labiaplasty

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Many doctors performing labiaplasties were never taught vulvar anatomy—leaving some patients scarred and unable to feel sexual pleasure.

2019, Suzannah Weiss, The Establishment, The Insidious Reasons Doctors Are Botching Labiaplasties:

Labiaplasty—surgery for reshaping or resizing the inner labia—is the fastest growing type of plastic surgery in the world: in 2016, 45 per cent more labiaplasty procedures were carried out than in 2015, […]

2019, Lynn Enright, Vagina: A Re-Education, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

When performed poorly, a labiaplasty — a procedure to reduce the size of the labia minora, and one of the fastest-growing cosmetic surgeries worldwide — can also damage nerves, leading to genital pain and loss of sexual sensation.

2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:

(surgery) The moulding or shaping of the labia minora and/or labia majora.


smear test

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


cervical smear

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


Pap test

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

named-after

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


bica

(pharmacology, informal) Clipping of bicalutamide.


boy wonder

Coordinate term: girl wonder

(informal) A male child prodigy; wonderboy.


wide boy

Related to wide awake, i.e. sharp-witted, open-eyed, with wide open eyes.

Much amusement at Westminster about David Mellor, a wide boy if ever there was one. Someone tapped his girlfriend's phone and sold the tape to The People. Very funny stuff—all about how knackered he was.

(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing.


dinner lady

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Ten years to the month after Jamie Oliver began his school food revolution – with the help of a formidable dinner lady called Nora Sands at Kidbrooke school in south London – a small inner-city primary on the other side of the Thames is doing its best to give it a new lease of life.

2015 April 4, Sally Weale, “The new dinner lady: 10 years on, can an Ottolenghi chef prove Jamie Oliver's revolution wasn't a flash in the pan?”, in The Guardian:

(British, informal) A woman employed to serve food in a school or work canteen.


menstrual fluid

en-noun

menstrual fluid (countable and uncountable, plural menstrual fluids)

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The mixture of blood and cellular debris from the uterus that constitutes the menses


TMA

Coordinate term: TME

[…] transmisogyny-affected (TMA) people, are in the greatest danger of TERF violence, and thus their critiques take priority in the fight against TERFs. With TMA people routinely excluded from the bounds of academia, […] impacted by transmisogyny; […]

2020, S. L. Cavar, Enacting Transbutch: Queer Narratives Beyond Essentialism:

(LGBTQ) Initialism of transmisogyny-affected.


oligomenorrhoea

/ɒlɪɡə(ʊ)mɛnəˈɹiːə/

/ɑləɡoʊmɛnəˈɹi.ə/

(medicine) Unusually infrequent menstruation.


human cheese

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The flavor of human cheese would depend on what you were feeding your human.

1998, Dan Savage, Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist:


queen mother

A widowed queen consort (a queen dowager) whose son or daughter from that marriage is the reigning monarch.

الْمَلِكَة الْأُمّ

widowed queen consort whose son or daughter from that marriage is the reigning monarch


queen consort

queen consort (plural queens consort or queen consorts or queens consorts)

queens consort (plural)
queen consorts (plural)
queens consorts (plural)
queen-consort (alternative)

Coordinate term: king consort

The Queens consorts of England are by law the perpetual patroneſſes; this hoſpital being conſidered as part of their dower.[…]Nothing now remains but to give a ſhort account of the Queens Consorts of England, who have been Patroneſſes of the two Hoſpitals of St. Katharine, from their foundation to the preſent time.

1782, “The present State of this Hospital, concluding with a List of the Royal Patronesses from its Foundation to the present Time”, in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica. № V. […], London: […] J[ohn] Nichols, pages 42–43:

This implies they say, that the “queens” are spoken of not as queens regnant, but as queens consorts.[…]We allow that queens are here spoken of as queens consorts, and not as queens regnant. But though a queen consort possesses no official power, her husband does. And it is therefore an obvious fallacy to argue, that because queens consorts, who have no official power, can nurse the Church only in a private capacity, that therefore the kings, their husbands, who are possessed of official power, should nurse the Church only in a private capacity.

1839, William White, “Lecture II”, in Lectures on the Lawfulness and Advantages of National Establishments of Religion, Haddington: […] Neill and Sons; […], pages 44–45:

The other cases which bear upon, or have any analogy to, the present, are those of Queens Consorts of this kingdom;[…]As far, then, as we can judge by precedent of these matters (and I shall endeavour presently to show that there is no other mode of judging of them), it would appear that 50,000l. a-year is the sum which has ordinarily been allotted to princes in the situation of Prince Albert and to the Queens Consorts of this country. With respect to the sums which have been granted either to the husband of the Queen, or to Queens Consorts, in all cases of their surviving the Sovereign, the sum allowed has always been greater than that which I now propose.

1840 January 24, “The Prince Albert’s Provision”, in John Henry Barrow, editor, Mirror of Parliament. […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], page 341, columns 1–2:

The founder of this college was Robert de Eglesfeld, chaplain and confessor to Philippa, queen consort of Edward III., who in compliment to his royal mistress designated it by the name of Queen’s college, or the hall of the Queen’s scholars. Philippa not only encouraged him in his work, but became its patroness after the founder’s death, which happened in 1349; an example which has since been followed most liberally by the queens consorts of many of our kings, in taking this college into their special favour.

1847, “Queen’s College”, in A Hand-book for Visitors to Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker, pages 134–135:

In its new state Queen Victoria wore the stone in a brooch, in a tiara, and, from 1858, in a circlet set for her by Garrard, the crown jewellers. It has never been worn by a male sovereign, for on her death Victoria bequeathed it to her daughter-in-law, Alexandra, and after her to successive queens consorts.

2000, Katherine Prior, John Adamson, Maharajas’ Jewels, Assouline, →ISBN, page 74:

He will lead the country in mourning as the new King and head of state for 14 Commonwealth realms. Camilla, his wife, becomes Queen Consort.

2022 September 8, “Queen Elizabeth II has died”, in BBC News:


gylany

gylany (countable and uncountable, plural gylanies)

From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + English l(inking) and Ancient Greek λ(ύειν) (l(úein)), λ(ύω) (l(úō), “to dissolve, sever; to release, set free”) + Ancient Greek ἀνδρός (andrós) (genitive singular of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”)) + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a state, condition, or quality); coined by the Austrian-born American cultural historian and author Riane Eisler (born 1931) in writings in the 1980s, including The Chalice and the Blade (1987): see the quotations.

suffix

[T]he two projected androcratic futures—a totalitarian future or no future at all—are not our only alternatives. There is the third alternative, the humanistic future to which the concept of gylany, both the balanced core and the logical requirement of our cultural evolution, provides the key.

1981 December, Riane Tennenhaus Eisler, “Gylany: The Balanced Future”, in Futures: The Journal of Forecasting, Planning and Policy, volume 13, number 6, Oxford: Elsevier Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, abstract, page 499:

It seems particularly fitting to use terms of Greek derivation to describe how these two contrasting social models have affected our cultural evolution. For the conflict between gylany and androcracy as two very different ways of living on this earth—and the advancement of our evolution through gylanic influences—is dramatically illustrated if we take a fresh look at ancient Greece from the new perspective offered by cultural transformation theory.

1987, Riane Eisler, “The Other Half of History: Part I”, in The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 106:

Old Europe and Anatolia, as well as Minoan Crete, were a gylany. A balanced, non-patriarchal and non-matriarchal social system is reflected by religion, mythologies, and folklore, by studies of the social structure of Old European and Minoan cultures, and is supported by the continuity of the elements of a matrilinear system in ancient Greece, Etruria, Rome, the Basque, and other countries of Europe.

1989, Marija Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of Western Civilization, San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page xx:

In a gylany, the sexes are "linked" rather than hierarchically "ranked" which is typical of patriarchal societies. The existence of gylanies or societies with a balanced authority among men and women has been evidenced by ethnology and anthropology. Gylany must not be confused with matriarchy which never existed and which has the value of a myth like the one about the Amazons[…]. Civilization in Old Europe is among the examples of an early gylany in mankind's cultural history.

1996, Harald Haarmann, “Iconography, Symbolism and Writing at the Dawn of Civilization – Old Europe from the Seventh to the Fourth Millennia B.C.”, in Thomas A[lbert] Sebeok, Roland Posner, Alain Rey, editors, Early Civilization and Literacy in Europe: An Inquiry into Cultural Continuity in the Mediterranean World (Approaches to Semiotics; 124), Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, Walter de Gruyter & Co., →ISBN, pages 13–14:

Once in our sights, gylany seems in abundant evidence as a worldwide societal phenomenon before about 3000 bce, when it, together with the Mother Goddess religion underpinning it, yields universally to the blood-and-thunder sky-gods of warrior societies. Did anything like gylany ever exist in the ancient Cherokee world?

2013, Donald N. Yates, “The Mother Goddess in America”, in Old Souls in a New World: The Secret History of the Cherokee Indians (Cherokee Chapbooks; 7), 2nd edition, Phoenix, Ariz.: Panther’s Lodge Publishers, →ISBN, page 66:

(sociology) A social system based on equality of women and men.


handywoman

handywomen (plural)
handiwoman (alternative)

An uncertified midwife; a woman who attends at childbirths but who lacks a medical qualification.


maternity leave

en-noun

maternity leave (countable and uncountable, plural maternity leaves)

Coordinate term: paternity leave

My wife is on a two year maternity leave while she takes care of her newborn baby.

I went on maternity leave in May 2022, so have been away for nearly 14 months.

2023 July 26, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: Rebuild trust or it's game over”, in RAIL, number 988, page 3:

A leave of absence from a job for a mother to care of a baby.


parental leave

parental leave (countable and uncountable, plural parental leaves)

Both my husband and I are on a 3-month parental leave while we look after our newborn baby.

A leave of absence from a job for a parent to take care of a baby.

產假 /产假

leave of absence for a parent to take care of a baby


gurl

(LGBTQ slang) Term of address between cis gay men or transgender women.

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

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


gurl

en-verb

gurl (third-person singular simple present gurls, present participle gurling, simple past and past participle gurled)

gurls (present singular third-person)
gurling (participle present)
gurled (participle past)
gurled (past)

From Middle English gurlen (“to growl, rumble”).

inh

The poor little doctor, thus rudely and suddenly aroused from his tipsy sleep, looked excessively bewildered when he opened his eyes, and met the glare of ferocious delight that Darby Kelleher cast upon him, and he gurled out, “What's the matter?” as well as the grip of Darby's hand upon his throat would permit him.

