cross-dresser

cross-dressers (plural)
crossdresser (alternative)
xdresser (alternative)

desc

кроссдре́ссер

→ Russian: кроссдре́ссер (krossdrésser)

/ˈkɹɒsˌdɹɛ.sə/

/ˈkɹɔsˌdɹɛ.sɚ/

/ˌkɹɔsˈdɹɛ.sɚ/

/ˈkɹɑsˌdɹɛ.sɚ/

/ˌkɹɑsˈdɹɛ.sɚ/

Tedd: "Between seeing me, knowing my name, and hearing two guys arguing about skirts, he's going to be able to figure out that it was me who answered the door! He's going to know I was transformed!"

2006 March 6, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Mar 6, 2006:

For the buildings John uses plastic sheeting employed in the window banners of a particular ladies' clothing chain. [...] I asked John if the sales assistants in those shops thought he was odd, walking in and asking for bits of plastic. 'What you've got to remember,' he said, 'is that they get a lot of cross-dressers going in there, so I'm not that weird in comparison.'

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 268:

A person who wears clothing which society considers appropriate only for members of the opposite sex.

травестит

person who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite


get into trouble

en-verb

get into trouble (third-person singular simple present gets into trouble, present participle getting into trouble, simple past got into trouble, past participle (UK) got into trouble or (US) gotten into trouble)

gets into trouble (present singular third-person)
getting into trouble (participle present)
got into trouble (past)
got into trouble (UK participle past)
gotten into trouble (US participle past)

You'll get us all into trouble if you don't keep quiet.


Apollo

From Latin Apollō, from Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων (Apóllōn).


Barbie

A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.


Barbie

Named for Barbara Handler-Segal, daughter of Mattel co-founder Elliot Handler, in 1959.

They discourage their young children from engaging in rough-and-tumble play. One mother said, “I like Hai-Mei quiet. I like her playing Barbies, writing, and singing.”

1964, Young Children, volume 55, National Association for the Education of Young Children, page 10:

Everything short of the toe-to-toe Truth and Love that comes from real confrontation of individual consciousness is just playing with Barbie dolls.

1968, Paul Krassner, editor, The Realist, volumes 84-93, Realist Association, page 68:

Sarah, who is ten, says she doesn’t play with Barbies anymore, although she takes a certain scientific interest[…].

1976, Across the Board, volumes 13-14, The Conference Board, page 20:

Many of my feminist friends hate Barbie because they feel that she sends a terrible message to girls […]

2005, Linda Hoffman Kimball, Apple Pies & Promises, Cedar Fort,, →ISBN, page 51:

(by extension, informal, derogatory) A beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman.

barbína

a beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman


Dad

Dad told me to go out and mow the lawn.


Daddy

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Jenny's voice broke. “Daddy told me that she and Joey, my baby brother, were killed when I was two.”

2008, Betty Wagner Loeb, Jenny's Family Circle, page 26:


E

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 誒 /诶 (ê̄), from E ɛ⁵⁵.

A Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China; Kjang E.

誒話 /诶话

a Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County


Father

...and our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.

2002, A. J. Drew, Wicca for Couples: Making Magick Together, page 89

In respect to our Lord (God), these are the less known Master, Father, and Sage.

2003, A. J. Drew, Patricia Telesco, God/Goddess: Exploring and Celebrating the Two Sides of Wiccan Deity, page 38:

(Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca, representing a man, younger than the elderly Sage and older than the boyish Master.


Latine

Borrowed from Spanish latine (“Latine; Latino or Latina”). The gender-neutral suffix -e replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.

-a-o-x

(gender-neutral, neologism) Hispanic; Latino or Latina.


Mom

I wish Mom and Dad didn't argue so much.


Mommy

I wish Mommy and Daddy didn't argue so much.

(Canada, US, chiefly used by young children) One's mother


Mother

...different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.

2002, A.J. Drew, Wicca for Couples: Making Magick Together, page 90:

The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone.

2004, Aurora Greenbough, Cathy Jewell, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spells and Spellcraft, page 9:

(Wicca) One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Maiden and representing a woman older than a girlish Maiden but younger than an aged Crone.


Mother

Mother Teresa Gertrude O’Sullivan, then Provincial, did not give higher education for Loreto nuns the same priority as had Mothers Gonzaga and Stanislaus.

2009, Mary Ryllis Clark, Loreto in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, →ISBN, page 129:

A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Mother Nature, Mother Russia, or Mother Earth.


Mum

I wish Mum and Dad didn't argue so much.


papaw

Carica papaya
Carica papaya#Translingual

A tree, Carica papaya, of tropical America, belonging to the order Brassicales, and producing dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit.


Poppy

"It is a very pretty name, Mma. I should like to be called Poppy."
The compliment drew a smile. "I used to be very embarrassed about it," said Poppy. "I used to try to hide my name from people. I thought it was a very silly name."
Mma Ramotswe shook her head. There was nothing embarrassing about the name Poppy, but there was no telling what names people would find embarrassing.

2006, Alexander McCall Smith, Blue Shoes and Happiness, →ISBN:

(chiefly UK) A female given name from English, a flower name used since the end of the 19th century.


Poppy

My grandfather, whom we all call "Poppy", loves children and enjoys imparting his knowledge of aspects to them.
...
Cell phones were not invented at the time, however, so I could not contact Poppy to help me end the hiccups.

2008 April 29, Steven Keslowitz, From Poland to Brooklyn, page 120:

(as a term of address) Alternative form of poppy (“father, grandfather, or other male authority figure of a similar standing”)

poppy

(informal) Former U.S. president George H. W. Bush


Sapphire

I asked her once how a little girl who didn't have blue eyes ended up being called Sapphire. She pursed her lips for a few seconds, clearly wondering how she could get away with not telling me.
'My older brother is called Mistral,' she said in the end. 'My younger sister is Blaze. I'd say I was the lucky one.'
As I say, hippy parents.

2015, Sharon Bolton, Little Black Lies, Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 179:

A female given name from English from the precious stone.


TS

en-noun

TS (countable and uncountable, plural TSs or TSes)

(pathology) Initialism of Turner syndrome.


Tom

→ Tokelauan: Toma

From Middle English Thomme. Hypocorism of Thomas.

Poor Tom's a-cold.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

"Good,—that's a whack. What's your name?"
"Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer."
"That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?"

1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VI, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 70:

What I'm worrying about is what Tom says when he starts talking."
"Uncle Tom?"
"I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom'," said Aunt Dahlia a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo."

1934, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:

"We're not sure - we were expecting a girl for some reason. But we're thinking of something simple like Tom."
"Thomas?"
"No, just Tom."

2008, David Park, The Truth Commissioner, →ISBN, page 366:

At the heart of much of the controversy surrounding DOGE’s review and access to much of the federal government’s financial payment data was the unique pairing of Tom Krause, a long-time software CEO, and Marko Elez, a 25-year-old recent employee at Musk’s company SpaceX.

2025 February 7, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Curt Devine, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Rene Marsh, “‘Second American Revolution’: The team behind DOGE’s government overhaul”, in CNN:

A diminutive of the male given name Thomas, also used as a formal male given name.


Turner

en-proper noun

Turner (countable and uncountable, plural Turners)

From Middle English Turner, Turnur, Turnure, Turnour, from Middle English turner, turnare, tornere, an occupational surname for a turner or tumbler.

census-designated place
census-designated place

Androscoggin County
Androscoggin County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A town and census-designated place therein, in Androscoggin County, Maine.

A township and village therein, in Arenac County, Michigan.

An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.


xe

head

xe (third-person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, oblique xem, reflexive xyrself, possessive xyr)

en-pron

xem (oblique)
xyrself (reflexive)
xyr (possessive)

Apparently independently invented by several people, including Don Rickter. The pronoun appeared in the Unitarian Universalist publication UU World on May 1, 1973, and Mario Pei gave Rickter credit on page 145 of his book Weasel Words (1978).

Anyone I would be interested in would have to be a pretty special person. I wouldn't want to miss out on knowing such a person just because xe happened to be the "wrong" sex.

1992, Jim Sinclair, “If you could choose...”, in Jim Sinclair's Web Site, archived from the original on 2003-11-03:

Telepathy would require that you share the other person's knowledge of xyr own mind, which in turn requires recognizing that xe is actually aware of what xe's thinking, which is incompatible with psychiatry.

1993 September 14, Jim Sinclair, “Re: Jim and Steve's snoring discussion”, in bit.listserv.autism (Usenet), message-ID <AUTISM%93091417074261@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU>:

Now full ownership in the modern sense... implies four rights of the owner: 1. The right to decide what xe does with xyr property; 2. the right to decide what others do with xyr property; […]

1999 April 28, Dagmar Alpen, “Re: Think of a small tribe of people...”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet), message-ID <7g74qb$8sq$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>:

Since xe went to the trouble of re-posting, I figured it was about something of more than usual importance to hir... I wrote to EmGee privately and xe said yes, that was one of the things xe was talking about.

2000 December 11, Mary Ellen Curtin, “Silencing and ad hominem attacks”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet), message-ID <074d01c06393$c1a2fb00$5be9cfcf@default>:

I mean, suppose there's someone who can't leave the house because xe's all tied up with counting tiles in the bathroom all day, and if xe manages to get done with that, there's the stove to check again and again ... you get the idea.

2002 March 3, Ken von Mattell, “Re: Newbie...not quite sure yet...”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet), message-ID <rif48uc0ja9q3km9o2jf167d4u4o3qpk1k@4ax.com>:

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

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

(nonstandard) they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.


co-ed

en-adj

co-ed (comparative more co-ed, superlative most co-ed)

more co-ed (comparative)
most co-ed (superlative)
coed (alternative)

Short for the original phrase coeducational referring to an educational institution that taught males and females together.

