SDL

(seduction community) Initialism of same day lay.


shit test

shit tests (plural)
shittest (alternative)
shit-test (alternative)

Coleman left and Passow texted him an apology, the Intercept reported. In reply, Coleman said that he was only warming up the car, and added, "I'm sorry baby I failed your shit test."

2020 August 26, Carter Sherman, “Teen Democratic Candidate Aaron Coleman Accused of Choking His Girlfriend”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-05-27:

(seduction community, vulgar) A conscious or unconscious challenge posed by a woman to a man to determine his suitability as a romantic or sexual partner, consisting in acting in a cold, unfriendly, provocative or otherwise defiant manner, and seeing how the man reacts and whether he is able to stay unfazed.


shit test

en-verb

shit test (third-person singular simple present shit tests, present participle shit testing, simple past and past participle shit tested)

shit tests (present singular third-person)
shit testing (participle present)
shit tested (participle past)
shit tested (past)
shittest (alternative)
shit-test (alternative)

This all started because the American accused me of "shit testing" him. I had no idea what he meant so I Googled it, and spent an afternoon in silent wonder.

2014 December 13, Stella Grey, “Online dating: wandering into the manosphere”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-24:

(transitive, seduction community, vulgar) To target with a shit test.


mansplaining

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


girlzine

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

2000, Benjamin DeMott, Killer woman blues:

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

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

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

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

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


gender reassignment

en-noun

gender reassignment (countable and uncountable, plural gender reassignments)

The process of changing one's sex, usually by a combination of medicinal and surgical means; sex change.


sexual politics

"We're making a movie, not an issue," said Michael Douglas, a star of Disclosure, the adaptation of the Michael Crichton suspense thriller about corporate intrigue and sexual politics, which will open on Friday. "It's really about the use of harassment as a tool for power."

1994 December 6, Bernard Weinraub, “A Man. A Woman. Just a Movie. Not a Polemic.”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2010-11-11:

The gender-based motivations and behavioral tactics present in the interactions between men and women, especially as involving manipulation and rivalry for power.


ironmongeress

ironmongeresses (plural)
ironmongress (alternative)


proprietrix

proprietrix (plural proprietrixes or proprietrices)

proprietrixes (plural)
proprietrices (plural)


GID

GID (countable and uncountable, plural GIDs)

gender identity disorder
gender identity disorder#English

(psychology, uncountable) Initialism of gender identity disorder.


maledom

maledom (countable and uncountable, plural maledoms)

From male + dom, short for domination or dominance.

(BDSM, uncountable) Male domination; a sexual practice in which men dominate women or other people.


procidentia

(medicine) Prolapse, especially of the uterus.


misbirth

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


bra burner

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

(derogatory, slang) A strident feminist.


weaker sex

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

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

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

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

(now offensive) Women; the female gender.


dickfest

I gather a group of young lions to explore the same topics—a “dickfest,” I suppose Kate would call it.

2000, Michael Segell, Standup Guy: Manhood After Feminism, Chapter "The Bitchfest":

(informal, vulgar) An event where the majority (or all) of the people are male.


foster father

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


foster mother

foster mothers (plural)
fostermother (alternative)

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

mendeshë

adult female who cares for a foster child


aftercoming

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

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

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

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


cis man

cis men (plural)
cis-man (alternative)
cisman (alternative)

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

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


cis woman

cis women (plural)
cis-woman (alternative)
ciswoman (alternative)

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cis person

cis person (plural cis persons or cis people)

cis persons (plural)
cis people (plural)
cisperson (alternative)

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A cisgender/cissexual person: one whose gender matches his or her assigned sex.


genetic girl

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

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

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


hormone replacement therapy

hormone replacement therapy (countable and uncountable, plural hormone replacement therapies)

Trans women often undergo hormone replacement therapy using estrogens and antiandrogens.

Elderly women can use estrogenic hormone replacement therapy to alleviate postmenopausal symptoms.

(medicine, especially serotherapy) Any of several medical regimens that introduce sex hormones to the body to replace lost or unavailable ones.

bio-identical hormone replacement therapy


queer studies

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


featherwood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


menstruator

menstruators (plural)
menstruater (alternative)

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

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

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

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


scream queen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

кралица на ужаса

actress who appears in several horror movies


doctrix

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1603, A Treatise of Three Conversions, page 11:

Alice driuer, a famous Doctrice, Nouember 22.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


meido

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

uder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


nonbreastfeeding

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victrix

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


victrice

From Middle English victrice, from Latin victrīx.

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

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


radfem

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A radical feminist.


queenie

He looks like Eddie Izzard gone too far and sounds a little like Rod Steiger's queenie turn in No Way to Treat a Lady.

(colloquial) An effeminate man; a male homosexual (especially as a term of address).


multip

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


nulliparity

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

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

Never having completed a pregnancy beyond 20 weeks.


en femme

From the French phrase en femme, as in s’habille en femme. Compare the (English) femme.

Most of them also “love to shop”—especially en femme[.]

2002 July, Jane E. Hegland, Nancy J. Nelson, Cross-Dressers in Cyber-Space: Exploring the Internet as a Tool for Expressing Gendered Identity, in the International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, volume 7, issues 2–3, pages 139–161

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


wardrobe mistress

en-noun

wardrobe mistress (plural wardrobe mistresses)

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

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

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

costumière

a woman in charge of maintaining a theatrical wardrobe


unfeminist

en-adj

unfeminist (comparative more unfeminist, superlative most unfeminist)

more unfeminist (comparative)
most unfeminist (superlative)

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

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


genderlect

From gender + -lect. Coined by American linguist Wayne Dickerson in 1974.

coinage

The men who interact with Tenar, including men who speak in the Old Speech, use a genderlect that shows their dominance and superiority.