1834, Samuel Lover, Legends and Stories of Ireland:

“Weel may ye mind, yon night sae black, Whan fearfu' winds loud gurled, And mony a lum dang down—and stack, Heigh i' the air up swirled, Alangst yon brae, ye clam, and stack,

1845, Alexander Wilson, Poetical Works: With an Extended Memoir of His Life and Writings:


no-op

Coordinate term: no-ho

At the time of the interviews, nineteen of the twenty interviewees were taking hormones; five were pre-operative; thirteen were postoperative; and two were ‘no-ops’ (no surgery intended at the time of interview).

2008, Christopher Shelley, “Introduction: Transpeople and the Problem of Re/Action”, in Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma, Healing, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 12:

sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery

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


sistergirl

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"We are all so proud of you, sistergirl! Couldn't you tell at graduation?"

2003, Shonell Bacon, Draw Me with Your Love:

Dianne, where would I be without my sistergirl support group?

2004, Janette McCarthy Louard, Portrait of Deception:

(African-American Vernacular) Sister, girlfriend (as a familiar term of address between women).

[…] But older sistergirls do feel a real strong sense, a real responsibility, to look after the little sistergirls because they know they've got a hard time ahead.

2004, The Bulletin, volumes 6428-6439, page 32:

Importantly, while Brown does not paint an idealised image of the inclusion of sistergirls within Indigenous cultures, she nonetheless emphasises the negative effects of colonisation upon sistergirls, […]

2012, Damien W. Riggs, “Talking About 'Diverse Genders and Sexualities' Means Talking About More Than White Middle-Class Queers”, in Y. Taylor, editor, Educational Diversity: The Subject of Difference and Different Subjects, page 230:

Senator McCarthy's plea to 'stay strong' resonates because all too often sistergirls and brotherboys suffer, not only from verbal harassment and ostracism, but also violence and sexual abuse.

2017, Stephen Kerry, Trans Dilemmas: Living in Australia’s Remote Areas and in Aboriginal Communities, unnumbered page:

Australian Aboriginal
Australian Aboriginal

(Australian Aboriginal) A member of a traditional gender role in Australian Aboriginal cultures, resembling trans women.


philosopheress

philosopheresses (plural)
philosophress (alternative)

A poet doesn't want to marry a poetess, nor a philosopher a philosopheress.


jill

From the female name Jill.
* (to masturbate): By analogy with jack (off). See Jack (“male name”).
* (gill): Paired with jack (from the male name Jack) as terms for alcohol measurements.
* (pelvic protector): By analogy with jock, Jock being a male name.

Below ground, in the maze of tunnels excavated by the rabbits over many, many years, five of our jill, or bitch, ferrets were running loose[...]. A white jill popped out of the hole nearest men slithered through the net mesh and disappeared down an adjacent entrance.

1971 March, Fred Taylor, “How the English hunt rabbits”, in Field & Stream^([84]), volume 75, number 11:

In 1989 I obtained a hob from Curtis Price from one of my own jills mated to my own hob, for living as I do at the very edge of Britain it is not practicable to breed litters of ferrets to obtain a single replacement. Hence I lend out my best mated jills and receive a single ferret kitten from each litter.

2001, David Brian Plummer, In Pursuit of Coney^([62]), Coch Y Bonddu Books, →ISBN:

I prefer to use Jills on my ferreting jobs. All are fitted with transmitter collars, and I would never work a ferret without one. That said, I always make sure I have a large Hob ferret with me because sometimes he will shift stubborn rabbits where the Jills have failed.

2006, Steve Caple, Rural Pest Control^([9]), Troubador Publishing Ltd., →ISBN:


transphobia

en-noun

transphobia (usually uncountable, plural transphobias)

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From trans- + -phobia or trans + -phobia.

It is not really a debate about privacy and personal safety versus politics, so much as an impulse towards pride and a rejection of internalized transphobia.

1998, Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook:

In this case, transphobia is represented in Pollock's terms as both the "condition and the effect" of Cameron's social existence.

2006, Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle, The Transgender Studies Reader:

Hatred or fear of, or prejudice against, transgender and transsexual people.

رهاب التحول الجندري

fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness


transphobic

en-adj

transphobic (comparative more transphobic, superlative most transphobic)

more transphobic (comparative)
most transphobic (superlative)

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And it too closely parallels transphobic attacks that charge: "Once a man, always a man; once a woman, always a woman."

1999, Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue:

When 64% of trans pupils say they are bullied for being LGBTQ+ at school, almost half of those bullied never tell anyone about it, and 46% say they hear transphobic language “frequently” at school, it’s fair to say there is a crisis in our education system around tackling bullying, violence, harassment and social exclusion.

August 24 2021, Shon Faye, “‘I feel like it’s quite shaky acceptance’: trans kids and the fight for inclusion”, in The Guardian:

transfobia

relating to or characteristic of transphobia


ex-husband

ex-husbands (plural)
exhusband (alternative)

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A former husband (from a previous marriage after a divorce).

entinen mies (only with possessive suffix, e.g. "entinen mieheni")


superheroine

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From super- + heroine, by analogy with superhero.

A heroine with supernatural powers; a female superhero


laddish

laddish (comparative more laddish, superlative most laddish)

more laddish (comparative)
most laddish (superlative)

[…] versions of a laddish or protest heterosexual masculinity […]

2003, Linda McDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth:

This underachievement is linked to a laddish culture […]

2006, Carolyn Jackson, Lads and Ladettes in School: Gender and a Fear of Failure:

(British) Like a stereotypical Jack the lad: boorish, reckless, inclined to binge drinking, etc.


concertmistress

Possibly a calque of German Konzertmeisterin, corresponding to concert + mistress.


ex-wife

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Pascal's estate was contentiously split between his ex-wife and his nonwife, with artistic decisions ultimately empowered to a banker.

2001, Steven Suskin, Broadway Yearbook, 1999-2000:

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

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

A former wife (from a previous marriage after a divorce).


culture of death

en-noun

culture of death (plural cultures of death)

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(theology) In moral theology, the concept that human life can be a means to some other end and not solely an end itself.

cywilizacja śmierci

(philosophy, politics) In contemporary political and philosophical discourse, a culture asserted to be inconsistent with the concept of a "culture of life", such as cultures that support contraception and abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, human cloning, self-absorption, apathy or poverty.

სიკვდილის კულტურა

in contemporary political and philosophical discourse, a culture that is deemed to be inconsistent with the concept of a "culture of life"

But can one nevertheless regard suicide bombing as an expression of the political culture—the culture of death—that has emerged in modern times in the Middle East?

2007, Talal Asad, On Suicide Bombing, Columbia University Press, page 50:

Still, with ... each individual case ... of individual suicide bombers ... it seems that we have to acknowledge first of all that there is a larger pattern of a culture of death

2007, Israel W. Charny, Fighting Suicide Bombing: A Worldwide Campaign for Life, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 77:

Suicide bombings ... were still wrong because such reasoning promotes a culture of death and nihilism that will take years to erase from the Palestinian narrative

2009, Joshua Craze, Mark Huband, The Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Challenge of the 21st Century, Hurst Publishers, page 289:

A society that reveres suicide bombers as martyrs.


farmwife

Farm life is beautiful, my friends, when well and rightly lived. And the very word Farmwife has grown sweeter with the years. Long ago I resented the imputation implied. Today, I say "yes" to the charge, and add that "of the distinction I'm proud." Are not you?

1895, Nellie Hawks, “Farm-life, farm-wife, and fancier”, in S.C. Bassett, editor, Annual Report of the Nebraska Dairymen's Association, published 1896, page 155:

The wife in a married couple engaged in farming; a wife who shares in the duties of farming, such as farm management, homemaking on the farm, fieldwork, sales and marketing, or other work.


agony uncle

The author had set himself up as a kind of literary agony uncle at the Murakami-san no Tokoro (Mr Murakami’s place) website: “After so long, I want to exchange emails with readers,” he said in January.

2015 August 13, Alison Flood, “Haruki Murakami's agony uncle answers become eight-volume book”, in The Guardian:


cyberfeminist

[…] discussion of prostitution on the Internet (which also includes consideration of pornography from a cyberfeminist perspective) […]

2001, David Wall, Crime and the Internet:

Some cyberfeminist activists, in particular radical feminists on Tumblr, have been labeled “Social Justice Warriors” (SJWs) and are often scrutinized by mainstream feminist movements and popular culture.

2015, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Feminist Theory and Pop Culture, page 125:


cyberfeminist

If I'd rather be a cyberfeminist than a goddess, I'd damned well better know why, and be willing to say so.

2001, Hilary Robinson, Feminism-art-theory: An Anthology, 1968-2000:


cyberfeminism

cyberfeminism (countable and uncountable, plural cyberfeminisms)

Because of its similarity to what is often referred to as "liberal feminism" in the non-virtual world, I identify this perspective as liberal cyberfeminism.

1996, Susan C Herring, Computer-mediated Communication:

At the opening to On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations, Plant says that cyber-feminism—and/or the complex systems and virtual worlds upon which it is based—has the capacity to undermine the ‘world view and material reality of two thousand years of patriarchal control’.

1997, Caroline Bassett, quoting Sadie Plant, “With a Little Help from Our (New) Friends”, in Mute, volume 1, number 8, →ISSN:

Cyberfeminism is an attempt by feminists to own a part of the computer revolution, where the field of computer science has established a resistant, male center of power.

2008, Sue Vilhauer Rosser, Women, Science, and Myth:

A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.


vernix caseosa

From Latin vernix (“varnish”) + caseosa (“cheesy”).

1888 Austin Flint: A Text-book of human physiology
The protecting coat of vernix caseosa allows the skin to perform its office in utero, and at birth, when this coating is removed, the surface is found in a condition perfectly adapted to extrauterine existence. It is not probable that the vernix caseosa is necessary to facilitate the passage of the child into the world, for the parts of the mother are always sufficiently lubricated with mucous secretion.

1983 Carol Laderman: Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia
She rubbed his body with coconut oil to remove the vernix caseosa. A heavy coating of vernix caseosa, she told me later, is a sure sign that the couple have been having intercourse during the latter part of pregnancy, a practice she considers dangerous. She believes the white vernix caseosa to be an accumulation of semen.