Of an educational institution, teaching both males and females.

We played in a co-ed band.

COED NAKED SKIING: Only the bold can BARE the cold!
COED NAKED FIREFIGHTING: Find 'em Hot, Leave 'em Wet!

traditional, Coed Naked Sportswear (T-shirt):

Mixing males and females; unisex; mixed-gender.


co-ed

To many a student the most appealing subject in college is a coed. A coed is usually less interested in what she gets out of college than whom.

1968, Evan Esar, 20,000 Quips and Quotes:

I gazed wistfully at the pretty coeds.

1980, Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior:

(US, dated, informal) A young woman who attends college.

The majority of college coeds are female, but many still have trouble paying for tuition. Scholarships designed specifically for women can be useful in this situation.

2023 October 28 (last accessed), scholarships.com:

A student of either sex at a co-educational institution.


andrology

(medicine) The branch of medicine concerned with male diseases, especially those affecting the male reproductive system.


manageress

/ˈmænɪdʒəˌɹɛs/


amazon

From Amazon, from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn).

a fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the queen and the knight


jimmy

*
* (chocolate sprinkles): Unknown. There is much speculation that they were named after Jim Crow, but there is little, if any, evidence to support this theory.

We moved to the futon and started fooling around. He rolled on a jimmy and I sat on top of him.

1999, Amy Sohn, Run Catch Kiss, Simon & Schuster, published 2000, →ISBN, page 111:

"The next time you hook up with somebody," Lovie was saying, "you better wear a jimmy, boy. With spermicide on it. […]

2004, Murad Kalam, Night Journey, Simon & Schuster, published 2004, →ISBN, page 158:


feminist

feminist (comparative more feminist, superlative most feminist)

more feminist (comparative)
most feminist (superlative)

First recorded in English 1852. Ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). See also feminine, feminism.

Feminist struggle takes place anytime anywhere any female or male resists sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

2000 May 1, bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, 2nd edition, page xi:

relating to or in accordance with feminism.


feminist

an advocate of feminism; a person who believes in bringing about the equality of the sexes (of women and men) in all aspects of public and private life

feminis

advocate of feminism; person who believes in bringing about the equality of men and women

女権拡張論者

じょけんかくちょうろんしゃ

a member of a feminist political movement


conception

en-noun

conception (countable and uncountable, plural conceptions)

From Middle English concepcioun, borrowed from Old French conception, from Latin conceptiō (“a comprehending, a collection, composition, an expression, also a becoming pregnant”), from concipiō, past participle conceptus (“conceive”); see conceive.


womankind

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From Middle English wommankynde. By surface analysis, woman + -kind.

Alternative form: womenkind

The infinite simplicity and silliness of mankind and womankind at large were too well known to the Serjeant to cause him dismay, let them be shown in ever so egregious a fashion.

1871 (date written), Anthony Trollope, “It isn’t Law”, in Lady Anna. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1874, →OCLC, page 111:


jaffa

From Jaffa, an ancient port city in what is now Israel from which the oranges were exported. The sense "impotent male" is a reference to being "seedless"; see seed.
The cricketing sense, of a 'sweet ball' (from the bowler's perspective), is a metaphor further reinforced in Australian English where Jaffa is also a trademark for a popular lolly that is red and round.


johnny

Alternative letter-case form of Johnny, diminutive of John.

toilet

place or device for urination and defecation


kugel

en-noun

kugel (countable and uncountable, plural kugels)

→ Japanese: クーゲル (kūgeru)

Borrowed from Yiddish קוגל (kugl) (referring to the inflated appearance of some puddings), from Middle High German kugel (“ball; globe”) (modern German Kugel (“ball; (astronomy) celestial body, orb; (geometry) sphere”)); further etymology uncertain.

cog

She was minding her own business, taking a visitor from struggle days in London around the sights of the New South Africa, when she was recognised by a clutch of ageing kugels, out doing what kugels of all ages do on a Saturday morning in Hyde Park, namely shopping.

2000, John Matshikiza, “With the Lid Off: February 1999 – May 2000”, in Todd Matshikiza, John Matshikiza, With the Lid Off: South African Insights from Home and Abroad, 1959–2000, Milpark, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa: M&G Books, →ISBN, part II (John Matshikiza), page 145:

Yet [Barbara] Ludman wants to take Michelle [in The Day of the Kugel (1989)] out of the "Kugel" category (a Kugel being a "disgusting, dull, boring noodle pudding"—the people in Johannesburg suburbs whose wealthy lives are one long party).

2001, Donnarae MacCann, Yulisa Amadu Maddy, “Civil Disobedience and Urban Conflict: The Apartheid Perspective”, in Apartheid and Racism in South Africa Children’s Literature: 1985–1995 (Children’s Literature and Culture; 15), New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, part 2 (Novels about Contemporary South Africa), page 35:

The trouble is that now, in this new century, the kugel is a rare and unprotected species in South Africa. […] The kugels have all left, and the few who stayed behind, protected by their high walls and heavy security, don't venture out at night to come and see themselves in a local revue. Kugels have now re-emerged in the form of black divas – beautiful, glamorous, loud and opinionated women who set store by hair and nails, sunglasses and cars.

2005, Pieter-Dirk Uys, “Bring on the Blondes”, in Robert Plummer, editor, Between the Devil and the Deep: A Memoir of Acting and Reacting, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa: Zebra Press, Struik Publishers, →ISBN, page 169:

(by extension, South Africa, derogatory, slang) A wealthy young Jewish woman characterized as materialistic and selfish.


matron

From Middle English matrone, from Old French matrone, from Latin mātrōna (“married woman”), from māter (“mother”). Doublet of matrona.


FMS

Federated Malay States
Federated Malay States#English


feminazi

en-adj

feminazi (comparative more feminazi, superlative most feminazi)

more feminazi (comparative)
most feminazi (superlative)
femi-Nazi (alternative)
femme-Nazi (alternative)

Reason (magazine)
Rush Limbaugh
Thomas Hazlett
feminazi

Blend of feminist + Nazi, popularized in 1992 by conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Thomas Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term (1987).

(derogatory, potentially offensive) Relating to a radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views, or a female chauvinist.

ֆեմինացիստ

relating to a radical or militant feminist


feminazi

feminazis (plural)
femi-Nazi (alternative)
femme-Nazi (alternative)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:feminazi.

(derogatory, potentially offensive) A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks female superiority over men.

女權塔利班 /女权塔利班 (neoi⁵ kyun⁴ taap³ lei⁶ baan¹, literally “feminist Taliban”)


mooncalf

mooncalves (plural)
moon-calf (alternative)

From moon + calf, after a superstition that the moon caused abnormal fetal development.

Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

(now rare) An abnormal mass within the uterus; a false conception.


spermicidal

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By surface analysis, sperm + -i- + -cide + -al.


alderman

From Middle English alderman, aldermon, from Old English ealdorman, ealdormann, from ealdor (“elder, parent, chief, prince, author”) + mann (“person”). See ealdorman.

He'd exercise, get the fat off, because if he let it go, he'd have too much on and maybe make his heart worse, and you looked like hell with an alderman. […] And she wouldn't want a guy who stuck out in front like a balloon.

1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 13, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:

(US, slang) A large, protruding, or swollen abdomen; a paunch, a potbelly.


oma

(among people of German ancestry) Grandmother, grandma.


midwifery

en-noun

midwifery (countable and uncountable, plural midwiferies)

midwiferies (plural)
midwivery (alternative)

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From Middle English medewifry; equivalent to midwife + -ery.

The practice and science of being a midwife.

قَبَالَة

the practice and science of being a midwife


masculinism

masculinism (usually uncountable, plural masculinisms)

From masculine + -ism, as opposed to feminism.

While only women can participate in the building of a feminist culture, without the interference — however well-intentioned — of men, men can facilitate that process by refusing to participate in the old order of masculinism.

1981 August 15, Cliff Flanders, “Anti-Masculinists”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 4:

[…] the transition to liberal capitalism offers men the opportunity of putting a greatly increased social distance between themselves and women. It is the rise of masculinism which is the primary characteristic of gender relations in Eastern Europe today.

1996, Peggy Watson, "The Rise of Masculinism in Eastern Europe", chapter 6 of Monica Threlfall (editor), Mapping the Women’s Movement, Verso, page 216

[…] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

Each is laden with assumptions and appropriations that, in discursive terms, reinforce a culture of masculinism – the cultural dominance of the male (in the public sphere).

2002, Stephen M. Whitehead, Men and Masculinities, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 115:

However, it is possible to examine the broader historical contours of masculinism – the ideology that justifies male domination – and the masculinist institutions that endorse masculinism […]

2007, Satoshi Ikedia, “Masculinity and masculinism under globalization: Reflections on the Canadian case”, chapter 6 of Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Janine Brodie (editors), Remapping Gender in the New Global Order, Routledge, page 112

An ideology of masculinity or of male rights; considered as opposed to feminism.


fancy man

fancy men (plural)
fancy-man (alternative)
fancyman (alternative)

(UK, dated slang) Synonym of ponce (“a pimp hired by a prostitute”)


NOW

National Organization for Women
w:National Organization for Women

(US) Acronym of National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization.


HRT

HRT (countable and uncountable, plural HRTs)

Just this week I read a news report that HRT “should not be prescribed to ease symptoms of anxiety and depression in menopausal women”, according to “landmark new guidelines”, with experts saying “there was little evidence that HRT helped to improve low mood, anxiety and mood swings”.

2023 November 5, Emma Beddington, “I could have sworn HRT had cured my brain fog and rage. Then I read that it hadn’t”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

hormone replacement therapy
hormone replacement therapy#English

(medicine) Initialism of hormone replacement therapy.


IUD

IUD (countable and uncountable, plural IUDs)

The Philippine sense is due to the streetfood being reminiscent of an intrauterine device.

