ladystuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


brocialist

(slang, derogatory) A male socialist, especially one with masculinist views.

My experience is that ‘brocialists' don’t openly embrace patriarchy; they deny it’s a problem.

2013, Richard Seymour, quoted in Laurie Penny, "Laurie Penny on Brand, iconoclasm, and a woman's place in the revolution", New Statesman, 2 November 2013

Often, brocialism manifests at left-wing powwows. Someone raises a feminist grievance. The brocialist instructs her that she is distracted from the paramount issue, namely class.

2014 January 8, Marc Tracy, “How to Talk to a 'Brocialist'”, in New Republic:

Pin them down, and the brocialists defend their blokeishness by saying that gender issues are essentially a second-order of importance, that there are bigger struggles which define our politics today.

2015 September 14, Cathy Newman, “Welcome to Jeremy Corbyn's blokey Britain - where 'brocialism' rules”, in The Telegraph:

(slang, derogatory) A male socialist, leftist or progressive accused of downplaying women's issues, or displaying an alleged misogynistic or macho attitude.


brocialism

The new brocialism cares deeply about women’s issues of course – just not enough to elect an actual woman. They don’t need to, because good lefties speak for all us. They don’t even notice gender.

2015 September 12, Suzanne Moore, “As Jeremy Corbyn was anointed leader, not one female voice was heard”, in The Guardian:

(slang, derogatory) Socialism or progressivism which downplays women's issues or reinforces masculinist attitudes or ideas.


mantastic

en-adj

mantastic (comparative more mantastic, superlative most mantastic)

more mantastic (comparative)
most mantastic (superlative)

Later, a mantastic crowd of foxy playboys and players lose their inhibitions (and more often then^([sic]) not, their shirts) shaking it to high energy dance tunes.

2005, Dan Levine, Avant-Guide Chicago: Insiders' Guide to Progressive Culture, Empire Press Media, →ISBN, page 123:

Mantastic as Jake was, one thing was certain.

2007, Candy Halliday, Dinner First, Me Later?, Warner Forever, →ISBN:

Romeo batted his eyelashes at Crew Cut and said, “Mmm, aren't you mantastic.”

(slang) Fantastically masculine or manly.


spornosexual

Blend of sport + porn + metrosexual. Coined by journalist Mark Simpson in 2014 (who also coined metrosexual).

coin

But unlike Beckham's metrosexual ads of old, in which his attributes were possibly artificially enhanced, today’s spornosexuals have photoshopped themselves in real life.

2014 June 10, Mark Simpson, “The metrosexual is dead. Long live the 'spornosexual'”, in The Telegraph:

More than shirts and suits, the spornosexual's body is the ultimate commodity.

2015 March 1, Gurveen Kaur, “The rise of the spornosexual, the more hardcore, body-obsessed version of metrosexuals”, in The Straits Times:

Then came about the well-groomed, fashion-conscious metrosexual in the ’90s and, more recently, his waxed, tanned, athletic cousin: the spornosexual.

2015 September 15, Sam Rowe, “Lebowski Fest: why the Dude is the perfect male role model”, in The Telegraph:

A man concerned with personal appearance, but who places more emphasis on having a fit, toned, virile body than on grooming or fashion.


sanky-panky

A male sex worker in the Dominican Republic.


brogressive

You may recall the newest darling of brogressives — Thanks, Addie Stan — on the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

2013 March 13, Charles P. Pierce, “Rand Paul Gives His Musings On Gay Marriage”, in Esquire:

The American Brogressive has found his next target, one who will presumably be saved from herself, along with everyone else, by learning to obey him.

2013 July 15, Sady Doyle, “Ecce Homo Sorkinia”, in In These Times:

Election work and party involvement is increasingly seen as the unhip, uncool, morally compromised province of social climbers and “brogressives” not truly committed to the supposedly “real work” of social justice engagement by non-electoral means.

2015 October 3, David Atkins, “The Left’s Failure to Enact Gun Control Exposes Its Tactical Weakness”, in Washington Monthly:

(slang, derogatory) A male progressive, socialist, or leftist who downplays women's issues or displays a macho or patriarchal attitude.


Crying Game

From the 1992 film The Crying Game, which features a scene in which a man discovers that his lover, implicitly presented up to that point as a cis woman, is in fact a pre-op/non-op trans woman.

Man, what a way to pop a balloon full of promise! It was like waiting to be with the girl of your dreams and you end up in the Crying Game.

2002, David Payton, I Dreamed I Killed Osama Bin Laden, Trafford, →ISBN:

We copped a feel of the technical beta of Microsoft's Windows Media Player 10, and beneath the slick new interface we found a Crying Game-scale surprise that has the potential to lure insatiable music grazers away from iTunes (which has now sold more than 100 million tracks).

2004 September, “Hands on Microsoft's Windows Media Player 10”, in Maximum PC, page 15:

“Fair enough. So you didn't know I was a man?”
“I'd guess you'd call this my personal Crying Game moment.”

2015, Harlan Coben, Missing You, Dutton, published 2014, →ISBN:

(informal, often used attributively) A situation in which something or someone is revealed to be other than assumed/expected to be, particularly with regard to gender identity.


older sister

older sisters (plural)
elder sister (alternative)

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

ousus

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


older brother

older brothers (plural)
elder brother (alternative)

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

うみしーじゃ

used by nobles to address their older brother


fuckstress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


fagling

You're behaving like a young fagling who has discovered gay sex, and therefore thinks he has nothing more to discover about his gayness.

1996 December 24, Michael Thomas, “Re: The Christmas Bell”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

Compelled? I like this idea. Like those re-education camps in Vietnam. We line all the young faglings up and force them to watch The Harvey Girls over and over and over again. And The Pirate! And Meet Me in St. Louis! And Judy singing "Liza, Liza Minelli" on national television to her seemingly less than thrilled but always professional daughter.

1997 July 5, You Rang? [username], “Re: Judy”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

I was a tender young fagling of sixteen when I saw it on a double-bill with _The Gay Deceivers_ in 1970.

2005 February 25, Mike McKinley, “Re: The Boys in the Band (the movie)”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

(vulgar, offensive, sometimes derogatory) A young male homosexual.


plead the belly

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Duluth model

Developed in the city of Duluth, Minnesota.

