enby

→ German: Enby

The noun is a pronunciation spelling of NB, an initialism of non-binary. The word was coined by the Tumblr user “revolutionator” in 2013 as “an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls”: see the quotation.
The adjective is derived from the noun.

coinage

i wish there was an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls / nb / enby / enbies

[2013 September 10, “revolutionator” [pseudonym], “02348294832908091 [page title]”, in Tumblr, retrieved 2021-05-21:

I doubt most wedding fair vendors would recognise an enby even if you carried an explanatory sign.

2017 October, Will McCreath, “My Non-binary Wedding”, in Carrie Lyell, editor, Diva, London: Twin Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-28, page 18, column 3:

So, boys and girls and enbies, if the sex isn't good at or very near the beginning, the passage of time and/or muttering of vows isn't going to fix it.

2018 June 27 – July 3, Dan Savage, “Savage Love”, in Julie Ann Grimm, editor, Santa Fe Reporter, volume 45, number 26, Santa Fe, N.M.: Santa Fe Reporter, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-18, page 28, column 1:

'Ladies and enbies,' she said, the five foot three height requirement for pilots continued to mean that nearly all the human fighter pilots she had ever met were women or enbies. She could see no evidence before her that anything had changed. 'You might have heard of me, my call sign is Romeo,' she paused while the pilots giggled and sniggered.

2019, Claire G. Coleman, chapter 8, in The Old Lie, Sydney, N.S.W.: Hachette Australia, →ISBN:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(neologism, informal) Pronunciation spelling of NB: a non-binary person; a person whose gender identity is not strictly female or male; one who is outside of the gender binary.

NB

enebe c (ene [N] + be [B]. Depending on the context, the meaning can change to "boyfriend")


enby

For non-binary-identified (or, to use my current favourite term, enby) people, this is magnified by the fact that while most of everyone except Germaine Greer and Donald Trump are prepared to recognise that trans people do exist these days, the enby population is still struggling up that hill with our glitter in the one hand and our neckties in the other.

2017, S. Bear Bergman, Meg-John Barker, “Non-binary Activism”, in Christina Richards, Walter Pierre Bouman, Meg-John Barker, editors, Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders (Critical and Applied Approaches in Sexuality, Gender and Identity), London: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, part I (Societies), page 43:

You've campaigned for non-binary and gender non-conforming people at Newcastle for a while now, including winning Campaign of the Year last year for your Beyond The Binary Week when you served as Marginalised Genders Officer, and appearing on BBC3's web shows. Would you consider yourself an enby BNOC [big name on campus]?

2018 May 14, Zoë Godden, “Interview: Saffron Kershaw-Mee”, in James Sproston, editor, The Courier, number 1370, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Students’ Union, Newcastle University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-27, page 23, column 2:

"As an enby transgxrl, and an enbie lesbian, the lesbian community needs to show [more] validation towards those who are both non-binary and lesbians. […] I know that I am valid as a lesbian so I just don't let those views affect me, and the enby community needs to be welcoming of nb lesbians a[s] well," says Evee Sams, a lesbian, polyamorous, agender, trans gxrl.

2018 August, Peach Delosreyes-Yu, “A Stream of Consciousness on Self-Acceptance”, in Leif Tobias Gifford, editor, ENBY Magazine, number 2, [Canada]: ENBY Magazine, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-15, page 7, column 2:

(neologism, informal) Pronunciation spelling of NB: non-binary; having or pertaining to a gender identity that is not strictly female or male, that is, outside of the gender binary.

muusu-

having or pertaining to a gender identity that is not strictly female or male — see also non-binary


feminist dance therapy

Colorado, of course, means "red" in Spanish, not "overpriced ski resorts and dingbats who live in Boulder and teach feminist dance therapy."

2007, P. J. O'Rourke, Give War a Chance, page 53:

To […] tap into what your authentic expression is […] you must have the courage to confront your fears and any inauthentic structures you have created, including being a feminist dance therapy major at Oberlin College.

underwater basket weaving
underwater basket weaving#English

(rare, informal, derogatory) Synonym of underwater basket weaving (“useless academic course or major”)


iron lady

On the one hand, the patriarchal discourse constructs the identity of 'an iron lady' for the successful woman leader.

2002 October, AM Lämsä, T Tiensuu, “Representations of the woman leader in Finnish business media articles”, in Business Ethics: A European Review:

Stories about Biljana Plavsic also contain the monster narrative. Emphasis on her toughness and her nickname 'iron lady' hint at a monster characterization, but these images are much more obvious in the emphasis on the view that Plavsic is lacking in mental balance.

2007, Laura Sjoberg, Caron E. Gentry, Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics, →ISBN, page 156:

Del Ponte only takes the blame for the last incident, acknowledging that she realized too late that she had been played by the “iron lady” from Republica Srpska.

2009, David P Forsythe, Encyclopedia of Human Rights - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 485:

A strong-willed and unrelenting female leader.


brojob

en-noun

brojob (countable and uncountable, plural brojobs)

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I'm tellin' you man, it ain't gay to give a homie a brojob.

Oh, and one way to tell your “bromance” has grown into a full-on gay relationship: When you're giving each other “brojobs.”

(humorous, slang) Oral sex performed by a straight (or bisexual) man on another straight (or bisexual) man, usually a friend.


pornotroping

Coined by Hortense J. Spillers in her 1987 essay “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book”; porno- + trope + -ing.

(feminism) The process of reducing a person or group of people to mere flesh, stripped of personhood and made into the object of violent and sexual impulses.


wenchhood

Louise Glaum, as the nasty gixy clubbed into wenchhood, gave a characteristically energetic physical portrait.

1916, Photoplay Magazine - Volume 10, page 91:

It was about this time that the rest of the French Navy staggered in with the jauntiest of Moorea's wenchhood upon its arm.

1933, Hassoldt Davis, Islands Under the Wind, page 32:

Kothar snarled. His eyes ran over her sweet shapeliness disclosed by her torn garment, and he grinned. “It would be a waste of wenchhood to burn her.”

2016, Gardner F. Fox, The Second Kothar the Barbarian:

The quality, state, or condition of a wench


wenchdom

Unlovely is the project which would take womanhood out of its graceful place in creation, and substitute for it a brawling, political wenchdom, and a sisterhood of hussies for the polling-booths.

1868, The Dublin University Magazine - Volume 72, page 63:

'You're certainly a cut above wenchdom, even if your taste in men is execrable.

2016, Elizabeth Rolls, In Debt to the Earl:

The state or condition of being a wench; wenchhood


wenchish

en-adj

wenchish (comparative more wenchish, superlative most wenchish)

more wenchish (comparative)
most wenchish (superlative)

Ann: black-haired and wenchish in her bosomy softness, but compact and clean as a spring spouting from sand.

1994, Janice Daugharty, Going Through the Change, page 32:

Emerging from her room in a low-cut jumper that made the most of her wenchish curves, Mary didn't bother with a hello.

2010, Bernadette Strachan, Why Do We Have To Live With Men?:


elrig

It is still in considerable vogue, and the enquirer will at times hear some good examples—though the chances are a hundred to one against his ever understanding them. A couple which were interpreted for my benefit were: "Hi, yob, kool that enif elrig with the nael ekom. Sap her a top of reeb and a tib of occobat," and "Islema, ogda the opperca." After the reader has sufficiently puzzled over these hieroglyphics he or she may be glad to learn that the quotations respectively mean: "Hi, boy, look at that fine girl with the lean moke. Pass her a pot of beer and a bit of tobacco," and "Misle, dog the copper!"

1912 May 11, A. J. Heighway, “Whitechapel”, in The Evening Post (New Zealand), volume LXXXIII, number 112, page 9:

I see you've had an elrig hanging round your stall.

2011, Ruth Hamilton, The Corner House, Random House, →ISBN, page 86:


Klinefelter

Klinefelter syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome#English


like mother, like daughter

(idiomatic) A daughter takes after her mother.

anyja lánya

stating the similarity of a daughter to her mother

the apple does not fall far from the tree


ride the cock carousel

en-verb

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

rides the cock carousel (present singular third-person)
riding the cock carousel (participle present)
rode the cock carousel (past)
ridden the cock carousel (participle past)

When they ride the cock carousel in preference to the responsible betas that they find so boring, well, we guess that they pay.

2015, Stephen Jarosek, Tyrants of Matriarchy:

She will “ride the cock carousel” with as many men as possible, most of whom will mistreat her and valorize her feminist claims of victimhood.

2017, Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives across Global Online and Offline Spaces, page 89:

These girls have already ridden the cock carousel and sex isn't a fascination or an absolute necessity for them in their lives.

2020, Sam Wilson, The Definitive Guide to Having Sex with Women in the 21st Century, unnumbered page:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory, masculism, of a woman) To have sex indiscriminately with many men during early adulthood.


main bitch

I don't want my main bitch to find out that I'm seeing a side bitch in the weekends.

(US, slang) The primary woman that a man is romantically involved with.


prick tease

prick teases (plural)
prick-tease (alternative)

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(slang, vulgar, chiefly derogatory) Synonym of cock tease.


malebot

malebots (plural)
male bot (alternative)
male-bot (alternative)

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jineology

Anglicized from Northern Kurdish jineolojî, from jin (“woman”).

(feminism, politics) A school of feminist thought espoused by various leftist groups in Kurdistan.


trans patient

trans patients (plural)
transpatient (alternative)
trans-patient (alternative)


skoliosexual

en-adj

skoliosexual (comparative more skoliosexual, superlative most skoliosexual)

more skoliosexual (comparative)
most skoliosexual (superlative)
scoliosexual (alternative)

From Ancient Greek σκολιός (skoliós, “curved, bent”) + -sexual, coined by DeviantArt user Nelde in 2010.

der

There is a silence surrounding sexualities such as genderqueer, skoliosexual, pansexual and asexual. These 'other' sexualities operate outside of the traditional sex-gender-desire binaries that now frame both same-sex and opposite-sex attraction.

2015, Jayne Caudwell, Sexualities and sport, page 244:

However, these identities are only a few of those that fall under the umbrella term queer, which includes other identities such as pansexual, asexual, demisexual, skoliosexual, polysexual, same gender loving, kink, polyamorous, and others.

2017, Em Chih-Rou Huang, Parts of a Whole: Reframing Identity Development Theory as a Queer and Trans Person of Color:

Cultural diversity is a term that refers to many groups defined on bases other than those that distinguish traditional cultural or ethnic groups: Sexual orientation, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, androsexual, skoliosexual, asexual, or questioning; Gender identity, such as transgender, nonbinary, or fluid; Deaf culture, representing those with hearing impairments; Physical disabilities, such as the "wheelchair culture"...