(Philippines, informal) barbecued chicken intestine, sold as street food


drag queen

drag queens (plural)
dragqueen (alternative)

→ Russian: дрэг-кви́н (drɛg-kvín)

From drag (“women's clothing worn by men”) + queen.

compound

Coordinate term: drag king

Donald was donning a brand new pair of pantyhose. He hadn’t shaved in a while, and he could feel his stubble snag on the nylon. It’s not pretty when a drag queen gets careless, he thought, but it was too late to do anything about it tonight.

1996, Robert Rodi, Drag Queen, New York: Dutton, →ISBN, retrieved 2022-02-05, page 37:

(LGBTQ, originally slang) A person, usually male, who dresses up in women’s clothing and makeup, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance.


androgyne

From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.

Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne.

1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five:

The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 33:


abortus

Borrowed from New Latin abortus (“miscarriage”). Doublet of abort.

bor+

An aborted fetus, especially one aborted in early pregnancy.


antenatal

From Latin ante (“before”) + nātālis (“natal”), from nāscor (“to be born”), equivalent to ante- + natal.


tampon

First attested in 1848. Borrowed from French tampon, from Middle French tampon, a nasalised variant of tapon, a diminutive or augmented form of Old French tape (“plug, bung, tap”), from Frankish *tappō (“stopper, plug”), from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”). Cognate with Old High German zapfo (“stopper”), Old English tæppa (“stopper”). Doublet of tampion. More at tap.

The only apparent difference between Playtex deodorant and nondeodorant tampons was the deodorant, yet the deodorant tampons did not stimulate the production of TSST-1.

1987, Amy C Lee Wong, Factors affecting growth of Staphylococcus aureus and production of toxic shock syndrome-1:

I examined a tampon, from the outside only without removing the wrapper because I did not want to waste one, and considered aloud the consequences of pushing the offensively shaped object into my vagina.

1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 145:

A plug of cotton or other absorbent material inserted into a body cavity or wound to absorb fluid, especially one inserted in the vagina during menstruation.

tampon

a plug of cotton or other absorbent material

(most common translation) 衛生棉條 /卫生棉条 (wèishēng miántiáo)

(alternative translations) 止血栓 (zhǐxuèshuān)

vampire's teabag

intravaginal plug used to absorb menstrual blood


sanitary towel

(UK) Standard form of sanitary napkin: a pad of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow.


sanitary napkin

en-noun

sanitary napkin (plural sanitary napkins)

sanitary napkins (plural)
sanitary pad (alternative)
sanitary towel (alternative)

(chiefly US, Philippines) Synonym of menstrual pad: a pad of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow.


alpha female

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(zoology, ethology) The dominant female in a social or group hierarchy.


adoptive mother

adoptive mother (plural adoptive mothers)

A woman who has adopted a child, as opposed to a biological mother.


anti-abortion

en-adj

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

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


ballerina

en-noun

ballerina (plural ballerinas or ballerine)

/ˌbæləɹˈiːnə/

(nonstandard) A ballet dancer (unisex term)

A ballet dancer (unisex term)
A female ballet dancer.

Ellipsis of prima ballerina. The star female ballet performer in the company.


lactation

lactation (countable and uncountable, plural lactations)

Borrowed from Latin lactātiō, lactātiōnis. Equivalent to lactate + -ion.

The process of providing the milk to the young; breastfeeding.


craftsman

craftsmen (plural)
craftman (alternative)

Yeh Wang (1826-1889), a master craftsman born in Chiayi, founded the Taiwanese branch of the industry, and though his work is rare these days, you can still see some of his original figures in Ciji Temple in Syuejia near Tainan (see p.333).[...]Chiayi is still home to numerous koji craftsmen - in addition to its vibrant colours, koji is unique in that everything is handmade.

2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, “Central Taiwan”, in The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 287:

A person who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand.


Lothario

Lotharios (plural)
lothario (alternative)

/loʊˈθɛəɹioʊ/

Named after Lothario, a character in the play The Fair Penitent, a reference to a seducer of the same name in the metastory of the Quixote called The Impertinent Curious Man.

Coordinate term: Romeo

High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do what the Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of his bed; for alas! all fish bed in common.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Schools and Schoolmasters”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 437:

He warned her 'gainst seductive youths in scarlet clad and gold, / As much as 'gainst the blandishments paternal of the old; / But kept his gravest warnings for (hereby my ditty hangs) / That snowy-haired Lothario Lieutenant-General Bangs.

1919, Rudyard Kipling, “A Code of Morals”, in Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads:

So much of the plot structure rested on Chandler being the second string: the maladroit loser to Joey’s lothario, the joker skating beneath Ross’s romantic gravity.

2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘The ironic, metrosexual lothario’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A man whose chief interest is seducing, usually women.


stepdame

From Middle English stepdame; equivalent to step- + dame.


roundheels

roundheels (plural)
roundheel (alternative)

[…] “His wife was a roundheels anyway—”
“Darling.” She took him by the braid-edged lapels. “Won’t you watch your language a little for the duration? I know Grannie’s horrified sometimes.”
“Grannie wouldn’t know what a roundheels means,” Bruno said hoarsely.

2001, Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=MnskPAqeLPEC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&sig=cf5GjtBSOx43JWMQbY48g0ggCmk

But now she ignored the display, nodded attentively, and tried to sound smart but not too smart, agreeable but not a total pushover, and—when Emilio flirted—appropriately slutty but not a complete roundheels.

2003, Dan Simmons, Hard Freeze http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=e0rixLVIlVUC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&sig=f3xoIgKUi3gD98BCyJlSmThefXU

“Ah, that’d be Roundheels Molly?” said Corporal Scallot, looking up and grinning. “She’s sent many a lad on his way rejoicing.”

2004, Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=6e9nD0oQA3UC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&sig=bMcrIJMPI6HqCbcSEjFFtk5e0Js


charwoman

charwomen (plural)
char-woman (alternative)

The cloth was laid by an occasional charwoman, who officiated in the capacity of Mr. Bob Sawyer’s housekeeper; […]

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXVIII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

Through a partly-opened door the noise of a scrubbing-brush led up to the charwoman, Maryann Money, a person who for a face had a circular disc, furrowed less by age than by long gazes of perplexity at distant objects.

1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter IX, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:

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

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

But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage.

1919, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Pictures”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 163:

[H]e described the speech of the charwoman washing the hotel stairs and gave lists of words collected from the bathmen.

1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 75:

(chiefly British) A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.


New Man

When [Norman] Schwartzkopf shed a public tear for the Americans killed, wounded and captured in the 1990–91 Gulf War, he was roundly praised as a New Man.

1999, Anthony McMahon, Taking Care of Men: Sexual Politics in the Public Mind, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 104:

A man who, rejecting sexist attitudes and traditional conceptions of masculinity, aims to be caring and sensitive, and to take a substantial role in the domestic routine.


Frenchman

From Middle English Frenshman; equivalent to French + -man.

red-legged partridge
red-legged partridge


Frenchwoman

A French woman; a woman of French ancestry, descent or citizenship.


orbiter

The orbiters in her life in high likelihood like to talk about this and make themselves her emotional tampon and outlet.

2015, Jack N. Raven, Penetration: A Tactical Manual on Forming Deep Emotional Connections!:

(slang, seduction community) A person who constantly hangs around with someone they are attracted to, but too shy to talk to.


playboy

A single man, especially a wealthy one, who devotes himself to a life of leisure and pleasure, often sexual, without commitments or responsibilities.


gender bender

(idiomatic, colloquial) A person who dresses in the clothes of another sex, or in clothes which make their gender identity ambiguous.

(by extension) An event where people are encouraged to dress in the clothes of another sex, even if they would normally not.


miso

I’m here to look for a small, white, hexagonal pill called misoprostol. Also known as miso or Cytotec, the drug induces an abortion that appears like a miscarriage during the early stages of a woman’s pregnancy. For women living in Latin America and other countries that have traditionally outlawed abortion, miso has been a lifeline […]

2014 June 27, Erica Hellerstein, “The Rise of the DIY Abortion in Texas”, in The Atlantic:

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

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

(pharmacology, informal) Clipping of misoprostol.


geezer

From guiser. Compare also German Low German Kieser (“an obstinate person; brute; savage”).

cog

You are a silly young geezer.

1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 19, in Right Ho, Jeeves:

See the hoverboard-riding geezer? This close to payin' a G for a shot of my cousin Calvin's molars.

2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):

(informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated in the US) A male person.


slave-girl

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A female required to perform sexual acts, a sex slave.


pull out

en-verb

pull out (third-person singular simple present pulls out, present participle pulling out, simple past and past participle pulled out)

pulls out (present singular third-person)
pulling out (participle present)
pulled out (participle past)
pulled out (past)

Shortly before you ejaculate, you can pull out and use your hand (or hers) to push yourself over the edge. Some of my patients claim this is a more natural method of birth control[…]

2006, David J. Clayton, The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living: How to Survive Your Bad Habits, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 110:

She'd long since caught the knack of moving with him, and closed her arms and legs around him. “You'll fly with me, Tiberius? Take the last fence with me?” He'd meant to pull out. Coitus interruptus was a term even the scholars failing their Latin knew before they left public school.

2013, Grace Burrowes, Once Upon a Tartan, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 287:

(literally, intransitive) To use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control.

عَزَلَ

to use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control


amma

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin amma, from Classical Syriac ܐܸܡܵܐ (ʾemmā, “mother, abbess”).

der

For quotations using this term, see Citations:amma.

(Christianity, historical) An abbess or spiritual mother, especially one of the Desert Mothers.


ey

head

ey (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative em, possessive adjective eir, possessive noun eirs, reflexive emself)

em (accusative)
eir (adjective possessive)
eirs (noun possessive)
emself (reflexive)

Coined by Christine M. Elverson in 1975 by removing the "th" from they.

