesbian affair, but isn't on 'mones, looks pretty

1999 September 28, Tracy, quoting another user, “Transfans: you ladies were Right”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):

Whether or not they are or how long they have been on 'mones?

2001 February 25, Loree Thomas, “Respecting Self-Definitions”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

(transgender slang) Hormones used as part of hormone replacement therapy, especially for transgender or gender variant individuals.


transgenderisation

Non-Oxford British English standard form of transgenderization.