2017, Luanne Linnard-Palmer, Pediatric Nursing Care: A Concept-Based Approach, →ISBN, page 48:

(rare, of humans) Sexually attracted to non-cisgender people.


transphobism

... and absences [of materials pertaining to other identities] not as sudden surprises but as predictable products of archival processes and principles rooted in colonialism, anti-black racism, sexism, homophobism, transphobism, and classism?

2019, Meghan Forbes, International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms: Image, Object, Text, Routledge, →ISBN:


wombyn

Form "My journey as a wombyn child emerging from a wombyn, my mother, and my own growth thru all the passages and consecutive emergences to the present is both similar to the experiences of generations of wombyn gone before me and uniquely my own.

1983, Lynda Ross Ford, Bleeding, page 147:

I come from a generation of wombyn that struggled and strived alone.

2014, Diata, Wombanystic Thoughts, →ISBN, page 108:

These spritely guides are merely an inspiration for you to begin or deepen your journey depending on where you are in your development. I invite you to take time to see what your personal guidance says about your wombyn's rhythms.

2016, Zsuzsi Hussla, Unraveling Her, →ISBN:


volleybelle

Now a part of the decorated DLSU Lady Spikers, this petite lass already showed glimpses of her skills as she, together with veteran volleybelle Charleen Cruz bagged home second honor merits in the recently concluded UAAP Beach Volleyball tournament...

2010, Green Gallery: Lady Spiker Amanda Villanueva:

(Philippines, sports journalism) A female volleyball player.


bearded lady

A woman with a beard, often appearing as a circus sideshow


minoress

The chronicler Charles Wriothesley is the sole authority for the marriage of one Mistress Bures, a minoress of some 16 years standing, to the quondam abbot of Walden, Essex in 1538.

1992, Catherine Paxton, The Nunneries of London and Its Environs in the Later Middle Ages, page 302:

(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minoress: a Poor Clare.


truecel

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“If you haven’t raped someone by age 22, you’re prob a truecel for life,” one said. His comment sparked a flurry of furious agreement.

2014 May 29, Sam Clench, “Mass murderer Elliot Rodger's hatred of women is shared by more men than we would like to believe”, in The News (Australia):

There is, for example, a thread discussing whether Joey, in the Vice documentary mentioned in my introduction, is a truecel. He is too good looking, according to many tellers.

2019, Thea Høiland, "Incels and the stories they tell: A narrative analysis of Incels’ shared stories on Reddit", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 90

If u think of urself as a ”mentalcel” ur most likely a truecel in denial

2020, anonymous, quoted in Melinda Karlsson & Terese Wisberg, "'Live to be mogged. The truecel tale': En kritisk diskursanalys av forumen incels.co och looksmax.me", thesis submitted to the University of Gävle, page 38

(incel slang) An incel who has never experienced any form of physical intimacy, including kissing or holding hands, and believes they have (or is believed to have) little to no chance of changing that status.


gopnitsa

Borrowed from Russian го́пница (gópnica).


censoress

There's for you! I am to pass for a censoress now!

1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 104:


endoamnioscopy

(obstetrics) An experimental imaging technique which allows direct visualisation of the developing fetus.


bhaiya

(especially North India) friend, dude, man


vaginoid

From vagina + -oid (“derogatory suffix”).

/ˈvæd͡ʒɪnɔɪd/

/vəˈd͡ʒaɪnɔɪd/

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cum to me, poor vaginoids

1997 February 7, “S.T.V.C. go forth you fucks (xxx dance)”, in rec.arts.poems (Usenet):

Then I'd be a Feministrious Tubloidial Vaginoid!

1998 September 7, Evil Beavis, “Where does the show take place?”, in alt.tv.beavis-n-butthead (Usenet):

But this episode taught us quite a bit, and we will one day learn more once we are able to hold another vaginoid in captivity.

2001 November 19, Alien, “O/T - Humour - [silly, crude, but also funny :-) ]”, in alt.support.autism (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, rare) One who possesses a vagina; a female.


lesbro

Isaac, a 20-year-old gay male who lives with a lesbian and her bi-sexual girlfriend, did not realize he was a "lesbro" until he moved in with these two women.

2008 July, Ben Cartwright, “Lesbros”, in FlawLes Magazine, page 17:

If you're content to remain a lesbro—a straight guy who's friends with lesbians—your lesbian friends can provide you with priceless beneﬁts: unlimited insight into the bizarre thinking and behaviour of women.

2013, Amy Alkon, "Advice Goddess", Metro (Silicon Valley), 2 January - 8 January 2013, page 44

The group expects to see a lot of women turn out, but is optimistic that Town Hall will draw a good number of "our lesbros, as well."

2016, Paul Schindler, “Lesbian Political Action Committee All In For Hillary”, in Gay City News, 26 May - 8 June 2016, page 10:

(slang) A male friend or companion of a lesbian.


fa'afafine

Borrowed from Samoan fa'afafine, from fa'a (“in the manner of”) + fafine (“woman”).

What I wish to emphasize here is that 'traditionally' fa'afafine have been and generally still are initially identified in terms of labour preferences.

2004, Ulrike Schuerkens, Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds: Social Transformations, →ISBN, page 209:

While Pakeha (New Zealanders of European descent) transyouth are invisible in the curriculum through their gender identity, fa'afafine youth are additionally invisible through their cultural identity. There are currently no support groups in Aotearoa/New Zealand for fa'afafine young people.

2005, James Thomas Sears, Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia, →ISBN:

To begin with, he describes the relationship between his Samoan and fa'afafine identities by saying: 'for me culture is always first and then sexuality', and 'any interaction I have with anybody, the two things I want them to find out about me is the fact that I'm Samoan first and foremost and .... [secondly] that I'm fa'afafine.'

2006, Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle, The Transgender Studies Reader, →ISBN, page 660:

A Samoan whose gender is neither male nor female, being biologically male but preferring (or being raised for) traditionally female duties and tasks.


gender-vague

en-adj

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

more gender-vague (comparative)
most gender-vague (superlative)
gender vague (alternative)

Eskridge complicates the story's implications further by never revealing the gender of the narrator (who is Jo(e)'s director), either by name — it's the gender-vague though suggestive "Mars" — or by pronoun.

2000, The New York Review of Science Fiction - Issues 137-148, page 15:

Performers who scrupulously stuck to gender-vague lyrics, refused to talk about their personal lives, and dithered about avoiding labels and identities, began to feel the pressure from their fans.

2001, Larry Gross, Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America, →ISBN:

Her gender-vague nickname of "Moe" suited not only her persona then, but it also fed into the modish androgyny with which the group became associated through Warhol.

2006, Richard Witts, The Velvet Underground, page 35:

Of uncertain or ambiguous gender; not revealing gender or sexuality.


mistress of ceremonies

en-noun

mistress of ceremonies (plural mistresses of ceremonies)

“In that case, sir,” she rejoined, “as my kinsman’s politeness seems to be still slumbering, you will permit me (though I suppose it is highly improper) to stand mistress of ceremonies, and to present to you young Squire Thorncliff Osbaldistone, your cousin,[…]”

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 97–98:

At this moment, Eva came up in her authoritative way as mistress of ceremonies, took Mr. St. John by the arm, and, walking across with him, seated him by Sibyl Selwyn, introduced them to each other, and left them.

1873, Harriet Beecher Stowe, We and Our Neighbors, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter , p. 186:

(dated) A woman who acts as a host at a formal event.

The mistress of ceremonies, a local poetess named Alicia Larralde de Ferrero, did not observe that more than a dozen uninvited guests had joined the audience.

1950 January 23, “Spanish Omelet”, in Time:

Her first real job in show business was as mistress of ceremonies at the Etoile music hall, in a revue that starred Mistinguett; she later said that it had taught her “to walk on stage”.

2005 June 18, “Suzanne Flon”, in The Guardian:

A woman who conducts a programme of varied entertainment, for example by introducing performers to the audience.


average frustrated chump

average frustrated chump (plural average frustrated chumps)

Wryly admitting his afc status (average frustrated chump), Mr Strauss logs on as Style, achieves pua stardom and becomes role model and tutor to a new generation of afcs.

2005, The Economist - Volume 377, Issues 8446-8458, page 92:

I've successfully transformed myself from an AFC (Average Frustrated Chump) into an RAFC (Recovering Average Frustrated Chump).

2008, Zander Martin, The Players, →ISBN, page xxxvi:

My problem was the same as every other average frustrated chump (AFC).

2015, Trina Boice, Base Hits and Home Run Relationships: What Women Wish Guys Knew, →ISBN:

Though I knew my new mind-set was seriously warped, I felt more ethical in many ways as a pickup artist than I had been as an average frustrated chump.

2015, Allie Borden, The Celibacy Project:

(seduction community, derogatory) Someone who does not get as much sex as they want.


bus conductress

bus conductress (plural bus conductresses)


complain king

These days, local online portals have become complaint hotspots that aggregate the ‘word on the street’, from the mouths of Complain kings and queens themselves.

2015 August 9, “Complain Kings – Icons of SG”, in SG50, retrieved 2017-10-23:

Social conditioning being what it was, it wasn’t surprising that I also grew up as a complain king too.... However, we mustn’t join the complain kings…so what makes the Swiss so happy? They pay taxes, they have immigrant problems too.

2015 October 7, Joan C. Guyll, “Stories SG50 Icons of Singapore #37 – Complain King (Singapore)”, in Sg Overseas Singaporean Unit, archived from the original on 2018-04-18:

hoganrock: Who's the number 1 Complain King/Queen here? Are you a Complain King/Queen? What do you usually complain about?

2004 May 29, “'Are you a Complain King/Queen? – SgForums.com (Singapore)”, in SGFORUMS, retrieved 2017-10-23:

Are we really complain kings and queens? Some academic from New Zealand said that we are a nation of moaners in Straits Times. Sure, we complain about lots of stuff, but everyone does it, not just Singaporeans. I don't think it's fair. Besides what else can we do...its not easy living here...the prices are sky-rocketing, everything is expensive , from owning a box of space in the air to the cars on the streets, and the govt is not helping. And I don't think we moan, we are just giving feedback. Some people think we're being petty cos we have a good life. So should we just keep our dissatisfaction to ourselves? What's wrong with complaining any.

2000 October 5, squig...@my-deja.com, “Are we really complain kings and queens?”, in soc.culture.singapore (Usenet), retrieved 2017-11-01:

(Singapore, colloquial) A dissatisfied male who always grumbles or rants, and reports on others’ faults usually to someone in authority or the media, with or without ill intentions.