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


metapatriarchal

en-adj

metapatriarchal (comparative more metapatriarchal, superlative most metapatriarchal)

more metapatriarchal (comparative)
most metapatriarchal (superlative)

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

(feminism) Relating to transcendence over the patriarchy.


tran

Shortening of transgender, or (jocularly or seriously) a back-formation of trans mistaking it for a plural noun.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tran.

(informal, sometimes offensive, sometimes humorous) A trans person.


jagabat

(Trinidad and Tobago) A sexually promiscuous woman.


gender card

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(often derogatory) The invocation of a person's gender in a discussion in order to gain sympathy or an advantage in that discussion.


feminasty

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

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


intersexualized

Made (or being) intersexual; intersexed.


femaleist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Mulveyan

Mulveyan (comparative more Mulveyan, superlative most Mulveyan)

more Mulveyan (comparative)
most Mulveyan (superlative)

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


trans-curious

(LGBTQ) Interested in one's potential transness.


meninist

The mainstream is being challenged by everything that isn't itself. Feminists, meninists, animal rights campaigners, anti-corruption activists in Romania, ultra-nationalists in Russia—there seems to be no one particular political direction that has benefited more from the internet.

2018, Carl Miller, chapter 5, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN:


transgenderness

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transgenderness.


intersexphobia

Although there is overlap in ways that binary gender norms are imposed on trans* and intersex students, athletes, and staff, we feel it is important to understand how transphobia and intersexphobia work as different forms of discrimination.

2016, Heather Sykes, Christopher Smith, “Trans*, Intersex, and Cisgender Issues in Physical Education and Sport”, in Daniel B. Robinson, Lynn Randall, editors, Social Justice in Physical Education: Critical Reflections and Pedagogies for Change, page 275:

However, Turner said the bear community still has a way to go when it comes to greater diversity and acceptance, as he's faced both intersexphobia and biphobia from within its ranks.

2016 September, Matthew Wade, “Something To Growl About”, in Star Observer Magazine, page 13:

In fact, I believe that it is this fear of bodily difference, akin to homophobia, intersexphobia if you will, that drives some doctors to recommend, and parents to agree to, medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children and infants.

2020, Kimberly M. Zieselman, XOXY: A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist), page 205:

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.


wommonhood

From wommon + -hood, modelled on womanhood.

(feminism, rare) Nonstandard spelling of womanhood.


womynkind

(rare, nonstandard) Feminist spelling of womankind


womonkind

From womon + -kind, modelled on womankind.


sheikha

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

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


transgal

(LGBTQ, rare, informal) A young transwoman.


mujerado

From Spanish mujerado, see mujer (“woman”), -ado (“-ated, -ified”).

(historical) Among Puebloan peoples, a man who was notionally transformed into a woman and took the passive role in the sexual relations.


cisness

What's more, the assumed cisness of children during that century means that alongside Val and the other trans children in this book were countless, unnamed others whose experience is still hidden from view.

2018, Julian Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child, unnumbered page:

Cisgender is assumed to be the “default” identity; mainstream culture is saturated with cisness and cisnormativity.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 69:

But inevitably, my cisness crumbled, and with it, my belief in the usefulness of gender itself.

2020, LJ, "Who Needs Gender?", in Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities (eds. Benjamin Vincent, Jos Twist, Kat Gupta, & Meg-John Barker), page 64


minisuction

en-noun

minisuction (usually uncountable, plural minisuctions)

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


miniabortion

miniabortion (usually uncountable, plural miniabortions)


best girl

best girls (plural)
best gal (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


judgess

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

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


femocracy

femocracy (countable and uncountable, plural femocracies)

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

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

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


DMAB

But my two-year anniversary on hormones seems like the perfect time to begin the next chapter of my life, a chapter that focuses less on my gender and the fact that I was DMAB.

2013, Annika Penelope, “10 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started My Transition”, in Huffington Post:

(LGBTQ) Initialism of designated male at birth.


DFAB

Coordinate term: DMAB

(LGBTQ) Initialism of designated female at birth.


womanager

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

(rare, informal, humorous) A female manager.


sadospiritual

en-adj

sadospiritual (comparative more sadospiritual, superlative most sadospiritual)

more sadospiritual (comparative)
most sadospiritual (superlative)

From sadistic and spiritual; coined by feminist Mary Daly.

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


pink tax

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


coffin birth

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


stepmam

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


stepmum

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


lax bro

(slang) A stereotypical male lacrosse player.


railwaywoman

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

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

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

железничарка

woman who works on a railway — see also railwayman


labour pain

labour pains (plural)
labor pain (alternative)

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


biowoman

From bio- + woman, short for biological woman.

As I gazed into her wonderful green eyes, I realized that there was a marked resemblance to those of Leonardo. Clearly, this was another indication that I was not dealing with a biowoman.

2002, Eduard Prugovecki, Dawn of the New Man, page 76:

Now we move from the drag king and his mirrored self to the drag king coupled with what could be a drag queen or a biowoman in Volcano's “Tits and Tomcat.”

2005, J. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place:

However, he found himself almost paralyzed with social anxiety at the prospect of dating a biowoman who was not part of queer community, though he knew full well she had no problem with his being an FTM.

2007, Reid Vanderburgh, Transition and Beyond: Observations on Gender Identity, page 143:

In many communities (including the ones that Nina inhabits in The Silicone Diaries), being able to pass as a biowoman is central to one's identification with being feminine.

2012, Judith Rudakoff, Trans(per)forming Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work:


magical feminism

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


misogynize

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

2012, Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite:

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


bitch shield

(slang, derogatory) A hostile or frosty attitude adopted by a woman to deter unwanted suitors.


buying temperature

en-noun

buying temperature (plural buying temperatures)

(slang) A woman's level of attraction and responsiveness to a potential suitor.


beachgirl

beachgirls (plural)
beach-girl (alternative)
beach girl (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


sanitary pad

(Australia) Standard form of sanitary napkin.


matrician

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

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

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

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

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

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

A female patrician; an upper class matriarch


vulvoplasty

(surgery) A surgical procedure to construct, repair, or remodel a vulva.


IOD

(seduction community) Initialism of indicator of disinterest.


matrophobia

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

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


Drss.

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

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

Drss. Gœway presents an essay on dysmenorrhœa.

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

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

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

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


Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking (plural Pippi Longstockings)

Astrid Lindgren
Inger Nilsson
Pippi Longstocking

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

named-after

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

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

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

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

Have I discovered my inner Pippi Longstocking?

