ironmongress

The younger Lady Suffolk only spread a small quantity made into ointment on a bank bill of 70,000 pound, and it has made her first love Lord Falkland marry her: Sir Th. Robinson who intended to outlive his Barbadoes ironmongress,¹³ is dying for love of the same Countess.[…]13. Sarah Booth, m. (1) Samuel Salmon; m. (2) (between 1742–7, when he was Gov. of Barbadoes) Sir Thomas Robinson, Bt, of Rokeby. ‘An ironmonger’s widow, who gave him 10,000l. to be a lady, but would not follow him to England’ (HW’s notes to Maty’s Memoirs . . . of . . . Chesterfield, at end of Philobiblon Society, Miscellanies 1867–8, xi. 71; gec, Baronetage; Emily J. Climenson, Elizabeth Montagu, 1906, ii. 276).

1752 July 30, Gregory Whitewash, edited by W. S. Lewis and Ralph S. Brown, Jr, Horace Walpole’s Correspondence with George Montagu (The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Corerspondence; volume nine), volume I, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, published 1941, pages 139–140:

Then the portrait of Francis’s mistress is called La belle Furoniere, instead of Ferronière (the beautiful Ironmongress).

1836 January 2, “A Treatise on Painting. By Leonardo Da Vinci. Translated by J. F. Rigaud. With a Life of the Author. By J. W. Brown, Esq. Nicholls & Son.”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 427, London, page 10:

Our home was over an ironmonger’s shop, the ironmongress condescending to let us three rooms. She was a very grand lady was this ironmongress, very grand indeed; her flounces and her furbelows were wonderful to behold!

1859, “Marion”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXVI, Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox; London: Partridge & Co., chapter IV, page 139:

I understand; ah, if it were only in pursuit of some little ironmongress in the Pont Neuf, or the pretty widow of the Rue Saint Augustine, it might be worth your while.

[1878], Alexandre Dumas, “His Excellency the Duc d’Orleans”, in The Regent’s Daughter. An Historical Romance., London: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, page 86:

The English Ironmongress / The war has done more to push English women to the front in the world’s great activities, than Mrs. Pankhurst and her associates in the suffrage campaign of “frightfulness” were able to do in all their years of hair-pulling and arson.

1916, Hardware Dealers’ Magazine, page 754:

I often have the same dream: you are an ironmonger, I am your wife, an ironmongress …

1970, René de Obaldia, Plays, volume 2, London: Calder and Boyars, →ISBN, page 112:

The narrator is sensitive to country smells as well as to scenery, and to drunkenness, batterings, and the domestic tensions of local peasant households – encountered through friendships with the local poacher, Batt Ryan, and with the [?] village ironmongress.

1985 March 8, Toby Fitton, “Local pride”, in The Times Literary Supplement, number 4,275, page 266:


costermongress

The educated Englishman and the educated Hindoo have a more glorious work before them than the interchange of “niggers” and “parallelograms,” like Daniel O’ Connell and the costermongress!

1861 February, “The Reconciliation”, in Mookerjee’s Magazine, volume I, number I, Calcutta, page 74:

They were only a penny a pint, and the coarse big hand of the costermongress tossed a pile headlong and tail-long into a paper bag.

1892 June 18, Frank Yeigh, “Bread and Butter”, in Toronto Saturday Night, volume 5, number 30 (whole 238), Toronto, Ont., page 7:

The dilapidated costermongress with the worried look on her face and the “Football Evening News” in her hand, walked up to the meat-stall, and began turning over the stray pieces of meat labelled, “All choice.” “Wodjer want nah, missus?” inquired the butcher. “Piece er beef,” responded the lady. “When you was ’agglin’ for the mutton ’arf an hour ago,” objected the man of meat, “yer told me as ’ow yer couldn’t eat beef!” “No more I carn’t!” snapped the costermongress. “But I reckon I shall want a bit all the same to put on a black eye. My ’usband went ’an blacked Chelsea this mornin’, an’ I see by the piper they lorst!”

1910 December 27, “Preparing for the Fray”, in The Evening Record, volume 21, number 230, Windsor, Ont., page 4:

Mr. Tuppy, who long has wanted to do something to live down his namesake’s inactivtion^([sic]), and he was put into an arm[-]chair, where he looked like a feather boa one minute and a costermongress’ discarded hat the next.

1926 January 3, “An Arlen Character”, in Sunday State Journal, Lincoln, Neb., two, page eight:


xdress

en-verb

xdress (third-person singular simple present xdresses, present participle xdressing, simple past and past participle xdressed)

xdresses (present singular third-person)
xdressing (participle present)
xdressed (participle past)
xdressed (past)
x-dress (alternative)
Xdress (alternative)
X-dress (alternative)

I'm taking it one day at a time. I haven't xdressed since this has happened and probably won't for awhile.^([sic])

1996 July 19, CybreGrrl, “My world turned upside down and ended”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-19:

Do you xdress too? To bad you can't get a crowd to join in. EM me and tell me more about yourself and Ill send a pic.