'Arry

From the name Harry, in reference to the Cockney habit of dropping initial /h/ sounds in speech.


'Arriet

From the name Harriet, in reference to the Cockney habit of dropping initial /h/ sounds in speech.


wimin

(feminism) Alternative spelling of women


womin

LF 36, Pisces, would like to meet a special womin with Holistic inter arts affection.

1986 April 19, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 13:

(feminism) Alternative spelling of woman


complain queen

Complain – Mcdonald’s new Flurry Flavour – Chendol (TOO SWEET AHHH!) I know Chendol should be sweet and all – but this is just way too much. I did not manage to finish the whole cup as much as I wanted to (not cheap, leh!)… McFlurry actually has a great potential – but I just feel it can be better if the sweetness can be reduce...Posted by SG Complain Queen’s rants at 10:00.

2017 September 9, Catherine Jaevans, “Singapore’s Complain Queen”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), retrieved 2017-11-01:

Pasir Ris woman files six complaints in eight years against neighbours. On March 9, she called the police, claiming that several children from the flat above had placed dead bees outside her unit. In the last eight years, ... had filed six complaints at the Community Mediation Centre (CMC), so much so that those neighbours have dubbed her as the “complain queen” of Pasir Ris, reported Lianhe Wanbao.

2012 March 22, Rennie Whang, “Pasir Ris neighbor fought with three neighbours”, in The New Paper, retrieved 2017-11-02:

Watwheels: Women in my mum’s generation are much stronger and tougher dan today’s complain queens. Imagine they had to endure non-aircon and bumpy bus-rides either sitting or standing to reach their destinations.

2008 July 4, “Another complain Queen on MRT!”, in MyCarForum of SgCarmart, retrieved 2017-11-02:

(Singapore, colloquial) A woman who is constantly dissatisfied and always grumbles or reports faults of others to authorities or the media, with or without ill intentions.


beta orbiter

... who, despite his money, spends most of his time as beta orbiter to a woman named Daisy whom he met in Army training. Gatsby spends his money on lavish parties he doesn't attend at a house he bought across from Daisy's ...

2018, Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Brendan James, Will Menaker, Virgil Texas, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 216:

(slang, derogatory, seduction community, neologism) A person who accommodates or mingles with others in the hope of eventually getting sex.


soy boy

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Etymology tree
Chinese 醬油 /酱油 (jiàngyóu)obor.
Japanese 醤油
Japanese そやbor.
Dutch sojabor.
English soy
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
English soy boy
From the idea that men who prefer soy to dairy and meat are weak and feminine, and that the naturally occurring phytoestrogen in soy feminizes men. See Soybean (Wikipedia) for more.

etymon

(Internet slang, derogatory) An effeminate or unmasculine man.


MOC

masculine of center
masculine of center#English


multigenderism

While I'll acknowledge that 'communal/matriachial' societies have traditionally supported transgenderism and multigenderism, I'm uncertain that it can be attributed to the 'communal' nature of teh culture (that Leslie seems to imply).

1996 October 19, Rosalind Hengeveld, “Transgender Warriors”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

Multigenderism has CLEARLY FAILED! and only immigrants of the SAME GENDER should be allowed in.

2002 July 9, fasgnadh, “Is Multiculturalism worth it?”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

Here Garton Ash argues that when liberals extended their thinking to embrace the rights of workers and women, for example, they did not find it necessary to address 'multiclassism' or 'multigenderism'. So, why bother with 'multiculturalism'?

2013, George Crowder, Theories of Multiculturalism: An Introduction, →ISBN, page 208:

True liberation of gender/sexuality would be multigenderism, but not postgenderism, ie: in current conditions settling niches for more than two genders would be much more helpful than complete elimination of gender.

2016 June, Y Kolesnikova, “Culturalist criticism of queer doctrine”, in CAES, volume 2, number 2:

The belief in and acceptance of more than two gender identities (i.e. more than male and female).


roastie

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From roast + -ie. The Internet slang sense likens a (promiscuous) woman's vulva to the filling of a roast beef sandwich.

“Shut the fuck up roastie,” wrote anonymous Twitter users with anime images as their avatars.

2019, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, unnumbered page:

Defy me and you will regret it, roastie.

2019, S. J. Maher, Social Misconduct, page 151:

[…] and "Stacy" denotes an attractive "roastie," a promiscuous young woman.

2020, Anne Hendershott, The Politics of Envy, unnumbered page:

(vulgar, derogatory, slang) A woman, especially a promiscuous one.


nice guy syndrome

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So before you fall into the trap of the ‘nice guy syndrome’ and start complaining about women’s choice in men, you should look to yourself.

2003, Laura Chesnik, "Our responsibility: Education is a right", The Lance (University of Windsor), 18 November 2003, page 18

Just because a guy treats a woman with respect does not mean she owes him anything. The “nice guy syndrome” needs to cease.

2014, Shira Stein, "Are nice guys actually as nice as they seem?", The Highlander (Carlmont High School, Belmont, CA), April 2014, page 3

If you really are a male feminist, whatever social awkwardness you might be suffering should never be confused with something so gross as Nice Guy Syndrome.

2016, “Coquette”, in [The Best of] Dear Coquette: Shady Advice from a Raging Bitch Who Has No Business Answering Any of These Questions, page 74:

(colloquial) A phenomenon in which a man thinks that he deserves romantic or sexual attention from women by virtue of being nice.


Playboy Bunny

Playboy Bunnies (plural)
Playboy bunny (alternative)

As a result, the fifteen women blur, dissolve into one—a big Playboy''' bunny, masochist to the tip of her Pucci tail, hopping from one key sexual event to another so that life itself seems unlived.

1972 July 31, Linda Wolfe, “Luce Women [review of Jack Olsen, The Girls in the Office (1972)]”, in Clay S[chuette] Felker, editor, New York, volume 2, number 14, New York, N.Y.: New York Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 55, column 3:

Terri Bryant, a former member of the singing group, The Fifth Dimension, always wondered what it would be like to be a Playboy Bunny hostess when she performed with that popular singing group at the Playboy Clubs in Lake Geneva, Wis., and Great Gorge, N.J. […] Ms. Bryant had her dream come true at the Playboy Club in Chicago[…].

1980 April 3, “Former Fifth Dimension has Dream Come True: Night as a Playboy Bunny”, in John H[arold] Johnson, editor, Jet, volume 58, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 61:

The Playboy bunny symbol is widely used throughout the Bebo network in both skins and other applications. Marie's extensive use of the Playboy bunny merchandise both off and online, indicates the normalization, banality even, of the Playboy bunny, marketed at teen and tween girls, illustrating the trend towards 'porno-chic' for these age groups[…].

2011, Jessica Ringrose, “Are You Sexy, Flirty, or a Slut?: Exploring ‘Sexualization’ and How Teen Girls Perform/Negotiate Digital Sexual Identity on Social Networking Sites”, in Rosalind Gill, Christina Scharff, editors, New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Negotiating Postfeminist Media Culture), page 108:

By the mid-1960s Hefner had amassed a fortune of $100 million, including a lasciviously appointed forty-eight-room mansion staffed by thirty Playboy "bunnies" ("fuck like bunnies" is a phrase we have largely left behind, but most people at the time caught the allusion).

2012, David Farber, The Sixties: From Memory to History, page 247:

She [Maria Richwine] studied dancing and for a while worked as a Playboy Bunny. While visiting England she decided to become an actress.

2014, Frank Javier Garcia Berumen, “The 1970s”, in Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films since the 1960s, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 102:

Female waitresses, called "Playboy Bunnies," wore bushy cotton tails, rabbit ears, and bowties. […] Playboy Bunnies are not sex workers; however, anecdotal evidence demonstrates that some have been paid for their time during which they voluntarily performed sexual favors for guests at Playboy's lounge and mansion. Playboy Bunnies may be photographed for Playboy; and several Playboy Playmates have dressed in Playboy Bunny costumes while appearing in magazine editorials.

2015, Carmen M. Cusak, “Bestiality in Art and Culture”, in Animals, Deviance, and Sex, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, pages 62–63:

A waitress at a Playboy Club, characteristically dressed in a strapless teddy, black pantyhose, cuffs, a collar and bowtie, bunny ears, and a short, fluffy tail.


Afrofeminist

en-adj

Afrofeminist (comparative more Afrofeminist, superlative most Afrofeminist)

more Afrofeminist (comparative)
most Afrofeminist (superlative)

Of or relating to a form of feminism focusing on women of African descent.


genderbend

en-verb

genderbend (third-person singular simple present genderbends, present participle genderbending, simple past and past participle genderbent)

genderbends (present singular third-person)
genderbending (participle present)
genderbent (participle past)
genderbent (past)


bioboy

"I'm afraid I'll disappoint her by not being enough like a bioboy." Raymond was not talking about sex. He was finding it difficult to navigate issues such as, "Is she expecting me to hold the door for her?"

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


femboy

→ French: femboy

→ German: Femboy

→ Portuguese: femboy

→ Russian: фембо́й (fembój)

→ Spanish: femboy

→ Ukrainian: фембо́й (fembój)

Femboy Pronounciation US Southern California.ogg

A Thai boy is allowed to be effeminate. Such boys are accepted in school and in their villages, and their effeminacy is simply considered to be a part of their character. “In such an open society it could well be the case that these femboys feel more able to experiment and to develop their feminine side. If they proceed to the level of regularly dressing as a girl, taking female hormones and having breast implants, then they will have moved into the realm of becoming fully fledged ladyboys. […]

2015, Charles Cadman, Phallus Aforethought:

For example, “queer” would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the “opposite sex,” sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people.

2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies:

A (typically young) male or non-binary individual who adopts a feminine aesthetic.


LGBTTQQIAAP

Although the initialism is constantly expanding and changing ‒ the longest version being LGBTTQQIAAP (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual) coined in the spring of[…]

2015 November 1, Tim Broadwater, Design, Gamification, and Usability Affecting Social Change for LGBTQIA People, Tim Broadwater, page 4:

In recent years, additional letters have been integrated into this acronym to include those who identify as transsexual (T), queer (Q), questioning (Q), intersex (I), asexual (A), ally (A), and pansexual (P), to produce LGBTTQQIAAP,[…]

2017 April 15, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

Shifting to singular they from he or she may ruffle your grammatical feathers, and you may get lost in the number of letters found in LGBTTQQIAAP (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, and pansexual).