(obstetrics, medecine) The waxy or "cheesy" white substance found coating the skin of newborn humans.


golf widow

It is claimed that the next best thing a golf widow can do if she cannot fill her lonely hours with croquet is to assume a devout interest in her husband's game.

1900 August 12, “Women Here and There”, in New York Times, page 15:

"It's about being a golf widow," shrugged Rita. "What do women do when their husbands are playing golf?"

2003 October 6, Tessa Boase, “In search of the best spas”, in The Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2008-12-14:

(idiomatic) A woman who is deprived of her husband's time and attention due to his regular absence in order to play golf.


naunt

From rebracketing of phrases an aunt, mine aunt. Compare nuncle.

(nonstandard, proscribed, dated) aunt, mine aunt


bit of skirt

I never heard a word about a bit of skirt. Not like some blokes you meet — they're born out of one and they try to spend the rest of their lives getting back in.

2000, Roy Holland, Just a Bit Touched: Tales of Perspective, page 44:

Rosemary overheard him say that he did not usually grace such functions with his presence, but had been dragged along one January evening with the promise of a 'nice bit of skirt'.

2012, Jane Roberts, Triple Challenge: '69 to '70, page 24:

He slapped the visor back into place. “Tired?” Baldwin asked. “A bit. This case, you know. Been keeping me up all hours for weeks. Your bit of skirt is quite the woman, isn't she?” Memphis asked.

(UK slang, offensive) A woman, when regarded as a sexual object.


bluesman

But creepily enough, from '30s delta bluesman Robert Johnson's beating-until-satisfied "Me and Devil Blues" to Jackie Gleason's 1954 "One Of These Days — Pow!" to Dion's face-slapping 1962 "Little Diane" to Lou Reed exclaiming "you better hit her" in "There She Goes Again" to the Intruders chasing girls and beating 'em up in their 1968 beach-soul hit "Cowboys to Girls" to the "wifebeating has been around for 10,000 years" headline fronting Guns N' Roses Lies, those in favor seem more prevalent.

1997, Chuck Eddy, The Accidental Evolution of Rock'n'roll, page 22:


masculinization

masculinization (countable and uncountable, plural masculinizations)

masculinizations (plural)
masculization (alternative)

A pseudohermaphroditic infant female rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) showing masculinization of the external genitalia as a result of exposure to testosterone propionate during foetal development.

2012, Alan F. Dixson, Primate Sexuality:

The act of rendering someone or something masculine.


co-brother

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

co-brothers (plural)
co-brethren (plural)

If your wife doesn't have a sister, you just can't have a co-brother.

2007, Sethi, A Handbook Of Standard English And Indian Usage: Vocabulary And Grammar, page 55:


millionairess

A woman whose wealth is greater than one million dollars, or the local currency; a female millionaire.


spinner

From Middle English spynnere; equivalent to spin + -er.

Now, Cher was a spinner. Spinner is slang for a petite “chez chez la femme” who loved to assume the dominate sexual position on top. In other words, one could take a spinner and turn her around rapidly thus creating a circular motion and a geometrically induced orgasm.

2007, Hank Miller, The Admiral's Son, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 293:

For example, some johns used the term spinner to refer a petite female. This was exemplified by an exchange in the Dayton forum where individuals discussed the meaning of the term spinner:
 Purplehead: I picked up what looked to be a young thin WSW just south of McDs … She looked really good, about 100 lbs, and very cute, dark hair … a definite spinner..

2009, K.R. Blevins, T.J. Holt, “Examining the virtual subculture of johns”, in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, volume 38, number 5, Sage Publications:

He hadn't dated any Asian girls at Princeton, even though there were tons of them. They tended to be petite, and he wasn't into little girls, "spinners," as Andy called them.

2012, Amy Sohn, Motherland, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 112:

The girl peeking up at him under strawberry[-]blond curls was what men commonly referred to as a “spinner.” Petite, passionate, and pliable...one you could switch into a different sexual position without removing yourself from her heat.
[…]
"I'm going to fuck my little spinner now. She's had it too easy so far."

2014, Tessa Bailey, Staking His Claim, Fort Collins, CO: Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:

[…] petite women, whom he called 'spinners,' because, in comparison to 'heifers,' they are far more manageable.”

2016, LR Penn, The Syzygy, Lulu.com, →ISBN, pages 204–205:

(often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.

He's been telling his army of spinners, and DC and Boy George too, that Radio 4 is for the chattering classes, and only people like Cameron and Miliband tune in to watch Paxo on Newsnight last thing at night.

2011, Larry the Cat, The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days, page 15:


booth babe

But not every company needed a hottie PR rep or "booth babe" to catch our eye.

And if a female convention specialist doesn't professionally approach the job, then she's "sitting there going, 'I don't know, I'm just a booth babe...

2006, Tom Reichert, Jacqueline Lambiase, Sex in Consumer Culture:

In my opinion, the absolute worst way to generate artificial interest is the tactic that is commonly known as the booth babe.

2006, Eric Sink, Eric Sink on the Business of Software:

A female model hired to represent a product and interact with consumers at a trade fair or similar event.


knock-up

knock-ups (plural)
knockup (alternative)

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When will we wake up? I see young girls pregnant and young boys adding up their “knock-ups” like a scorecard at a mob gambling venue.

2016, Veronica Valles, Back To The Center, page 54:


great-great-grandson

great-great-grandsons (plural)
great great grandson (alternative)


great-great-granddaughter

great-great-granddaughters (plural)
great great granddaughter (alternative)


camgirl

camgirls (plural)
cam girl (alternative)

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[…] drawing viewer registration fees, selling advertising space, or by inviting viewers to send gifts to the camgirl from a linked wish list.

Some sites even provide directories of camgirl pages, allowing users to search for sites by the camgirl's age, her location […]

[…] a network of singles, pay-for-play camgirl shows, and "interactive 3D sex fantasy games".

2006, Annalee Newitz, Charlie Anders, She's Such a Geek!:

A girl or woman who publishes or broadcasts webcam photographs or videos of herself, often for adult entertainment.

Camgirl

woman who publishes webcam photographs or videos


womynhood

Reclaiming my true womynhood, learning to truly know and love myself and other wimmin has taken time.

1980, Susan J Wolfe, Julia Penelope, The Coming Out Stories:

Indeed, the opera recovers the bound and raped bodies of Afro-Asian womynhood as evidence of the need for a transracial feminist dialectic...

In one brave and defiant performance, she redefined the patriarchal constructions of beauty, femininity, and womynhood for all who saw her.

2008, Laurie J Kendall, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival:


misoprostol

From m(ethyl) + iso- + -prost- (“prostaglandin”) + -ol.

af

(pharmacology) A drug used for various purposes including the prevention of drug-induced gastric ulcers and the inducement of abortions, having the chemical formula C₂₂H₃₈O₅.

misoprostol

drug used for the prevention of drug-induced gastric ulcers and the inducement of abortions


weaker vessel

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Peter 3:7:

Certainly, when Satan first made the Attempt upon Eve, he did not think he should have so easily conquered her. . . . Well might she be said to be the weaker Vessel, tho’ Adam himself had little enough to say for his being the stronger.

1727, Daniel Defoe, chapter 8, in The Political History of the Devil:

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 41, in Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

(idiomatic, dated, now offensive) A woman; women collectively.


fair sex

the fair sex (canonical)
fairer sex (alternative)

The younger Gentry, or Dons, to express their Gallantry, carry about them Egg-shells, fill'd with Orange or other sweet Water, which they cast at Ladies in their Coaches, or such other of the fair Sex as they happen to meet in the Streets.

1728, Daniel Defoe, chapter 8, in Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton:

"Permit me rather to perform my duty in attending them," said Roland, anxious to show he was possessed of the high tone of deference prescribed by the rules of chivalry towards the fair sex, and especially to dames and maidens of quality.

1820, [Walter Scott], chapter 23, in The Abbot. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:

Our entrance was attended with the usual ceremony, now familiar to the reader: the warmen danced, shot, and shouted, a rabble of adults, youths and boys crowded upon us, the fair sex lulliloo'd with vigor[.]

1881, Bayard Taylor, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 147:

“Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department,” said Holmes, with a smile, when the dwindling frou-frou of skirts had ended in the slam of the front door.

1904 December, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Second Stain”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:

And he had his friends among the fair sex—not lovers, friends.

1913–1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Blind Man”, in England My England and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, published 24 October 1922, →OCLC, page 89:

(idiomatic, dated, now sometimes offensive) Women collectively.


ponygirl

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(BDSM) A woman, usually submissive, who takes the role of a pony; this typically includes wearing tack such as a bridle and bit


little brown fucking machine

en-noun

little brown fucking machine (plural little brown fucking machines)

little brown fucking machines (plural)
LBFM (alternative)

Mack soon learned that this new bit of colonialist lingo stood for "Little Brown Fucking Machine." It was more convenient to abbreviate […]

And we still have soldiers who call us "a little brown fucking machine fueled by rice.

1996, Mary John Mananzan, J Shannon Clarkson, Letty Russell, Women Resisting Violence: Spirituality for Life:

What about that little brown fucking machine? She's got a nice body, a nice attitude; she takes care of herself. I figured you'd like her.

A Little Brown Fucking Machine is not unsexed by prostituting, she is "just doing what comes naturally."

1999, Kamala Kempadoo, Sun, Sex, and Gold:

After Wes forced the split between Jeri and Captain America, he started dating her and dangling a possible dalliance with the Little Brown Fucking Machine […]

LBFM is Navy speak for Little Brown Fucking Machine. They are the bar girls sailors meet in all the ports in the Orient. The term is generic for bar girls […]

(US, navy, vulgar, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Southeast Asian woman regarded as a sex object.


pregorexia

2008, Jane Bainbridge, "Pregorexia: body image over baby?" (article), in British Journal of Midwifery, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 4 2008, page 608.

Pregorexia came on the radar in 2006 when former TV presenter Liz Fraser told Marie Claire magazine about her struggle with bulimia during pregnancy.

2009 July 7, Kevin Courtney, “Pregorexia”, in The Irish Times:

Her dramatic weight loss meant Mrs Bassett had to be taken into hospital when just 11 weeks pregnant. Evan was born early at 30 weeks, but her ‘pregorexia’ left her too frail to care for him until he was 14 months old.