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

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


TNB

For quotations using this term, see Citations:TNB.

Initialism of transgender and/or non-binary.


guy friend

guy friends (plural)
guy-friend (alternative)
guyfriend (alternative)


marilith

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

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

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

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

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


wingwoman

From wing + woman, modelled on earlier wingman.

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

A female friend who accompanies one to offer support.


femicommie

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


fudanshi

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


Wollstonecraftian

en-adj

Wollstonecraftian (comparative more Wollstonecraftian, superlative most Wollstonecraftian)

more Wollstonecraftian (comparative)
most Wollstonecraftian (superlative)

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


womansplaining

Blend of woman + explaining, modelled on mansplaining.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many men have reported a drastic rise in womansplaining.

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

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


bathroom bill

His goal, he emphatically clarified, was to enact “an anti-discrimination bill,” “not a bathroom bill.”

2020, Alexander K. Davis, Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 6:

Legislation concerning the use of public bathrooms.

(Canada, US, neologism) In particular, legislation concerning the use of public bathrooms by transgender individuals.


beta male

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Edward Norton's character is the conformist, emasculated, consumerist beta male while his alter ego of sorts, Durden, is the countercultural alpha because he is free from needing or being controlled by women.

2017, Angela Nagle, chapter 7, in Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN:

A male second in a social or group hierarchy and submissive to the alpha male.


SMV

en-noun

SMV (countable and uncountable, plural SMVs)

When alpha male podcasters and bloggers boast that “Men’s Peak SMV is Age 37”, I agree.

2024 February 1, “When Men’s Dating Options Hit The Wall”, in Salt Lake Single Guy:

sexual market value
sexual market value#English

(seduction community) Initialism of sexual market value.


LMP

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

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

menstrual period
menstrual period#English

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


Nussbaumian

en-adj

Nussbaumian (comparative more Nussbaumian, superlative most Nussbaumian)

more Nussbaumian (comparative)
most Nussbaumian (superlative)

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


owneress

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

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


governoress

governoresses (plural)
governeress (alternative)
governor-ess (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


playeress

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


MTF

Alternative forms: MtF, M2F

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


MTF

Alternative forms: MtF, M2F

Hormone-related cancer in transgender persons is very rare (there are case reports of breast cancer in MTFs).

2008, Harvey J. Makadon, The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health:

A trans person might be a butch or a camp, a transgender or a transsexual, an MTF or FTM or a cross-dresser; […]

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


MTF

Mississippi Test Facility
w:Mississippi Test Facility

(astronautics, NASA, historical) Initialism of Mississippi Test Facility.


metapelet

en-noun

metapelet (plural metapelets or metaplot or metaploth)

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

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


cousiness

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


safe day

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


magicianess

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

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

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

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

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

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


AMAB

The sample consists of participants AMAB.

Gender-affirming hormone therapy may involve testosterone for trans people assigned female at birth (AFAB) and estradiol and anti-androgens for trans people AMAB.

2021, Jane Y. Xu, Michelle A. O’Connell, Lauren Notini, Ada S. Cheung, Sav Zwickl, Ken C. Pang, “Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators: A Potential Option For Non-Binary Gender-Affirming Hormonal Care?”, in Front Endocrinol, →DOI:

(LGBTQ) Acronym of assigned male at birth.


AMAB

Coordinate term: AFAB

I don’t mean that trans AFABs have an easier experience than trans AMABs (Assigned Male At Birth). Each requires different resources and support. If Harpeth Hall doesn't have those for AFABs, they certainly don’t have them for AMABs.

2022 September 2, Bucky Fuchs, “I'm a trans grad of Harpeth Hall and glad they reneged on their gender policy”, in The Tennessean:


AFAB

The sample consists of participants AFAB.

(LGBTQ) Acronym of assigned female at birth.


AFAB

Alright, AFAB porn performers: we're all doubling our scene rates for creampie scenes, right?

2022 June 24, Siri Dahl, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-12-15:


AFAB

Coordinate term: AMAB

They experience deadnaming, alienation, and bullying. And this happens to people Assigned Female at Birth (AFAB) at a school specifically for AFABs. / I don’t mean that trans AFABs have an easier experience than trans AMABs (Assigned Male At Birth).


overlady

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


manlet

But, let’s not limit our options here: there are some taller manlets on this list, because their manlet energy is just unbeaten, regardless of their height.

2022 February 5, Various Authors, “What’s a ‘Manlet’? Recounting some of Fandom’s Finest Weird Guys”, in QSO Media:

(derogatory) A short man, especially a muscular one.


caro sposo

From Italian caro (“dear”) sposo (“husband”).

Yes, he's the last person breathing I should elect for my caro sposo ; the man's well enough as an acquaintance […]

1786, Frederic Pilon, He Would Be a Soldier, I.3:

A little upstart, vulgar being, with her Mr. E., and her cara^([sic]) sposo, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and under-bred finery.

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 274:

Indeed, when Katie flashes her upper thighs at her caro sposo, he regards them as one would a mystery piece of meat on a carvery buffet.

2010 May 6, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian:


LGBTIQ

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex and queer/questioning.


Latinx

en-noun

Latinx (plural Latinxs or Latinx or Latinxes)

Latinxs (plural)
Latinx (plural)
Latinxes (plural)

Spanish: latinx

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o. Reinforced by United States Spanish latinx.

-a-o-x

(which see for more)

@nmoon Looks can be deceiving, but I "see" no Latinx, several multi-racials, 3 whites 90% AfrAm. I don't see anyone who looks solely AsAmer

2008 July 26, Elisa Camahort Page, “Elisa Camahort Page on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-17:

@metalmujer @soylamar there's also a variant with an x (Latinxs, maestrxs, etc.) but not quite as popular as @

2011 April 20, Karari Kue, “Karari Kue on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-17:

@kararikue @metalmujer I would love to read more abt the variations of Latin@ Latinx send me links, working on a presentation on diversity

2011 April 21, Reina Valenzuela, “Reina Valenzuela on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-17:

Asian Latinxs … Chicanxs/Latinxs …

2015 Fall, City on a Hill Press-Primer, page 30

Exclusion mainly occurs because Latinxs are conceived by the dominant Euroamerican culture as not belonging, as perpetual “illegals.”

2016, Miguel A. De La Torre, The U.S. Immigration Crisis: Toward an Ethics of Place, page 72:

[And] there is no reason Latinxs shouldn't be the ones to fill them.