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

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

I'm not familiar with this book, but I encourage Marksmill to look for it-- and while ey is at it, to also look at a number of other books.

1996 December 22, Shirley Worth, “New To Yoga”, in alt.yoga (Usenet), message-ID <32BDCA0C.6C8@worth.org>:

If a mobile user is far from eir home area, ey will pay a long-distance fee for carriage of the call *from* eir home area, just as a caller would pay long-distance on a call *to* that area.

1997 November 25, Scott Robert Dawson, “Who Pays for Cellular Calls”, in alt.cellular (Usenet), message-ID <347acf56.333719@news.interlog.com>:

(rare, epicene, nonstandard) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, one of the so-called Spivak pronouns, equivalent to the singular they and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.


momma's boy

momma's boys (plural)
mama's boy (alternative)
mamma's boy (alternative)
mummy's boy (alternative)

(chiefly US) Alternative spelling of mama's boy


debutante

debutantes (plural)
débutante (alternative)
debûtante (alternative)

A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment.


fellatrix

en-noun

fellatrix (plural fellatrices or fellatrixes)

fellatrices (plural)
fellatrixes (plural)

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From Latin fēllātrīx. By surface analysis, fellatio + -trix.


mother-to-be

mothers-to-be (plural)
mother to be (alternative)

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The ideal position for a back massage for the mother-to-be is to sit astride a chair supported by cushions.

2000, Allison England, Aromatherapy and Massage for Mother and Baby, Healing Arts Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 52:

A pregnant woman, especially one expecting her first child.


Lamaze

Natural childbirth technique developed in the 1940s by French obstetrician Dr. Ferdinand Lamaze.


adoptive father

adoptive father (plural adoptive fathers)

A man who has adopted a child, as opposed to a biological father.


men's

possessive case of men: belonging to some or all male humans.


CIS

Likely originates from the false etymology asserting that cis is an initialism standing for comfortable in skin.

(proscribed) Alternative letter-case form of cis (“cisgender”).


D and C

D and C (countable and uncountable, plural D and Cs)

dilation and curettage
dilation and curettage#English


dilation and curettage

(medicine) A surgical procedure in which the cervix is dilated and the lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet.


trophy wife

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Popularized by Julie Connelly in a 1989 Fortune magazine cover story, by analogy with a real estate trophy building.

[…] while Mrs. Scott-Baxter, his fourth (and trophy) wife, blonde and young and bored, glowered at the Baxter spawn like a mother mink in a mink farm, just waiting for a jet to strafe the facility, affording her an excuse to feign terror and eat her young.

1991, Douglas Coupland, “It Can't Last”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 34:

But don't expect this one to break up. Arnold [Schwarzenegger] got his trophy wife—a real-life Kennedy, his entreé to the top social echelons in the country—and he's not about to let her go.

1993 March, Sally Ogle Davis, “The good, the bad and the disasters”, in Ladies' Home Journal, page 57:

‘She's with her nanny.’ ‘Oh yeah, I forgot. You're a proper trophy wife now. Staff and everything. Well…’ She produced a bottle of cava from a plastic bag. ‘With no child to keep up appearances for, let's get ourselves in the mood.’

2008, Julia Llewellyn, The Model Wife, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

She was David's fourth wife. Twenty-four years his junior, they both knew why they were together. David was filthy rich, and Belinda was a trophy wife. In fact, this was her third time around in this career: Being a trophy wife.

2013, George G. Nyman, Love Lost in Time Relativity, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 12:

(derogatory) A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for the husband, usually older and affluent.

花瓶老婆

young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband


hostess

From Middle English hostesse, from Middle French hostesse, from Old French ostesce, made up of oste (“host”) + -esce (“feminine marker”).

The host and hostess greeted their guests at the door.

The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.

2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

Stewardess: a woman steward on an airplane.

A bar hostess or bargirl; a paid female companion offering conversation and in some cases sex.


water birth

water births (plural)
waterbirth (alternative)

(obstetrics) A form of childbirth in which the mother is supported in a birthing pool so that the child is delivered into the warm water.


coitus interruptus

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From Latin coitus (“sexual intercourse”) + interruptus (“interrupted, cut short”), the perfect passive participle of interrumpo (“to interrupt, to cut short”).

Yet in the event, population continued to grow – even though signs began to appear that coitus interruptus was beginning to be used systematically to reduce family size.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 351:

We have come some way since sheep's bladder condoms but male contraceptive options are still pretty basic. Not counting one Chinese invention - a small electronic device worn in the underpants, which causes infertility for a month after a current is switched on briefly - it is still down to the old favourites: abstinence, coitus interruptus, condoms or vasectomy.

2003 October 7, Lucy Atkins, “Men on the pill? Yeah, right”, in The Guardian:

[2013, Grace Burrowes, Once Upon a Tartan, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 287:

Sexual intercourse interrupted by withdrawal of the penis before ejaculation.

體外射精 /体外射精

sexual intercourse interrupted by withdrawal of the penis


chad

(Internet slang, seduction community, incel slang) Alternative spelling of Chad (“alpha-male; a virile man”)


landlady

In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.

1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:

Yet Clacton, like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast.

1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191:


granum

From the late 19th c., from Latin grānum (“grain, seed or small kernel”). Doublet of corn, grain, gram, and grao.

der

(biology) A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis.


granum

Each of 'em has a ſev'ral Gin, / To catch Intelligences in. / Some by the Noſe vvith fumes trapan 'em, / As Dunſtan did the Devils Grannum.

1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “Canto III”, in Hudibras. The Second Part. […], London: […] T[homas] R[oycroft] for John Martyn, and James Allestry […], →OCLC, page 175:


emasculate

en-verb

emasculate (third-person singular simple present emasculates, present participle emasculating, simple past and past participle emasculated)

emasculates (present singular third-person)
emasculating (participle present)
emasculated (participle past)
emasculated (past)

From Medieval Latin ēmasculātus, perfect passive participle of ēmasculō (“to emasculate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ē(x)- (“out, from, apart”) + masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), further from mās (“a man, a male”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

скопявам

to deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate

(transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.

(specifically) To remove the entire male genitalia (the testicles, scrotum, and penis) of (a person or animal).


shopgirl

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A girl who works in a shop; a young saleswoman.

midinette

a girl or young woman who works in a shop


misogynistic

en-adj

misogynistic (comparative more misogynistic, superlative most misogynistic)

more misogynistic (comparative)
most misogynistic (superlative)

This is arguably linked to two things: declining tolerance for straight men’s behavior may have, on the one hand, caused this; the effect is misogynistic backlash in the form of rising incelhood.

2022 November 19, Amlan Sarkar, “A Straight Masculinity Crisis Is Underway — And It’s a Good Thing”, in The Swaddle:

Of, relating to, or exhibiting misogyny.


misogynous

misogynous (comparative more misogynous, superlative most misogynous)

more misogynous (comparative)
most misogynous (superlative)

Of, relating to, or exhibiting misogyny; misogynistic.


himbo

Blend of him + bimbo, first recorded in 1988 and likely influenced by sex scandals in the US politics around the time.

‘Himbo’ Flexes His Pecs in U.K. Ads [title]

1991 August 12, Stuart Emmrich, “‘Himbo’ Flexes His Pecs in U.K. Ads”, in Adweek, volume 41, page 16:

[…] a reboot in which a cryptocurrency billionaire, maybe the son of Luke Ward, whose series arc traces an evolution from villain to beloved himbo, moves to Newport Beach and takes control of the local real estate market.

2022 March 31, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(sometimes derogatory, slang) A physically attractive man who lacks intelligence; the male equivalent of a bimbo.


great-aunt

great-aunts (plural)
great aunt (alternative)

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

aact

maternal grandmother's sister or maternal grandmother's brother's wife


lying-in

en-noun

lying-in (plural lying-ins or lyings-in)

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from our first knowing each other, which was soon after my lying-in, we were almost inseparable companions […]

1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 404:

The final stages of pregnancy; accouchement.


eam

eams (plural)
eame (alternative)
eme (alternative)

From Middle English eem, eme, from Old English ēam (“maternal uncle”), from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (“maternal uncle, maternal grandfather”). Cognate with Scots eme (“uncle”), West Frisian iem, omke (“uncle”), Dutch oom (“uncle”), German Ohm, Oheim (“maternal uncle”), Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”). See uncle. Doublet of oom and ohm.

der

James Melville remarked that during his uncle's time in Geneva he became “weill acquented with my eam, Mr. hendrie Scrymgeour” and was said to have been “a frequent visitor at his lodgings in town, and also at the Violet.

2011, Ernest R. Holloway, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622:


yenta

yentas (plural)
yente (alternative)
yentl (alternative)

Please don't tell your girlfriend what I said; she's a yenta!

And you had to marry that yenta West Side broad from a family of ward politicians and punchboard gamblers of candy-store kikes and sewer inspectors.

1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 201:

(Jewish) A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger.


pro-life

en-adj

pro-life (comparative more pro-life, superlative most pro-life)

more pro-life (comparative)
most pro-life (superlative)

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Anti-abortion movements
Pro-life (disambiguation)

They were pro-life except in cases of rape, incest, or risk to the life or health of the mother.

Of, pertaining to, or supportive of the right to life; believing that life should be protected from its beginning to natural death in all or most circumstances.

(chiefly US) Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.

(specifically) Opposed to the legalization of euthanasia.

2005, Guerrilla Apologetics for Life Issues, page 60:

(specifically) Opposed to the legalization of capital punishment.

Suicidal people can have discussions about suicide on pro-life peer-to-peer forums and hotlines without fear of judgment or intervention.