2001, Laura B. Comoletti, Michael D. C. Drout, “How They Do Things with Words: Language, Power, Gender, and the Priestly Wizards of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Books”, in Children's Literature, volume 29, →DOI, page 125:

Hiatt has no doubt about the existence of a distinct 'feminine style' or genderlect and even offers a theory of how it arose, which is that the male world of action 'emphasizes events and decisions rather than perceptive observations of people'.

2002, Harold Love, “Gender and authorship”, in Attributing Authorship: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 119:

The purpose of genderlect theory is to understand the language used by men and women. The first study in genderlect theory is exploring how gender-language patterns are always limiting between women and men. Further research begins with a focus on how different gender language patterns are used by women and men in both written and spoken results.

2017 September, Tatik Irawati, “Analysis of Genderlect Style in Pygmalion”, in Journal of English Education, Lingusitics, and Literature, volume 4, number 1, page 19:

A dialect associated with a particular gender.


postpregnancy

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

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


commanderess

commanderesses (plural)
commandress (alternative)

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

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


kept man

The kept man—in and out of marriage—is quite a feature of life in our chaste little village.

1917, David Graham Phillips, chapter 17, in Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:

A strapping Italian hunk, he becomes the rich actress's kept man, uses her money to start himself in business.

1984 November 19, Richard Zoglin, “Video: Small World”, in Time:


laminaria

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


good-time girl

good-time girls (plural)
goodtime girl (alternative)
good time girl (alternative)

Coordinate term: john

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

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

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

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

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

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


masculist

en-adj

masculist (comparative more masculist, superlative most masculist)

more masculist (comparative)
most masculist (superlative)

From mascul(ine) + -ist, as opposed to feminist.


child bride

child brides (plural)
child-bride (alternative)
childbride (alternative)

Coordinate term: child groom

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

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

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

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

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

1993 Alixa Naf, Becoming American, page 142

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

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

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


trans male

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


Butlerian

Butlerian (comparative more Butlerian, superlative most Butlerian)

more Butlerian (comparative)
most Butlerian (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


fishwoman

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

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:


fœticide

en-noun

fœticide (countable and uncountable, plural fœticides)


transvest

en-verb

transvest (third-person singular simple present transvests, present participle transvesting, simple past and past participle transvested)

transvests (present singular third-person)
transvesting (participle present)
transvested (participle past)
transvested (past)

[…] both their gender role and their gender status must have been so distinctively androgynous that they probably did not transvest.

2010, Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures:

(uncommon, formal) To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.


jimmy hat

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

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

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

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


bridesman

bridesmen (plural)
brideman (alternative)
bride's-man (alternative)
best maid (alternative)

From bride + -s- + man, by alteration of earlier brideman; compare bridesmaid.

She might be renting a tux, however, as she is willing to have a bridesman.

2008 June 26, Katie Zezima, “Bride-to-Be Takes a Chance on eBay for a Bidding Bridesmaid”, in New York Times:

A male bridesmaid; a man who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the wedding party.


ambigendered

Mr. Cumming’s Dionysus in “The Bacchae” is conceived as a rock star, the rhythm-and-blues Maenads as his backup singers and groupies, and his feud with his cousin Pentheus, king of Thebes, as an encounter of the hedonistic, ambigendered, exotic Other, with “the fear of letting that into your culture,” Mr. Tiffany said.

2008 June 29, Celia Mcgee, “The Greeks Hoist the Dramatic Flag of Scotland”, in New York Times:


drospirenone

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

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

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


phallocracy

en-noun

phallocracy (countable and uncountable, plural phallocracies)

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

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


bloody show

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


birthfather

birthfathers (plural)
birth father (alternative)

The biological father of an adopted child.


stepmama

stepmamas (plural)
stepmamma (alternative)


stepmamma

stepmammas (plural)
stepmama (alternative)


be born

head

be born (highly irregular; see conjugation table)

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queen regnant

queens regnant (plural)
queen regnante (alternative)

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


grande dame

/ˌɡɹɒ̃ ˈdɑːm/

/ˌɡɹɑnd ˈdɑm/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

arvokas rouva

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

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

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

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

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


nevvy

nevvies (plural)
nevey (alternative)
nevvie (alternative)
neffy (alternative)
nevy (alternative)

What signifies your sisters’ bits o’ money when they’ve got half-a-dozen nevvies and nieces to divide it among?

1860, George Eliot, chapter VI, in The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons:


actoress

(nonstandard) Alternative form of actress


salesboy

I said hello to the skinny, sweet-faced salesboys and did a preliminary tour of the room trying on jackets and blazers.

2009 October 1, Mike Albo, “Neighborhood Preservation”, in New York Times:

A boy who sells goods in a retail establishment; a young salesman.


pavement princess

en-noun

pavement princess (plural pavement princesses)

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

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

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

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

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


mixed-sex

a mixed-sex school


blackboy

blackboys (plural)
black boy (alternative)

From black + boy. For sense (plant of genus Xanthorrhoea): from a supposed resemblance of the plant to an Aboriginal boy holding an upright spear.