2001 July 12, CDLAYMN, “Minneapolis, Sun-Wed 7/15 - 18”, in alt.personals.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-19:

Grace, when you say fake nails, do you mean drugstore stickon/glueon nails or acrylic salon nails? Since you mention getting the wrong size, I suspect you are talking about the drugstore ones which are pretty flimsy. My sweetie wears them when he xdresses for a night but that's all they are good for.

2002 August 31, Klarissa, “OT(nails fake or real )”, in alt.gothic.fashion (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-19:

When did you start to Xdress?

2004 February 1, w, “unbelievable Jethro Tull news”, in alt.music.yes (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-19:

It is a terrible shame that you are not a TS and attracted to men, because you my dear make a darling woman and you would give men serious hottie fever. You could xdress 100% of the time and look amazing, and you have nothing to be ashamed about appearance-wise.

2006 November 2, Alison, “Updated my site - Halloween outfits”, in alt.fashion.crossdressing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-19:


mongress

And brooding let her sink to starless night, / Swifter than she sunk to a vote-mongress, / And on her grave this epitaph I’ll write—“Liberty: Sent here, poor girl, by Congress!”

1889 July 2, Will Garland, “Congress. With Thanks to Gray’s Elegy For the Rythm^([sic]) and No Apologies to Others For the Rhyme.”, in Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel, volume XXXI, number 67, Santa Cruz, Calif.:

[…]her household in a spick and span condition free from dirt and scandal mongresses she is lost.

The painting of which the disputed canvas is either the original or a copy has long been popularly known as “La Belle Ferroniere,” which translated literally means “The Beautiful Iron-mongress.”

1922 June 25, Guy Hickok, “The Real “La Belle Ferroniere””, in Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 82, number 175, New York, N.Y., page 4 E:

I am listing a dozen of them, without naming names, including the one about little old me, which was so wonderfully disproved when my daughter grew up in my veritable image, as Helen Gude once put it, and dismayed and disappointed what I call the New Yorker’s scandal[-]mongers and mongresses, the leading ones in the country.

1958 March 19, James Thurber, “The Twilight Years”, in Harrison Kinney, editor, The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber, Simon & Schuster, published 2002, page 687:

Little Miss Jane Berbie, the war-mongress Preziosilla, sings well and with a fetching verse and she added the gaiety this heavy tragedy opera with its psychologically unreal thinking needs.

1969 March 19, Doris Reno, “A Stage Full of Top Voices in ‘Forza del Destino’”, in The Miami Herald, 59th year, number 109, page 8-B:

Evita Peron at 10 (3) stars Faye Dunaway as the power-mongress in this autobiographical look at Juan Peron’s wife and political colleague.

1981 February 20, Lindsay Brown, “Worth Watching”, in TV Times (The Herald), page 26:

Meanwhile, it seems marriage isn’t in the cards after all for New York Sen. Alfonse D’Amato and Live With Regis and Kathie Lee gossip-mongress Claudia Cohen.

1996 February 24, “Valentine’s Day post-mortem: A special report”, in The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, page 2A:


fish mongress

The venerable fish mongress deposed that the law student was in the practice of occasionally taking oysters at her shop;

1826 January 24, Vermont Gazette, volume XVII, number 8 (whole 840), Bennington, Vt.: Darius Clark:

The fish mongress then puts the fish in whatever container she may have, or just spreads them out on a mat, figure 10.

1963, Alexandria Journal of Agricultural Research, page 28:

Laura Foley Ramsden is a fourth-generation fish mongress and owner of Foley Fish.

2012, Robert Garlough, Angus Campbell, Modern Garde Manger: A Global Perspective, 2nd edition, Delmar, page 382:


fish-mongress

Simple Sandford took his eel / To an old fish-mongress: / “ ’Tis is no conger-eel,” she said, / “But it is a Congress.”

1866 October, “A Nursery Rhyme on the Great Eel, Fished up in the See of Worcester”, in The Town Crier: Or, Jacob’s Belles Lettres, volume VI, number 3, Birmingham, page 7:

Good Mère Lollier wished to make a fish-mongress of her; mademoiselle spurned the proposal. What! she, a genius, a beauty, a divine voice, waste her life on horrid, ill-smelling fish?

1877 May, “Nanette. A Legend of the Days of Louis XV.”, in The Catholic World. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science., volume XXV, number 146, New York, N.Y.: The Catholic Publication Society Company, chapter I, page 271:

This latter class at the time possessed the delicacy of the Hamburg fish-mongress of to-day.

1916, Heinrich Böhmer, “Luther as a Scholar and Author”, in Carl F. Huth, Jr., transl., Luther in Light of Recent Research, New York, N.Y.: The Christian Herald, page 195:


cheesemongeress

cheesemongeresses (plural)
cheesemongress (alternative)

My lady in a way, because my Lord Doldrum was seen speaking in Hyde Park to Miss Stilton, the rich cheesemongeress’s daughter.

1843, “Jemima’s Journal of Fashionable Life and Conversation”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XIII, London: Richard Bentley, page 342:

But, as the cheesemongeress had by this time so far recovered her forces as to be able to undertake the charge of her own offspring, and as the young cheesemonger is at the present moment a vigorous and thriving student at a Clapham boarding school, with every prospect of succeeding honourably to his father’s business, it may be assumed that Miss Hipswidge had fulfilled this early portion of her Curtius-like destiny with perfect satisfaction.