2012 March 2, Alison Smith-Squire, “The 'pregorexic' mother whose weight plummeted to FOUR STONE because she was so worried about getting fat during pregnancy”, in Daily Mail:

Pregorexia, or 'mommyrexia', as they dub it Stateside, is a growing disorder: women exercising madly all through the pregnancy (there are now scores of websites devoted to selling workout gear for pregnant women, while sizes for maternity clothes these days often include an extra-small, which would be impossibly tiny even for the average non-pregnant woman), […]

2013, Emily Hourican, How to (Really) Be a Mother, Gill & Macmillan, →ISBN:

A condition where a pregnant mother is obsessed with being thin.


antiheroine

antiheroines (plural)
anti-heroine (alternative)

Since she sprang from the imagination of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, this coldhearted antiheroine has maintained a tight grip on the attention of audiences across the globe, outstripping all the many other complicated women in Ibsen’s oeuvre, even the door-slamming Nora of “A Doll’s House”.

2009 January 18, Charles Isherwood, “Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages”, in New York Times:

(literature, roleplaying games) A female protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals; a female antihero.


stepgrandmother

stepgrandmothers (plural)
step-grandmother (alternative)

The stepmother of one's father or mother and the wife of one's grandfather, usually a woman that one's grandfather marries after the divorce of one's grandparents or the death of one's grandmother.

aviastra

stepmother of one's parent and wife of one's grandfather


regender

en-verb

regender (third-person singular simple present regenders, present participle regendering, simple past and past participle regendered)

regenders (present singular third-person)
regendering (participle present)
regendered (participle past)
regendered (past)

Even with the most creative attempts to regender themselves, people cannot always extricate themselves from stereotypes. Jenny could spend a lifetime attempting to refute the cultural illogic that leaves her, as an Asian-American woman, […]

1998, Kath Weston, Render Me, Gender Me, →ISBN, page 170:

To cause (a person) to be seen to have a (new, different) gender identity or role.

It is at moments like this that we can recognise the enormity of the task to redress gender issues in mathematics and science in schools, (i.e., to ‘regender’ them). We have seen that science itself embodies its own deep gender structures […]

1995, L. H. Parker, L. Rennie, B. Fraser, Gender, Science and Mathematics: Shortening the Shadow, →ISBN, page 74:

The "small-scale planning" of the brigades replicated at the local or factory level the larger, central strategy to regender jobs, shops, and sectors.

2002, Wendy Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia, →ISBN, page 144:

And I’m not sure whether the regendering is a democratizing net positive for feminism or whether we should take offense that women’s intuition translates somewhere along the spectrum of cute while its male counterpart is meant to suggest the power of a mind brilliantly deducing.

2009 January 21, Ginia Bellafante, “For TV’s Newest Crime Fighter, the Lips May Lie, but the Face Tells the Truth”, in New York Times:

To cause (a thing or subject) to be gendered in a new or different way; to be associated with a new gender or with new genders.


maenad

From Latin maenas (“bacchant”), from Ancient Greek μαινάς (mainás, “raving, frantic”), from Ancient Greek μαίνομαι (maínomai, “be furious”).

uder

Blanche Stroeve was in the cruel grip of appetite. Perhaps she hated Strickland still, but she hungered for him, and everything that had made up her life till then became of no account. She ceased to be a woman, complex, kind and petulant, considerate and thoughtless; she was a Maenad. She was desire.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 30”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

(Greek mythology) A female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling.


stepgrandson

The son of an out-of-work contractor can hope for a crack someday at a Senate seat, knowing that the stepgrandson of a woman who lives in a metal-roofed shack is moving into the White House.

2009 January 23, Susan Dominus, “Coming Up Short as a Role Model for the Mommy Track”, in New York Times:

The grandson of one's stepgrandfather's wife or stepgrandmother's husband from previous marriage, or the stepson of one's child.

netastre

son of one's stepchild or stepson of one's child


supervillainess

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From supervillain + -ess or super- + villainess.

On the everlasting As the World Turns, Lisa was another kind of person, a sort of supervillainess of the soaps. Yet she was always saved from damnation...

1987, Shirley Rogers Radl, Mother's Day is Over:

Disappointingly, Valkyrie turns out really to be the Enchantress, a supervillainess whose intention is the destruction of both sexes.

1996, Trina Robbins, The Great Women Superheroes:

Created by DC Comics and featured in Batman, supervillainess Poison Ivy is a potent femme fatale.

2005, Lois H Gresh, Robert E Weinberg, The Science of Supervillains:


postfeminist

en-adj

postfeminist (comparative more postfeminist, superlative most postfeminist)

more postfeminist (comparative)
most postfeminist (superlative)

This has meant also a postfeminist, postqueer shift toward a different Foucault than the one we were obsessed with in the 1980s and nineties. If we still use him, it is usually for purposes other than sex: the rethinking of race, sovereignty, religion, and nation.

2013, Lynn Huffer, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory:


Klanswoman

Klanswomen (plural)
klanswoman (alternative)
Clanswoman (alternative)


needlewoman

Rosie learned to sew too and became a good needlewoman, often sitting up with her mother into the night hours.

2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 228:

A woman who works with a needle; a female embroiderer, sewer, etc.


baby-killer

baby-killers (plural)
babykiller (alternative)
baby killer (alternative)

The Vietnam War veteran usage stems from the My Lai massacre (1968), in which hundreds of civilians, including infants, were massacred.

He promised to protect and serve "even a baby killer like yourself," but also to do everything in his office's power "to assist the protesters who wish to protect the misguided mothers who come to your clinic of death."

1999, Charisma and Christian Life, volume 24, numbers 6-11, page 38:

(slang, derogatory) An abortionist (all senses).


chal

Coordinate term: chai


bubba

Possibly an alteration of brother or bub, said by a young child not yet able to pronounce brother properly, but note similar terms in other Germanic languages derived from Proto-Germanic *bō-, *bō-, such as West Frisian bobbe, German Bube (“boy”), dialectal Swedish babbe (“little boy”), English babe, Dutch boef (“mischievous lad, rascal”), Middle Low German bōve, and Icelandic bófi. Also compare sissy.

Will Ferrell and his creative partner, the writer and director Adam McKay, are, let’s face it, our national poets on the subject of dimwitted, bubba arrogance and the redemptive powers of failure, their poems seemingly conceived in a midnight frenzy of brilliance on the back of a bag of Doritos.

2009 February 13, Ginia Bellafante, “A Pitcher’s Life After the Third Strike”, in New York Times:

Their subjects were not bubbas from the bayous but affluent students at the University of Michigan who had lived in the South for at least six years.

2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 120:

A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.


triggerman

triggermen (plural)
trigger man (alternative)

Mr. Perry raised doubts about the law that allowed Mr. Foster and the triggerman to be tried together and urged the Legislature to re-examine the issue.

2007 August 31, Ralph Blumenthal, “Governor Commutes Sentence in Texas”, in New York Times:


bredder

Combination of brethren/bredrin and brother, or simply bredrin + -er.

The bredder was stabbing them bloodclaath Babylon, wid blood all over him face, an when I man made an effort, I got one lick in mi head, an I find the strength from Jah, mi a tell yo, an bring down mi piece of pipe on de likkle bloodclaath […]

1985, Amon Saba Saakana, Blues Dance: A Novel, Zed Books:

No, Suh, Bredder, da cornder ain' swag over none tall. Yet, Bredder, uh tink e swag ober leetle.

2007, Fran Marscher, Remembering the Way It Was: More Stores from Hilton Head, Bluffton and Daufuskie, The History Press, →ISBN, page 100:

We was on a robbing spree, I forgot to mention Clayton
Was this bredder rolling with us, he was scared and it was blatant

2007, Dizzie Rascal, “Sirens”, in Maths + English:

(Caribbean, Jamaica and MLE) brother or bredrin; a close male friend or associate.


beauty queen

(idiomatic) The female winner of a beauty contest.


protofeminist

As Shamas depicts her, Earhart is basically a one-note, protofeminist heroine who pursues adventure "for the fun of it."

1988 April 1, Lawrence Bommer, “Amelia Lives!”, in Chicago Reader:

Preceding but anticipating or laying the groundwork for feminism


natural family planning

Timing sexual intercourse to avoid the time of ovulation (if pregnancy is not wanted) or to fall within that time (if pregnancy is desired).


herdswoman

A woman who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep.


scholar and gentleman

en-noun

scholar and gentleman (plural scholars and gentlemen)

scholars and gentlemen (plural)
gentleman and scholar (alternative)

Thank you so much for your help. You're a scholar and a gentleman.

He goes directly to the Mayor, tels him he was a Scholler and a Gentleman

1607, George Peele, Merrie Conceited Jests:

(idiomatic) An admirable, intelligent person (usually a man).


endocervicitis

(medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix


antiwoman

en-adj

antiwoman (comparative more antiwoman, superlative most antiwoman)

more antiwoman (comparative)
most antiwoman (superlative)

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That Megawati Sukarnoputri has been labeled an antiwoman president has little to do with religion. Among other things, she voted not to ratify a provision that 30 percent of people voted to parliament should be women.

2010, Anne Rasmussen, Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia, page 271:


hypermasculine

hypermasculine (comparative more hypermasculine, superlative most hypermasculine)

more hypermasculine (comparative)
most hypermasculine (superlative)

But it's also in keeping with menswear's current preoccupation with authenticity, a return to basic, hardworking and hypermasculine clothing.

2009 February 26, Loretta Chin, “Canada produces fashion by buddies and brothers”, in Toronto Star:

I can see why Jeremy’s Razors is focusing its ad dollars on men who might appreciate its hypermasculine message. But the reverse is not as clear: Are these men better off for having been pitched an “anti-woke” razor?

2023 April 6, Julia Angwin, “If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


postwoman

(rare) A female letter carrier, a woman who delivers mail.


niddah

niddahs (plural)
nida (alternative)
nidah (alternative)
nidda (alternative)

I assume you, Josh, are perfect. My description of our ideals on that point match; I publically^([sic]) admitted a personal flaw in my not actually being emotionally in tune with my ideal. I assume you do not worry about the current economy, having perfect bitachon, are never beset with hunger on Yom Kippur, or sexual desire when your wife is a niddah, or otherwise ever have your emotions at odds with your ideals.