As with many things, the pioneers followed the natives in the use of the Blackboy. They also found that the gum possessed some property that will cure dysentery and other internal complaints. The gum was also used for dyeing, tanning and varnishing.

1966 November 8, Parliament of Western Australia, Parliamentary Debates, page 2181,
The gum from the blackboy trees was used for the making of varnish and stain, […]

1977, Royal Society of Western Australia, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, Volumes 60-61, page 5,
As with any fire, blackboys and sedges were the first to grow, little else appearing before the first rains, which were followed by a flush of herbaceous shoots.

(Australia, informal) Any plant in the genus Xanthorrhoea, native to Australia.


character actress

character actress (plural character actresses)


fetus fetishist

fetus fetishist (plural fetus fetishists)

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

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

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

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

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


zirself

head

zirself (the third person singular, gender-neutral, personal pronoun)

en-pron

2002, Louise, “Anyone want to introduce zirself before APC9?”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):

I'm trying to point out that his 'help' would be seriously damaging to a person who lacks the ability to fix zirself through a sheer act of will.

2002, Lorremiddy, “Today is a great day.”, in soc.singles.moderated (Usenet):

This is the pronoun that Carter uses to describe zirself.

2007, Sherryl Vint, Bodies of tomorrow: technology, subjectivity, science fiction, page 213:

"End," zie said to zirself. Recalling the dream's authors, zie thought, At least they can still have them... Zie couldn't imagine a single thing.

2007, Colette Phair, Nightmare in Silicon: A Novel:

(reflexive pronoun, nonstandard) Zir; the gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.


t-girl

Some of them are unaware that t-girls are often heterosexual, and the idea that a genetic woman would enjoy being with a t-girl usually tickles them pink.

2003, Helen Boyd, My husband Betty: love, sex, and life with a crossdresser, page 211:

Sex play with a t-girl is fun. It's like sex play with a sexy girl, except for that extra penis and a tendency to be more uninhibited than it usually is with your average non-t-girl.

2008, Lannie Rose, How To Change Your Sex, page 42:


trans person

en-noun

trans person (plural trans persons or trans people)

trans persons (plural)
trans people (plural)
transperson (alternative)

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Perhaps the most surprising and controversial issue to emerge was that of "transpeople." Transpeople, as defined by the highly articulate Houston based Transpeople Caucus are "transexuals, transgenderists, transvestites, drag queens, and female impersonators." Phyllis Frye, a transgenderist from Houston, in fact opened the welcoming Friday night session. The original motion made by this caucus called for, "the term Gay Transpeople to be included in all statements...The demands as well as policy and media coverage." They also called for the changing of the name of the March to read "Lesbians, Gay Males and Gay Transpeople’s March on Washington."

1979 September/October, “The March Is On!”, in The Lesbian Tide, volume 9, number 2, Los Angeles: Tide Publications, page 12, column 3:


TG girl

TG girls (plural)
TG-girl (alternative)
tg-girl (alternative)

/ˈtiːˈdʒiːˌɡɜːl/

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


trans woman

trans women (plural)
transwoman (alternative)
trans-woman (alternative)
trans womyn (alternative)

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

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

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

wrgrn

person assigned male at birth who lives as a woman


trans man

trans men (plural)
transman (alternative)
trans-man (alternative)

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A transgender or transsexual man, i.e., a man who was assigned female at birth.

体は女 心は男

からだはおんな こころはおとこ

(derogatory, offensive, proscribed) A transgender or transsexual woman, i.e., a woman who was assigned male at birth.


trans guy

trans guys (plural)
transguy (alternative)

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


profeminism

profeminism (countable and uncountable, plural profeminisms)

profeminisms (plural)
pro-feminism (alternative)


kathoey

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A transgender person or person of a third gender assigned male at birth.

泰國人妖 /泰国人妖

in Thailand, a transgender person or person of a third gender assigned male at birth, or a feminine gay man — see also ladyboy


up the kyte

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

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


TS girl

...and the sixteen year-old French TS girl I saw on TV probably twenty-five years ago, whose peasant parents treated her like just another one of their daughters.

2003, Erica Zander, TransActions, Periskop, published 2003, →ISBN, page 203:

There was a pause. For a moment I thought she had left the computer. But then she started typing again. She wanted to know if I knew she was a TS girl. A TS girl? What on earth was a TS girl?

2007, Stuart Cooke, "One Night with Chinta", Meanjin, Volume 66 (No.1), March 2007

I've also known TS girls that lacked the adequate training or job skills needed to perform as a woman, or to attain the degree or status of transition they seek merely because they can't pass or find meaningful employment in their chosen gender.

2009, Shannon Leigh O'Shea, Blue Life…Pink Heart: What It's Like Being the Pink Sheep of the Family, The Mystery Girls Publishing, published 2009, →ISBN, page 260:

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

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


doctoress

doctoresses (plural)
doctress (alternative)


womon

From woman; respelled so as not to contain man.

Womon seeks womon to share 2 bdrm apt in JP.

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

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

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

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

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

(nonstandard) Feminist spelling of woman


perself

per (from person) + -self (like himself, herself, etc.)

Per injured perself.

I can't comment on the original poster's motivations, but I do know that some agencies (mine, for instance) will not release any information until the adoptee is 18, and then the adoptee perself has to request the information.