2021 December 13, Hedreich Nichols, Finding Your Blind Spots: Eight Guiding Principles for Overcoming Implicit Bias in Teaching, Solution Tree Press, →ISBN:

... and the initialisms coined to capture any deviation from perceived norms (e.g., LGBTTQQIAAP [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual]); no wonder we are confused.

2022 May 5, R. John Aitken, The Infertility Trap: Why life choices impact your fertility and why we must act now, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 127:

(rare) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual/aromantic, ally, and pansexual.


black pill

black pills (plural)
black-pill (alternative)
blackpill (alternative)

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Nihilism sense influenced by preexisting red pill. See there for further explanation.

He says conditions got worse as time went along and at different times she threatened to give him a black pill, that he asked her what this meant and she said "that was the way women had of getting rid of husbands when they didn't want them any more."

1942, Fayette Legal Journal - Volume 5, page 252:

The day I got into med school my mother told me that if she were ever to find herself without her mental faculties that I should give her the "black pill."

2009, Bruce Wilson, “Doing death better”, in American Heart Hospital Journal:

"Take the black pill," I said. "You once told me I'd never do it. Neither will you. You've got a hollow tooth, I found it when I gagged you. Bite it, take the black pill. It's easier than drowning."

2010, Lawrence Block, Such Men Are Dangerous, →ISBN:

A poison pill; a pill intended to kill the person who ingests it.

Now that we have both the black pill and white pill results before us, we are in a position to make a few general observations.

1979, Ronald A. Howard, Life and death decision analysis, page 17:

But to me both characters in the black pill example were immoral in Kant's sense: the person who made the offer and the person who accepted it (to accept the offer of deliberately running a risk of death for dollars gain is treating humanity in yourself as a means only, whether or not you agree, or perhaps especially if you agree)

1980, C. West Churchman, “Symposium Summary the Safety Profession's Image of Humanity”, in Societal Risk Assessment,, →ISBN:

Howard [1984] bases his analysis on a "black pill” and a "white pill."

1986, Robert E. Machol, “How much safety?”, in Interfaces, volume 16, number 6:

As a useful thought experiment, we imagine an individual faced with what we call the black pill question. He is offered the chance to take a pill that will kill him instantly and painlessly with a probability he assigns as p. If he takes the pill, he will receive x dollars. Should he accept?

2013, Richard C. Schwing, Walter A. Albers, Societal Risk Assessment: How Safe is Safe Enough?, →ISBN, page 92:

In contrast, the curve for the black pill takes off asymptotically to infinity once the risk reaches about 1/10.

2017, M. Granger Morgan, Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis, →ISBN, page 123:

(philosophy) A hypothetical pill with a specific probability of causing death, which one is offered a large sum of money in order to take, as a philosophical dilemma.

However, disquiet has been voiced recently about how "natural" certain forms of traditional Buddhist medicine are - notably the Tibetan "black pill" - some recipes for which specify rhinoceros horn and bear-bile among the ingredients (Leland, 1995).

1995, James J Hughes, Damien Keown, “Buddhism and Medical Ethics: A Bibliographic Introduction”, in Journal of Buddhist ethics, volume 2:

This great precious Cold Compound Black Pill contains more than one hundred ingredients, including the metals, gold, silver, copper, and iron, the precious stones sapphire, emerald, turquiose, ruby, and all in detoxified from and a great number of herbal ingredient, including Crocus sativus L. Silkious concretion of bamboo.

2001, Jürgen C. Aschoff, Tashi Yangphel Tashigang, Tibetan "precious Pills", the Rinchen Medicine:

It is said that taking a black pill will spare one the suffering of the lower realms. The black pills are made of special substances that come from previous incarnations of the Karmapas, as well as other precious, sometimes legendary substances, such as water that has turned into snow lion milk in the skull cup of the protectress Tseringma.

2003, Michele Martin, Music in the Sky: The Life, Art, and Teachings of the 17th Karmapa Ogyen109, →ISBN:

His father went to the village leaders for some medicine but returned with only some black pills, a traditional remedy.

2016, Les Sillars, Intended for Evil: A Survivor's Story of Love, Faith, and Courage in the Cambodian Killing Fields, →ISBN:

Once an individual had accessed this page they would be directed to a number of stories that described other candidates, in this case Fillon and Macron, as crooked, and also described French democracy as a broken system (the 'black pill' content).

2018, Jacob Davey, Erin Marie Saltman, Jonathan Birdwell, “The mainstreaming of far-right extremism online and how to counter it: a case study on UK, US and French election”, in Trumping the Mainstream, Routledge, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

They see a dangerous trend in the incel movement: “The spreading of the blackpill would no doubt increase shooting (and suicides) because some young men lose control”.

2019 November, Sylvia Jaki et al., “Online Hatred of Women in the Incels.me Forum: Linguistic Analysis and Automatic Detection”, in Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, volume 7, number 2, →DOI:

The first way forum posters express how they deal with depression is through the term “LDAR” or “lay down and rot”. This phrase follows the logic of the blackpill that life is hopeless for incels due to their inability to reach stereotypical standards of masculinity.

2020, Anne Jones, Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online (thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida), page 67:

(often attributive) A notional pill taken by those who have adopted a nihilistic, usually (but not necessarily) far-right philosophy, especially incels who believe unattractive men will never be sexually or romantically successful.


black pill

black pill (third-person singular simple present black pills, present participle black pilling, simple past and past participle black pilled)

black pills (present singular third-person)
black pilling (participle present)
black pilled (participle past)
black pilled (past)
black-pill (alternative)
blackpill (alternative)

And finally, to be 'black-pilled' is to take pleasure in the end of existence, to philosophise from a perspective of our technological demise, and to embrace the singular bleakness of a meaningless world.

2019, Emile Frankel, Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine The Future?, unnumbered page:

Yet some of the most high-profile men in the alt-right are dismayed by the manosphere's hostility, worried that it has become rife with young men who have been black pilled, turned into angry nihilists who might become homicidal or suicidal incels.

2019, Alexandra Minna Stern, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination, page 97:

Incels are a danger to western society, because if we manage to blackpill more low value men, it could destroy this rotten civilization in its current form.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, page 73

(transitive) To cause another to adopt a nihilistic philosophy.


AFChick

I am an AFChick (female version of "average f*cking chump") who has been lurking, posting, dodging, and lurking again for a few months now.

1999 December 28, Janice Graham, “Does saying belowme really work?”, in soc.men (Usenet):

I figured that I wasn't going to ever break out of AFChick status unless I beared^([sic]) a little constructive pain and stuck with it.

2000 January 6, The Fair Penitent, “Smelling funny? (Re: interesting airplane ride... )”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

One of them is already for a long time member of the lesbian/feminazi scene here, and for I can tell most of them are way beyond the AFChick stage and hearing about some of them trying to act like an "alpha female" was sooooo pathetic...

2000 February 13, Boris, “Women as AFChicks”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

average frustrated chump
average frustrated chump

(seduction community, slang) A female average frustrated chump.


AFCdom

And I think this is CENTRAL to AFCdom getting perpetuated in our society. Chicks are unaware of what they want, announcing all the time that they want things that are different from what they actually respond to.

2001 July 1, Final D, “Failure Report”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

That reaction would fit my personality, and I'd have the added benefit of it being a neg, (makes her feel a *little* silly for thinking I would), while at the same time showing her that I'm so far removed from AFCdom that it didn't even occur to me buying a drink was an option.

2001 September 5, Bet For A Living, “Can't buy drinks?”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

Are you trying to drag us back into the middle ages of AFCdom?

2006 July 1, Bernd Jendrissek, “A Jim Summers Update”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):

(seduction community) The state or condition of being an AFC.


AFCness

I will admit that I was having difficulty understanding the gist of the thread in general since you all were talking about female AFCness in ways that I have not considered.

2000 February 13, Zipjack, “Women as AFChicks”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

AFCness is an addiction, in that it's a detrimental state that creates a certain sense of security in the short term, does not benefit the addict in the long term, but a dependency on that state is very difficult to get rid of.

2001 October 31, FinaliDentity, “Thanks for everything in this NG - but I just aren't a "player" guys!”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

AFCness is a very resilient disease. I've heard of many cases where it seemed to be in total remission, but then came back with a vengeance.

2006 June 24, Czouch, “About to suffer info overload”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

(seduction community) The state of being an AFC.


WBAFC

I guess this shows that even WBAFC's aren't completely clueless. :)

2001 July 30, TSntana97, “Why alt.seduction.fast is not for me (long)”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):

The Last Seduction [snip of a long, pointless post by a WBAFC who needs a spanking]

2002 October 15, Vince Runza, “seduction by AFC signs - VERY HELPFUL?”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

The only "special" status I've claimed on ASF so far is that I am/was WBAFC. I'm not sure I'd say I'm WBAFC anymore.

2006 December 28, speeding, “Is speeding any better than gordo???”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

(seduction community slang) Initialism of way-below-average frustrated chump.


BAFC

Don's a BAFC.

1997 August 29, Ross Jeffries, “Ross Special Offer (Paul Ross)”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

Im not sure where to begin, I am a BAFC (below average frustrated chump), Im 33 and have only gotten laid by two different girls (purely by accident, dont think i had anything to do with it)

2000 April 13, brother_...@my-deja.com, “hi Im new, please flame me.”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

I'm realizing now what a BAFC I was before I found this place 5 months ago.

2001 September 6, Wintermute, “Thanks ASF!”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

(seduction community slang) Initialism of below-average frustrated chump


sextremism

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Femen is originally a Ukrainian women's group that applies "sextremism" to draw attention to equality and democracy issues.

2013, vivapa...@aol.com, “Topless Femen Activists Target Swedish Mosque”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

The activist group, which says that it is based on "sextremism, atheism and feminism," was apparently trying to protest against patriarchy and the Vatican's pro-life views. According to EuroNews.com, the woman was identified as 20-year-old philosophy student Josephine Witt.

2013, GLOBALIST, “Here is how mature adult women demonstate their political believes-they rub your face into their vaginas.”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):

Sextremism is the main new form of feminist activism developed by Femen. Sextremism is female sexuality that has risen up against patriarchy by embodying itself in extreme political acts of direct action.

Their ideology centers around "sextremism" and feminism.

2016, anonymous author, “'Victory of all feminists': FEMEN wins right to topless protest in France”, in alt.prophecies.nostradamus (Usenet):

According to FEMEN's website, sextremism is a: fundamentally new form of women's feminist actionism. [It] is female sexuality rebelling against patriarchy and embodied in the extremal political direct action events [...] Sextremism is the woman's mockery of vulgar male extremism and its bloody mayhems and a cult of terror.