1860, Charles H[enry] Bennett, Robert B[arnabas] Brough, “Memoir of Miss Juliana Hipswidge. The Infant Prodigy.”, in Shadow and Substance, London: W. Kent & Co. (late D. Bogue), pages 29–30 (1872 edition):

For Mrs. Jones the draper’s wife to be able to boast that she bought a silk pincushion at twenty times its value from the Countess of Belminster—for Mrs. Smith the cheesemongeress to be able to show a photograph of Lady Eleanor Gore-Layton, signed with her own hand, are occasions that do not occur twice in a lifetime.

1880 November, Mrs. G[eorge] W[illiam] Godfrey [i.e., Mary Rose Godfrey], “A Little Bohemian”, in Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, the sixtieth volume, London: Richard Bentley & Son; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers; Paris: Galignani, page 377:

Paris. English Cheesemongeress: “How horrid, John; here is a fly in the soup.” Cheesemonger: “Hush, Maria, don’t expose your ignorance; the bill of fare is in French, and may be I ordered fly soup for what I know.”

1893 July 15, “Facetiæ”, in The London Reader of Literature, Science, Art, and General Information, volume LXI, number 1576, page 310:


cheesemongress

How did I now regret that I had deserted my pretty and well provided cheesemongress!

1801 October 5, John, Lord Campbell, “January 1800—August 1802”, in Mary Scarlett Hardcastle, editor, Life of John, Lord Campbell, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain: Consisting of a Selection from his Autobiography, Diary, and Letters, volume I, London: John Murray, published 1881, page 75:

My lady in a way, because my Lord Doldrum was seen speaking in Hyde Park to Miss Stilton, the rich cheesemongress’s daughter.

1845, John Fisher Murray, “Jemima’s Journal of Fashionable Life and Conversation”, in The World of London, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, page 252:

Had she ever dreamed she would grow up to be a spinster cheesemongress?

2017, Peni Jo Renner, Raid on Cochecho (book three of The Puritan Chronicles), Lulu, →ISBN:

“The mold is what gives the cheese its character,” says Tonda Corrente, Orlando’s foremost cheesemongress (yes, I made that up) and proprietor of La Femme du Fromage.

2020 October 8, Amy Drew Thompson, “Don’t break the mold: Enjoying moldy cheese, for some, is a process — an acquired taste”, in Orlando Sentinel, page D1 (online):


vanishing twin syndrome

en-noun

vanishing twin syndrome (plural vanishing twin syndromes)

(obstetrics, pathology) A condition where one set of twins or multiple embryos dies in utero, disappears, or is resorbed partially or entirely.


heteropagus

cardiovascular system
cardiovascular system

(pathology, obstetrics) A condition where asymmetric conjoined twins, in which the tissues of a severely defective twin (the parasite), are dependent on the cardiovascular system of the other, intact twin (the autosite) for survival.


Davydov procedure

Davydov procedure (plural Davydov procedures)

Named after Russian gynecologist S. N. Davydov, who popularized the procedure in the 1960s.

named-after

(surgery) A form of vaginoplasty in which the patient's peritoneum is used to construct a neovagina or to lengthen an abnormally short vagina.


bag boy

A male bagger (retail employee who bags customers' purchases).


postdebutante

Coordinate term: debutante

A young woman who has made her formal appearance in society.


Clarissian

In 1260, the Clarissians moved to the convent of Santa Chiara in town; afterwards, the church became a Fransciscan friary...

1992, Samuel Kline Cohn, The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death, page 322:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.


Clarissan

The rule of the Clarissans, who take their name from St Clara, was very strict.

1865, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, Women's Work in the Church, page 130:


Clarist

His wife desired to enter a convent of Clarists.

1840, Kenelm Henry Digby, Mores Catholici, page 404:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare, sometimes particularly one who follows or advocates the original precepts established by St Clare.


Clarissine

From French clarissine, from Clarisse + -ine.


Poor Lady

Originally an epithet of St Clare of Assisi herself.

...his widow became a Poor Lady in the convent of Strala, where she long fulfilled the office of abbess...

Following Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor.

1991, Thomas Head, “Clare of Assisi”, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers:

The rule of Urban IV also clarified the nomenclature of the Clarissas, with the pope designating the group as the Order of St. Claire rather than Poor Ladies, or Poor Recluses, of San Damiano.

1995, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Queen Sancia of Mallorca and the Convent Church of Sta. Chiara in Naples”, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, volume 40, page 75:


Sister Minor

Calque of Medieval Latin sorores minores (“lesser sisters”) and its variants in Norman, Middle French, and Italian. Doublet of Sister Minoress.

cal

...any Graunte by us made unto the Abbas, Covent and Susters Minores withoute Algate of oure Citee of London...

1473, Rolls of Parliament, volume VI, page 78:

(Catholicism, obsolete or historical) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.


Sister Minoress

en-noun

Sister Minoress (plural Sisters Minoress)

Sisters Minoress (plural)
sister minoress (alternative)

From sister + Minoress, q.v. Doublet of Sister Minor.