2016, Jennings Brown, The sordid history of the first sanctioned suicide forum:


pro-choice

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Individualism, self-determination, and pro-choice rhetorics are additional cultural discourses that play into this experience as well: the ability to make your own choices in life and to be able to succeed with those choices is the quintessential American dream.

2010, Sara Hayden, Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice, page 102:

Supportive in general of a person's right to choose; supportive of self-determination, bodily integrity, and individual sovereignty.


soccer mom

soccer moms (plural)
soccer mum (alternative)

A woman with school-age children, likely boys, especially one who spends time transporting them between sporting activities.


uke

From Japanese 受け (uke), derived from the verb 受ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 142:

You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend’s a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press, published 2012isbn=9780316221801:

Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, “Afterword”, in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing, →ISBN:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.


black widow

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A female suicide bomber, sometimes one intending to avenge her husband who was killed.


distaff

distaffs (plural)
distaves (plural)
distaffe (alternative)

From Middle English distaf (“distaff”), from Old English distæf (“distaff”), from *dis- (“bunch of flax”) (cognate with Middle Low German dise (“bunch of flax on a distaff”)) + stæf (“staff”) (from Proto-Germanic *stabaz (“staff, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ-). Senses 3 and 5 (“anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only”; “a woman, or women considered as a group”) refer to the fact that spinning was traditionally done by women.


call girl

→ Cebuano: call girl

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(informal) A female prostitute who is hired by telephone.


franger

Unknown; perhaps an alteration of french letter.

You have a point. But on the other hand, I didn't run off and tell mum with a six pack in one hand and an open franger packet in the other.

1999 November 4, Egan Blinkhorn, “Pirate Pay TV”, in aus.tv.pay (Usenet):

Ranpaging^([sic]) Roy Slaven & HG Nelson who are comedians of the host broadcaster's Olympic graveyard shift have said that 48,000 of the frangers are for the personal use of the mayor of the Olympic village - 'Richo'. they claim the rest are for the Cuban team who when they have finished their events are going at it like rabbits.

2000 September 22, rhay10, “Sydney 2000 -Too sexy for some.....”, in rec.travel.australia+nz (Usenet):

The barber would say while he was cutting a grown-up′s hair, ‘Do you need any home supplies, sir?’ which is the secret code for a packet of frangers.

2001, Bryce Courtenay, Four Fires, unnumbered page:

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

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

(Australia, New Zealand, slang) A condom.


intergender

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1999, Joanna Lynn McAfee., Differences in Intergender Communication Within Task-oriented Dyads:

intergender friendship, intergender wrestling

Taking place between people of opposite genders.

Their art focuses on people who are non-gendered or intergender.

Having a gender identity midway between male and female.


intergender

(LGBTQ, rare) A person whose gender identity is midway between male and female.

(LGBTQ, rare) An intersex person whose gender identity is influenced by being intersex.


stud muffin

stud muffins (plural)
studmuffin (alternative)

From stud + muffin, perhaps with influence from beefcake. First use appears c. 1983 in Buffalo News.

Billboard magazine quoted an Oklahoma City radio program who described him as "a stud muffin" — "there was just a vibe on this guy out there, especially among women" (Stark 1992, 89)

1995, Curtis W Ellison, Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven, University Press of Mississippi, published 1995, page 44:

"I'm a total stud muffin. Can't you see it?" Simon joked.

1999, John W Milor, Apparition, page 106:

“A stud!” “A stud muffin!” In general, the students’ enthusiasm for Clinton was equalled by their disdain for George W. Bush.

(idiomatic, colloquial) A very attractive man.


brunet

From French brunet. Compare also Middle English brunet, burnet (“brown”), from Old French brunet, which is the same word.

(rare) Of a man or boy, having brown or dark brown hair.


FFS

(historical) Initialism of Free French Ship.


diva

From Italian diva (“diva, goddess”), from Latin dīva (“goddess”), female of dīvus (“divine, divine one; notably a deified mortal”), from Old Latin deivā, from Proto-Italic *deiwā (“goddess”), feminine of *deiwos (“god”), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (“god”).

diva

person who considers herself much more important than others

Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress.


nymphet

nymphets (plural)
nymphette (alternative)

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From nymph + -et (“diminutive”), first attested 1612. The second sense was popularized by Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.

[…] the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers […]

1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 19:

A sexually attractive girl or young woman.


paterfamilias

en-noun

paterfamilias (plural paterfamiliases or patresfamilias)

paterfamiliases (plural)
patresfamilias (plural)
pater familias (alternative)

(c. 1425 to 1475) From late Middle English, from Latin pater familiās. From Latin pater ("father") + familiās, archaic genitive of familia ("family", "household"). Literally: "father of the family" or "father of the household".

A man who is the head of a household, family or tribe.


emerita

head

emerita (plural emeritae, masculine singular emeritus)

emeritae (plural)
emeritus (masculine singular)

From the Latin ēmerita, the feminine singular form of ēmeritus.

And the older women faculty, the emeritae lived around the college and you talked to them and you heard it ... you know, they were just devoted to that place body and soul, and they didn’t care if they made two bent nickels a year, […]

1988, Nadya Aisenberg, Mona Harrington, Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove, University of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 187:

With the help of ever-present chief elder Charlotte McGuire and our headquarters, an updated list of all Board members was developed. Twenty-eight persons who are now emeritae were named.

1991, American Holistic Nurses' Association, Beginnings, page 3:

In 1939, when I arrived, women made up a slight majority of the Smith faculty. The oldest of the emeritae were such relics as Elizabeth Hanscomb, who had taught one of the first American literature courses in the country some time in the 1890s.

2007, Daniel Aaron, The Americanist, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 69:

Although by no means a card-carrying feminist—and who was in those days, besides some shapeless, tweedy, old left-over suffragettes among the emeritae?—I knew from that time onward that I was not going to be one of those model domestic women.

2008, Linda Nochlin, A Life of Learning, pages 15–16:

A female person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title.

emerita

retired female person, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title


motherhood statement

en-noun

motherhood statement (plural motherhood statements)

Probably from the fact that virtually everyone would say that motherhood is a positive thing.

[A]n objective needs to be followed up by some specific form of measurement or it is meaningless – It is a motherhood statement.

1976, Canadian Electronics Engineering, volume 20, Toronto, Ont.: Maclean-Hunter, →ISSN, →OCLC, page ccviii:

Technology transfer and the principle of making useful research and development information available to all public sectors is now being endorsed by everybody. I really don't know anybody who objects. As a matter of fact, by now it has become a motherhood statement. The question is, how do we achieve the blessed state of motherhood?

1979 June 12, Andrew Assur (witness), “Statement of Dr. Andrew Assur, Chief Scientist, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, N.H.”, in The Role of the Federal Laboratories in Domestic Technology Transfer: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, […] (House of Representatives, Committee on Science and Technology; no. 96-77), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 80:

When English judges speak of rights they often do so in terms that are usually imprecise and lacking in clear principle. The problem is worsened by the frequent judicial recourse to motherhood statements, which are not simply imprecise but provide generalised statements that are difficult to disagree with at a conceptual level. […] [M]otherhood statements assume or imply the existence of what [Martin] Loughlin described as an 'imaginary consensus' on important doctrinal principles.

2008, Matthew Groves, “The Surrogacy Principle and Motherhood Statements in Administrative Law”, in Linda Pearson, Carol Harlow, Michael Taggart, editors, Administrative Law in a Changing State: Essays in Honour of Mark Aronson, Oxford, Portland, Or.: Hart Publishing, →ISBN, page 93:

At worst, the term ‘ownership’ becomes a ‘motherhood statement’ which, whilst always sounding worthy, can be entirely lacking in specified content. The term ownership is used to imply varying degrees of local control that are typically not realized.

2009, Simon Chesterman, “Ownership in Theory and in Practice: Transfer of Authority in UN Statebuilding Operations”, in David Chandler, editor, Statebuilding and Intervention: Policies, Practices and Paradigms, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 34:

One could say that at least Culpo's response referred to something specific in her life, and was not just the typical motherhood statement expected of polished beauty contestants – the proverbial Miss Universe answer.

2012 December 21, Rose-an Jessica Dioquino, Gian C. Geronimo, “Janine impresses in Q&A, says Miss Universe needs ‘strong mind’”, in GMA News and Public Affairs, Quezon City, archived from the original on 2018-12-17:

(chiefly Canada, US) A vague, feel-good platitude, especially one made by a politician, that most people would agree with.


dysmenorrhea

dysmenorrhea (countable and uncountable, plural dysmenorrheas)

dysmenorrheas (plural)
dysmenorrhoea (alternative)
dysmenorrhœa (alternative)

From dys- + meno- + -rrhea = dys- + menorrhœa.

premenstrual syndrome

in which menstrual pain is often a component

(medicine) Painful menstruation (menstrual pain), viewed as a symptom in any of various disorders.


bad boy

bad boys (plural)
bad-boy (alternative)
badboy (alternative)


colposcopy

(medicine) The examination of the tissues of the vagina and cervix using a colposcope.


grandma

grandmas (plural)
granma (alternative)
gran'ma (alternative)
gramma (alternative)

don't try to teach grandma how to suck eggs


nanna

Possibly derived from Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”); probably from a Proto-Indo-European root imitative of a child speaking, similar to Ancient Greek νάννα (nánna). See also nanny, Sicilian nanna.

onomatopoeic

imitative


grandpa

grandpas (plural)
gran'pa (alternative)
grampa (alternative)

Sranan Tongo: granpa


-x

From the use of x as a neutral or nonspecific placeholder.