2009 April 27, Micha Berger, “Avigdor Lieberman, our realistic new Foreign Minister (Naomi Ragen)”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

(Judaism) Someone whom Halacha considers menstruant.


waria

From Indonesian waria, a blend of wanita (“woman”) + pria (“man”).

A member of Indonesia's traditional transfeminine third gender category.


primiparous

From New Latin prīmiparus, from prīmus (“first”) + pariō (“to give birth”).

[The linea nigra] may generally be regarded, especially in a primiparous female, as a certain sign of pregnancy[…]

1857, Pierre Cazeaux, translated by Wm. R. Bullock, A Theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery, Lindsay and Blakiston, page 128:

(obstetrics) Pregnant or giving birth for the first time.


pseudopregnancy

en-noun

pseudopregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural pseudopregnancies)

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malestream

en-adj

malestream (comparative more malestream, superlative most malestream)

more malestream (comparative)
most malestream (superlative)

(feminism) Mainstream and usual, from the point of view of the man, though actually biased towards men.


stepgrandfather

stepgrandfathers (plural)
step-grandfather (alternative)

The stepfather of one's mother or father and the husband of one's grandmother, and not one's biological grandfather, especially following the divorce of one's grandparents or the death of one's grandfather.

aviastre

stepfather of one's parent and husband of one's grandmother, and not one's biological grandfather

The father of one's stepmother or stepfather.


mumsy

mumsies (plural)
momsy (alternative)
momsey (alternative)
momsie (alternative)
mumsey (alternative)
mumsie (alternative)

1923 October 2, Flora Belle Jan, Going To The Dogs, in The Collegian, Republished in 2008, Fleur Yano (editor), Collected Writings of Flora Belle Jan, Xlibris, page 36,
Such are the captions in newspapers, such compose the subjects for sermons from the pulpit, and such are the problems that are annihilating poor daddies and mumsies, not merely inch by inch, but millimeter by millimeter.

Mumsy had come over to discuss the family party, which she was giving in the form of a Christmas luncheon so the children could come to it.

1938, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Wisdom's Gate, Houghton Mifflin, page 238:

"Is this good to eat, Mumsy?" she asked. Startled at the term "Mumsy" instead of the usual "Mam," Mary Joy cringed a little inside. My child is already losing her Welshness, she mourned inwardly.

2009, Lillian M. Henry, In Bristol Fashion, AuthorHouse, page 202:


dolly bird

(British) An attractive young woman, especially one whose intellect is rather less in evidence than her good looks.


grandmammy

[…] and his orchestra as enchanting to dance to as it is, even if all this wasn't so superb, you'd want to go just to hear and see that grandmammy of all blues-singers who can still out-blue all of the younger ones, none other than Sophie Tucker.

1938, Stadium concerts review, volume 21:

[…] that these administration signals took us students by surprise would be the grandmammy of all understatements. Folks were, depending on their inclinations, in turn suspicious, flattered, surprised, confused, or all of the above simultaneously […]

2003, Stokely Carmichael, Michael Thelwell, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 222:

(informal) Synonym of granddaddy (“something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind”)


levonorgestrel

(pharmacology) A synthetic progestogen used as an active ingredient in some hormonal contraceptives.


pregnancy school

en-noun

pregnancy school (plural pregnancy schools)

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A school exclusively for pregnant girls.


phallocratic

en-adj

phallocratic (comparative more phallocratic, superlative most phallocratic)

more phallocratic (comparative)
most phallocratic (superlative)

Pertaining to government or dominance by males.


adwoman

A woman working in advertising; a female adman.


androgynously

en-adv

androgynously (comparative more androgynously, superlative most androgynously)

more androgynously (comparative)
most androgynously (superlative)

I conceive that holy writ has twice intended to represent man as originally framed in God's image and likeness, for that reason, or in that respect, which is both times immediately subjoined — viz., that he was a being androgynously masculine, and uniting in himself the virtues and natures of both sexes.

1842 April 1, H., “Correspondence: Ad similitudinem dei”, in The British Magazine, volume 21, page 389:

Androgynously oriented males can express their feelings well and are more nurturant than traditionally masculine men.

1985, Hamilton I. McCubbin, Barbara B. Dahl, Marriage and Family: Individuals and Life Cycles, New York: Wiley, →ISBN, →OL, page 45:

Over the past century and a half, though more overtly in the period since the First World War, androgynously toned fashions have from time to time held sway, having reached their zenith in the unisex stylings popular from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s (Gottdiener 1977).

1992, Fred Davis, Fashion, Culture, and Identity, University of Chicago Press, published 1994, →ISBN, →OL, page 35:

When you dressed androgynously, did others still perceive you as a femme?

1997 July 15, “Pronouns, Politics, and Femme Practice: An Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt”, in Laura Harris, Elizabeth Crocker, editors, Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls, New York, London: Routledge, →ISBN, →OL, page 192:


wear the trousers

en-verb

wear the trousers (third-person singular simple present wears the trousers, present participle wearing the trousers, simple past wore the trousers, past participle worn the trousers)

wears the trousers (present singular third-person)
wearing the trousers (participle present)
wore the trousers (past)
worn the trousers (participle past)

As long as I remember who's wearing the trousers / I hope he never lets me down again

1987, Martin L. Gore (lyrics and music), “Never Let Me Down Again”, in Music for the Masses, performed by Depeche Mode:

His mother wore the trousers, and father, a gentle man who worked in local government, was not ambitious enough for her.

1988, John Rowan, Windy Dryden, Innovative Therapy in Britain, page 246:

(British, idiomatic) (typically of a woman) To be the dominant partner in a relationship.


herstorical

en-adj

herstorical (comparative more herstorical, superlative most herstorical)

more herstorical (comparative)
most herstorical (superlative)

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The essays discuss the ways in which the struggles against racism and sexism have come together or the times they have worked in isolation. They are well researched and reflect herstorical conditions of America's past, so often left out of history.

1982 December 4, Malkah Barrsey Feldman, “A Legacy of Oppression”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 9:

(rare, feminism) Pertaining to herstory.


herstorically

en-adv

herstorically (comparative more herstorically, superlative most herstorically)

more herstorically (comparative)
most herstorically (superlative)

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(rare, feminism) In a herstoric or herstorical way.


bromance

en-noun

bromance (countable and uncountable, plural bromances)

Blend of bro + romance. Coined by American editor Dave Carnie 1990s as part of an article for the skateboard magazine Big Brother to refer specifically to the sort of relationships that develop between skaters who spent a great deal of time together.

coinage

There is a bromance between Josh and David.

Bromance—Romance between bros. Example: ‘It looks like there's a bit of bromance between Ryan and Matt.’

2001 April, “WORD”, in TransWorld Surf, retrieved 2018-01-06, page 40:

The letter was pure puffery, probably written by some clerk in North Korea's agitprop bureau, but Trump loved it. This was the beginning of the Trump-Kim bromance.

2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 96:

(informal) A close but nonsexual relationship between men.

基友

close but non-sexual relationship between men


ponyboy

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In other words, I don't fantasize about having a ponyboy brought over to me and being bred with him. That hasn't come into the fantasies...

1999, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex:

They may really love to play the role of a ponyboy at a public club on weekends...

2000, Gloria G Brame, Come Hither: A Commonsense Guide to Kinky Sex:

The age-old fetish of the ponygirl or ponyboy has never been hotter! History shows that humans have thrilled for millennia to the idea of turning a human being into a horse — even Aristotle reportedly loved to be saddled...

2008, Rebecca Wilcox, The Human Pony: A Handbook for Owners, Trainers and Admirers:

(BDSM) The male equivalent of a ponygirl.


one-child policy

en-noun

one-child policy (plural one-child policies)

At the same time, it glides over the personal traumas that the one-child policy must cause among innumerable Chinese. Certainly it is awesome to think of a nation that brings its powers of persuasion against a woman's right to conceive.

1984 February 14, John Corry, “Birth Curb in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(historical) A policy of population control in China, whereby a married couple is allowed only one child.

поли́тика одного́ ребёнка на одну́ семью́


gender identity

gender identity (countable and uncountable, plural gender identities)

/ˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ aɪˈdɛɾ̃.ə.ɾi/

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Coined by American professor of psychiatry and researcher Robert J. Stoller in 1964.

coin

"Um... is there a better way to put it than 'female forms'? I mean, Justin's gender identity isn't getting morphed, is it?"

2020 May 4, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, May 4, 2020:

Gender identity development may be conceptualized as a continuous, lifelong process of gender self-categorization, which involves matching oneself to a gender group that seems to be a “best fit” using information related to a number of interactive factors such as an internal sense of gendered self, gendered attributes, and other people’s perceptions (Jackson & Bussey, 2023, 2024).

2024 November 29, Jacqueline C. S. To, Marshall M. C. Hui, Karson T. F. Kung, “Self-Reported Multidimensional Gender Identity in Autistic and Non-Autistic Children”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:

(psychology) An individual's internal sense of self as belonging to a particular gender or genders, or to no gender.

identiteti gjinor

person's sense of self as a member of a particular gender

sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts


cissexual

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From cis- + sexual, by analogy with transsexual, after the slightly earlier (1991) German zissexuell.

That we are working on the grounds of ontology seems clear, since the “actually” begins from a cissexual primal origin birth moment that cannot be changed but only concealed—Angie is “biologically” once-and-forever Justin.

2011, Jes Battis, Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, page 25:

Ungendering is the process by which cissexual people start to look for details or evidence that the trans person is no longer living in his/her birth gender.

2013, Kelby Harrison, Sexual Deceit: The Ethics of Passing, page 13:

Comfort is a cissexual privilege, ascribed to those who identify with and are socially and institutionally recognizable as the sex they were assigned at birth, thus conforming to a certain kind of gender norm.

2016, Em McAvan, “3: Rhetorics of Disgust and Indeterminacy in Transphobic Acts of Violence”, in Tobias Raun, editor, Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube, page 54:

(of a person, uncommon) Having a gender identity which matches one's birth sex; for example, identifying as male and having (been born with) male genitalia.


transgenderism

en-noun

transgenderism (usually uncountable, plural transgenderisms)

/ˌtɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndəɹɪsm/

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the International Journal of Transgenderism

Transexualism. Where the compulsive urge reaches beyond female vestments, and becomes an urge for gender ("sex") change, transvestism becomes "transexualism." The term is misleading; actually, "transgenderism" is meant, because sexuality is not a major factor in primary transvestism. Psychologically, the transexual often differs from the simple cross-dresser; he is conscious at all times of a strong desire to be a woman, and the urge can be truly consuming.