1996 February 22, Susan Groppi, “These messages make me so sad...”, in alt.adoption (Usenet):

My hit on the comment was that she was saying that a person on a newsgroup could choose *not* to publicly identify as a member of a visually identifiable minority which is subject to oppression, and therefore spend some time not having to have such oppression directed at perself as an individual (although obviously such a person would still be subject to "ist" postings which aim at the oppressed group in general).

The person who called perself a dom, but then breached a safeword or did something similarly non-consensual.

1997 April 22, Anthony and Joy Hilbert, “ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):

(reflexive, rare, nonstandard) Per, themself; gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of per.


eirs

From eir + 's, or by removing th from theirs.

(rare, nonstandard) That which belongs to em, possessive case of gender-neutral ey or e, equivalent to the singular theirs and coordinate with his and hers.


emself

head

emself (a reflexive, third person gender-neutral singular personal pronoun)

en-pron

From em + -self, or by removing "th" from themself (cf. also 'emself, 'emselves).

Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey wouldn't clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And if ey should trip up in the new usage, ey would only have emself to blame.

1975 August 23, Judie Black, “Ey has a word for it”, in Chicago Tribune, section 1, page 12:

In this particular instance, a wizard eventually took it upon emself to @toad Mr_Bungle...

2003, Elizabeth Hess, Yib's Guide to MOOing: Getting the Most from Virtual Communities on the Internet, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, →OL, page 233:

The adult worries much less; is cautious, sensible and knows how to protect emself and eir system from attack and error.

2004 March 31, Sue Thomas, Hello World : travels in virtuality, Raw Nerve Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 78:

As he^([sic]) struggled to yank Sarah back to eir room, Edward promised emself that ey'd do whatever ey could to save what was left of eir sibling's sanity- and protect em from their monster of a mother.

2007, Morgan O'Friel, Larkenia's Flaws: Volume 1, Grand Rapids: TheSpindle, →ISBN, page 136:

(rare, reflexive, nonstandard) Em, a gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of em, equivalent to themself (also used for emphasis).


eirself

From eir + -self, in pattern of hisself and herself (construed as formed from adjectival her), or by dropping th from theirself.

In practical terms, the sensei needs to teach some stretching in order to protect eir students from injury and eirself from liability.

1999 July 23, Allover Stripes, “looking for a style”, in rec.martial-arts.moderated (Usenet):

Finished with spiritual cleaning, Eir hunger satisfied, Sereah took a quick sonic shower and prepared Eirself for the formal dinner. E wasn't yet used to Eir red command uniform.

1999 November 30, excalibor, “USS TITANIA: Preparations for dinner...”, in alt.starfleet.rpg (Usenet):

(reflexive, rare, nonstandard) A gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, equivalent to themself and coordinate with himself or herself.


coself

Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...]

At the very least, an individual might have to use different terms to describe coself in a heterosexual context than co uses in a sexual minority context [...]

1996, Brett Beemyn, Mickey Elianon, Queer studies: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology, page 74:

A youngster of my own introduction had been rejected by an object of preadolescent craving and had killed coself by leaping at the ceiling of co's quarters.

2004 April 1, Pieira dos Lobos, “Fern's Story two”, in alt.magick.serious (Usenet):

(reflexive, nonstandard) Gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, grammatically equivalent to himself or herself.


co's

Whether or not an individual changes co’s location on the sexual landscape, the sexual landscape itself might change, [...]

1996, Brett Beemyn, Mickey Elianon, Queer studies: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology, page 70:

A youngster of my own introduction had been rejected by an object of preadolescent craving and had killed coself by leaping at the ceiling of co’s quarters.

(nonstandard) Belonging to co. Gender-neutral possessive adjective, grammatically equivalent to the gendered his and her and the singular their.


macho man

Call him Mister Ego, dig his chains / You can best believe that he's a macho man

1978, “Macho Man”, performed by Village People:

You better run, you better do what you can / Don’t wanna see no blood, don’t be a macho man

1982, Michael Jackson (lyrics and music), “Beat It”, in Thriller:

The young Machoman in summer makes a beautiful sighting — bare chested, hat sparkling in the sun.

1984, Julia Runk Jones, Milo Trump, Livingston's Field Guide to North American Males:

A hypermasculine, sexually attractive, virile man.


thonself

Each of the members is expected to inform ‘thonself’ on the topic thus allotted, and to be prepared to give an opinion or ask questions.

1885 June, “Local Circles”, in The Chataquan, volume 5, number 9, page 544:

Every student should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively correlate the facts of thons knowledge.

1895, Henry Graham Williams, Outlines of Psychology, 3rd edition, Syracuse: C. W. Bardee, →OL, LCC BF141.W72, page 5:

Thus neither man nor maid mates for thonself, but both love and move in the tribal interests and along the lines laid down by the tribal leaders.

1898, W. J. McGee, “The Seri Indians”, in J. W. Powell, editor, Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1895-1896, Washington, page 283:

Maybe I don't speak for the average American, but I very much doubt that thon wants that word in thons language or that thon would use it thonself.

1985, William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction, 3rd edition, New York: Harper & Row, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PE1429.Z5 1985, page 121:

(archaic, nonstandard) themself; gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, coordinate with himself or herself, the reflexive form of thon.


post-op

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(LGBTQ) A postoperative trans man or trans woman.


blushing bride

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

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

2009, Benjamin Gilton, The Missing Dinner Guests:

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

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


postgender

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Contributors to Posthuman Bodies, edited by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston, offer futuristic looks at "queers," trans-genders, postgenders, and automated teller machines,

2001, Joseph Slade, Pornography and sexual representation: a reference guide, volume 2, page 373:

Similarly, there will be all sorts of individuals among trans-people too: we are not represented by transsexuals only, there are transvestites, transgenders, genderblenders, postgenders etc. in our midst.