(neologism) Used to replace a gendered suffix, such as in alumnx, Chicanx, Latinx.


ve

head

ve (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative ver, possessive adjective vis, possessive noun vers, reflexive verself)

ver (accusative)
vis (adjective possessive)
vers (noun possessive)
verself (reflexive)

First proposed by Philologus in the July 1864 Ladies' Repository, with possessive vis and objective vim, as an alternative to using "he or she," singular they, or one in sentences without a specified gender. In 1970, Varda One proposed ve, vis and objective ver in a feminist article titled "Manglish." Greg Egan used the pronouns throughout the novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).

And stop calling it 'it': yer got yer one great invention, remember Holmes? The neuter personal pronoun; ve/ver/vis, I am not his, vis/ve/ver, nor am I for her, ver/vis/ve, a pronoun for me, (slopping another tin of water out ready).

[1984, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, reprint edition, New York: Penguin Books, published 1986, →ISBN, pages 425–426:

Ve held up vis right hand; I reached down and took it, and began to haul ver up; ve shook vis head impatiently.

1995, Greg Egan, Distress, reprint edition, London: Phoenix, published 1996, →ISBN, page 223:

Yatima felt distinctly stretched by the process—but vis symbols were still connected to each other in the same way as before. Ve was still verself.

1997, Greg Egan, Diaspora, reprint edition, New York: HarperPrism, published 1998, →ISBN, page 52:

(rare, epicene, nonstandard) Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they.


airwoman

A woman who flies in an aircraft; a female aviator.


battle of the sexes

en-noun

battle of the sexes (plural battles of the sexes)

"You've heard of what they call the battle of the sexes, haven't you?"
She thought she had.
"Well, that's what it comes from chiefly—the crowds of polygamous men and the small number of polygamous women."

1921, Basil King, chapter 7, in The Empty Sack:

And when she returns to the battle of the sexes, she can state the situation in its starkest terms—"I hurt you/'cause you hurt me."

1984 January 22, Jon Pareles, “Chrissie Hynde makes peace with the past and moves on”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-08-28:

On the question of whether men have lost the battle of the sexes, a majority of both men and women disagree (62% of men, 58% of women).

2009 October 26, “Men, Women and Society: Who Has Benefited Most?”, in Time, retrieved 2014-08-28:

(almost always preceded by the) The persistent state of rivalry, opposition, or tension between men and women in society.

kønskamp

persistent state of opposition between men and women


cougar

From French couguar, from Portuguese cuguardo, a deformation of Brazilian Portuguese suçuarana (earlier çuçuarana), perhaps from Old Tupi suasuarana (“deerlike animal”), from suasú (“deer”); compare sɨwasuarána (“cervine”)) or perhaps from Guaraní guaçuara).

A cougar approached Warren at the Palomino Club and asked for a dance.

I am 26 years old and in a respectful but super-sexual relationship with a recent divorcée in her 40s. (A "cougar," in local slang.)

[2001 June 7, Dan Savage, “Count Every Vote”, in The Stranger:

Barney Stinson: She's a cougar, Ted! / Robin Scherbatsky: I thought you said you can't be a cougar if you're over 50.

2010, “Home Wreckers”, in How I Met Your Mother, season 5, episode 20 (television production):

“Younger can be good. How much younger?” Regina asked, inspecting the appetizer plates for any lingering bites. “I don't know,” Alexa said frowning. “Why does that matter?” “Less than eight years makes you a Puma. Over eight years makes you a Cougar,” Regina said wisely, grinning as Lauren nodded excitedly in agreement.

2011, Donna McDonald, Dating A Cougar, →ISBN:

(Canada, US, slang) An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”.

kotka

slang: older woman who seeks younger men


catamite

en-verb

catamite (third-person singular simple present catamites, present participle catamiting, simple past and past participle catamited)

catamites (present singular third-person)
catamiting (participle present)
catamited (participle past)
catamited (past)

From Latin catamītus (“boy kept as a sexual partner”), from Catamītus, from Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌕𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌄 (catmite), from Ancient Greek Γανυμήδης (Ganumḗdēs, “Ganymede”), an attractive Trojan boy supposedly abducted to Mount Olympus by the god Zeus to become his cupbearer and lover. Doublet of Ganymede.

der

To engage in a homoerotic relationship involving a boy and an older man.


boi

boi will be treated as a boi at all times and will find himself the recepitent ^([sic]) of many bare bottom spankings, private and in front of Daddies ^([sic]) friends.

2002 March 14, “"MR MARKS"|STRICT DAD FOR BAD BOYS IN PORTLAND OREGON”, in alt.personals.spanking.punishment (Usenet):

You, tattooed, butch boi with experience and a leash.

2004, Kelly A. Morris, Things - Now, Then & Strange, →ISBN, page 178:

I fucked the boi that way. His ass had never known how good a man's dick feels when it's deep inside […]

2007, Will Kane, Forbidden Fruit: Psalms of a Black Master, →ISBN, page 273:

(BDSM, especially in roleplay) A male bottom (i.e. submissive partner), defined not by junior age, but by his obedient role and submission to the dominant "top".


manwhore

manwhores (plural)
man-whore (alternative)
man whore (alternative)

A schmo who finds love by prostituting himself is...rather sweet in a sophomoric, manwhore-with-a-heart-of-gold kind of way.

1999 December 10, Michael O'Sullivan, “Not Just a 'Gigolo'”, in Washington Post:

He's a man-whore, Paige. He seduces women for money. He seduced you and countless married women without any care for the consequences.

2006, Farrell Kaye, Helltown: The Adventures of the Midnight Man, page 217:

(slang, occasionally vulgar) A man who has sex with clients for money; a male prostitute.

面首

a man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute


unc

Then Pangborn would find him and ask him what he thought he was doing here. He would ask if Ace had a job. He didn't, and he couldn't even claim he had come back to visit his unc, because Pop had been in his junkshop when the place burned down.

Yo, TikTok, we need to raise money for Unc.

2024 March 11, Kyle Swenson, Amber Ferguson, “A TikToker raised $400K for an unhoused man. Then things got messy.”, in The Washington Post:

(originally African-American Vernacular, Internet slang) An older male relative, by extension any older person.


air hostess

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(UK, aviation) A female flight attendant; a stewardess.


poontang

en-noun

poontang (countable and uncountable, plural poontangs)

poontangs (plural)
pootang (alternative)

Origin uncertain. Likely from French putain (“prostitute”). Compare Jamaican Creole punani (“female genitalia”); also Tagalog putang ina (“contemptible person”, literally “prostitute-mother”) from Spanish puta (“prostitute”).

cog

(US, slang, vulgar, dated, derogatory, offensive) A woman, especially when discussed from a heavily sexualized, sexist, and misogynist perspective.


bachelor's fare

/ˈbætʃələz ˈfɛə(ɹ)/

/ˈbætʃəlɚz ˈfɛɹ/

/ˈbætʃlɚz ˈfɛɹ/

A reference to the meals that bachelors supposedly have, because they either cannot cook or are not inclined to do so.

Lady Anſw[erall]. Colonel, ſome Ladies of your Acquaintance have promis'd to breakfast with you, and I am to wait on them; what will you give us? / Col[onel Atwit]. Why, faith, Madam, Batchelors Fare; Bread and Cheeſe, and Kiſſes. / Lady Anſw. Poh! what have you Batchelors to do with your Money, but to treat the Ladies? you have nothing to keep but your own Four Quarters.

1738, Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used at Court, and in the Best Companies of England. In Three Dialogues, London: Printed by B[enjamin] Motte, and C. Bathurst, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, →OCLC, page 61:

Tho' his house ben't so nice, he is sure to be neat, / And the ladies are always well pleas'd with his treat. / By the ſmack of their lips they at parting declare, / How delicious a feaſt they think bachelor's fare.

1738 January, “The Bachelor’s Life. To the Tune in The King and the Miller.”, in The London Magazine: And Monthly Chronologer, London: Printed for T[homas] Astley, at the Rose over-against the North-Door of St. Paul's, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 40, column 1:

The villain of a pedlar saw his discourse was attentively heard, and flattered himself with the hopes of a supper and night's lodging; he was not deceived, for the parson was so well pleased with his conversation, that he insisted on his staying and partaking of batchelor's fare, bread and cheese, and mild ale; the latter he supplied his guest with so immoderately that he was obliged to convey him to his apartment.

1825, James Heney, chapter XX, in Agnes, or The Sailor’s Orphan; with Memoirs of the Dudley Family, Oxford: Published by Bartlett and Hinton; and sold at their warehouse, 17, Warwick-Square, and by G[eorge] Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane, London, →OCLC, pages 198–199:

Stacy, my housekeeper, is in great fear that she is not up to the entertainment of so grand a party as I purpose to have at Midsummer; but I tell her that bachelor's fare is bread and cheese, and all beyond is more than you have any right to expect. It is very likely you may have a bit of bacon into the bargain; but I know you do not mind eating, my dear.

1836, [Anne T.] Woodrooffe, chapter XVI, in Shades of Character; or, The Infant Pilgrim, 3rd edition, volume I, London: Hatchard & Son, Piccadilly; Hamilton, Adams, and Co., Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 380:

Neither batchelor's fare, nor lodging-house dinners have any attraction in his esteem; nor is he a convert to the cold-meat and pic-nic school;—no, no!—to please his palate, there must be a regularly-built, smoking, well-sustaining table.

1840, John Patterson, chapter III, in Camp and Quarters: Or Scenes and Impressions of Military Life. Interspersed with Anecdotes of Various Well-known Characters who Flourished in the War. … In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, →OCLC, page 78:

"We'll buy a nice bit o' fish," he said, "and a goose, to add to my bachelor's fare, and be happy as the day is long.[…]"

1864, Mrs. Gordon Smythies, chapter XV, in Guilty; or, Not Guilty. A Novel. … In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street, →OCLC, page 188:

(dated) A simple meal that requires no cooking, such as bread and cheese.


gammy

en-adj

gammy (comparative gammier, superlative gammiest)

gammier (comparative)
gammiest (superlative)
gammie (alternative)

Origin obscure and uncertain. Possibly from the English dialectal (North Midlands) adjective game (“lame”), Welsh cam (“crooked”), or from Irish cam (“bent”), by way of Shelta. Compare also Old Occitan gambi (“lame, limping”), related to Old Occitan gamba (“leg”) (see also French jambe (“leg”), English gam (“leg”)).