1965, John F. Oliven, “Sexual Deviations”, in Sexual Hygiene and Pathology: A Manual for the Physician and the Professions, 2nd edition, →OCLC, page 514:

To the same end, I steer clear from any "far out" explanation of the transgender phenomenon. I have seen a speaker have an audience fairly well with her and then, in the space of a few minutes, alienate a substantial number of them by trying to tie transgenderism to the concept of reincarnation.

1981, Linda Lee, “Public Speaking”, in Female Mimics International, volume 11, number 8, Studio City, CA: Eros Publishing Company, page 47, column 2:

Instead of searching for physiological causes of transgenderism, the early psychoanalysts proposed possible psychological origins for cross-dressing and transgenderism.

1994, Gordene Olga MacKenzie, Transgender Nation, page 37:

We will briefly discuss the interaction of gender orientation and sexuality, including transgenderism.

2012, Richard D. McAnulty, Sex in College: The Things They Don't Write Home About, page 169:

In this wider sense, transgenderism is on a continuum line with the condition of anyone who may seek to live a life that is authentic to themselves as individuals.

2013, Simona Giordano, Children with Gender Identity Disorder, page 9:

Transgender people, who identify as the opposite gender to the one they were born with, should no longer be considered mentally ill, according to a new UN categorisation. The World Health Organization issued a new catalogue Monday covering 55,000 diseases, injuries and causes of death, in which it discreetly recategorised transgenderism.[…] Several countries have already taken steps to reclassify transgenderism and take it off the list of mental disorders, including France and Denmark. Say said she thought the text, which is the result of years of discussion among experts, would easily win approval, despite widespread lack of acceptance of transgender people in many parts of the world.

2018 June 19, “Transgenderism no longer a mental illness: WHO”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2018-06-19:

(dated, see usage notes) The state of being transgender.


doctress

doctresses (plural)
doctoress (alternative)


ambulancewoman

The female equivalent of an ambulanceman.


man-midwife

1775, Laurence Sterne, The Koran, Chapter XXXVII: The Man-Midwife, The Works of Laurence Sterne, page 75,
She was daughter to a man-midwife; — and all that has been urged upon the former caſe, is equally referable to this one also.

1835 May 30, Evidence of Mr, Guthrie before the Parliamentary Medical Committee, The Lancet for 1834-35, Volume 2, page 287,
It is the same with the man-midwife ; he has no time to devote to surgery ; if he has time, he has no means of improving his knowledge in it.

Thus, the answer to the old question of whether man-midwives or midwives were the better birth attendants is not simple. Some midwives were indeed dirty, ignorant, and dangerous; some man-midwives saved lives with their forceps; and some births were doomed to disaster.

2010, Mary Lindemann, Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, page 268:


gender dysphoria

gender dysphoria (usually uncountable, plural gender dysphorias)

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The Saturday workshops focused mainly on the situations that the professionals may encounter in their work. Since these people would be dealing most often with those feeling gender disforia ^([sic]) (a discomfort about their gender or their need to cross-dress), the discussion centered around people in the subculture with problems.

1977 April 9, Lyn Rosen, “'Helping Professions' Meet a Sexual Minority”, in Gay Community News, page 6:

In the latest version of the DSM (the DSM-5) released in May 2013, the association changed the name from GID to “gender dysphoria.” According to the American Psychiatric Association, they changed the name “to better characterize the experiences of affected children, adolescents, and adults” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).

[2014, Nancy J. Mezey, LGBT Families, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

A profound and persistent unhappiness caused by having characteristics (body parts, clothing, etc) of, or being perceived as, a gender different from one's gender identity, experienced especially by transgender people.

genderdisforie

profound unhappiness related to characteristics associated with one's birth-assigned sex, experienced by some transgender people


drag king

From drag (“men's clothing worn by women”) + king, by analogy with drag queen. First use appears c. 1954 in the newspaper National City News (California).

compound

Part of an ongoing ethnography of an imperial sovereign court I am undertaking, this chapter explores the world of the lesbian drag king and the gendered performance she undertakes in this realm.

1973, Abstracts in Anthropology, volume 4, Google Books

(colloquial, LGBTQ) A person, usually female, who dresses up in men's clothing, typically in an exaggerated fashion and for public performance.


FtM

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


MtF

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


MtF

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


intersexed

(now uncommon and often offensive and proscribed) Intersex.


quaintrelle

Borrowed from Late Middle English queyntrelle (“person of fashion”), from Middle French cointerelle, from Middle French cointerel (“vain”) + -elle, -ele (suffix forming feminine diminutive nouns), possibly influenced by quaint. Cointerel is derived from cointe (“clever, intelligent; quaint”), from Latin cognitus (“known, recognized; acknowledged, noted”), the perfect passive participle of cōgnōscō (“to be acquainted (with), recognize; to learn; to know”), from con- (prefix meaning ‘with’) + (g)nōscō (“to know, recognize”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”) + *-sḱéti (suffix forming durative or iterative imperfective verbs from roots)).

der

It folweth nouht that thouh j be thus kembt and a litel make the queyntrelle that for swich cause j am fair

[c. 1430, Guillaume de Deguileville, chapter XLVII, in [anonymous], transl., edited by William Aldis Wright, The Pilgrimage of the Lyf of the Manhode. From the French (Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.1.7) (in Middle English), London: Printed for the Roxburghe Club; J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Sons, […], published 1869, →OCLC, 3rd part, folio 109, page 160:

It followeth not that though I be thus kempt [neat and tidy], and a little make the quaintrelle, that for such cause I am fair

On this evening, however, Warthrop became as punctilious as the fussiest quaintrelle. I, as his impromptu valet, bore the brunt of his anxiety. His waistcoat was wrinkled. His shoes were scuffed. His cravat was crooked.

2010, William James Henry [pseudonym; Rick Yancey], “‘Ich Habe Dich Auch Vermisst’”, in The Curse of the Wendigo (The Monstrumologist; 2), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 208:

From Rosie the Riveter to Coco Channel^([sic – meaning Coco Chanel]) (in pants!), from Amelia Earhart to the quaintrelle (the female dandy), change in women's dress has symbolized everything from the right and need to work outside the home to wearing pants as a fashion statement to excelling at a profession (even as an aviatrix) to once again claiming the right to cultivate life's pleasures.

2011, Glenda L. Swetman, Alison Trappey, “Principles of Gender-specific Medicine”, in Lawrence Charles Parish, Sarah Brenner, Marcia Ramos-e-Silva, Jennifer L. Parish, editors, Manual of Gender Dermatology, Sudbury, Mass., Mississauga, Ont.: Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, part I (Primer of Gender Dermatology), page 9:

Her sparkling, hazel eyes emitted a pearly glow … the windows to to an untarnished, unblemished soul. Her spirit was that of a quaintrelle. He was struck by her nuances, which did not seem so subtle after all.

2015, Hrishikesh Joshi, chapter 14, in Checkmate, Mumbai, Maharashtra: Frog Books, →ISBN:

She was the type of woman who deserved to live in a villa or a fancy hotel. The kind of woman you named a star after. A quaintrelle.

2016 February, Christine Reilly, “The Claudio who Promised”, in Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 70:

His smile becomes the flowering flame, a bunch / Of exquisitely beautiful daisies / Among which dandies and quaintrelles flourish / With parrot and chameleon power in full bloom.

2018 August 31, Felix Bongjoh, Season of Flowers, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

[Jean] Painlevé presented Hyas and Stenorhynchus crabs as both masters of disguise—engaging in forms of camouflage or blending into their environment—and undersea dandies and quaintrelles.

2019, James Leo Cahill, “Metamorphoses: Crustaceans, the Coming of Sound, and Plasmatic Anthropomorphism”, in Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:

(archaic, rare) A woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes.


bimbette

On the one hand it offers the standard men's magazine fantasy bimbette: always ready, always horny, willing to do anything, and who inexplicably finds the Hustler male simply irresistible.

Flanked by two beaming bimbettes wearing smiles as big as their boobs and very little else, […]

2006 September 19, Michael Dibdin, Back to Bologna, →ISBN, →OL, page 31:

Mr. Castle, this whole "bad boy charm" thing you've got going might work for bimbettes and celebutantes.

2009 March 9, “Flowers for Your Grave”, in Castle, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Kate Beckett (Stana Katic):

(slang, derogatory) A bimbo; a foolish, ditzy woman.


antepartum

1908, from Latin ante- (“before”) + partum (“giving birth”).

Describing the period before childbirth; antenatal


mardana

Borrowed from Hindi मर्दाना (mardānā) / Urdu مردانہ (mardāna), from Persian مردانه (mardâne).

(Islam) A part of a house or palace reserved for men, especially on the Indian subcontinent.

(India, Islam) A part of a train reserved for men.


polymenorrhea

polymenorrhoea (alternative)
polymenorrhœa (alternative)

(medicine) Menstrual cycles with intervals of 21 days or fewer.

polimenorrea

menstrual cycles with intervals of 21 days or fewer


partial-birth abortion

en-noun

partial-birth abortion (plural partial-birth abortions)

Intact dilation and extraction
intact dilation and extraction

(US, law, colloquial) Intact dilation and extraction.


protectress

But consider, whether in the sacred promise to be not only a protectress, but a mother to this poor child, your purpose may meet the wishes of the noble knight your husband.

1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 25:

She left a daughter, who was adopted by Lady Evelyn, to share a like fate with her mother; for when I saw Lucy Aylmer, her protectress was dead, and she had returned to her father's house, with a pale cheek and languid step, which showed how little her heart was there.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 123:

Her protectress, at this, was upon her again [...]. For the rest of the conversation she was enclosed in Mrs. Wix's arms [...].

In Titian’s hands, Diana, protectress of pubescent girls, became a sporty archer in tie-up sandals and bracelets, hair gathered in a loose bun, a silky tunic gaping to reveal one breast, shooting an arrow at her hunky voyeur, who has newly furry ears and a shiny nose, dogs nipping at his crotch.