2001, Jan Wickman, Transgender politics: the construction and deconstruction of binary gender in the Finnish transgender community, page 204:

(rare) A person who is postgender, who is not (any longer) gendered, or who does not (any longer) identify as gendered.


Alternative form of FTM (“female-to-male (transgender person)”)


Alternative form of FTM (“female-to-male (transgender)”)


Alternative form of MTF (“male-to-female (transgender person)”)


Alternative form of MTF (“male-to-female (transgender)”)


victoress

victoresses (plural)
victress (alternative)

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

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

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

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


papess

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

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

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


pussyboy

pussyboys (plural)
pussy boy (alternative)
pussy-boy (alternative)

Ted is such a pussy boy fleeing whenever there is danger or drama, or even a spider!

(slang, derogatory) An especially cowardly or otherwise unmanly young man.


blushet

little blushet Wax ne'er so easy

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


metritis

en-noun

metritis (countable and uncountable, plural metritides)

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

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

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

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


bitchboy

2004, Best gay erotica, snippet
...set of anal beads in a twelve-mile radius of Christopher Street and shove them all up your ass while you whine and whine and whine like the beefy blond bitchboy of my dreams, but then I think about actually having to do that.

I love being a bitchboy bottom when a top can seduce me properly.

(gay slang) A bottom, usually a younger, submissive male.


prison bitch

What kind of life can a prison bitch expect to lead once he is released?

2004, Alexander Cockburn, Serpents in the garden: liaisons with culture & sex, page 273:

What's the tattoo for a prison bitch? A rabbit? A pansy? Maybe,” she added scornfully, “a nice big bull's eye tattooed right on your ass

2007, Gil Snider, Brain Warp: A Medical Thriller, page 255:

“More like the big house,” Tyree snapped. “Mama, I don't wanna end up a prison bitch,” Cecile cried.

2009, R.A. Melos, The Adventures of Homosexual Man and Lesbian Ladd, page 79:

(prison slang) A male prisoner used as a sex slave by another man in the absence of available women.


dickgirl

(colloquial, vulgar) A person with a female body plus a penis; usually either a futanari, or a non-op or pre-op trans woman.


lactophilia

(paraphilia) a sexual fetish for lactating breasts and breastfeeding


peacocking

Peacocking may take place in legislatures and lodges, churches and chain stores. But it is particularly evident and bizarre in academia, a world where everyone is supposed to produce logically ordered exchanges of ideas.

1997, Emily Toth, Ms. Mentor's impeccable advice for women in academia, University of Pennsylvania Press, page 66:

Men do it to get attention from women. Peacocking in pickup circles is pretty much a given. It's not for everyone and if you do decide to do it, you have to fully commit to it.

2010, Dag Albright, How to Meet and Pick Up Women, Leisure Crest International, →ISBN, page 85:

While you can decide for yourself if peacocking is your thing or not, I recommend you make a conscious effort to stand out from the crowd when you head out. If you dress like everyone else, you'll just blend into everyone else.

2010, Eric Rogell, The Art of War for Dating:

Brian: Quagmire told us to dress flashy so girls would notice us.
Stewie: Oh, right. Peacocking.

2011 April 10, Tiegs for Two (Family Guy), season 9, episode 14, spoken by Brian and Stewie Griffin (Seth McFarlane):

(seduction community) Ostentatious dress or behaviour employed by a man in an attempt to impress women.


cloistress

Like a cloistress she will veiled walk.

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


brick house

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

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


manling

'Hah!' said Kaa with a chuckle, 'he has friends everywhere, this manling. Stand back, manling; and hide you, O Poison-People. I break down the wall.'

1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Kaa’s Hunting”, in The Jungle Book, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 59:

"Before I do your bidding, manling," Mapes said, "I must cleanse the way between us. [...]

1965, Frank Herbert, Dune, Berkley, published 2005, →ISBN, page 68:


traitoress

traitoresses (plural)
traitoresse (alternative)
traitress (alternative)
traitresse (alternative)
traytoress (alternative)
traytoresse (alternative)
traytress (alternative)
traytresse (alternative)

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

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

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


transgenderedness

I have also stressed Jess's role as a “mother” to Kim—by which I mean her role in offering the daughter not only transgenderedness but also empowered femaleness.

2003, Susan Fraiman, Cool Men and the Second Sex, page 155:

My husband's transgenderedness is not a present, or if it is, it's a present I'd return if I had the receipt. So would he. Not because we don't like it — we both do, to an extent — but because there's nowhere to put it. We can't put it in the closet because that makes him unhappy, and we can't put it out in public because that makes everyone else unhappy.

2006, J. Ari Kane-Demaios, Vern L. Bullough, Crossing Sexual Boundaries: Transgender Journeys, Uncharted Paths:

To her surprise Deirdre will find that the inevitable challenge to her transgenderedness she anticipates does not come from her profession.

2007, Dana Anderson, Identity's Strategy: Rhetorical Selves in Conversion, page 131:

(sometimes offensive) The condition of being transgendered.


bromantic

en-adj

bromantic (comparative more bromantic, superlative most bromantic)

more bromantic (comparative)
most bromantic (superlative)

[…] for understanding how the bromantic plot […] maintain the primacy of relations between men.