2016, Helen Davies, Claire O’Callaghan, Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture:


broflake

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Netflix dropped the first trailer for its new comedy series Dear White People today, and already broflakes (what I’ve decided to call MAGA hat-wearing dudes who complain about “snowflakes” but are themselves overly sensitive) are cancelling their accounts.

2017 February 9, Christopher Hooton, “The first trailer for Netflix's 'Dear White People' is upsetting broflakes everywhere”, in The Independent:

Yesterday, actress Amber Tamblyn published a New York Times op-ed stemming from her Twitter feud with actor/broflake James Woods.

2017 October 17, Whitney Kimball, “Amber Tamblyn's James Woods Feud Inspires New York Times Op-Ed , But Woods Hates the Times, So There”, in Jezebel:

Specifically, the broflakes said they had experienced gender discrimination against them at some point.

2018 January 10, Shaun Nichols, “1 in 5 STEM bros whinge they can't catch a break in tech world they run”, in The Register:

Bring on the broflakes triggered by reading Lena Dunham's name.

2018 February 9, Lanre Bakare, “Lena Dunham to remake Julia Davis sitcom Camping for HBO”, in The Guardian:

But here’s the thing about quotas, or - to protect the political broflakes (a portmanteau of “bros” and “snowflakes”, thank you internet) - here’s the thing about “targets”: they work.

2018 March 9, Jacqueline Maley, “Coalition has a problem with women - and Peta Credlin wants to fix it”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(slang, derogatory, neologism) An overly-sensitive man or boy who is easily upset or offended, especially one upset about loss of male privilege.


dried-fish woman

en-noun

dried-fish woman (plural dried-fish women)

(Asia, idiomatic, derogatory) A woman, especially a young one, who lacks a significant other.


neurofeminist

Relating to a branch of feminism that critically examines neuroscientific research in terms of gender bias.


consistent life ethic

capital punishment
capital punishment#English

A cultural, political, and religious right to life belief opposed to abortion, capital punishment, economic injustice, euthanasia or assisted suicide, and war.


walk-on girl

/ˌwɔːk ɒn ˈɡɜːl/

/ˌwɔk ɑn ˈɡɝl/

/ˌwɑk ɑn ˈɡɝl/

Again anticipating opportunity, Tommy Cox jets to Alaska and books Sarah Palin to be a walk-on girl at the 2009 Desert Classic final.

2010, Paul Siegel, chapter 7, in 2008: The Year in Darts, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 39:

His then girlfriend, Bernice Grey was a minor model turned darts walk-on girl. Jack's checklist-life could not have got much better compared to his childhood ambitions.

2012, Mark Wollacott, “Blank Jack (Teaser)”, in 108 Breaths, Circencester, Gloustershire: Wyrd Works, →ISBN, page 112:

The rah-rah girls dancing onstage were shaking their thing as Phil wobbled his way down the runway flanked by a Dutch walk-on girl dressed like a Thunderbirds pilot, all enhancements bouncing to the Eurobeat, as the surgeon intended. Then it was Mike's turn. His girl was dressed in a lime-green minidress and fat gold rope chain (subconsciously channelling Run DMC), which wasn't the only plastic on show. Neither walk-on girls I recognise. They must be the continental ones.

2017, King Adz, “Continental Darts”, in Fear and Loathing on the Oche: A Gonzo Journey through the World of Championship Darts, London: Yellow Jersey Press, →ISBN:

Flanked by a minder and a walk-on girl he strode down the walkway, hands in prayer, eyes turned heavenward.

2017, Matthew E. Pointon, “Holy Mass”, in Short Stories Volume 2 (2006–2010), [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN, page 179:

Walk-on girls will no longer be used by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) after talks with broadcasters. The long-established practice of women escorting male players to the stage will be abandoned, starting with this weekend's Masters in Milton Keynes. […] But walk-on girl Charlotte Wood, who says darts accounts for 60 per cent of her income, says her rights "are being taken away". […] The Women's Sport Trust tweeted: "We applaud the Professional Darts Corporation moving with the times and deciding to no longer use walk-on-girls. Motor racing, boxing and cycling … your move."

2018 January 27, “Darts: PDC to Scrap Walk-on Girls after Broadcaster Talks”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2018-06-21:

(darts) A woman who escorts a player to the stage at a darts event.


transnormativity

transnormativity (countable and uncountable, plural transnormativities)

From transnormative + -ity or trans- + normativity.

2015, Evan Vipond, Resisting Transnormativity: challenging the medicalization and regulation of trans bodies (Transformative Studies Institute)

Transnormativity is a much clearer concept than homonormativity and approaches class in ways that are solidly materialist. Transnormativity is pressure to look identical to a cis person. This involves body-shaming people who do not want to or are unable to rid their bodies of secondary sex characteristics that socially identify them as the sex they were assigned at birth.

2016, Holly Lewis, The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection, Zed Books Ltd., →ISBN:

For Jenner and many other transpeople, transnormativity is away to escape the societal shame directed toward trans people—a way, at last, to fit in. The problem, then, is that seeking transnormativity does very little to actually address [transphobia].

2017, Anne Helen Petersen, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, Penguin, →ISBN, page 166:

The assumption that transgender people should, and the pressure on them to, fit a cissexist idea of what is "normal". (Compare pass.)


transnormative

en-adj

transnormative (comparative more transnormative, superlative most transnormative)

more transnormative (comparative)
most transnormative (superlative)

In this metaphor, transnormative subjects “before the law” are likely to be those in the “but for” group, closest to the floor above. A transnormative approach seeks inclusion in existing political and social arrangements, and, like its cognate, “homonormative,” describes a politics in which “'equality' becomes narrow, formal access to a few conservatizing institutions” (Duggan 2003, 65). Aren Z. Aizura describes “transnormative” as an imperative to fade “into the population ...”

2017, Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess, Christine Keating, LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 37:

While Spade excoriates the medical establishment as a regulatory system deeply invested in stereotypical binary gender, he also complicates transnormative narratives of transition that are invested in the reification of hegemonic medical constructions of transition as a linear, teleological path (from male to female, or female to male). By transnormative, I mean subjects who, save for their status as trans, are otherwise highly assimilable — gendernormative, heterosexual, middle-class, ...

2017, Cyd Cipolla, Kristina Gupta, David A. Rubin, Angela Willey, Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 162:

Transnormativity can be loosely defined as the notion that a "successful" trans person is a person who does not appear to be trans. A transnormative person can “pass” in larger society as their preferred gender identity—and is able to do so because he or she so successfully embodies the norms of masculinity or femininity. Yet embodying those norms requires capital—both cultural and monetary. As a result, the “most” transnormative individuals are generally those who are white, able-bodied, and upper-middle-class […]

2017, Anne Helen Petersen, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, Penguin, →ISBN, page 165:

Pertaining to, exhibiting, or consistent with transnormativity.


toxic femininity

Don’t get me wrong I know many rad Riot Grrris but for me the predominant kinderwhore uniform didn’t seem very different than the toxic femininity mass media was already pushing on me as a fat non white teen […]

2014, Mason J., quoted in Amos Mac & Rocco Kayiatos, "Mr. Transman San Francisco Mason J.", Original Plumbing, Winter 2014, page 33

The obsequious demands of toxic femininity require placing oneself in a diminished role in relation to a more powerful partner, who uses physical, sexual, financial, emotional, or psychological actions or threats of actions to gain or maintain power over another person.

2019, Brenda R. Weber, Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism, page 232:

Rather, toxic femininity is a by-product of toxic masculinity – it is the poison which arises in women's bodies and minds when they experience not just the pain of lost love, but the hopelessness of trying to be perfect, not for themselves but for men who ultimately neither understand nor value them.

2024, Van Thanh Binh, Stephen Whitehead, Self-Love for Women: Overcoming Toxic Femininity and Suffering, unnumbered page:

(feminism) The systemic pressure on women to conform to standards of beauty, femininity, modesty, etc., to the detriment of individual agency and well-being.


mamgu

And brightly dressed mamgus sipping from a flask of whisky, lightly laced with tea for the bronchi cough.

2007, Aneurin Gareth Thomas, Luggage from Elsewhere, page 203:

I'm not a religious man, or at least I am not a churchgoer. But I really felt my two mamgus, Annie and Lena, were looking down on me that day from heaven, […]

2011, John Hartson, Please Don't Go: Big John's Journey Back to Life:

For Nora, Nancy, and all the Mamgus.

2021, Donna Amey Bhatt, How to Greet a Gran:


huwoman

Blend of human + woman; in analogy to man, as it appears to be in the word human.

(rare, nonstandard) A woman; a female human.


oligoamenorrhea

(medicine) The condition of having irregular infrequent menstrual periods.


non-binariness

The quality of being non-binary, of not being binary.


Joan of Arc

en-noun

Joan of Arc (plural Joans of Arc or Joan of Arcs)

Joans of Arc (plural)
Joan of Arcs (plural)

Appellativisation of Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc), the name of a 15th century French folk heroine revered as a martyr.
Further etymology
The name itself is a calque of French Jeanne d’Arc. According to surviving signatures, her Old French given name was Jehanne, feminine form of Jehan (cognate in English to John). In the English language, her first name has been repeated as Joan since the fifteenth century because that was the only English equivalent for the feminine form of John during her lifetime, Jane not being attested until later. She did not come from a place called Arc; d'Arc was attributed because of her father's surname, which was most likely Darc. Apostrophes were never used in fifteenth-century French surnames, which sometimes leads to confusion when analyzing such names. See Wikipedia (Name of Joan of Arc) for more.

And they're the ones that put you down/ 'Cause they got no heart / But I'm the one that will follow you / You're my Joan of Arc

2013, Arcade Fire, “Joan of Arc”, in Reflektor:

Volatile yet stubborn, self-interested yet a modern Joan of Arc—criticisms of Richardson were as contradictory as they claimed her to be.

2020, Lindsay Harroff, “From Sitting In to Sitting Out: Gloria Richardson and the 1963 Cambridge Movement”, in Lesli K. Pace, Sean Patrick O'Rourke, editors, Like Wildfire: The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Sit-Ins, page 204:

Digressing a bit, the mission statement of this chapter is to illustrate the example set for all of us by the Joan of Arcs of today—women who serve in Special Operations in particular, and the military in general […]

2021, Steve Giblin, Jon Land, Walking in Mud: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Rules for Surviving the New Normal, unnumbered page:

(figuratively) A brave, visionary, or martial woman.