2007 March 11, Michael Kimmelman, “The Goal Standard”, in New York Times:


gender identity disorder

gender identity disorder (countable and uncountable, plural gender identity disorders)

A condition in which the patient experiences significant gender dysphoria: the diagnostic classification most commonly applied to transgender/transsexual people.

性同一性障害

せいどういつせいしょうがい


unky

(colloquial, used by young children) uncle.


ecofeminism

ecofeminism (countable and uncountable, plural ecofeminisms)

A sociopolitical movement combining feminism and environmentalism.

ekofeminismo

a sociopolitical movement combining feminism and environmentalism


ecofeminist

en-adj

ecofeminist (comparative more ecofeminist, superlative most ecofeminist)

more ecofeminist (comparative)
most ecofeminist (superlative)


premenstrually

Before menstruation or its initial onset.


postmenstrually

In a postmenstrual way; after menstruation or its initial onset.


cybergirl

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Cybergirls intersect with riot grrls as a mode of do-it-yourself girl expression […]

2002, Catherine Driscoll, Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory:

I leaned over her shoulder to see two cybergirls yanking out each other's hair. Katy was typing insults that appeared onscreen.

For a cinematic critique that considers the social impact of the cybergirl cultural phenomenon, see Andrew Niccols' cautionary tale […]

2006, Sidney Eve Matrix, Cyberpop: digital lifestyles and commodity culture:

Thomas's analysis of adolescent cybergirls' representation of self within the online world of "the palace," links talk, image, and identity […]

2007, Nadine Dolby, Fazal Rizvi, Youth moves: identities and education in global perspective:

Explanations for the gender imbalance are nearly as wide-ranging as cybergirls themselves.

2008 February 21, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain”, in New York Times:

(dated) A girl who is active in cyberspace; a young female Internet user, especially one who publishes.


preggo

A clipping of pregnant + -o (“diminutive suffix”). First use appears c. 1951 in the novel Come In Spinner. See citations page.

Michael Stivic: Come on, Gloria. No one, no one, is going to deny you your constitutional rights.

1975 October 27, Larry Rhine & Mel Tolkin, "Mike Faces Life", episode 6-7 of All in the Family, 00:20:32-00:20:44

So we had a nice rainbow coalition of preggos and their mates — even one lesbian couple.

2007, Philip Lerman, Dadditude: How a Real Man Became a Real Dad, page 56:

2009, Joel Grus, Your Religion Is False, Brightwalton LLC, US, page 105,
Accordingly, they tend to send their gay children off to “conversion therapy” (involving techniques ranging from clitoridectomy to shame) and their pregnant children off to single-sex maternity homes (which are full of all sorts of oddly-titillating preggo-on-preggo action, according to the videos on a website I accidentally stumbled across several times).

2009, Rebeca Seitz, Scrapping Plans, B&H Publishing, US, page 306,
“You bet!” Clay trots back into the diner, reappearing a moment later with a chair. “Here ya go, preggo.”

For more usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

(slang, sometimes offensive) A pregnant female.


lactivism

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The advocacy of breastfeeding, and especially of the right to nurse children in public.


lactivist

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A supporter of breastfeeding, and especially of the right to nurse children in public; one who engages in lactivism.


washerman

A man who washes people's laundry, usually for payment.


maternity ward

A hospital ward that provides assistance during childbirth.


matron of honor

en-noun

matron of honor (plural matrons of honor)

matrons of honor (plural)
matron of honour (alternative)

The primary woman who assists the bride at a wedding, if this woman is married; a married woman serving in the role of maid of honor.


maiden of honor

maiden of honor (plural maidens of honor)

A girl or unmarried woman who assists the bride at a wedding.


boy next door

boys next door (plural)
boy-next-door (alternative)

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(gay slang) A young, attractive, slim male, usually having little body hair.


stepgranddaughter

Stiefenkelin

daughter of one's stepchild or stepdaughter of one's child


postmenstrual

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misgo

en-verb

misgo (third-person singular simple present misgoes, present participle misgoing, simple past miswent, past participle misgone)

misgoes (present singular third-person)
misgoing (participle present)
miswent (past)
misgone (participle past)

From Middle English misgon, equivalent to mis- + go.

Brother Samson, in the time of the Antipopes, had been sent to Rome on business; and, returning successful, was too late,—the business had all misgone in the interim!

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 6, Monk Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing.

1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], chapter 45, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:

(intransitive, now rare or dialect) To go wrong, make a mistake, go astray, become lost, miscarry.


baristo

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From barista (“bartender”), the -a having been interpreted as the Italian feminine singular ending -a, and then substituted with the masculine singular ending -o to specify a masculine, rather than feminine, agent noun.

Starbucks also faces slumping morale and employee burnout among its store managers and its once-cheery army of baristos.

2002, Business week, McGraw-Hill, Inc, page 102:

On the other side of me a table holds several tureens of brewed coffee; additionally, a small man in a white coat stands beside a cappuccino maker. He is the official baristo of this White House coffee.

2003, Philip Edward Baruth, The X President: a novel, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 65, →ISBN:

SIR —
As a Starbucks baristo, I was pleased to read your even-handed treatment of the Ethiopian trademarking controversy.

2006, The Economist, volume 381, Economist Newspaper Ltd., page 16:

I walk over to Feet’s Coffee & Tea on Vine Street and tell the young #baristo, “My daughter started preschool today.” He gives me a coffee on the house.

2006, Rachel Sarah, Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 111, →ISBN:

The cute baristo. He’d somehow slipped in unnoticed again, and was now behind the counter in a sky blue T-shirt […]

2006, Rebecca Agiewich, BreakupBabe: a novel, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 50, →ISBN:

At the door, the baristo from Starbucks peeked in. His lime green hair seemed to stick straight up when he saw Jewel. “I brought you another latte. […]”

2008, Jennifer Stevenson, The Velvet Chair, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 71, →ISBN:

(nonstandard, hypercorrect) A specifically male barista.


trolley dolly

trolley dollies (plural)
trolley-dolly (alternative)

I am sure these people were once normal. That is until they walked into BA's superior 'trolley dolly' school. From day one, I am positive it was drummed into them that all economy passengers are scum.

But that was the 1960s and the lot of the trolley dolly has changed: political correctness put an end to age restrictions and the responsibilities go beyond asking passengers whether they want "chicken or fish".

2006, Simon A Bennett, A Sociology of Commercial Flight Crew:

It was sickening and the gross unfairness of it left Cate seriously questioning why she'd ever wanted to be a defence lawyer in the first place. Why hadn't she followed her early adolescent ambitions of becoming a high-flying trolley-dolly - a tart with a cart?

2006, Scott Creighton, Something Went Bump:

(slang, derogatory) A female flight attendant.


bumster

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Believe us when we say, the one thing that is most likely to spoil your holiday in The Gambia is constantly getting hassled by bumsters.

2006, Craig Emms, Linda Barnett, The Gambia, 2nd edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 93:

In The Gambia, [...] hundreds of young, middle-aged, and elderly female tourists [...] flood the beaches and resorts of Senegambia, Fajara, Kotu, and Kololi each year in search of sexual liaisons with local young men known as bumsters.

2007, Ylva Hernlund, Bettina Shell-Duncan, Transcultural Bodies, Rutgers, published 2007, page 302:

there is concern in this traditional Muslim society about some of its social manifestations such as sex tourism and beach hustling by bumsters.

2009, Brian Boniface, Chris Cooper, Worldwide Destinations, Butterworth-Heinemann, published 2009, page 447:

In The Gambia, a young man who solicits money or favours from tourists, sometimes in exchange for sex.


nullipara

en-noun

nullipara (plural nulliparas or nulliparae)

The active phase of labour lasts on average 8 hours for the nullipara and 6 hours for the multipara.

2005, Martha Finn, Women's Health: A Core Curriculum, page 147:

spontaneous miscarriage
spontaneous miscarriage

A woman who has never carried a pregnancy beyond 20 weeks (one who has never given birth). It includes women who have experienced spontaneous miscarriages and induced abortions before the mid-point of pregnancy, but not women who have experienced pregnancy loss after 20 weeks.


co-wife

Coordinate term: co-husband

If a co-wife had sought the lives of those three of thine.

1892, Kipling & Balestier, Naulahka, page 247:

In fact, [Ayesha] was more jealous of Khadija, the dead wife, than she was of any of her living co-wives.

1990, Syed A. A. Razwy, Khadija-tul-Kubra (the Wife of the Prophet Muhammed) May Allah be Pleased with Her: A Short Story of Her Life), page 165:

If the senior wife decides to make life unbearable for her co-wife and their husband, she is likely to succeed in forcing the newcomer to leave.

2000, Marjorie Shostak, Nisa, the life and words of a ǃKung woman, page 152:

In other words, polygamous societies differ markedly with regards to allowing kin, especially sisters, to become co-wives. Sororal polygamy is practised in some societies because it is believed to foster greater cohesiveness among co-wives sharing values and norms, whereas it is specifically forbidden in other polygamous societies.

2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: a cross-cultural analysis, page 32:

In a polygamous marriage, another wife of a woman’s husband.

shemër

in a polygamous marriage, another wife of a woman's husband


co-father-in-law

From co- + father-in-law or co-father + -in-law.

‘Hear, O well-read Paṇḍit, my daughter is ready for marriage. Take with you a barber's lad, go forth into the country, and search for a bridegroom. […] Search for a house worthy of my house, and search for a boy worthy of my child. Search for a co-father-in-law worthy of a co-father-in-law.’ […] Up rose the well-read Paṇḍit and said ‘O king, hear my petition. There is a co-father-in-law worthy of you as co-father-in-law. There is a boy worthy of your child. There is a house worthy of your house […]’

1884, G. A. Grierson, “The Song of Bijai Mal”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 53, pages 132–133:

my old friend […] whom I trusted greatly, because I had taken care of his family in former times, and because he was, as it were, my co-father-in-law, for I had betrothed my daughter to his son.