I have got a gammy leg, and can't walk far.

"With that gammy leg I wouldn't risk a bet against the chance of another accident on those stairs."

1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 165:

In spring 2009, three years after he suffered a stroke that spared him intellectually but left him with a cane and a gammy right side, Conway delivered a six-part lecture series on his latest brainchild: The Free Will Theorem, devised with his Princeton colleague Simon Kochen.

2005, Siobhan Roberts, John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician, in: The Guardian, July 23rd 2015

I'm not exactly spectacular at the moment with a gammy knee that sometimes lets me down and hair that looks as if it's been cut with a knife and fork.

2009, Abigail Gordon, A Summer Wedding at Willowmere, page 31:

Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).


something for the weekend

When they had finished your haircut and were moving towards the till, they would lean over, pull a display box from behind a row of hair potions on the shelf, finger the box which you then saw contained condoms – normally Durex in those days – and ask, “Something for the weekend, Sir?” – even if it was only Monday! The first few times this happened to me was around 1955 and after having just left school and started work, I was extremely naïve and hadn't a clue what the barber meant.

2009, David Fowler, National Service, Elvis and Me!, page 69:


Mister Right

Mister Rights (plural)
Mr. Right (alternative)
Mr Right (alternative)

She waited for years and years, hoping someday to find Mister Right.

(idiomatic) A perfect, ideal or suitable male companion, especially a husband.

如意郎君

perfect, ideal or suitable male mate or husband


floozie

floozies (plural)
floozy (alternative)
floosy (alternative)
floosie (alternative)
floogy (alternative)

Corruption of flossy in the sense of showy.

A bunch of ugly-looking gangsters had taken the joint over for a big party, and they were all wobbling around the floor with their floozies, so drunk they could hardly stand.

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “If You Can’t Make Money”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 3 (1928–1935: The Big Apple), page 183:

«Sure thing. You going with that little Mexican floozy?»

1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:

Now I was a forsaken codger snuffling disgracefully from a beautiful floozy's abuse.

1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 418:

[T]he lead singer found his girlfriend bumping uglies in the dark with the roadie. But then said singer was with a blonde floozie himself—see what being on an L.A. trash-band bill can do to ya?

1984 September 27, Serena, “L.A. Dee Da: On The Streets”, in L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles, page 46:

A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern.


tante

Borrowed from Yiddish טאַנטע (tante), from German Tante, from French tante.

(usually in forms of address) A Jewish aunt.


hijra

hijras (plural)
hejra (alternative)
hijada (alternative)
hijara (alternative)
hijrah (alternative)

bor

Hindi हीजड़ा (hījṛā)

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The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India, individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane.

1995, Gayatri Reddy, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, & Culture) https://web.archive.org/web/20070529055321/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16479.ctl

Even more surprisingly, there are female hijras, women who were born women, who are drawn into the gharanas by the attraction and apparent safety of the hierarchies' substitute for family life.

2011, AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India, →ISBN, page 111:

While videographers were shooting him as he sat on the floor among a group of male and female sex workers, two transgender (male-to-female) hijras came to sit next to him, one on either side.

2013, Raymond A. Smith, Global HIV/AIDS Politics, Policy, and Activism, →ISBN, page 208:

Nanda profiles […] an uncastrated hijra who is married to a man and has an adopted son; and a hermaphrodite hijra […]

2013, Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies, →ISBN, page 280:

A (typically biologically male or intersex, but sometimes biologically female) member of a somewhat feminine third gender found in India and Pakistan.


stretch mark

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Nobody in Cameron's family has stretch marks, and he thinks it's because their tissues grow slowly enough for the skin to catch up.

She hadn't even looked pregnant, especially with her clothes on. She'd gotten only one stretch mark. A thin, jagged line on her left booty cheek.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 99:

(dermatology) Any of a series of red (or purple or faded), irregular stripes on the surface of the skin caused by rapid growth of the tissues lying just underneath. They may appear as a result of pregnancy, puberty, obesity, rapid muscle growth or family history.


blowsabella

blowsabellas (plural)
blousabella (alternative)
blousalinda (alternative)
blouzabella (alternative)
blouzalinda (alternative)
blowsalinda (alternative)
blowzabella (alternative)
blowzelinda (alternative)

18th-century Great Britain. From a character in John Gay's 1714 poem The Shepherd's Week.

So ridiculous was Waller's second wife in the eyes of Johnson, even with Tetty, his own red-faced Blowsabella, vividly surviving in his remembrance!

1864, Charles Kent, “Edmund Waller—The Court Poet”, in Footprints on the Road, page 211:

Before his beard was grey, he took to wife the offspring of one of his own tenants; a buxom Blousalinda, who outlived all his brutality, and buried him at last, more decently than he deserved; though she professed herself heart-broken before the honeymoon had waned.

1869, George Alfred Lawrence, Sans Merci, or, Kestrels and falcons, page 29:

This was no Blowsabella, this was no buxom, forward, romping girl, to meet with a reward for her folly.

1888, Margaret Oliphant, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Second Son, Macmillan and Company, page 216:

(obsolete) A rural woman; a country wench.


alpha male

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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

Originally used in scientific research of hierarchies in social animals, the term is now often applied to men with dominating characteristics. Already in some use during the 1990s, it was further popularized by Neil Strauss in The Game (2005).

(zoology, ethology) The dominant male in a group of animals.


fanboy

(It's in the nature of comic book fanboy obsessiveness that all of these Eras and Ages and such have been religiously chronicled; it's equally in their nature that no two fanboys can ever agree about anything about any of these Ages and Eras; everything is up for debate, eternally and in microscopic detail.)

1988 August, Bart Bull, “Comics”, in Spin, volume 4, number 5, →ISSN, page 41:

Six years and seven titles later, their company, Top Cow, is the third-biggest-grossing comic line, thanks mainly to a pair of blood-soaked, modern-day Gothics that have been a hit both with fanboys and a growing number of women.

1998 September, Brian Doherty, “Exposure: Tales From the Dark Side”, in Spin, volume 14, number 9, →ISSN, page 108:

Apple fanboys have always devoted equal parts of their mind to genuine reasons to praise their chosen corporation, and to blindly ignoring its faults.

2008 December 10, Tim Barribeau, “What's so great about Macs?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2014-04-22:

(fandom slang, often derogatory) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).


woodwork

en-verb

woodwork (third-person singular simple present woodworks, present participle woodworking, simple past and past participle woodworked)

woodworks (present singular third-person)
woodworking (participle present)
woodworked (participle past)
woodworked (past)

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From Middle English woodewerk (“carpentry”), equivalent to wood + work.

"Instead of 'woodworking,' or disappearing into the mainstream — as we are capable of and qualified to do — we have chosen not to do so." Outside of the transsexual community, other changes were taking place that made it possible for[…]

1997, Patrick Califia, Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism:

Maybe — and this was essential for political activism — you didn't have to "woodwork" but could be transgendered for all to see. By the mid '90s the Internet had arrived — and spread these new ideas like wildfire.[…]

(LGBTQ, dated) To go completely stealth as a transgender person. (From the idea of fading or blending into the woodwork.)


vaginismus

en-noun

vaginismus (usually uncountable, plural vaginismuses)

(pathology) A painful muscular contraction of the vagina when attempting to insert something, such as a tampon or a penis, into it.


aedile

aediles (plural)
ædile (alternative)
edile (alternative)

From Latin aedīlis (“commissioner or magistrate”).

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Some of these encroachments may have received permission from the town council or the local aediles. A handful of painted notices found on the outside of the Amphitheatre suggest that it was the aediles who authorised the street vendors plying their trade underneath the monument’s arches, and assigned their pitches: ‘By permission of the aediles. Licensed to Caius Aninius Fortunatus’ etc., as the faint and fragmentary Latin seems to say.

2010, Mary Beard, chapter 2, in Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town:

(historical, Ancient Rome) An elected official who was responsible for the maintenance of public buildings, regulation of festivals, supervision of markets and the supply of grain and water.


gunman

"I've known a heap of gun fighters in my day. An' Jean Isbel don't ran true to class. Shore there never was a gunman who'd risk cripplin' his right hand by sluggin' anybody."

1921, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in To The Last Man:

A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer.


let-down

en-noun

let-down (countable and uncountable, plural let-downs)

let-downs (plural)
letdown (alternative)

The majority of peasant farmers in the tropics allow the calf to suckle before milking in order to obtain a let-down of milk.

1990, WJA Payne, An Introduction to Animal Husbandry in the Tropics:

Occasionally a baby will be caught off-guard by mother's strong let-down and he will choke and sputter a bit.

2004, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, 7th edition, Penguin, page 54:

Through oxytocin mediation, these afferent pathways become so well established that letdown can occur even when the mother merely thinks of her baby.

2010, Jan Riordan, Karen Wamback, Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, 4th edition, Jones & Bartlett, page 91:

(countable, uncountable) The neurohormonal release of milk in dairy cows or in breastfeeding human mothers.


busboy

(US) An assistant waiter; one who clears plates from and cleans tables.


man-eater

man-eaters (plural)
maneater (alternative)
man eater (alternative)

And particularly, he knows where to find the primitive substance of the man eater: howsoever evaporate or reduced, as it were, into air or vapour, by sweat or perspiration.