Do stars with “hyphenated identities” have a responsibility to their constituencies (for example, a Latinx star to young Latinxes)?

2019, Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelača, Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction, Routledge, →ISBN:

Her [Lucila D. Ek’s] research focuses on the bilingualism, biliteracy, and identities of Latinxes.

2019, “Author Biographies”, in Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, editors, Language and Cultural Practices in Communities and Schools: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page xiii:

Similarly, White Latinx people, who can pass in the United States as part of the dominant culture, sometimes experience pressure to not identify as Latinx or are told they are not as Latinx as brown-hued Latinxes.

2019, Grisel Y. Acosta, editor, Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity, Routledge, →ISBN:

Dr Pigozzi’s book is essential reading for professionals who want to deliver effective and equitable care for Latinx.

2020, Teddie M. Potter, “Foreword”, in Laura Maria Pigozzi, Caring for and Understanding Latinx Patients in Health Care Settings, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 10:

Seventy percent of Latinxes’ ages 5 and older speak English proficiently, yet English proficiency varies across bilingual communities in the U.S. South Americans have the largest percentage (66.8%) of children who speak English very well, while 43.1% of Mexicans and 41.0% of Central American children (ages 5 – 18 years) speak English less than well.

2020, Sheila Bridges-Bond, “A Bilingual Child Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)”, in Diane M. Scott, editor, Cases on Communication Disorders in Culturally Diverse Populations (Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies), IGI Global, →ISBN, page 92:

With the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections being decided by the electoral college rather than the popular vote, the distribution of Latinx is of prime political importance. Latinx are learning that the best defenses against xenophobic laws are U.S. citizenship and the right to vote.

2020, Edwin David Aponte, Miguel A. De La Torre, Introducing Latinx Theologies, Orbis Books, →ISBN:

The following section seeks to deepen our understanding of the heterogeneity of Latinxes.

2020, Desiree D. Zerquera, Jasmine Haywood, Martín De Mucha, “More Than Nuance: Recognizing and Serving the Diversity of the Latinx Community”, in Robert T. Teranishi, Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen, Cynthia M. Alcantar, Edward R. Curammeng, editors, Measuring Race: Why Disaggregating Data Matters for Addressing Educational Inequality (James A. Banks, editor, Multicultural Education), Teachers College Press, →ISBN, part II (Unmasking Educational Inequality Through Disaggregated Data), page 157:

Recent national elections launched millions of young people, women, working people, LGBTQIA+ people; those concerned about the environment; Blacks, Latinxes, and immigrants fighting voter suppression; and others into electoral politics, movement building, and community organizing.

2021, Nicholas Freudenberg, “From Now to Next: How to Build a Movement for Another World”, in At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 298:

GARCÍA I think that's such a great way of thinking about some of the critical issues that we're facing today as Latino/Latina/Latinxes, however you identify yourself, in the United States.

2021, Michael M. Chemers, editor, The Theatre of Luis Valdez, Routledge, →ISBN:

While Farrakhan’s body gains its meaning through relationship to the Wheel, his true “mother,” Farrakhan is connected to the meaning of black women’s bodies and to all “black” people’s bodies—black in all the colors and “races” of blackness—historically, Native Americans, Asians, Latinxes, and the people of African descent, among whom African Americans are most significant.

2022, Stephen C. Finley, In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam, Duke University Press, →ISBN:

Latinxes often view their achievements as being dependent on the outcome of others.

2022, Bryan Powell, Gareth Dylan Smith, editors, Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education: Perspectives from the Field, Intellect, →ISBN:

The handbook authors draw on their methodological expertise and demonstrate in their individual chapters how Latinx are crafting lived theologies of liberation through their words, actions, and embodied faith. […] Reimagining Christianity and its theological constructs, and proclaiming what it can be for US Latinx, as well as demonstrating what this looks like, is at the heart of all of the chapters.

2022, Kristy Nabhan-Warren, “Introduction: Una Historia de perseverancia y resiliencia pueblo (A People’s History of Perseverance and Resilience)”, in The Oxford Handbook of Latinx Christianities in the United States, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

(chiefly US, see usage notes) A Latin person (of any gender); a Latino or Latina.


LGBTQI

en-adj

LGBTQI (comparative more LGBTQI, superlative most LGBTQI)

more LGBTQI (comparative)
most LGBTQI (superlative)

(LGBTQ) Abbreviation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (or: queer), intersex.


prosexist

Prosexist symbolization was present throughout Western society; feminism used scientific knowledge & social scientific methods to criticize & explain these symbolizations.

1980, Sociological Abstracts, volume 28, page 1139:

Walzer's critigue of sexism could be be explained and justified, against a conventionalist prosexist alternative, by my account of moral explanation.

1990, Alan Gilbert, Democratic Individuality, page 154:

However, this scale was shortened to 30 items (16 prosexist and 14 antisexist statements) by Parker (1996), based on pilot work, because a small sample of Canadian university students judged 10 of the original statements to be inappropriate in the mid-1990s.

2014, Raymond F. Paloutzian, Religious Orientation and Authoritarianism in Cross-cultural Perspective, page 185:


postsexist

It's also notably different from defiantly politically incorrect humor, which revels in its flirting with racism and sexism in the name of free speech, but doesn't argue or imply that we live in a postracist or postsexist world.

2006, Lisa Jervis, BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, page 323:

In the case of Star Trek particularly, its creator, Gene Roddenberry, conceived of a series that imagined a social world that expressed ideals of a postracist, postsexist, post religious (and implicitly postcapitalist) and peaceful earth governed by a unitary government, conditions that dif not exist in Roddenberry's lifetime and do not exist today.

2012, Peter Robson, Law and Justice on the Small Screen:

And part of what grounds the possibility of the joke being presumed to be “post-sexist” or “ironic” are national identity claims about Canada being a nation of equality between the sexes (even in the face of continuing gendered inequality).

2015, Lynda Mannik, Reclaiming Canadian Bodies: Visual Media and Representation:


cryptosexist

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Much work of this kind has been appearing of late, especially made by women, so locked into formerly cryptosexist methodologies and iconographies is this art.

His other motives, whether crypto-sexist, racist, vegetarian, or whatever, need not concern us.

1994, Paul Lawrence Farber, The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics, page 151:

All things considered, however, most CMV proponents would likely borrow from Warren's critique of the logic of domination: the moral problem with humane farming, it could be argued, is that it relies upon a system of animal husbandry that remains despotic and prone to oppressive backsliding as it perpetuates speciesist hierarchy in a crypto-sexist vein.