Mrs Miggins

From Mrs + Miggins (“a surname”), possibly popularized by the character Mrs Miggins who is mentioned in the British television comedy series Blackadder II (first broadcast 9 January – 20 February 1986) as the owner of a pie shop, and appears in Blackadder the Third (17 September – 22 October 1987) as a coffee shop proprietress.

I doubt that Mrs Miggins on the number 32 bus cares much about the plight of the yellow woodlouse.

Many were the high expectations entertained by fond parents, of the rapid progress which their darlings would make, when placed under the tuition of the young man from college, that would teach without whipping, "Old man," said Mrs. Miggins (as I heard) to her husband, a sturdy farmer, "old man, our Jack is a mighty smart boy: I saw him the other day, when he wanted some cake go to the cupboard, take a long stick, pull it down on the floor, and then taking it up, he ran to me and cried out, 'Goodness, mother, look here what a piece of cake I found on the floor; may'nt I have it?' He is a mighty clever boy, and neighbor Johnson's son will teach him every thing that's smart."

1849 February, “The ‘Moral Suasion’ Theory”, in The University Magazine, volume I, number 2, Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia, →OCLC, pages 53–54:

You can do nothing Evangelical without a tea-meeting. […] Mrs. Griggs and Mrs. Miggins are ready with their donation to your subscription list, but you must give them the opportunity of drinking Bohea in public before they will disburse.

1873, Iota [pseudonym; John Francis Waller], “Hatchley Colne”, in The Adventures of a Protestant in Search of a Religion, London: R. Washbourne, […], →OCLC, page 192:

It's all very well trusting users, but what happens if Mrs. Miggins brings in a floppy disk from home with some code on it written by her son.

2003, Nigel Stanley, “Scalability and Security”, in Microsoft .NET Jumpstart for Systems Administrators and Developers, Burlington, Mass.: Digital Press, Elsevier Science, →ISBN, page 150:

Instead, this government seems to see a Britain stymied by local vested interests, where our whole economic future is called into question because Mrs Miggins doesn't want a motorway through her back garden, or a nuclear power station built next door. […] Its solution is to cut Mrs Miggins – and anyone else who wants a say in what happens in their local neighbourhood – out of the process. Instead, big decisions will be taken by an appointed panel of "experts".

2007 June 4, Mark Lynas, “Don’t Blame Mrs Miggins”, in New Statesman, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-01-03:

For a mercifully short period, it felt as though the Today programme was dominated by high-level political debate over whether Labour could be blamed for the whole thing (in general, government spokesmen were not persuaded by this thesis), or whether Gordon Brown could take credit for Mr and Mrs Miggins and the Miggins brood getting home in one piece (the direction of this debate was not unpredictable either).

2010, Adam Boulton, Joey Jones, “Decision Time”, in Hung Together: The Cameron–Clegg Coalition, London: Simon & Schuster UK, published 2012, →ISBN, part I (Campaign), page 80:

If Tesco want to invest and produce a front-end to interact and deal with Mrs Miggins and her interaction with Government, why shouldn't they be able to? Tesco don't want to get involved in a £1 billion procurement, but they want more up-sell to Mrs Miggins.

2011 March 15, Public Administration Select Committee, House of Commons, quoting Martin Rice, witness, Government and IT—“a Recipe for Rip Offs”: Time for a New Approach: Twelfth Report of Session 2010–12 (HC 715-II), volumes II (Oral and Written Evidence), London: The Stationery Office, published 28 July 2011, →ISBN, page Ev 26, column 1:

[…] Volvo is a motoring minnow. They made around 450,000 cars last year. […] So Volvo announcing that it's going all electric is going to have the same effect on the world's carbon emissions as Mrs Miggins turning the thermostat down in her front room.

2017 July 7, Jeremy Clarkson, “Volvo going electric will have the same effect as Mrs Miggins turning down the heating in her front room”, in The Sun, London: News Group Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-20:

Although asset managers ultimately manage money for private individuals – a point which they frequently shorthand by referring to the end investor under the patronising and arrogant generic term ‘Mrs Miggins’ – very few people working in the firms have had any contact with private individuals at all. […] [E]ven in the retail market the very large majority of relationships with end clients are mediated – it isn’t actually necessary to meet Mrs Miggins, Mr Miggins or any other members of the Miggins family.

2018, Lucian Camp, Anthony Thomson, No Small Change: Why Financial Services Needs a New Kind of Marketing, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

From the moment you park up in a police car outside some little old lady's house, even if it's only to walk down the road to make an inquiry at a neighbour's, Mrs. Miggins will be convinced that you're there to tell her that one of her family has died in some tragic accident.

2022, Darren Moor, “Try Not to Frighten Mrs. Miggins Any More than You have Already”, in How to Survive Your Early Years as a Police Officer: Tips, Tactics and Humour for the Probationer and Beyond, Market Harborough, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN:

(UK, informal) Any ordinary woman, especially an older woman.

Pihtiputaan mummo

any ordinary woman, especially an older woman


genderbendy

en-adj

genderbendy (comparative more genderbendy, superlative most genderbendy)

more genderbendy (comparative)
most genderbendy (superlative)

Mom smiled at Sister Veronica. “St. Anthony of Padua.” I have to believe that she smirked. Now this was Ireland, 1963. It was still six years before Johnny Cash's hit “A Boy Named Sue.” Anything genderbendy was unheard of at the best of times, let alone in the parish church of a Catholic village with a population of 900, including surrounding farmlands. Taking a male saint's name—Mom says it was on a dare—was unheard of and, as far as I know, unreplicated since.

2016, Duana Taha, The Name Therapist: How Growing Up with My Odd Name Taught Me Everything You Need to Know about Yours, Random House Canada, →ISBN, page 77:

We can make you a dupe of the stuff you were wearing, or you can pick something out of the catalog. Or you can run home wearing a towel. Entirely up to you.” “You copied her clothes?” the sarcastic one said. “Why, you want a set? They were unisex. We could mod 'em for you, or you could rock something genderbendy. I think it'd suit you.” Now that she said it, she realized it was true. She liked the other one, Etcetera, more as a person, but this Herr von Picklepants was pretty in a way [...]

2017, Cory Doctorow, Walkaway: A Novel, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 67:


genderfucky

Incidentally, I'm not sure you're bucking the trend so much as going along with it; FTM crossplay is getting pretty popular, although you see more women going for bishounen and visual-kei genderfucky stars than anything else.

2001 May 22, Wednesday, “Re: 'There are only 500 REAL anime fans in the UK'”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet), message-ID <-6y*A5OWo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>:

The Cockettes' home life was as scrappy and genderfucky as their Palace performances. “Reality is fantasy and fantasy is reality to the Cockettes,” the journalist Maureen Orth wrote in 1971. “Their life style is carefully contrived to blur if not actually diminish the distinction between the two.” LSD was so common, says Sweet Pam, that “we almost brushed our teeth with it.” You slept until noon if you felt like it […]

2013, Joshua Gamson, The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 55:

Altogether his outfit was a little genderfucky, but certainly not drag. He wasn't trying to look like a girl. He never tried to look like a girl. He didn't want to look like a girl, and he didn't want to look like a boy—but simply something other. Not even something in between. Just something else.

2016, Benjamin Hale, The Fat Artist and Other Stories, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 221:

(vulgar, slang) Genderbending; tending to genderfuck.


cis-centric

cis-centric (comparative more cis-centric, superlative most cis-centric)

more cis-centric (comparative)
most cis-centric (superlative)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cis-centric.


ciscentrism

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ciscentrism.

(rare) The practice or quality of being ciscentric.


Friedman test

Developed in 1931 by Maurice Harold Friedman and Maxwell Edward Lapham at the University of Penn.


womxn

From women + -x-. Respelled both to avoid containing men (compare English womyn), and to use x (compare English Latinx), intended to convey that the word has a broad scope.

A womxn whose ability to carry out this work is through the grace of Anishinaabe mxn and institutions? A womxn without a grove of birch whose bark may be harvested without fear of negative consequences?

2018, Julie A. Gallagher, Barbara Winslow, Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN:

“Coyolxauhqui Canto” by Cristina Gorocica, a song written in offering to the moon, documents the moment of recognition when a womxn's body undergoing a metamorphoses to accommodate the growth of life is mirrored back in the phases of [the moon].

2019, Lara Medina, Martha R. Gonzales, Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 294:


womxn

Twenty-One Ways of Leaving:
[…]
19. The womxn in their thirties.
The womxn with wrinkles at the edges of their eyes.
The womxn who spell lonely with ambition.
The womxn in their thirties.
The womxn who do not bring up your age at the dinner table.
The womxn who bring up your accolades at the dinner table.
The womxn who make love to you
and introduce you at the dinner table
like they have not been intimate with your sheets.
Oh honey, run.
No.
The other way.

2017, Koleka Putuma, Collective Amnesia, →ISBN, page 44:

She was born in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico, and migrated with her family in the early 1990s to the Pacific Northwest. She is also a hip-hop artist with Batallones Femeninos, a womxn's hip-hop collective based in Mexico, and does multimedia production and autonomous organizing with Shades of Silence. She is currently in the process of applying to film school and to a graduate doctoral program to extend her work of supporting womxn and Indigenous communities ...

2017, Devon Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, Gabriel R. Valle, Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: Decolonial Perspectives, University of Arkansas Press, →ISBN, page 443:

To every person I spoke with on my many trips across the country, to guides/mentors/friends/fam: to Alexis Pauline Gumbs, for living queer Black brilliance and Black love, for creating space to remember Harriett Tubman, and for continuing to create Black Spaces for us rooted in the ways and words of Black womxn; ...

2017, Rae Paris, The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:


matristics

The study of women who were involved in the early Christian church.


pelvic inflammatory disease

(pathology) The infection of the upper part of the female reproductive system (uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries) and inside of the pelvis.


femoid

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Members describe women as “femoids” and the men they have sex with as “chads”.

2017 November 8, Olivia Solon, “'Incel': Reddit bans misogynist men's group blaming women for their celibacy”, in The Guardian:

The user wrote: "Although I don’t condone what celbro Frank Yeager did, normies and femoids need to understand what can happen after you bully us for so long."

2017 November 9, Alexandra Richards, “Reddit bans 'misogynist' group which blamed women for its members' celibacy”, in Evening Standard:

But when they abandon the pursuit of relationships in favor of long-winded posts about their anger toward “femoids,” one’s sympathy wanes.

2018 April 27, Brooke A. Rodgers, “The online ‘incel’ culture is real – and dangerous”, in New York Post:

Alongside the terms used in Minassian’s message, a common idiom in their discussions is “femoid”. Short for “female humanoid”, it’s used in place of the word “woman” to depict how, in an incel’s view, women are not entirely human, but are instead robot-like androids who only crave sex with Chads.