1892, Theodōros Kolokotrōnēs, (trans.) Elizabeth Mayhew Waller Edmonds, Kolokotrones the klepht and the warrior: Sixty years of peril and daring. An autobiography, page 104:

Diègue tries to treat Gormas amicably as his prospective co-father-in-law, but Gormas provokes him with rude remarks and slaps him

1996, John W. Freeman, The Metropolitan Opera stories of the great operas, page 208:

The father of one's son- or daughter-in-law; that is, the father-in-law of one's child, or, the father of one spouse in relation to the father of the other spouse; either of two or more men whose children marry each other, such as the father of a bride vis-à-vis the father of the groom.


co-mother-in-law

From co- + mother-in-law or co-mother + -in-law.

After dinner, the discerning eye of the co-mother-in-law divines the work of darkness. Your wife also is an expectant mother !

1901, Honoré de Balzac, (trans.) Francis MacNamara, The Physiology of Marriage, page 334:

She had a right of entrée to the Castle now as prospective co-mother-in-law with the duchess, and made the most of it.

1912, Sarah Grand, Adnam's Orchard, pages 508–509:

[…] responded with temper and irritability toward her step-daughter, Anna, who was so demure and so complete a member of the new society, and toward Ngaoli, her co-mother-in-law, gaunt, old, married under the old system, a devoted church member, righteous mother of five children, who fortunately had no complications in her life.

1956, Margaret Mead, New lives for old: cultural transformation—Manus, 1928-1953, page 381:

(uncommon) The mother of one's children-in-law; that is, the mother-in-law of one's children, or, the mother of one spouse in relation to the parents of the other spouse; either of two or more women whose children marry each other, such as the mother of a bride vis-à-vis the mother of the groom.


co-brother-in-law

From co- + brother-in-law or co-brother + -in-law.

Knowing that he would be susceptible to the arguments of his persuasive co-brother-in-law Antonio de' Medici, Saminiato tried to avoid his company.

2008, Daniel Bornstein, David Peterson, editors, Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy, page 350:

(uncommon) One's spouse's brother-in-law (one's spouse's sibling's husband), especially one's wife's sister's husband; either of two (or more) men who marry sisters, in relation to the other; the brother of one spouse in relation to the siblings of the other spouse.

(less precisely) փեսա (p’esa) (husband of any close relative, including one's sister or sister-in-law)

襟兄

wife's sister's husband, who is older than oneself

襟弟

wife's sister's husband, who is younger than oneself

동서

with siblings of the same sex: a man's wife's sister's husband, or a woman's husband's brother's wife, but not cheonambu a man's wife's brother's wife

(uncommon) One's brother-in-law's or sister-in-law's brother; that is, one's sibling's spouse's brother; either of two (or more) men whose siblings are married to each other.


co-sister-in-law

From co- + sister-in-law or co-sister + -in-law.

co-sister

Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana

[The Russian word] Yátrov', for the husband's brother's wife or co-sister-in-law, so diagnostic a status within the patrilocal household, has passed entirely out of the language.

1979, Paul Friedrich, editor, Language, Context, and the Imagination, page 193:

At first the wench's second co-sister-in-law and the middle sister-in-law got into it.

2006, Kalipatnam Rama Rao, translated by C.L.L. Jayaprada, Yagnam and Other Stories, page 61:

One's spouse's sister-in-law, especially one's husband's brother's wife, one's brother's wife in relation to the spouses of his siblings; either of two (or more) women who are married to brothers, in relation to the other.


co-sister

From co- + sister. The second meaning was influenced by a Dravidian substrate.

During this time I came to know about tubectomy from my co-sister and also from the female health worker. This time both my husband and father-in-law refused [me the surgery] on the ground that I was the eldest daughter-in-law and a responsible person for the whole family.

1989, Abusaleh Shariff, Fertility transition in rural South India, page 263:


supergirl

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From super- + girl. The DC Comics heroine Supergirl first appeared in May 1959.

"A soda," Toria suggested. "Could I also have quarters for the video game?" Anya countered. "Okay, okay, but only if it's all right with your dad." Anya jumped up and down, tugging on Toria with supergirl strength. Nick put his hands on his hips.

1996, Vivian Leiber, Marrying Nicky, Harlequin, →ISBN:

[…] garrulous skull paperweight wresting the spotlight away from Ruby-Spears' flying cars, supergirls and sasquatches.

1998, Hal Erickson, Sid and Marty Krofft:

And it ignores the privilege that helps only certain girls become supergirls and makes them suffer when they come close to achieving this status […]

2002, Sharon Lamb, The Secret Lives of Girls:

An average Chinese girl, with talent in singing, dancing, or acting, can be elected a supergirl by TV media outlets.

2006, George Zhibin Gu, William Ratliff, China and the new world order:

You may be a supergirl on the go, but that doesn't mean you can't figure out ways to maximize your morning minutes with some simple nutrition.

2007, Esther Blum, Karen Salmansohn, Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous:

[…] emphasis on perfection, resulting in mounting pressure on girls to be supergirls.

2008, Pier Cesare Rivoltella, Digital Literacy:

(informal) A girl who is particularly successful, talented, or otherwise remarkable.


weathergirl

(now sometimes offensive) A young female weather forecaster.


bargirl

bargirls (plural)
b-girl (alternative)
B-girl (alternative)

/ˈbɑː(ɹ)ɡɜː(ɹ)l/

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San Francisco's local, for example, initially admitted bargirls, but following the public condemnation of bargirls in the late 1930s, the local appointed a committee to investigate the situation.

1991, Dorothy Cobble, Dishing It Out, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 126:

A female who works as a hostess in a bar, typically in Southeast Asia and catering to male clients, and who may provide personal entertainment or sexual services.


co-husband

Coordinate term: co-wife

When younger brother calls [his elder brother's wife] his "co-wife" and reciprocally, when she calls him "co-husband," rights in sexuality are being satirized.

1997, David Lipset, Mangrove man: dialogics of culture in the Sepik estuary, page 72:

The village chief Sambhu, upheld Mahesh’s claim to half of Damodar’s wealth since he was his co-husband

2004, Govindraraj Sulekha, The Co-husband:

In a polyandrous marriage, another husband of a man’s wife.

kunedzo

in a polyandrous marriage, another husband of a man's wife


sausagefest

sausagefests (plural)
sausage fest (alternative)

From sausage + -fest, a phallic reference.

Coordinate term: taco fest

This party is a total sausagefest! Let's call Sarah and have her bring some of her girlfriends over.

(informal, humorous) An event populated almost entirely by men, with few or no women.

pølsefest

an event populated almost entirely by men


non-binary

I'm expected to live in a world where […] forms have no or few options for non-binary people, where finding a GP who understands my non-binary needs and identity is a challenge.

2013, Kim Cook, “This thing called gender”, in Up Close and Personal, page 85:

[T]he most commonly used non-binary pronouns are the singular “they/their/theirs”.

2017, Jo Green, The Trans Partner Handbook: A Guide for When Your Partner Transitions, →ISBN:

Having or pertaining to a gender identity not represented by the gender binary; not exclusively male or female; genderqueer.

niebinêr

of a digit, number system, etc: not binary

niebinêr

outside the gender binary — see also genderqueer


non-binary

non-binaries (plural)
nonbinary (alternative)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:non-binary.

(informal) A non-binary (genderqueer) person.


cryptorchidism

cryptorchidism (usually uncountable, plural cryptorchidisms)

Other publications report a similar rate of 4–7%, but emphasize the influence of cryptorchidism, with which polyorchidism has been closely associated and which independently conveys an increased risk of testicular dysplasia [6], [9].

2013 January 27, Chloe B. Wilcox, Rachel D'Cruz, Andrew J.A. Holland, “Polyorchism in association with an undescended testis and testicular atrophy: Report of a unique case and review of the literature”, in Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page e7:

(andrology) The failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.


matriotism

Blend of alma mater + patriotism, later reanalyzed as being derived from matri- by analogy with patriotism. Though attested since the mid-19th century, the continued placement of the word within quotation marks suggests it is often regarded as a neologism.

Patriotism has incited men to live and die for the country and government; but Matriotism has impelled women to live and work for mankind. […] The Matriotism of household economics needs to be recognized as necessary for the whole of society.

1894, The New England Kitchen Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Domestic Science, volume 1, Boston, Mass.: New England Kitchen Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 84:

The love or celebration of a woman's influence upon society; the female equivalent to male patriotism.

An enduring devotion to Mother Earth, ecology, sustainability, peace, and the survival of the human species.


co-grandmother

Talk to enough grandparents and one thing becomes clear: Because she's closer to the mother of the children, the maternal grandmother generally has a slight advantage. Or, as Audrey Berson […] put it: "She's my daughter, so I have the edge." Even so, Berson's co-grandmother works in the same town as the grandkids, and she sometimes meets the bus after school. "It bothers me," Berson said. "I wish it were me."

2009 May 19, Beth Teitell, “Horns Come Out When Grandparents Envy Each Other”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 2009-06-03, page B7:

A Canadian grandmother's essay about essentially crashing her daughter-in-law's birth […] Rhona Bennett writes of […] hopping a train to Montreal, and (in cahoots with her co-grandmother) bum-rushing the hospital […] The two bubbies called the hospital […] and naturally were rebuffed, so off they went, in search of information, affirmation, and a grandbaby.

2008 December 2, Kate Tuttle, “A Grandmother's Right? Or Totally Obnoxious?”, in Strollerderby:

the mother of one's son- or daughter-in-law, as common grandmother of their children; the relationship between women who have grandchildren in common; maternal grandmother vis-à-vis paternal grandmother.

co-mother-in-law

relative to the children rather than the grandchildren


co-grandfather

The milkman was Edward Kenelm Digby, 52, eleventh Baron Digby, World War I colonel in the Coldstream Guards, World War II inspector of infantry-training establishments, co-grandfather (with Winston Churchill) of Randolph Churchill's small son, Winston Churchill II.

1946 September 9, “The Milkman”, in Time, archived from the original on 2011-02-19:

the father of one's son- or daughter-in-law, as common grandfather of their children; the relationship between men who have grandchildren in common; maternal grandfather vis-à-vis paternal grandfather.


co-mother

co-mothers (plural)
commother (alternative)

* com- + mother, as calque of Latin commater, French commère.

Coordinate term: co-father

The dilemmas engendered by the absence of a biological tie between a child and co-mother illuminate the centrality of familial rights and obligations in American kinship.

2004, Robert Parkin, Linda Stone, Kinship and family: an anthropological reader, page 384:

In a lesbian couple, the nonbirth mother (partner of the birth mother) of a child, especially one who takes an equal role in mothering the child.