2014, Carol J. Adams, Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth, page 153:

(rare) Covertly sexist; not obviously sexist.


supersexist

supersexist (comparative more supersexist, superlative most supersexist)

more supersexist (comparative)
most supersexist (superlative)

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Or, as U.S. welfare rights leader Johnnie Tillmon put it, welfare is “like a supersexist marriage. You trade in a man for the man” (1972).

2010, Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, The Feminization of Poverty in Rich Nations, page 15:

This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male supremacist world.

2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism:

Devaney heads back to the bedroom, and I can hear her rummaging through drawers. “I'm cold,” I say. “Plus, can I respectfully add that this is supersexist?”

2016, Cheryl Della Pietra, Gonzo Girl: A Novel, page 83:

Of, relating to extreme levels of sexism.


ultrasexist

ultrasexist (comparative more ultrasexist, superlative most ultrasexist)

more ultrasexist (comparative)
most ultrasexist (superlative)

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An ultraviolent — and ultrasexist — biker epic set for the most part in the Arizona desert, it's steeped in biker lore and southwestern mysticism, giving it the eccentricity that seems to be the exclusive province of B movies these days.

1990, The Motion Picture Guide 1990 Annual: The Films of 1989, page 49:

Malcolm's temple addresses during the 1950s particularly reveal his ultrasexist views, and many sisters in the Nation of Islam complained to Muhammad about his grossly offensive sayings against them.

1992, James H. Cone, Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare:

It is during the 1890s and 1900s that one encounters misogynist – or at any rate ultrasexist – reactions among intellectuals and, not least, emancipated intellectuals of liberal origins, which seem to express uneasiness and fear.

2014, Eric Hobsbawm, Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century:


hypersexist

hypersexist (comparative more hypersexist, superlative most hypersexist)

more hypersexist (comparative)
most hypersexist (superlative)

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Rather, Baraka could see black women only through a hypersexist, black male heterosexual gaze. His Kawaidan philosophy of life endorsed the black male domination of black women.

2001, Jerry Watts, Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual, page 240:


quasisexist

As I have argued before, the way androgynous male goths open themselves up to quasisexist and homophobic abuse through their style can be seen as a deliberate appropriation of the marginalised position assigned to women and gay men in our culture.

2007, Paul Hodkinson, Youth Cultures: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes:

I realized I could do this by cracking insensitive, sadomasochistic, exhibitionistic, quasisexist, politically incorrect, scatologically correct and genitally erect jokes.

2013, G. Sampath, How to Make Enemies and Offend People:

Here's the section women have been patiently waiting for after trudging through a swamp of quasisexist discussion.

2015, Al Bruno, Crossed Out: Our Lives without Christ:


womantic

womantic (comparative more womantic, superlative most womantic)

more womantic (comparative)
most womantic (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2013, A. Winch, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood:

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

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


double aunt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


double uncle

double uncles (plural)
double-uncle (alternative)

You can be a father as well as a double-uncle.

2008, Carl Djerassi, Sex in an Age of Technological Reproduction:

Sigmund Freud, was an uncle (actually a double uncle) of the founder of modern public relations, Edward Bernays.

2011, Jeffrey Sachs, The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity:

Paul muttered, shaking his head in annoyance. “I don't approve of this!” Bonnie guiltily lowered her head and trotted out of the room, while Jack just grinned broadly at his stepfather. “But I had to tell him he's a double-uncle,” he defended his actions. “And I have a couuuuuuuuusin!”

2012, Ina Linger, Three-Night-Stand: Love is Simple:

Fenn announced that he reckoned he would be a double uncle if Harriet would let him.

2013, Philippa Carr, Lament for a Lost Lover:

A man who is one's uncle in two different ways, e.g. a brother of one parent and a brother-in-law of the other.


chokra

At the foot of the veranda a chokra lay on his back in the sun, pulling the punkah rope with his heel and shading his face with a broad strip of banana leaf.

1934, George Orwell, chapter 21, in Burmese Days:

'Livin' is cheaper here,' he said. Back home we won't have an ayah or chokra.'

1990, Khushwant Singh, chapter 16, in Delhi, Penguin:

(India) Boy; young male servant, boy dancer, bondsman


radical feminism

en-noun

radical feminism (countable and uncountable, plural radical feminisms)

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

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

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


friend girl

friend girls (plural)
friendgirl (alternative)


pizza woman

A woman employed to deliver pizza to customers' homes.


greyfriar

greyfriars (plural)
grey friar (alternative)
grayfriar (alternative)
gray friar (alternative)
Greyfriar (alternative)
Grey Friar (alternative)
Grayfriar (alternative)
Gray Friar (alternative)

From grey + friar, from the grey habit worn by the Conventual Franciscans.

(Catholicism) Synonym of Franciscan: a member of the Order of the Friars Minor.


bra-burning

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TIP

w:Plane (Unicode)#Tertiary Ideographic Plane

(computing) Initialism of Tertiary Ideographic Plane, the fourth 65,536-codepoint plane in Unicode (from U+30000 through U+3FFFF).

Tertiary Ideographic Plane

[…] is based on a far too general assessment of the social position of TIP and Late Period priesthood. Further, it overlooks the actual historical context in which the trend of archaism emerged.

2015 November 2, László Török, The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization, BRILL, →ISBN, page 191:

Third Intermediate Period
w:Third Intermediate Period

Initialism of Third Intermediate Period.


TIP

(possibly offensive) Initialism of trans-identified person.


psychoprophylaxis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


transprejudice

Understand that transprejudice and transphobia pervade the social and cultural foundations of many institutions and traditions and foster negative attitudes, high incidence of violence/hate crimes, and overt hostility toward transgender people.

2010, Judith A. Lewis, Michael D. Lewis, Judy A. Daniels, Community Counseling: A Multicultural-Social Justice Perspective:


sworn virgin

Anila, who prefers to be called Rrok (a male name) […] displays a significant number of the attributes of the more traditional sworn virgins: male attire, short hair, assertive male gestures and a self-confident stride, but his reason for assuming the role is not traditional. […] He explains that it not only gives him freedom to wander around the village; [...]