2018 April 28, Kate Wilson, “Last week in tech: sex robots”, in The Georgia Straight:

Mr. Genco posted on an incel website that he had also shot couples and “foids” — short for “femoids,” an incel term for women — with orange juice from a water gun, which made him feel “spiritually connected to the saint on that day,” according to the indictment.

2021 July 21, Michael Levenson, “‘Incel’ Is Charged With Plotting to Shoot Women, U.S. Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


sismance

en-noun

sismance (countable and uncountable, plural sismances)

‘Sis-mance’, or ‘sister-mance’ (the best I could come up with for a female version of ‘bromance’) was rampant this week

2013, What have Your Favourite Celebs been up to? Find out on ‘The BFF Special’ of #WorkFlow! – Your Weekly Entertainment News Bulletin, BellaNaija:

2014 Joséphine Japy : "Mélanie Laurent place la barre assez haut dans son cinéma" Premiere
Joséphine : C’est une amitié passionnelle, au sens de l’adoration de l’autre. Ce que les Américains appellent une « sismance ».
Le féminin de « bromance » ?
Joséphine : Voilà. Ces deux jeunes filles ont un rapport d’exclusivité l’une envers l’autre. Elles doivent toujours tout faire ensemble, tout partager. C’est particulier, deux filles qui décident qu’elles sont faites l’une pour l’autre.

So, when Amy showed up to Elle's Women in Hollywood Awards Monday (Oct. 19) night in what must've been her Jennifer Lawrence Halloween costume because literally everything about her look was a direct throwback to Jennifer Lawrence's iconic 2011 Academy Awards style, we knew this sismance was at peak levels.

2015, Amy Schumer And Jennifer Lawrence Just Completed The Twin Transformation, MTV:

Romeo and Juliet ended their relationship in similar fashion. So did Thelma and Louise, come to think of it. Is that a Sismance?

2016, Ten great movie bromances, The Irish Times:

2017 Rahul Da Cunha: Padmavati Bar & Grill, Goa Mid-Day
I wanted to make a low budget sismance movie — the female equivalent of 'bromance' — but was told by the studios that chick flicks are out

2018 Kareena Kapoor Khan and Sonam Kapoor starrer ‘Veere Di Wedding’s trailer to release on THIS day Free Press Journal
She will be seen in ‘Veere Di Wedding’ which also stars Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhasker and Shikha Talsania in the key roles. Ever since the announcement of the film, their fans have been excited to watch this mixture of sismance on the big screen.

(informal) A close but nonsexual relationship between women.


sismantic

en-adj

sismantic (comparative more sismantic, superlative most sismantic)

more sismantic (comparative)
most sismantic (superlative)

Sweetest thing i saw when i was at the esplanade was there was a couple and they came up with this idea of taking pictures of other couples in love, and also those who just wanna be bromantic and sismantic.

2009, Matthew Goh, locked inside my head ., Creating-Miracles:

January 2010 Kyle Frazier Distributed time for others leads to healthy relationships
A fine balance of chilling with friends and hanging with a significant other is the key to a good relationship, whether the relationship is of the romantic kind or the bromantic/sismantic kind.

February 2010 The Uncelebrated Love Affair of the Single Girl, Ruth's Gleanings
The Benefits of Bro-/Sismantic Love

Special thanks to my beta, dolimir_k and my sismantic twin, maplelump.

2011, together, we are the oceans (part 4):

there is nothing in the rule book stating that you must celebrate only romantic love. Why not celebrate the love you have for yourself and your closest friends by having a “single girls night” at home? While all the couples out there are waiting for their turn in a jam-packed restaurant, you and your friends can enjoy a fun, sismantic (okay, I made that up, how come guys have bromances, but we don’t have a term for our bond as women?) night in the comfort of your own dining room.

2012, Nicole Etolen, Celebrate Single Girls Night on Valentine’s Day with Bormioli Rocco, Pretty Opinionated:

Root’s sismantic (/romantic) relationship with Shaw is also fascinating.

2015, Laura Dallars, Great Women II, We're Being WATCHED:

If a scene is between two or more characters, does it advance the story or character development arc between those characters? This includes all sex scenes and romantic or witty bromantic/sismantic interludes.

2016, James Osiris Baldwin, Fix Your Damn Book!: How to Painlessly Self-Edit Your Novels & Stories, page 72:


watch-birth

This Pattern pleas'd thee ſo, th' haſt fram'd by it,
Th' eternall Watch-births of thy ſacred Wit:
Thy pithy Book of Proverbs richly-grave,
Unto the PORCH may rich relation have:
For that it gives us Oeconomike Lawes,
Rules Politike, and Private civill Sawes;
And for (the moſt) thoſe Leſſons generall
At Humane matters ayme the moſt of all.

1641 [1578–84], “The Magnificence”, in Sylvester, Joshua, transl., Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes and Workes, translation of Semaines by Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, page 215:


beour

beor (alternative)
beore (alternative)
beur (alternative)
beure (alternative)

There were clusters of other lads and beors all about the riverbank, drinking, laughing.

(Ireland, slang) An (often attractive) woman or girl.


transmisogynoir

/ˌtɹænz.mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪˌnwɑɹ/

Blend of transmisogyny + misogynoir, from trans- + misogyny + French noir (“black”); coined on the site Gradient Lair in 2014.

When Black American transgender women contend with these dynamics, they experience transmisogynoir, the interactive product of anti-Blackness, transphobia, and sexism.

2017, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

(neologism) Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against black trans women.


control of conception

Perhaps popularised in 1931 by the book Control of Conception: An Illustrated Manual.


trans womyn

trans womyn (plural)
transwomyn (alternative)

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

I am a tweener dyke and more butch than femme. I know other trans womyn who are solidly butch, and others who are totally femme, and, of course, the equivalents among straight and bi womyn.

2011, Laurie Penny, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (John Hunt Publishing), quoting Marja Erwin

… the officer responsible for the brutal beating of trans womyn Duanna Johnson who was shot and killed in the process of suing the Memphis Police Department has been sent caskets and death threats, corporate pride events have been stormed, …

2016 (originally published 2011), "An Alleyway Tranarchist", Lubing Up The Social War, in Queer Ultraviolence: Bashback! Anthology (Fray Baroque and Tegan Eanelli, eds.)

The internal debate led to some awkward and confusing statements about who counts as womyn, such as, “Trans womyn who identify as womyn-born-womyn are welcome at Michfest.”

2017, Heath Fogg Davis, Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?, NYU Press, page 91, quoting a MichFest statement

(rare) Feminist spelling of trans woman and trans women.


man of action

"I have heard that the Scots are good men of war," said Hordle John. "For axemen and for spearmen I have not seen their match," the archer answered. […] "And the French?" asked Alleyne, to whom the archer's light gossip had all the relish that the words of the man of action have for the recluse.

1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 8, in The White Company (fiction):

The third was a man of action, a combatant, a bold and impatient executive, breathing fire and steel.

The world found out last week who led the daring, destructive noonday air raid on Japan last month[:] […] pugnacious Brigadier General James Harold Doolittle, 45, speed flyer, engineer, scholar and man of action.

1942 June 1, “Heroes: Jimmy Did It”, in TIME, archived from the original on 2022-06-28:

Patrick Leigh Fermor […] was a man of letters but also, like his hero Byron, a man of action—a war hero and a restless adventurer, who even swam the Hellespont when he was 69.

2017 December 1, Charles McGrath, “Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters”, in New York Times (book review), archived from the original on 2017-12-03:

(set phrase) One who acts or reacts boldly, without hesitation, and often without forethought, especially in situations which are adventurous or dangerous.


skoliosexuality

Some argue that it legitimizes the fetishization of trans people and undermines the legitimacy of transgender identities. Others, however, argue that the term accurately describes a real orientation and that skoliosexuality no more requires the fetishization of trans people than being a lesbian necessarily involves the fetishization of women.

2017, Don LePan, Laura Buzzard, Maureen Okun, How to Be Good with Words, →ISBN, page 158:


failson

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Coordinate term: faildaughter

This is the thread for Failsons. We are disappointments to our families, burdens on societies, and NOT jealous of our older sibling's nice houses and luxury automobiles.

2012 November 20, Haoma, “Failson Hangout”, in The Something Awful Forums / FYAD:

That manifests itself differently in different classes and geographic areas. For white, middle-class, male, useless people—who have just enough family context to not be crushed by poverty—they become failsons.

2016 November 18, Jia Tolentino, “What Will Become of the Dirtbag Left?”, in The New Yorker:

But that is how it went for family failsons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday.

2017 June 7, Gary Legum, “Trump family grift is getting worse: Eric and Donald Jr. resurface with a discount hotel scam”, in Salon:

Zimbabwe’s people suffer while the spoiled failsons of the elite floss on the ’gram.

2017 December 5, Benjamin Fogel, “Why Do So Many Western Leftists Defend Robert Mugabe?”, in Jacobin:

[T]he white nationalism of internet failsons is like the allegiance to an imaginary caliphate that motivated the terrorists whose depredations helped get Trump elected in the first place. It's often just a carapace, a flag of convenience, a performance for the vast TV-and-online audience that now attends these grisly spectacles, with a malignant narcissism and nihilism underneath.

2019 August 6, Ross Douthat, “The Nihilist in Chief”, in The New York Times:

(Internet slang, derogatory) An incompetent, unsuccessful middle-class or upper-class man who is protected from economic duress by his family's wealth or influence.


sister from another mister

en-noun

sister from another mister (plural sisters from another mister or sisters from other misters)

sisters from another mister (plural)
sisters from other misters (plural)

/ˈsɪstɚ fɹəm əˈnʌðə ˈmɪstɚ/

By analogy with brother from another mother.

My deepest thanks to my sister, Pamela Wilson and to my brother from another mother, Richard Montgomery, and my sister from another mister, Muriel Funches.

2010, Vanessa D[iana] Gilmore, “Dedication”, in You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Tales from a Judicial Diva, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:

And this is our sister from another mister, the fabulous Best Lightburn, but you already know all about her and her work.

[2016], Nicole Blades, The Thunder beneath Us, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN:

Ollie, my sister from another mister, would have shared her tiny bedroom with me in a heartbeat if I'd asked, but I'd never stoop to asking.

2017, Liz Reinhardt, chapter 1, in Rebels Like Us, Don Mills, Ont.: Seventeen Fiction, Harlequin Teen, →ISBN:

If I've done my job, you'll know and love these characters—sisters from another mister, brothers from another mother.