...the Abbesse and Covent of the Susters Meneresses withoute Algate...

1451, Rolls of Parliament, volume V, page 224:


sister minoress

sister minoress (plural sisters minoress)

It appears that Catharine became a sister minoress of the house of Brisyerd, in Suffolk.

1823, William Hutchinson, History and Antiquities of Durham, volume III, page 84:

Alternative letter-case form of Sister Minoress.


Friar Minor

Friar Minor (plural Friars Minor or Friar Minors)

Friars Minor (plural)
Friar Minors (plural)

A calque of Medieval Latin Fratres Minores (“the Lesser Brothers”), both directly and via Old French freres meneurs and Norman freres menures, a name supposedly chosen by St Francis to inculcate humility.

der

[…] So þere weren with vs ij worthi men, Frere Menoures […]

c. 1410, "John Mandeville", Travels (Titus C.xvi), p. 188

The Friars Preacher opened their studium generale at St. Jacques, Paris, in 1229, the Friars Minor theirs in 1231.

1952, Beryl Smalley, Study of Bible in Middle Ages, p. 264

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


Progress Pride flag

en-noun

Progress Pride flag (plural Progress Pride flags)

LGBT advocates in San Francisco would like to see the Progress Pride flag hoisted on the giant flagpole above the Castro Muni Station.

2020, Matthew S. Bajko & John Ferrannini, "Push afloat to see cities fly diverse Pride flags", Bay Area Reporter, 25 June 2020 - 1 July 2020, page 14

And in another first, we all stood in the early evening sun under the Progress Pride flag, with its incorporated trans flag, having been raised just that morning thanks to gay city officials.

2022, Melody Maia Monet, "Trans of Thought", Watermark (Orlando, FL), 24 June 2021 - 7 July 2021, page 18

Delta is flying the Progress Pride ﬂag in front of City Hall for the month of June in solidarity with our LGBTQ2S+ community and continues to be an ally every day.

2022 June 2, “Supporting Delta Pride!”, in Delta Optimist, BC: Delta, page A4:

(LGBTQ) A variant of the rainbow flag consisting of the original six horizontal bars with the addition of a large chevron to the hoist featuring three stripes of white, pink, and blue on the inside (the colors of the transgender pride flag) and two stripes of brown and black on the outside (representing POC members of the LGBT community.)


dating coach

A seduction expert, who provides paid services, to help their clients learn the necessary skills to seduce another person.


TGD

For quotations using this term, see Citations:TGD.

Acronym of transgender and/or gender diverse.


misogynoirist

Narrators demonstrated resistance coping techniques through direct confrontation with aggressors, such as racists, sexists, homophobes, elitists, and misogynoirists.

2022 December 6, LeAnna T. Luney, “Like our foremothers survived: Self-education, direct confrontation, and humor as resistance coping in Black womxn and femme college student being”, in Frontiers in Education, volume 7, →DOI, page 10:

(neologism) A person who exhibits misogynoir.


misogynoirist

(neologism) Relating to or exhibiting misogynoir (the hatred of black women).


AGAB

The signup form on their website did not have a non-binary option, so I had to select my AGAB instead.

(LGBTQ) Initialism of assigned gender at birth.


femxle

From female + -x-. Respelled both to avoid containing male, and to use x (like e.g. Latinx), intended to convey that the word has a broad scope. Compare womxn.

OP-ED: THE FUTURE IS FEMXLE: MUTE MISOGYNY IN 2019 / Starting 2019, it’s hard not to feel some relief compared to the past two years. 2016-18 were — to put it bluntly — trash years for black womxn.

2019 January 11, Chelsea Higgs Wise, RVA Magazine:

The OML on Revry channel highlights queer female or femxle stories in a truly “always on” environment and free of charge.

2020 October 28, Dino-Ray Ramos, “Revry Launches First Live Queer Womxn TV Channel OML”, in Deadline:

Arizona Women’s Film Festival (Flagstaff, Arizona) / International: exploring the femxle experience from any avenue.

2021, azwomensfilmfest.com, quotee, Women’s Film Festivals & #WomenInFilm Databases: A Handbook, Spiral Collective, →ISBN:

The Ogle County area Womxn in Business is a network of femxle business owners holding space to connect, find support and build relationships with peers who recognize the hard work it takes to be entrepreneurs, [Meggan] Dickson-Grennan said.

2021 December 31, “Womxn in Business donates $300 to PADS”, in Forreston Journal, volume 155, number 35, page 5:

The second is a global version, a femxle-led³[…]³ In response to a global trend, the term femxle/womxn is used throughout in this network to be inclusive and encompass all persons identifying as female/woman.[…]Transformation Network Example 2: A Femxle-led Network Towards a New Economic Future / The global example of a transformation network, the femxle-led network of professional change-makers towards a new economic architecture, emerged out of a much larger consciousness on the challenges ahead towards regenerative civilization.[…]Its goal is to unite at least 36 femxle professionals from around the globe to develop a new economic architecture and disseminate it globally in a manifesto.[…]A high-level network advisory group made up of femxle experts and strategic forerunners in new economic thinking and practice is providing the expert input and support needed.[…]For the network process design, this meant that a high-level advisory group with femxle experts is integrated into the network-building process.[…]Within its first 5 months, overall 48 high-profile global femxle professionals were selected for membership in the network, out of more than 100 expressions of interest.