1776, Thomas Boston, The Human Nature in its Fourfold State, page 336:

Man-eaters are more newsworthy than three-foot-long harmless sharks with tiny teeth.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 146:

His origin amongst monsters and man-eaters signals the play's recurrent concerns with monstrification, with eating others or being eaten by them, and with issues of specularity […]

1995, Bradley William Johnson, Birthed Effects: Shakespeare's Generation of Monsters, page 67:

An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.

For how a race of Man-eaters should spring up in these islands, when none of the nations on the continents from whence they must derive their original are charged with these savage customs, is not easy to conceive[.]

1724, Thomas Salmon, Modern History, Or, The Present State of All Nations, page 287:

A stout ferocious-looking fellow, with muscular bandy legs, came in as I was conversing on the subject of cannibalism, and was pointed out to me as a celebrated marksman and man eater.

1827 February 2, The Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, Hobart, page 2, column 2:

A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.

Coordinate term: lady-killer

"That only proves she has affairs with them too. She's a man-eater."

1945, Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, page 233:

Watch out, boy, she'll chew you up / (Oh-oh, here she comes) / She's a maneater

1982, Hall & Oates (lyrics and music), “Maneater”, in H₂O:

(by extension, slang) A seductive dangerous woman, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners.


seductress

Even though she didn't think of herself as a seductress, her effect on men showed she was one.


hoity-toity

hoity-toity (countable and uncountable, plural hoity-toities)

hoity-toities (plural)
hoitytoity (alternative)
hoity toity (alternative)

Probably from hoit (“to behave frivolously and thoughtlessly; to play the fool”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. The noun is attested earlier than the adjective.

suffix

Whily Kate the Brown, the Plump, / The Frowzy Browzy, / Hoyty Toyty, / Covent-Garden Harridan, / Soon made poor Jockey’s Head to Ake, / And spoyl’d him for a merry Man.

1719, [Thomas] d’Urfey, “The Scotch Cuckold: A New Song to a Northern Tune”, in Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive; […], volume I, London: […] W. Pearson, for J[acob] Tonson, […], published 19th century, →OCLC, page 255:

(countable, British, dialectal) A young woman regarded as flighty, giddy, or silly.


Pap smear

Pap smears (plural)
pap smear (alternative)

From Papanikolaou. Named after Greek-American physician Georgios Papanikolaou.

named-after

She felt vulnerable, like sheʼd just gotten her first Pap smear and didnʼt know how invasive it would feel.

2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, Bloomsbury, page 344:

(gynaecology) A screening test meant to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample (‘smear’) of cells from the cervix.


women's lib

women's liberation
women's liberation#English

(informal) Clipping of women's liberation.: the feminist movement for equal rights; women's liberation


bluestocking

bluestockings (plural)
blue-stocking (alternative)

→ Dutch: blauwkous (calque)

→ French: bas-bleu (calque)

→ English: basbleu

→ Italian: bas-bleu

→ German: Blaustrumpf (calque)

Barebones Parliament
Benjamin Stillingfleet
Blue Stockings Society
Elizabeth Montagu
bluestocking

From the 17th century. Originally in reference to blue stockings worn by men as opposed to more expensive white stockings. First associated with the Barebones Parliament in the 17th century, then with a series of literary salons which admitted female intellectuals in the 18th century; in particular the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society led by Elizabeth Montagu on the Parisian model. The term was not originally derogatory.
None of the ladies wore blue stockings. The first recorded use of the term is in reference to Benjamin Stillingfleet. He was not rich enough to have the proper formal dress, which included black silk stockings and so he attended in everyday blue worsted stockings.

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Benjamin Stillingfleet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

(historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament


fisherman

fisherwoman

fisher (female), fisherman (generic sense) (female)

The fisherman cast his line.

Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:
Any person who attempts to catch fish.


townsman

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

From Middle English townes-man, from Old English tūnes-mann, equivalent to town + -s- + man.

A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie.


townswoman

From town + -s- + -woman, on the model of townsman.

A woman who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.


gigolo

North Levantine Arabic: جغل (jagal)

/ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.loʊ/

/ˈd͡ʒɪɡ.ə.ləʊ/

/ˈʒɪɡ.ə.ləʊ/

First attested in English in 1922. From French gigolo (“young lover kept by an older woman”), first attested in that sense in 1904 (attested since 1850 in the sense “Amant de cœur, compagnon d'une gigolette", and since 1894 in the sense “elegant young man whose means of livelihood are dubious”), a back-formation from gigolette (“promiscuous dancing girl, girl available for hire as a dancing partner”), attested since 1850, from giguer (“to dance”), from gigue (“fiddle; type of dance; jig”). More at jig.

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I'm just a gigolo / And everywhere I go / People know the part I'm playin' / Paid for every dance / Sellin' each romance / Ooh, what they're sayin'

1929, “Just a Gigolo”, Irving Caesar (lyrics), Leonello Casucci (music):

A hired escort or dancing partner for a woman.

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periodicity

en-noun

periodicity (countable and uncountable, plural periodicities)

From French périodicité. By surface analysis, periodic + -ity.

Recurrence of a woman's periods; menstruation.


aken

en-verb

aken (third-person singular simple present akens, present participle akenning, simple past and past participle akenned)

akens (present singular third-person)
akenning (participle present)
akenned (participle past)
akenned (past)

From Old English ācennan or gecennan, equivalent to a- + cennan (“to give birth to”).

(obsolete) To bear, give birth to. (Usually in the past participle.)


barrier method

A means of contraception involving an impenetrable barrier, such as a diaphragm or condom, between sexual partners.


shi

The mother was Chakat Goldfur and the sire was Garrek Redfox (foxtaur) so she has the same red fur but cougar-like markings. Of course shi’s still only a cub yet, but if shi grows up to look anything like the your Jaguar-Vixen, shi’s going to be a heartbreaker!

1999 november 20, "Chakat Goldfur" (username), Furry Art on Ebay...horrible shameless plug, alt.fan.furry, Usenet

> Unlike most Furry Hermaphrodites I've seen, Clash is fairly
> androgynous. Shi is remarkable in hir modesty.
>
> But shi IS rather naughty, as you can see.

2001 January 25, "Achowth Keciyl" (username), quoting "A. Seraph" (username), Fur: The one and only Herm Gengimal, in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet

Dropping hir forebody down just a little, shi bent over double at the waist. Andrew's eyes blinked open as whiskers met his cheeks just before feline lips. He purred to hir and reached up to caress hir back as shi kissed him ...

2006, Kenneth Fox, Joined in Mind and Body, Kenneth Fox, →ISBN, page 230:

(furry fandom, rare) Alternative form of sie (gender-neutral pronoun)


backfisch

en-noun

backfisch (plural backfisch or backfische or backfisches)

backfisch (plural)
backfische (plural)
backfisches (plural)

Borrowed from German Backfisch (“teenage girl”, literally “fish for baking”).

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When we were charming Backfisch / With curls and velvet bows / We shared a charming kitten / With tiny velvet toes.

1919, Katherine Mansfield, “Friendship”, in J. Middleton Murry, editor, The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield, published 1940:

I knew, of course, it was but an innocent game on her part, a bit of backfisch foolery in imitation of some simulacrum of fake romance, […]

1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 115:


catamenia

From Ancient Greek καταμήνια (katamḗnia), the neuter plural of καταμήνιος (katamḗnios, “monthly”), from κατά (katá) + μήν (mḗn, “month”).

On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.

1881, American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children: Volume 14:


xem

1997, Jared Blackburn, in bit.listserv.autism http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.autism/msg/b20545b793ca6c1e?dmode=source&hl=en
Still, most parents have some intuitive understanding that "our child is not like us, maybe someone like xem could help...."

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

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


cuckquean

cuckqueans (plural)
cucquean (alternative)

Blend of cuckold + quean (“disreputable woman”).

blend

(fetish) A woman who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.


bodgie

I comb my hair as best I can. It is in a crew-cut ordered by the chief warder. He must have read that bodgies wear their hair long and decided to do his bit in the fight against juvenile delinquency.

1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 17:

Unlike McDonald, Manning noted with dismay that traditional relations between the sexes were broken down in bodgie groups. Bodgies, he argued, were disturbed youth, hooligans, maladjusted.

1993, Lesley Johnson, The Modern Girl: Girlhood and Growing Up, page 100:

The New Zealand public and press largely shared his view of bodgies as juvenile delinquents who posed a social threat. The bodgie soon became a national bogey man, with alarmist newspaper reports about bodgie behaviour.

2001, Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music, page 223:

In Toowoomba, Magistrate Kearney was up in arms over the bodgies and widgies in town – those dressed-up teenagers with their spruced hair and polka-dot dresses who loitered around the city streets. They were seen as a threat to society.

2010, William Stokes, Westbrook, page 183:

(Australia, New Zealand, slang) A member of a 1950s rock subculture; a teddy boy.


limmer

Uncertain; perhaps from limb, or French limier; see leamer.

Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands.

1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:


time of the month

en-noun

time of the month (plural times of the month)

times of the month (plural)
TOM (alternative)
that time of the month (alternative)

I'm so, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just... I'm just a little bit, you know... Well, I've got you know at the moment, so... I've got Aunt Irma visiting.
Do you not like Aunt Irma? I've got an aunt like that.
It's my term for... my time of the month.
What time of the month? The weekend?

2006 Mar. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 6

You have to admit, however, that during that time of the month, we are not at our most likable. Let's face it. We are swollen up like an overfed slug, our breath stinks, the tiniest irritant is magnified ten thousand times, and we cry at the drop of a hat.

2014, Becky Rutledge, Miss Becky's Charm School, Citadel Press, →ISBN:

It’s that time, that time of the month / Well I woke up early and I got a hunch

2014, “Crimson Wave”, in NVM, performed by Tacocat:

(euphemistic) Synonym of menstruation: the monthly period during which a fertile woman menstruates.