2018, J. Kenner, “An Introduction to the Lexi Blake Crossover Collection”, in Justify Me (A Stark International/Masters & Mercenaries Novella), [s.n.]: Evil Eye Concepts, →ISBN:

I'm the only child, no brothers, or sisters / Other than brothers from other mothers / Or the sisters from other misters

2020, Felice Mathieu, “The Man behind the Message”, in A Christian Marriage Guide: Preventing Arguments and Promoting Unity in the Christian Marriage, [s.n.]: Felice Mathieu:


behenji

(India, informal, derogatory) A woman who favours traditional Indian clothing, music, etc. over the Western equivalents.


enbian

en-adj

enbian (comparative more enbian, superlative most enbian)

more enbian (comparative)
most enbian (superlative)

(neologism, of a non-binary person) Preferring mostly or exclusively non-binary people as romantic or sexual partners.

(neologism, of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Between two people who are non-binary.


enbian

(neologism) A non-binary person who is sexually or romantically attracted to other non-binary people.


intersexualize

en-verb

intersexualize (third-person singular simple present intersexualizes, present participle intersexualizing, simple past and past participle intersexualized)

intersexualizes (present singular third-person)
intersexualizing (participle present)
intersexualized (participle past)
intersexualized (past)

On the other hand, in Ambystoma maculatum, it was reported by Burns ('39) that the effect induced by the administration of the same hormone is retained only to intersexualize the female gonad.

1957, Journal of the Institute of Polytechnics, Osaka City University: Biology:

I argue that this pan-sexual potential which is materially erased in intersexualizing surgery has a homologue in ...

2016, Lena Eckert, Intersexualization: The Clinic and the Colony, →ISBN:

(rare, nonstandard) Synonym of intersex (“to make intersexual, to make intersex”)


pregnant woman

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front hole

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"Do you put your penis into your partner's vagina, [or] rectum?" Or even, "Do you use the front hole or the back hole?" If you ask these questions without using body language or intimidating vocal mannerisms that betray discomfort and negative attitudes, you can get a lot of […]

1989, Larry Siegel, Milan Korcok, AIDS, the Drug and Alcohol Connection: What Health Care ..., page 58:

A.C. stated that she had not been touched by anyone in her "back hole," though she had been touched by Donald in her "front hole."

2000-2003, People of the State of Illinois v. Cookson, page 14

Front-Hole Penetration
Those of us who were assigned female at birth usually have a front hole, unless we have chosen to have it surgically removed via vaginectomy. Many of us have complicated feelings about using our front holes […]

2014, Laura Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 384:

“I don't have a vagina,” he explained, “I have a bonus hole. Other names that don't make me cringe are boy hole and front hole”.

2015, Tiffany Jones, Andrea del Pozo de Bolger, Tinashe Dune, Amy Lykins, Gail Hawkes, Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia: A National Study, Springer, →ISBN, page 112:

(euphemistic, uncommon) The vagina (now sometimes especially of a trans man).


sexual market value

en-noun

sexual market value (countable and uncountable, plural sexual market values)

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Alternative form: (initialism) SMV

The sexual market value of the homosexual male to other homosexuals is the chief concern here: […]

1979, Gordon Johnston, Which Way Out of the Men's Room?: Options for the Male Homosexual:

They must learn to be sexually arousing and must evaluate their worth compared to the sexual market value of other women.

1979, Edgar W. Butler, Traditional Marriage and Emerging Alternatives, New York: Harper & Row:

The value of a person in the dating market, based on physical attractiveness and other traits.


cock in a frock

cock in a frock (plural cocks in frocks)

From the 1994 movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Chosen for the rhyme. See cock (“penis”).

(vulgar, slang, derogatory, offensive) A trans woman.


NUWSS

w:National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

(UK, historical) Initialism of National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.


second-waver

second-wave feminism
second-wave feminism

A feminist in the era of second-wave feminism.


first-waver

A feminist in the era of first-wave feminism.


mamiji

(India) mother's brother's wife; maternal aunt


gender confirmation surgery

gender confirmation surgery (countable and uncountable, plural gender confirmation surgeries)

gender-affirming surgery
gender-affirming surgery#English


A-bomb maiden

Hiroshima maiden
Hiroshima maiden#English


Hiroshima maiden

Hiroshima maiden (plural Hiroshima maidens)

(historical) Any of a group of Japanese women who were disfigured by the thermal flash from the fission bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and who subsequently went on a highly publicized journey to get reconstructive surgery in the United States in 1955.


swan maiden

(mythology) A woman able to shapeshift between human and swan forms.


leading man

The type of conventionally handsome and approachable man who is perceived as being capable of playing male lead roles in movies or other productions.


gori

(North India, Pakistan, British India, elsewhere slang, ethnic slur) A white woman.


headswoman

No candid person will wholly dismiss the proposition that the idea of having a Lord Chancellor but not a Lady Chancellor may at least be connected with the idea of having a headsman but not a headswoman, a hangman but not a hangwoman.

1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, chapter 3 part 9:

A female headsman; a female executioner that carries out executions by decapitation.


Hislam

Eighteen
Islam, Not “Hislam”
On Muslim Feminists
Women are the twin halves of men. God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, and aunts. The rights of women are sacred. [...]

2014, Ranya Idliby, Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America, →ISBN, page 177:

2017, Susan Carland, Fighting Hislam: Women, Faith and Sexism, →ISBN:

(derogatory, uncommon) Islam which reinforces masculinist attitudes or ideas or downplays women's issues.


reply girl

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

(Internet, historical) A young woman who published video responses to popular YouTube videos, often wearing suggestive clothing, in order to exploit the site's algorithms and receive large amounts of traffic.


ROGD

Anti-trans campaigners call this 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' (ROGD) but there is no such phenomenon listed in clinical research. The only evidence for ROGD has come from a poorly designed study (Littman 2018) that has been criticised by its own university […]

2019, Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 51:

Michael Bailey and Ray Blanchard have expressed some preliminary thoughts based on interviews with mothers of ROGD children and clinicians […]

2020, Charles Murray, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class, Twelve, →ISBN:

rapid-onset gender dysphoria
rapid-onset gender dysphoria#English

(gender critical, pseudoscience) Initialism of rapid-onset gender dysphoria.


unclockable

en-adj

unclockable (comparative more unclockable, superlative most unclockable)

more unclockable (comparative)
most unclockable (superlative)

With these protracted and unclockable events, a moment or date may be given when the goal has certainly not yet been reached, and another when it certainly has ; but it is impossible to come any closer to an exact moment within that period.

Brother Anancy, like most just-arrive grabalicious samfie-man, drinking more than one spider fair share of whites, and people seeing him as he spangle staggering round the village at all sort of unclockable hours.

1973, Andrew Salkey, Anancy's Score, page 55:

For unclockable hours I plead Sloughing my heat for the elm's gilded leaves.

1976, Aspen Anthology - Issues 1-4, page xxi:

Elders en nergens elders, forever arriving, forever saying vaarwel, the nether we posit there, the coast of a landfall with unfamiliar light, with time unclockable and space uncertain and walled.

1982, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: six stories, page 236:

At a time that cannot be measured or identified.


himpathy

But this isn't because the problem of himpathy is rare. On the contrary -- it's so common that we regard it as business as usual.

2017, Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, →ISBN, page 196:

For too long we have clung to the idea of “himpathy”, as Washington Times journalist Irin Carmon so perfectly described it at the writers' festival.

2018 May 13, Helen Pitt, “Drop the 'himpathy': Clarion call of Sydney Writers' Festival's #MeToo moment”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Examples of “himpathy” abound. Cosby was buoyed by public support for decades, even as more than 60 women accused him of sexual assault.

2019 December 18, Anne Kingston, “Will Harvey Weinstein's big show produce ‘himpathy’?”, in Maclean’s:

(feminism) Inappropriate sympathy given to men or boys, especially those who are guilty of sexual transgressions.


enbyfriend

From enby + friend, modeled after girlfriend and boyfriend.

She felt a surge of hope, of warmth, that her beautiful enbyfriend could still pull this off, even compromised by Cryos.

2017, Irene Wendy Wode, How to Train Your Mafia, page 62:

While many of the interviewees mentioned having a boyfriend, girlfriend, or enbyfriend (nonbinary significant other), we heard over and over again that romantic relationships had to be approached with caution, given their potential to interfere with life and work.

2021, Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw, Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age, page 138:

A person who's on good terms with their exes is probably a better human being and a better potential boyfriend/girlfriend/enbyfriend than someone who hates all their exes.

2021, Dan Savage, Savage Love from A to Z: Advice on Sex and Relationships, Dating and Mating, Exes and Extras, page 139:

(slang, neologism) A non-binary partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.


aunt-in-law

Between uncle and aunt-in-law, or uncle's wife, you have a connection of affinity, and you have the same between aunt and uncle-in-law, or aunt's wife. [sic]

1871, William Lindsay, Inquiry into the Christian law, as to the relationships which bar marriage, page 86:

(nonstandard) The wife of one's uncle or aunt (parent's sibling).

2009 August 28, contributor, Petunia Dursley, Harry Potter Wiki
Petunia would later become an aunt-in-law to Harry's wife Ginevra Weasley and a great-aunt to Harry and Ginny's three children; James Sirius, Albus Severus,

(nonstandard) The aunt of one's spouse.
The aunt of one's husband.

(nonstandard) The aunt of one's spouse.
The aunt of one's wife.


bedwench

She reminded herself that she was a captured prize, not one of his bedwenches.

1999, Roxi Ashe, Spell Weaver, section 203:

2000, Andrea Sharkey, Legends of Power, page 57, emphasis original.
He wants me, enough to chase; I am more than a bedwench or secretary.

Twice he had tried to assuage his aching loins with the well endowed bedwench, finding little satisfaction.

2012, Sharon Margolis, Swan Maiden, page 138:


bed wench

bed wenches (plural)
bedwench (alternative)

(historical) A low-status concubine, often a slave or captive.


biomythography

Blend of biography + mythography, coined by feminist Audre Lorde.


roadside Romeo

Named after the famous lover in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Ismail Bhai speaks Bambaiya. In particular, his speech is heavily laced with bhai-giri, the street style of taporis—wannabe thugs, wastrels, roadside Romeos, smart alecks, and of course, the quintessential fast-talking and endearing Bombay hustleer of Hindi cinema. While Bhai is bro, the suffix giri is a mode of operation, code, style or trend.

2022 July 30, Gautam Pemmaraju, “Bol Bachchan: Speaking Together And Sticking Together In Mumbai”, in Outlook:

(India) A young man who harasses women in the street, subjecting them to Eve-teasing.