2012, Andreas Hemming, Gentiana Kera, Enriketa Pandelejmoni, Albania: Family, Society and Culture in the 20th Century, →ISBN, page 172:

A person, assigned female at birth, who adopts a traditional masculine third-gender or transmasculine role in the Balkans, wearing masculine clothing and performing masculine tasks, and traditionally swearing a vow of chastity.

burrneshë

person who has a masculine third-gender role in the Balkans


transtrender

Blend of transgender + trender or transgender + trend.

Many of the genderqueer kids in today’s liberal America are what Charlotte Wolf calls “transtrenders,” using gender as a form of social provocation or subcultural bonding.

2015 March 23, Mark Gevisser, “Engendered”, in The Nation:

Threads on the social media giant Reddit occasionally discuss or condemn "transtrenders" […]

2017, Lee (Molly) J. Fraser, "Reblogging Gender: Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet", thesis submitted to the University of Western Ontario, page 92

These latter trans people are often accused of being "fakers." They are "transtrenders." Their trans identity is the result of social contagion, not Gender Dysphoria™.

2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, page 79:

However, these conversations often reproduce hegemonic conceptions of masculinity, perpetuating white supremacy, heterosexism, and the idea of a "transtrender" fad.

2014, National Women's Studies Association 2014 conference program, page 198

In fact, it would do a great disservice to the participants of these communities and social spaces to portray them all as teenagers, because it would contribute to the erasure of people who have been non-binary before the internet and potentially legitimize the "transtrender" panic, […]

2017, Lee (Molly) J. Fraser, "Reblogging Gender: Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet", thesis submitted to the University of Western Ontario, page 33

Whereas there is no transtrender subreddit, r/transmed and r/truscum both exist. Those who advocate for a strict interpretation of the dominant medical narrative feel comfortable to self- identify with monikers that identify them as such, whereas those who either do or are accused of flouting those medical narratives do not.

2019, Jessica Rae Fisher, "Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions Of The Transgender Body In The 21st Century", thesis submitted to Kennesaw State University (May 2019), page 64

(slang, derogatory) A person who affects a transgender or non-binary gender identity for perceived social benefit.


town bike

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Chicanx

Spanish: chicanx

/t͡ʃɪˈkæŋks/

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.

Coordinate term: Latinx

2015 December, Hasta Mas alla De Los Gritos, page 4: It was seen as negative until Chicanxs took it back.

In California, Chicanxs/Latinxs high school graduares are rising …

2015 Fall, City on a Hill Press-Primer, page 30

(neologism) A Chicano or Chicana (of any gender).


jariya

jariyat (plural)
jawari (plural)
cariye (alternative)


anarchist feminist

anarchist feminist (plural anarchist feminists)


second aunt

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


anarcha-feministic

en-adj

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

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

Of or relating to anarcha-feminism or feminist anarchy.


boobfeeder

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

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

(see title)

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

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

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

(slang, rare, derogatory) A breastfeeder.


ahiya

tlb

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial)

(familiar) respectful term of address for a young male senior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)


milk-bar cowboy

en-noun

milk-bar cowboy (plural milk-bar cowboys)

(New Zealand, historical) A member of the bodgie subculture who rode a motorcycle.


neife

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

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


womyn's land

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

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

A feminist commune inhabited only by women.


bhikkhuni

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

Coordinate term: bhikkhu


telephone girl

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

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

(telephony, dated) A female telephone operator.


pangendered

If a pre op transsexual, a post op transsexual, a butch lesbian, and a person who identifies as pangendered are all kicked out of the same washroom on the same day because a non-trans woman has complained to security that there are men in the washroom, should all of them be able to file a human rights complaint?

1999, Allison Cope, Trans Accessibility Project: Making Women's Shelters Accessible to Transgendered Women:

In an effort to make the case for Nixon's womanhood, her council erases any idea of gender identity as fluid, the existence of intersex individuals as well as the realities of pangendered individuals (those that move back and forth or along a gender continuum throughout their lives).

2006, Krista Scott-Dixon, Trans/forming Feminisms: Trans/feminist Voices Speak Out, →ISBN, page 187:

"But I did!" Manda said, pushing her way past her pangendered partner in crime.

2007, Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings: A Novel, page 59:

What if truth is a woman no longer, but a trans woman, an androgyne, pangendered— even all of these and more: “genderqueer,” a catch-all phrase for everything not status quo?

2015, A. Brunneis, The Boulevards of Extinction, →ISBN, page 235:

The seeming contradictions of conventional gender roles disappear if we regard vampirism as a “pangendered construct in which traditional male and female genders are combined to form a whole.

2016, Tom Pollard, Loving Vampires: Our Undead Obsession, →ISBN, page 62:

Having or pertaining to mixed or fluid gender identity that encompasses aspects of all genders.


stepmommy

(informal, childish and diminutive) stepmother


rotten egg

Or because they themselves experience gender dysphoria but have gone down the rotten egg path.

2021 August 14, Violent_Violette, “Is gender dysphoria an exclusively trans experience?”, in Reddit, asktransgender, archived from the original on 2022-09-26:

(chiefly transgender slang) An egg (“closeted transgender person”) who overcompensates by being actively transphobic.


biogender

But those analyses don't ask whether it is easier to be trans than to be in a perceived bio-gender, that is, a gender that seems to “follow” from natal sex.

2006, Judith Butler, “Undiagnosing Gender”, in Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Price Minter, editors, Transgender Rights, unnumbered page:

In order that the trans-individual's preferred gender is visible, their bio-gender or gender-diversity must, to a certain extent, be invisible.

2010, Sally Hines, “Recognising Diversity: The Gender Recognition Act and Transgender Citizenship”, in Sally Hines, Tam Sanger, editors, Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity, page 130:

Gender expression is a central theme, and all four trans children displayed indicators or signifiers that were in line with gender-nonconforming behavior early on in their lives, so much so that the parents were able to recognize that their child was not behaving in a manner congruent with their biogender.

2017, Cecillia Barron, Moshoula Capous-Desyllas, “Transgressing the Gendered Norms in Childhood: Understanding Transgender Children and Their Families”, in Journal of GLBT Family Studies, volume 13:


Dworkinism

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

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

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

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


gynophobe

gynophobes (plural)
gynephobe (alternative)


brakewoman

(sports) A female brakeman in bobsleigh.


yakshini

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

bor

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

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


camboy

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A boy or man who publishes webcam photographs or videos of himself.


gender ideology

en-noun

gender ideology (countable and uncountable, plural gender ideologies)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


goodsire

From good + sire; compare Scots guidsire.


postcoital test

postcoital test (plural postcoital tests)

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


Sims test

From Marion Sims, American physician and surgeon.


effeminist

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

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

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


third-wave feminist

third-wave feminist (plural third-wave feminists)

third-wave feminists (plural)
third wave feminist (alternative)


bioman

From bio- + man, short for biological man.