2014, Michael DeAngelis, Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television, Wayne State University Press:


hystory

en-noun

hystory (countable and uncountable, plural hystories)

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

(feminism, very rare) Nonstandard spelling of history.


intact dilation and extraction

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

intact dilation and extractions (plural)

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


IDX

intact dilation and extraction
intact dilation and extraction#English

Initialism of intact dilation and extraction.


late-term

en-adj

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

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

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


gayelle

From Spanish gallera (“cockfight arena”).

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

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

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

1997, Earl Lovelace, The Schoolmaster, page 21:

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

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

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


-x-

(neologism) Used to replace a gendered element or reduce perceived genderedness, such as in Mixter, mxn, womxn, etc.


third gender

en-noun

third gender (countable and uncountable, plural third genders)

(anthropology) A category (a gender), present in societies which recognize four or more genders, which is neither cis man/cis boy nor cis woman/cis girl; often, such societies consider trans man/trans boy/transmasculine to constitute a fourth gender and trans woman/trans girl/transfeminine to constitute a third gender.


delivery room

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

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

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

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

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


cateress

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

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

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

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

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

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


high priestess

high priestess (plural high priestesses)

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


auditress

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

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

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

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


cliterati

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

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

Significant figures in the feminism movements.


non-op

From non- + op (“operation; operator; operational; operative; operating”).

af

It is interesting that Galatea makes reference to some encouragement from "post-op" transsexuals, though other "non-ops" advise surgical candidates to reconsider their decision.

1998, Claudine Griggs, S/He: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes, Berg, published 2003, →ISBN, pages 84–85:

sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery

(LGBTQ) A transsexual or transgender person who has chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.


light-o'-love

lights-o'-love (plural)
light o' love (alternative)
light-of-love (alternative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(by extension) A flirtatious or wanton woman.


admonitrix

From Latin admonitrix; equivalent to admonitor + -trix.


gender-free

en-adj

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

more gender-free (comparative)
most gender-free (superlative)
genderfree (alternative)

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When we rendezvous shortly thereafter, I learn that the box office is being manned, if that's the right word, by an odd-looking grizzled entity unknown to my wife but whom I infer from her description (and soon after confirm) to be the genderfree or ambigendered "Ditsy" from Maintenance, [...]

2002, John Barth, Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative, page 294:

Individuals holding these views challenge the existing Western binary and categorical sex-gender system, increasingly identifying as bigender, gender blender, or gender-free.

2008, Sara Schwarzbaum, Anita Jones Thomas, Dimensions of multicultural counseling: a life story approach, page 369:

I began thinking of myself as a gender-free person.

2011, Genny Beemyn, Susan Rankin, The Lives of Transgender People:

(of people) Agender, being neither male nor female nor any third gender; free of gender.


BOBFOC

Acronym of "body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch".

Female Threes can be less than a Two and more than a Four for a variety of reasons: many MILFs* and GILFs* are Threes, as are BOBFOCs* and their opposite, FFTBBBs*.

2009, Kate Copstick, Jamie Maclean, Sex and the Recession, page 31:

She had never been a stunner, but she had had height and good legs and a good walk, and those three can take you a long way. These days she was what the boys on the squad call a BOBFOC: body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch.

'So she was a BOBFOC?'
'A what?'

2011, Anita Notaro, Take A Look At Me Now, page 47:

(UK, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface (“a person with an attractive body but ugly face”).


grannam

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

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


faer

Ewan emphasized that thinking about how faer ancestors would have lived gave faer a sense of appreciation for the ease and comfort of modern life.

2019, Barbara Jane Davy, "Wyrd Ecology", thesis submitted to the University of Waterloo, page 134

Fae had decked faerself in a modest amount of cheap jewelry, faer makeup inexpertly applied.

2022, Novae Caelum, The Truthspoken Heir: The Stars and Green Magics - Season One, unnumbered page:

Soul describes and shares part of the "I AM" poem which fae wrote for faer college application.

2022, Sherry Paris, You Can Make a Difference!: A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young Activists, page 24:


sultaness

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


have the painters in

en-verb

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

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

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


amniorrhexis

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


ex-serviceman

A man who used to be in the armed forces, a veteran.


anticontraception

en-adj

anticontraception (comparative more anticontraception, superlative most anticontraception)

more anticontraception (comparative)
most anticontraception (superlative)


oneitis

Oneitis is more likely to attack chicks than dudes for reasons of biological conditioning, habitation, mother-child relationship and other scientific crap.

But in the past eight months, I hadn't felt even a tremor of oneitis. In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable.

2011, Neil Strauss, The Game and Rules of the Game:

(slang) Attraction towards a single potential partner to the exclusion of other possible partners.


shopboy

One figure after another emerged from the room behind, and at each step Walter Maynard felt a cold shudder steal over him; and then he started and coloured, lest his agitation should have been observed; but the shopboy was too used to such scenes to heed them.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 10–11:


transvestic

Transvestic fetishism varies from the occasional wearing of a few articles of clothing of the opposite sex to complete cross-dressing.

1996, Michael G. Gelder, Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, page 499:

He occupies himself professionally with women's clothes as an outlet for his suppressed transvestic desires.

2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 78:

Eighty-two percent (n = 23) of the paraphilic group declared fetishistic interests, 79% reported sadomasochistic interests, and 50% were transvestic.