2022, Elisabeth Kühn, “Small Scale, Large Scale—Why Networks are the Cornerstone of Transformations”, in Petra Künkel, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir, editors, Transformation Literacy: Pathways to Regenerative Civilizations, Springer, →ISBN, part III (Stewarding Transformations Towards Wellbeing and a Healthy Planet), pages 297–304:

THE FEMXLE CREATIVES YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT[…]We’re spotlighting some of femxle creatives who are killing it in their respective fields.[…]However, we’re using today to gather some inspiring creatives all in one helpful place – here are the femxle creatives you should know about, thank us later.

Produced by Ellandar Productions, a British East and Southeast Asian (BESEA) led theatre company championing BESEA, British Muslim and femxle creatives “to bring new audiences from different cultural roots into the theatre”.

2022 May 31, Abbey Wong, “Why You Need to Watch ‘No Particular Order’ AT Theatre503 This Summer”, in Resonate:

All Femxle Tattoo Studio, The Wolf Den, Overcame Adversity to Provide an Inclusive Space

2022 June 3, Udella J. Miranda, 303 Magazine:


guevedoce

guevedoces (plural)
guevedoche (alternative)

From Spanish güevedoce, from Dominican Spanish güevos a los doce (“testicles at twelve”).

(medicine, endocrinology) In the Dominican Republic, a person born with male gonads, but who appears to have female external genitalia, as a result of a 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.


dedushka

Yet, much as I loved to listen to it, standing there in the heat of all the lighted candles and dressed in my heavy shuba and felt boots, I invariably, halfway through the service, would begin to feel an intolerable pain across my shoulders which would spread across my back, gradually getting worse, until in the end I was forced to go to the back of the church and find a corner on a bench especially placed there for all the old babushkas and dedushkas who were also unable to bear the strain of standing throughout the whole service.

1984, Eugenie Fraser, “Before the Storm”, in The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood, Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, pages 126–127:

And I’m telling you that he left Nikitkin and passed by some dedushka. The [dedushka] said: “Take me where I’m going.” And he sat that dedushka [down in his cart]. And so, they drove and drove, he says, heading somewhere. Then, he says, “The dedushka got lost somewhere and I was alone. And I went everywhere.”[…]A horse is coming. On it is sitting a dedushka.

2005, Margaret Paxson, transl., Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village, Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Bloomington, Ind.; Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, pages 132 and 138:

“No one takes them seriously,” Dima said. “They’re just washed-up old men. They brought speakers to the square today. Played the old marching songs. All these old dedushkas stomping around singing along at the tops of their lungs! Everyone was heckling. They’re a joke, Yarik.”

2014, Josh Weil, The Great Glass Sea, Grove Press, →ISBN:


babusya

babusi (plural)
babusyas (plural)
babusia (alternative)

“Aaaahhhh!” the babusya cried, throwing her arms wide and wrapping them around her granddaughter.[…]“Mary, this is my babusya.”

2009, Chuck Holton, Meltdown (Task Force Valor; book three), Multnomah Books, →ISBN, page 254:

When Father Hryhorii first arrived, the old babusyas, ignorant of the way religious affairs were ordered, thanked God that the church was not sealed up or blown into the air.[…]‘Who are you going to see, sir?’ A babusya, who was sitting near to him on the bus asked, ‘Perhaps your family. I know everyone in the village, I see you are not a local.’

2013, Vasyl Baziv, translated by Stephen Komarnyckyj, The Cross, or the Chocolates that Exploded: A Post Biblical Detective Story, Tucson, Ariz.: Anaphora Literary Press, pages 8 and 195:

I thought we’d just take my babusya to visit relatives in Vinnytsia and then, after stopping by my dad’s parents’ house in Snizhne, we would return to Tallinn in time to see the final episodes of Dynasty.[…]I didn’t cry even though as I buried my babusya, I was also burying my secret hopes of visiting her and staying permanently.

2021, Sofi Oksanen, translated by Owen F. Witesman, Dog Park, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN:

As my mother told me this story, I always just assumed that my babusya gave my mother the doll to keep her, a small, bedridden child, occupied, but my mother always emphasized the importance of the doll and how it was given to her to help her get better.

2022, Madame Pamita, Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:

What keeps him going is the reaction he gets from the people he helps, the sweet, old babusyas he delivers medication to, the kids in the children’s ward, injured from shelling, whose eyes lit up when they saw the toys he brought them.

2022 June 12, Brandon Barrett, “From the Sea to Sky to Kharkiv, a ray of hope”, in Pique Newsmagazine:


genderspecial

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

(slang, derogatory, neologism) A person who affects an unusual or marginalized gender identity for perceived social benefit.


terven

en-adj

terven (comparative more terven, superlative most terven)

more terven (comparative)
most terven (superlative)

Happy #ldov [Lesbian Day of Visibility] to all them terven ladies and deffos no^([sic]) to males UwU

2018 April 26, Pidge (but evil) (@radfempidge), Twitter:

There are those of the terven persuasion in my mentions and I have exactly no energy to deal today.