FAAB

The options for "I'm looking for" are still limited to "women," "men," and "everybody." Shit's not helpful when I'm looking for a FAAB transmasculine cutie to smooch and/or fix my broken dresser drawer.

2015 March 4, Mariella Mosthof, “Which Dating App Is The Most Queer-Friendly? I Tried Everything From Tinder To Dattch And Found A Clear Winner”, in Bustle:

(LGBTQ) Initialism of female assigned at birth.


FAAB

What I mean is that as a FAAB, I have survived sexual abuse and violence, I've walked past abortion protestors outside of a clinic on the way to get my own termination, people still want to make laws in this country telling me what to do with my body.

2016 January 5, Nora Singh, “Meet Hit Bargain, the LA Queencore Band That Stands on Men's Faces”, in Vice:


MAAB

I am a FAAB (female-assigned-at-birth) genderqueer, and I have a good friend who is a MAAB (male-assigned-at-birth) genderqueer.

2013, Joe MacDonald, An Autoethnography of Queer Transmasculine Femme Incoherence and The Ethics of Trans Research, Emerald Group, page 145:

(LGBTQ) Initialism of male assigned at birth.


transactivism

In addition, some early readers have come away with the conviction that in-your-face picketing-style transactivism originated with the Menace.

1997, Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, page 14:

In retrospect, there’s no doubt this was a turning point for transactivism. It was the first really visible national demonstration we ever pulled off.

2003, anonymous, quoted in Patrick Califia, Sex Changes: Transgender Politics, page 232

This is a human rights orientated organisation and it carves out completely different discursive space when compared to US transactivism.

2005, Kate O'Riordan, “Transgender activism and the net: global activism or casualty of globalisation”, in Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw, Neil Stammers, editors, Global Activism, Global Media, page 186:

Activism in support of transgender people and issues relevant to them, such as ending discrimination, violence, and prejudice.


HSTS

Coordinate term: AGP

I was being flip with the dinner-date suggestion. And my age would surely provoke some discussion relative to the HSTS and AG thing which I'd rather not go into.

2004 June 30, Valerie, “Re: New Girl in Town”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet), retrieved 2021-11-10:

HSTS start out as homosexual, gender variant, not very well adjusted or socially and sexually successful boys, and hopefully end up as heterosexual, gender normative, well adjusted and socially acceptable girls.

2004, S. Alejandra Velasquez, Alex Parkinson, Inoue, "Gogo" Yee, Kiira Triea, “Questions about transsexuality”, in TransKids.us, archived from the original on 2004-12-23:

A downside to being an HSTS transsexual is that quite often, the only frame of reference you have for what to means to be an HSTS is yourself.

2018 May 1, Rod Fleming, “Body-type clustering in HSTS and AGP groups”, in Rod Fleming's World:

If this is true, I believe the following: HSTS are not the opposite natal sex in any way, nor do they have opposite-sexed brains.

2020, “Stance on Gender Transition”, in Female Sexual Inversion, archived from the original on 2021-10-03:

homosexual transsexual
homosexual transsexual#English


cart tart

(colloquial, derogatory) A female flight attendant.


desister

Coordinate term: detransitioner

A person who ceases to identify as transgender and who did not undergo a physical sex change operation.


political lesbianism

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


political lesbian

political lesbian (plural political lesbians)

political lesbianism
political lesbianism

A proponent or practitioner of political lesbianism.


ride the cotton pony

en-verb

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

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

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


autogynephile

/ˌɔː.təʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfaɪl/

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

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

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

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

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

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


manbashing

(derogatory, slang) Overt prejudice against men.


Shirtgate

The backfiring of Shirtgate created a temporary pause in the Big Panic, and revealed a basic truth. Most people appeared to have no objection to the kinds of expression that were now being presented as sexist.

2016, Jerry Barnett, Porn Panic!: Sex and Censorship in the UK:

(informal) A 2014 controversy in which a shirt worn by scientist Matt Taylor at an informal interview associated with the European Space Agency landing of a probe on a comet was branded sexist by some viewers on social media.


Twirlgate

(informal) A 2015 controversy in which a male television presenter asked tennis player Eugenie Bouchard to give a twirl, perceived as sexist by some viewers.


Pussygate

From pussy + -gate, in reference to Trump's remark that "when you're a star, they [women] let you do it, you can do anything... grab them by the pussy".

(informal, vulgar) A controversy in 2016 regarding a lewd recorded conversation between politician Donald Trump and Billy Bush on the subject of women.


amblosis

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

miscarriage (the spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy)


amblotic

Causing or relating to amblosis; abortifacient.


Cinderella complex

en-noun

Cinderella complex (plural Cinderella complexes)

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

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


women are wonderful effect

the women are wonderful effect (canonical)

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


legong

From Dutch legong, from Balinese legong.

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


two set

(seduction community) Two women who are out together socially, and one of whom the pickup artist wishes to isolate and seduce.


First Daughter

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

First Family

the immediate family of the chief executive of a state

First Gentleman

husband of the chief executive of a state


rabbit test

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


double day

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


double burden

The extended workload of a person who works double days.


NVP

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


great-grandaunt

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


godwoman

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


cockocracy

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chili queen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


lady's maid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Zephyrette

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

der

The Zephyrette then takes the reservations of the Pullman passengers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A lightweight print fabric used for women's dresses.


SWERF

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

acronym

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Mizoran

en-adj

Mizoran (comparative more Mizoran, superlative most Mizoran)

more Mizoran (comparative)
most Mizoran (superlative)

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


anti-antifeminist

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

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


purplewashing

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

Epilogue: from Islamophobia to purplewashing.

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

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

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

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

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

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


ecofeministic

ecofeministic (comparative more ecofeministic, superlative most ecofeministic)

more ecofeministic (comparative)
most ecofeministic (superlative)


transyouth

en-noun

transyouth (countable and uncountable, plural transyouths or transyouth)

transyouths (plural)
transyouth (plural)
trans-youth (alternative)
trans youth (alternative)

Because of much of the validation the transyouth have experienced through the Internet and small group discussions, they are arriving on campuses with less trepidation and fear; instead, announcing, "here I am, I need services: housing, […]

2004, Yolanda C. Padilla, Gay and Lesbian Rights Organizing:

In addition, since many policies intent on helping address sexism have replicated a binary gender divide, transyouth and other gender nonconforming youth may face difficulties that go beyond policies intent on protecting women from bias.