2012, D. Richard Laws, William T. O'Donohue, Sexual Deviance, Second Edition: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment:


amoret

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


femminiello

femminielli (plural)
femmeniello (alternative)

Borrowed from Italian femminiello, from Neapolitan femmeniello.

A member of a Neapolitan gender role, variously construed as a feminine-presenting man or a trans woman.


basbleu

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

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


tresayle

From Middle French trisayeul, from Latin tris, tres (“three”) + French aïeul (“grandfather”). Compare besaiel, and see ayle.

If the abatement happened on the death of one's grandfather or grandmother, then an assise of mort d'ancestor no longer lies, but a writ of ayle or de avo: if on the death of the great-grandfather or great-grandmother, then a writ of be sayle, or de proavo: but if it mounts one degree higher, to the tresayle, or grandfather's grandfather, of if the abatement happened upon the death of any collateral relation, other than those before-mentioned, the write is called a writ of cosinage, or de consanguineo.

1853, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, page 148:

If any one wishes to speak of a great-great-grandfather (tresayle) through some side line, as his grandmother’s mother’s father, he has to use an explanatory mode like the above.

1874 February 4, W. H. Whitmore, “A New System of Denoting Relationship”, in The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume XXVIII, Boston, Mass.: […] the Society’s House, […], published October 1874, page 403:

Thomas Boston Clarkson, whose genealogy is given in the third pamphlet, was born in Charleston, S. C., Sept. 4, 1809. His maternal grandmother was Christiana, daughter of Thomas Boston, V.D.M., whose ancestry is traced back five generations to her tresayle, Andrew Boston, born in Ayre, Scotland, about 1597.

1877 July, John Ward Dean, Notices of Recent Publications from the Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1877, page 12:

[…]in 1834, he prefixes to his diary a record of his ancestors, running back four generations to his tresayle, or great-great-grandfather, Joseph Towne, living in Topsfield, 1684.

1878, John Ward Dean, Sketch of the Life of William Blanchard Towne, A.M., Founder of the Towne Memorial Fund of the New-England Historic, Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.: […] the N. E. Historic, Genealogical Society, […], page 9:

In April 1600 Delahay protested to Sir Robert that on a Sunday in March 'I was assaulted and violently pulled […] , and where men see Richard Cecil your tresayle [actually his great-grand brother] use'-by the procurement of John Arnold.

1960 January, A.L. Rowse, “Alltyrynys and the Cecils”, in English Historical Review:

However, two individuals a and b whose most recent common ancestor c is the quatrayle of the former and the tresayle (great-great-grandfather) of the latter may belong to the same lineage, because the genealogical chain connecting them consists of nine degrees of kinship.

2012, Jérémie Delorme, “The Double System of Descent Groups and Surname Adaptations in a Francoprovençal/French Diglossic Situation”, in Oliviu Felecan, editor, Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 80:

(obsolete) A grandfather's grandfather; a great-great-grandfather.


xir

in the recent past, there was an impeachment trial of a judge where every juror was told to secretly choose xir own standard.

1999 January 3, Matthew Daly, soc.singles.moderated (Usenet):

This causes Cici to hide parts of xir identity to protect from these stereotypes.

2019 October 30, Debbie Luxon, “Myth-busting asexuality: Being asexual in Cambridgeshire”, in Cambridgeshire Live:

The soft blue sky had the feel of a good omen. In Xir old age, the god moved slower every year; lingering in the shallows long after the last fish had been swallowed up by nets. Sometimes Xe stood still for days, in sight of the shore, as if Xe had not quite decided whether to beach Xemself for good. Let Xem only survive long enough to spawn a new god! Else Xir helpless people would be godless ans stranded in the haunted dryland where the dead cities slept. Where less kindly deities roamed.

2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202

(nonstandard, possessive) Belonging to xe, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.


zir

head

zir (third-person singular, gender-neutral, objective case, reflexive hirself)

en-pron

Blend of z (“gender-neutral (as in ze)”) + i (“him/his”) + r (“her”).

blend

gender-neutral (as in <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">ze</i>)

However, it soon became very lonely as none of Alice’s school friends could see zir anymore and they soon forgot all about zir.

2002, Lynsey Calderwood, Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 155:

(rare, nonstandard) Gender-neutral third-person singular accusative (object) pronoun, equivalent to singular them and coordinate with him and her.


Minorite

Minorites (plural)
minorite (alternative)

From Medieval Latin Minorita, from Latin minor + -īta (“-ite”), from Ordo Fratres Minores (“Order of Friars Minor”), literally the "Order of the Lesser Brothers", chosen by St. Francis to inculcate humility in its members. Equivalent to minor + -ite. Doublet of minister.

Minores or Minorites descende from the aforesayd Barefootes, which be also vnder the rule and clothynge of S. Frauncisce.

1537, Anonymous, Original & Sprynge of All Sectes & Orders..., sig, C5v

Order of Friars Minor
Order of Friars Minor

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


Minorites

Order of Friars Minor
Order of Friars Minor#English

(Catholicism) Synonym of Order of Friars Minor: the Franciscans, sometimes particularly the Conventuals.


tomrig

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

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

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


humiliatrix

en-noun

humiliatrix (plural humiliatrixes or humiliatrices)

humiliatrixes (plural)
humiliatrices (plural)

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

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

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

2010, Sally Hines, Tam Sanger, Transgender Identities:

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

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

(BDSM) A dominatrix who specialises in humiliation.


flirt-gill

flirt-gills (plural)
flirt-gillian (alternative)

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

compound

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

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

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

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

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


tirewoman

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


advoutress

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

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

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


chick with a dick

en-noun

chick with a dick (plural chicks with dicks)

She's intersex; you know, a chick with a dick.