2019 June 3, Roo B. (@roo_b_boy), Twitter:

Hi gyns!! I'm a terven artist who makes radfem-themed patches!!

2020 August 28, terfery is afoot (@gynosupremacist), Twitter:

(Internet slang) Characteristic of, related to, or espousing gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminism.


terven

en-noun

terven (countable and uncountable, plural tervens)

Any US radfems in the New England area? Watching with envy all the U.K. tervens getting to meet up

2019 September 7, coffee spoons (@coffeespoons3), Twitter:

Hey friends there's a few tervens who are harrasing^([sic]) this incredibly important binder fund aimed at the GRT community,

2022 May 4, Roo B. (@roo_b_boy), Twitter:

Tervens! I hope u all had a lovely weekend!

2022 June 12, Wild Womyn Workshop (@Wild_Womyn), Twitter:

(Internet slang, countable) A gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminist.

I gots data (at least for UK Terven)

2020 August 18, Maya Forstater (@MForstater), Twitter:

Because terven don't actually care about women's rights or equality

2020 December 15, Max has Nightmare Eyes (@chaoticgaythey), Twitter:

Request, terven and allies. I'm looking for articles written by lesbians and gay men arguing that "queer" is still a homophobic slur.

2022 June 16, Kara Dansky (@KDansky), Twitter:

(Internet slang, uncountable) Gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminists collectively.


Prosecco Stormfront

From Prosecco, a wine varietal, and Stormfront, a white supremacist website, the implication being that Mumsnet has become a radicalisation pipeline for upper-middle-class mothers (sometimes referred to pejoratively as wine mums).

Prosecco Stormfront have worked themselves up into a transphobic frenzy of utter vileness now.

2019 November 27, Banquo's Ghost (@_banquos_ghost_), Twitter:

Prosecco Stormfront aka Mumsnet had to shut down the Graham Linehan thread to moderate it because of the sheer influx of new accounts trolling everyone.

2020 June 27, Gemma Stone (@notCursedE), Twitter:

Prosecco Stormfront slagging off another cis woman, all because she doesn’t agree with their obsessive transphobic hate-cult! 🙄😖

2022 May 20, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) The British parenting-focused message board Mumsnet, viewed as a locus of gender-critical discourse and activism.


Mumsnut

Blend of Mumsnet + nut (“a crazy person”).

blend

Here’s some folks who actually know what they’re talking about, you don’t get that on Mumsnut.

2018 July 25, Hetty Spoon (@Henriettaspoon), Twitter:

Oh, and in the light of the current mumsnut discussion... I block all transphobes. Just sayin'.

2019 October 12, Annie Wallace (@anniewallace), Twitter:

Mumsnut is melting down, tee hee. "EVEN WPUK", lol

2021 March 24, Stephanie Anne Calvert (@StephAcalvert), Twitter:


Mumsnutter

Blend of Mumsnet + nutter (“a crazy or eccentric person”).

Mumsnutters use all kinds of euphemisms to denigrate trans women (no acknowledgement of trans people) but somehow 'cis' is a hate crime?

2018 November 17, Aimee Evelyn (@AimeeEvelyn202), Twitter:

*waves at all the obsessive Mumsnutters trawling my twitter to ‘report back’ to the terven “mother ship” for back-slaps and gossip* 🙄

2019 November 1, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter:

Hey trans guys, did you know that you're likely to be a "trojan horse" according to Mumsnutters?

2021 September 8, Rachel the wolf (@TheWolfSpirit1), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A gender-critical poster on the Mumsnet feminism boards.


radblr

Radblr is saturated with women calling themselves radical feminists who have the barest grasp on what that phrase means.

2019 August 17, Radfem Black (@RadfemBlack), Twitter:

My only contribution to radblr is occasional snide commentary, and they're not even particularly funny. Sorry y'all UwU

2020 October 27, normieenvy (@normieenvy), Twitter:

tho I did discover radblr in my late teens/early 20s and that was really eye opening for me 👀

2021 March 11, mandy (@siyeonbora), Twitter:

(Internet slang) The community of radical feminists on Tumblr.


radtwt

do u know by any means if any of these groups accepts women that are new to radtwt and trying to get familiarized with the discourse?

2020 December 5, V (@dyke_me_down), Twitter:

i bet jkr has a secret account on radtwt—which one of you is it, come forward

i've been crypto on radblr for a while but i figured i'd make an account on radtwt since twt makes more sense to me.

2021 October 8, katarina (@wyvernfem), Twitter:

(Internet slang) The community of radical feminists on Twitter.


TERF Island

And something that I wanted to just circle back to, this idea of being the transgender princess of TERF island thing.

2021, Abigail Thorn, quoted in Chris Kaye, "Meet Abigail Thorn, the trans philosopher who wants to kill James Bond", Insider, 21 August 2021

'TERF Island' had a heads-up only because of a strong feminist tradition, which, being international in its approach, saw what was happening to women in other countries.