2014, Cris Mayo, LGBTQ Youth and Education:

(uncountable) Transgender or transsexual youths, collectively.


trans-exclusionary

en-adj

trans-exclusionary (comparative more trans-exclusionary, superlative most trans-exclusionary)

more trans-exclusionary (comparative)
most trans-exclusionary (superlative)
transexclusionary (alternative)
trans exclusionary (alternative)

Excluding trans people (especially trans women).


wombman

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


volcel

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Blend of voluntary + celibate by analogy with incel; also voluntary + -cel.

All of these subsets have a shared loathing of “volcels,” otherwise known as voluntary celibates.

2018 October 30, Judah Weinerman, “Meet incels, the internet's resident anti-women hate brigades”, in The Justice, Brandeis University, page 11:

If you are good-looking, or not ugly enough, you are a volcel, a voluntary celibate.

2019, Thea Høiland, "Incels and the stories they tell: A narrative analysis of Incels’ shared stories on Reddit", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 89

One commenter explained he was “a tiny bit of a volcel” since he did not like women from his country because of their personalities.

2020, December Maxwell, Sarah R. Robinson, Jessica R. Williams, Craig Keaton, “'A Short Story of a Lonely Guy': A Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Involuntary Celibacy Using Reddit”, in Sexuality & Culture:

(neologism) A person who is voluntarily celibate, i.e., who chooses to avoid sexual activity with other people.


drama king

(idiomatic, informal, derogatory) An overly or exaggeratedly dramatic person, especially a man or a boy.


WOC

the contributions of WOC to the development of rock and roll

Initialism of woman of color or women of color.


AWALT

Coordinate term: NAMALT

I'm from Russia. It's not better there than it is anywhere else... . stop thinking different places are better about women or whatnot. You're forgetting the single most important rule. AWALT [All Women Are Like That].

2019, "CzarCronik", quoted in Amanda DiGioia, Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis, unnumbered page

In expressing any attitude beyond the “it’s over” narrative, or refusing to believe AWALT, the incel is denoted as “coping”, a negatively charged label indicating that you have yet to completely swallow the blackpill, and are therefore naïve and “low IQ”.

2020, Katrine Rummelhoff, "Incels and Misogyny; what’s so appealing about hatred?", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, pages 59-60

Personal stories about unhappy relationships, cheating partners and manipulative ex-wives were often described in detail, usually to illustrate AWALT and serve as the basis for the MGTOW lifestyle.

2020, Scott Wright, Verity Trott, Callum Jones, “‘The pussy ain’t worth it, bro’: assessing the discourse and structure of MGTOW”, in Information, Communication & Society, volume 23:

(manosphere slang) Initialism of all women are like that.


red piller

red pillers (plural)
Red Piller (alternative)

The so-called "red pillers" believe that society favors women over men, disenfranchising them and leaving them subject to laws and societal rules they feel are unjust to their gender.

2015 June 16, Trijcomm, “Men's rights fanatics defend Iowa mall shooter fired for sexual harassment: It's 'hard to blame him'”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

The red pill – while hinting that Simpson might become Nuke in the Marvel universe – seems in this context to function also as an obvious reference to “red pillers”, men’s rights activists who see themselves as proud anti-feminists interested in dominance, traditional gender roles, and the subjugation of women, whose flaws make that subjugation necessary.

2015 November 27, Lili Loofbourow, “Jessica Jones: shattering exploration of rape, addiction and control”, in The Guardian:

Instead "red pillers" believe in a shared delusional system in which "Feminazis" and "Social Justice Warriors" have taken over the world.

2015 December 30, Damian Walter, “Geek male identity has been reduced to Kylo Ren thrashing a computer with his sword - this needs to change”, in The Independent:

Its members often refer to themselves as “red pillers,” a reference to the Matrix scene in which Keanu Reeve’s character has the choice between taking a blue pill that will keep him in a fantasy world or a red pill that will thrust him into reality.

2016 December 26, Angelina Chapin, “Chapin: Why it’s impossible to reason with the alt-right”, in Ottawa Citizen:

Those requirements are apparently daunting to “red pillers.”

2017 April 30, Sarah Palermo, “My Turn: In defense of the f-word – how feminism aims to benefit everyone”, in Concord Monitor:

(Internet slang) One who believes that society is gynocentric.


old dear

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

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

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


detransitioner

Coordinate term: desister

Detransitioners will need to be aware that 'reverse' genital surgery is not likely to be as successful as their original surgery because there will be less tissue to work with.

2019, Jennie Kermode, Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary People with Disabilities or Illnesses, page 72:

In 2021 she spoke out in favor of approaching gender dysphoria in a more considered way, urging others in the field to pay attention to detransitioners, people who no longer consider themselves transgender after undergoing medical or surgical interventions.

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


cis lesbian

cis lesbians (plural)
cislesbian (alternative)

A cis woman who is a lesbian (that is, who is attracted to women).


woman of the world

en-noun

woman of the world (plural women of the world)

man of the world
man of the world#English

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


Radium Girl

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


dadaji

(India) father's father; paternal grandfather


nanaji

(India) mother's father; maternal grandfather


manospherian

neo colonialists,
meatheads,
juicers,
manospherians
and all the rest.

2016, Brandon Adamson, “The Swinging Nationalist”, in Beatnik Fascism, page 41:

Like Donovan, many manospherians invoke evolutionary psychology to bolster claims that traditional gender roles are inherent in human nature, and many of them emphasize male bonding as a key part of reasserting men's power.

2019, Matthew N. Lyons, “Jack Donovan and Male Tribalism”, in Mark Sedgwick, editor, Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy, page 249:

Framing femininity in terms of immaturity and dependence is one of the characteristics of the manospherian discourse (Lilly, 2016).

2019, Zhané Hunte, "'Female Nature, Cucks, and Simps': Understanding Men Going Their Own Way as part of the Manosphere", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 24

(Internet slang, neologism, sometimes used attributively) One who participates in online communities associated with the manosphere.


grandmistress

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

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


Dworkinite

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