(colloquial, informal, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) A trans woman or intersex person who presents as female and has a penis.


town bicycle

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

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

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

(slang, derogatory) A woman who is promiscuous.


Bloomerism

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

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

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

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


beaupere

From Old French beau (“fair”) + pere (“father”).

Now leading him into a ſecret ſhade / From his Beauperes, and from bright heauens vew,[…].

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 401:


sannup

From Penobscot senabe (“man”); compare Abenaki sanôba (“man”).

1736, Thomas Prince, Nathan Hale (editor), A Chronological History of New-England, in the Form of Annals, 1826, New Edition, Cummings, Hilliard, and Company, page 347,
Chickatabot (the chief Sachem of the Massachusetts) comes with his sannups and squaws (that is, married men and their wives) to Boston, presents the governor with a hogshead of Indian corn.

With this company, Miantonomo and his sachems dined, while the sannups were entertained hard by, in the inn recently built by Goodman Samuel Coles.

1898, Edith Robinson, A Little Puritan Rebel, L. C. Page & Company, page 117:

Or rather, he obliged Miguen to do so, for the limping sannup could not pursue the quarry.

1941, Marguerite Allis, Not Without Peril, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 231:

(US) A male Native American, especially a married one; a brave.

(US, Maine, colloquial) A mischievous male child.


lady who lunches

lady who lunches (plural ladies who lunch)

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

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

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

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

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

2006 February, Indianapolis Monthly, page 263:

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

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

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

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fetation

fetations (plural)
foetation (alternative)

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


Dutch uncle

From 1828. See also Dutch uncle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

I talked like a Dutch uncle to convince them they would be in the way if they came out too.

2003, Harlan Wygant, The Samurai Conspiracy, iUniverse, page 59:

The accountant was an older guy named Barney who always played the role of Dutch uncle to Michael's high flying ways, but on this occasion he read him the riot act.

2007, Peter Michael Briscoe, The Best Read Man in France: A Cautionary Tale, Wildside Press (The Borgo Press), page 41:

Gruff but kindly, with dark-rimmed glasses prone to slip down his prominent ruddy nose and an unlit cigar habitually clenched in his teeth, he was everyone's Dutch uncle and let even strangers call him “Maggie” to his face.

1996, Richard Kluger, Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, Random House (Alfred A. Knopf), page 287:

One who reproves in a blunt, stern manner intended for the benefit of the recipient.


cissexism

From cis- + sexism or cissex(ual) + -ism.

In that context where cissexism and cissupremacy are the oppressions in question, a cisgender woman would not count as a marginalized person.

2016, Nora Berenstain, “Epistemic Exploitation”, in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, volume 3, number 22, page 570:

Bias or prejudice favouring cisgender people; transphobia.


bluenette

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

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

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


matrixial

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

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

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


menostasis

(medicine, archaic or homeopathy) menopause


missing white woman syndrome

missing white woman syndrome (uncountable)

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Coined by American journalist, television newscaster and author Gwen Ifill.

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The Petito case, which is still unfolding (her fiancé, with whom she’d been travelling, is believed to be in hiding) seemed like another instance of what the late journalist Gwen Ifill famously described as “missing white woman syndrome”: a hunger for stories about victims who look like Petito, to the exclusion of all others.

[2021 October 8, Helen Rosner, “The Long American History of “Missing White Woman Syndrome””, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

(derogatory) The disproportionate media coverage of a missing person or similar case involving a young, white, upper-middle-class woman, contrasted with lesser coverage of males, non-white ethnicities, etc.


Irigarayan

en-adj

Irigarayan (comparative more Irigarayan, superlative most Irigarayan)

more Irigarayan (comparative)
most Irigarayan (superlative)

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


woman child

en-noun

woman child (plural woman children or women children)

woman children (plural)
women children (plural)
woman-child (alternative)

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

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

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


Cixousian

en-adj

Cixousian (comparative more Cixousian, superlative most Cixousian)

more Cixousian (comparative)
most Cixousian (superlative)

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

1997, Sidney I. Dobrin, Constructing Knowledges:

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

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

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


eame

Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame.

1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix


big mama

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(African-American Vernacular) A grandmother.


love glove

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

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


jimmy cap

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

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


johnny bag

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

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


menoporsche

en-noun

menoporsche (countable and uncountable, plural menoporsches)

Some doctors believe that midlife crises often stem from men's waning testosterone levels. Dr. Harry Fisch, a New York physician and author of the "Male Biological Clock," drolly refers to the phenomenon as "menoporsche," noting that testosterone treatment may prove a better antidote for the condition than the purchase of a new sports car.

2005 March 14, Shari Rudavsky, “Manopause”, in Indianapolis Star:

(uncountable, informal) Male mid-life crisis or andropause, especially the type that manifests in attempts to reclaim lost youth, such as buying a sports car.


galopin

(Scotland, obsolete) A boy employed in a kitchen.


machoism

machoism (countable and uncountable, plural machoisms)

Anglicization of machismo. By surface analysis, macho + -ism.


linea nigra

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

sorturák

dark vertical line on abdomen that forms during pregnancy