2024, Jenny Lindsay, Hounded: Women, Harms and the Gender Wars, unnumbered page:

I explained that a national culture of "no-nonsense" anti-utopianism prevails on TERF Island.

2025, Sophie Lewis, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation, unnumbered page:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

(slang, derogatory) Great Britain or the United Kingdom, viewed as a centre of gender-critical feminism, or more broadly of transphobic policies and attitudes.


Tranada

Sadly the same is happening in Tranada, where I live.

2019 December 26, RadFemGem (@gem_fem), Twitter:

Oh Tranada. You are such a disappointment. I never knew you had so many legislators with no respect for women.

2020 June 5, The Honourable Yona (@yona1959), Twitter:

Scotland is still the fight we all need to fight, SNP are trying to emulate Tranada.

2020 September 20, Paintpot (@Paintpot17), Twitter:

(derogatory) Canada, viewed as excessively supportive of trans rights or hostile toward gender-critical beliefs and policies.


gendercritter

Gendercritters never begin by being critical of their own gender stereotypes. It’s almost as if they think it’s everyone else’s job to free them from their stereotype performances.

2017 December 15, Cristan Williams (@cristanwilliams), Twitter:

Also, from the way they talk about non-passing trans women I suspect most gendercritters are only OK with GNC men so long as they fit a highly specific mould of thin, white, youthful androgyny.

2019 January 23, Maria H (@ThisMariaHutch), Twitter:

Have gendercritters tried blaming coronavirus on trans people yet?

2020 February 28, Iza Pride (@IzabelaKaramia), Twitter:

(derogatory) A gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminist.


tervert

Found one of these stuck on the back of the toilet cubicle door at the Museum of and in Manchester today, if anyone needed to know which public toilets the grubby terverts have been knocking about in lately.

2021 August 6, :, ew (@llewcid), Twitter:

Do you beleive^([sic]) that children should be required to submit to invasive genital inspections in order to participate in sports, as gender critical terverts have mandated by law in Florida?

2021 December 27, Crash (@StarCrashr), Twitter:

Thank you for standing up to the terverts! They think every normal person in the world should enable their weird sexual obsession with bullying trans people.

2022 June 29, AJ (@DreamSerpentine), Twitter:

gender-critical feminist
gender-critical feminist

(slang, derogatory) A gender-critical feminist or anti-transgender advocate, viewed as having an unhealthy fixation on trans people's genitals.


TERFery

can't stop thinking about all these British ladies that apparently need the smelling salts because a judge ruled that TERFery isn't an equality act PROTECTED CHARACTERISTIC akin to disability, race, sex, religion or sexual orientation

2019 December 19, Christa Peterson (@christapeterso), Twitter:

But accusations of TERFery have been sufficient to intimidate many people, institutions and organisations I once admired, who’re cowering before the tactics of the playground.

2020 June 10, J. K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues:

We're doing the usual road from "just asking questions" to "trans are being mean to me" to full-blown terfery and at this point can we just skip to the end?

2021 October 23, Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll), Twitter:

The state or quality of holding trans-exclusionary feminist views.


cryptoTERF

Cryptoterfs are really good at using social justice language to weasel themselves into these spaces and make people accept Bad Ideas and i hate it.

2019 October 25, shut up and go in peace (@deidaravore), Twitter:

ok so i think my moot is a cryptoterf and a bunch of ppl follow them and i dmed them about it (cause they’re following someone posting violent transmisogynist & transphobic shit) […]

2021 March 15, alina (@sindibunny), Twitter:

i'm glad i've curated my following on this account well enough from my last account that i don't have to read any cryptoterf "b- but queew is a swuw used to siwence wesbians 🥺" takes anymore

2021 June 15, Roo (@roopicoroo), Twitter:

A person who conceals or masks their gender-critical views, especially from friends or within trans-inclusive spaces.


Glincel

Blend of Glinner + incel, the first component being taken from Linehan's now-suspended Twitter account (@glinner), itself a blend of his given name and surname.

Glincels in force doing their master’s bidding in response to this tweet.

2019 February 27, meh (@ohnonotphil), Twitter:

Seen a lot of Glincels and even Linehan himself repeating the lie “people are forceably transing gay teenage kids”.

2019 September 17, Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack), Twitter:

at some point you'll incur the wrath of him or his Glincels.

2020 May 8, hashtag girlboss (@surfacingwater), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A fervent defender of Graham Linehan and/or supporter of his views on transgender people.


TWAW

The woke left is aware of how mainstream media rigs news in favour of the ruling class but doesn't wonder why mainstream media agree that TWAW.

2020 July 2, Adeline Virginia Stephen (@A_V_Stephen), Twitter:

i used to be a sex worker and a staunch liberal feminist that firmly believed twaw.

2022 June 26, jah (@planetofplanet), Twitter:

The use of pronoun badges is intended to enforce TWAW.

2022 June 29, Helen Saxby (@helensaxby11), Twitter:

(Internet slang) Initialism of trans women are women.


enbyphobic

en-adj

enbyphobic (comparative more enbyphobic, superlative most enbyphobic)

more enbyphobic (comparative)
most enbyphobic (superlative)

Chris had to deal with enbyphobic comments at the workplace ever since coming out as non-binary.

So, here are some enbyphobic misconceptions about enby people that I’ve witnessed in queer/trans communities, and why they are wrong.

2016, Bad Apple Pie, Enbyphobia (in cis/trans spaces):

Someone might be clearly enbyphobic without being so clearly transphobic.

Even some trans people are being enbyphobic.

2021, Sophie Labelle, The Best of Assigned Male:


furson

On National Ice Cream Day, PetSmart wanted to make sure there was not one single “furson” left out.

2015, Katrina Lamansky, “How to make ice cream for your dog”, in WQAD:

[Y]oungest son, Michael and his spouse Dominque and their furson Ringo.

2022, “David G. Richards Obituary”, in The Beaver County Times:

(informal) A male pet who is accorded the affection given to one's offspring.


thussy

en-noun

thussy (countable and uncountable, plural thussies)

Blend of they + pussy, or from þussy, which resembles both the word bussy and pussy.

where can i get some thussy this monday afternoon

2020 December 21, @purportedfruit, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-07-06:

Asking my non-binary shorty for some thussy

2021 June 26, @excuseforhate, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-06-25:

I be going to Brooklyn like we ain't got perfectly good they/them thussy in Manhattan

2022 June 25, @JayJurden, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-06-24:

(LGBTQ, slang, humorous) The vulva or vagina, or anus of a non-binary person.


rudefem

I will never fucking understand how these "rudefems" think using straight up slurs and ridiculing physical appearance is fucking necessary or productive.

2019 July 16, 🧅 (@ThatsInThePast), Twitter:

watching myself slowly turn into a rudefem as these people piss me off and disgust me in new ways daily has been amusing

2020 October 7, mich (@pinktaxed), Twitter:

Shoutout to all the rudefems who never bite their tongues, say what they mean and don’t back down.

2021 December 6, lez-being (@separatismrules), Twitter:

(slang) A radical feminist who is blunt, confrontational, and sometimes abusive in their approach.


nicefem

Another day being a mean lesbian and not a nicefem and I've never felt hotter

2020 April 23, Inappropriate Happiness (@gaytoastu), Twitter:

im one of the nicefems too, i barely get in qrt fights and usually gender ppl correctly aswell^([sic]),,,, wait until they meet the rudefems😌

2020 November 15, Amy (@chlorofem), Twitter:

I’m getting there daily. I was sooo nice when I first peaked. And I appreciate nicefems, still am one, but I’m def learning to take less shit.

2021 March 13, zara (@cache_pas), Twitter:

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A radical feminist who is cordial and patient in their approach.


factfem

Polite factfems help people outside of this discussion wake up 🥰

2020 January 11, Lorelei (@hatpinwoman), Twitter:

trying to be my best factfem self by writing a long introductory thread to radical feminism 😔✊

2021 December 12, Yana (@lesbian_envy), Twitter:

Benji is also a great factfem. She always has so much information.

2022 July 1, Lorelei (@hatpinwoman), Twitter:

(slang) A radical feminist who uses persuasion and education in their approach.


meanfem

I think we absolutely must be kind to rad learning women so they aren’t scared away by meanfems doing their thing 😋

2021 March 29, zara (@cache_pas), Twitter:

i love meanfems so much idgaf about appearing sane

2021 March 29, thea (@wingfem), Twitter:

It's become popular among the "meanfem" segment of radfems too.

2022 March 30, Fox (@RohanTheMajesty), Twitter:

(slang, sometimes derogatory) Synonym of rudefem.


febfem

Abbreviation of female-exclusive bisexual female.

abbrev

possibly The spiciest take of today from me: generalising bi women is weird as hell and demanding that the only type of ""good"" bi women are febfems is 😐

2021 April 11, @wingfem, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-21:

i'm a febfem and i've never had a boyfriend in my life, now what

2021 September 22, sarah (@sarahofzion), Twitter:

i feel very lucky to be a goldstar febfem. its not easy trying to navigate a world that pressures and coerces women into dating and having sex with men!!! i dont think people realize just how sick it is to hear that sex with men is inevitable. hearing it made me want to d ie.

2022 July 4, @commieharley, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-21:

(gender-critical slang) A (generally cisgender) bisexual woman who exclusively dates other women.


TEHM

Acronym of trans-exclusionary homosexual male. Coined after the pattern of TERF (“trans-exclusionary radical feminist”).

acronym

Slowly for the TEHMs at the back ... not fancying a trans man (if you’re gay) doesn’t make you a transphobe. Making a big issue of it, or ironically claiming you aren’t transphobic just because you don’t find trans men attractive, means you probably are transphobic!

2019 June 7, Eloïse-saur-u (@WorldWearyWoman), Twitter:

There is something organised about a load of TERFs and TEHMs who all follow each other on Twitter ganging up on Stonewall for supporting the trans community.

2021 May 23, doggy foodle (@doodle_bobby), Twitter:

can we also stop pretending like terf rhetoric doesn’t also deeply affect trans men? bc terfs are often the ones to spread misinfo like this and indoctrinate ppl into being TEHMs

2021 June 6, jay (@bumbleshines), Twitter:

(usually derogatory) A trans-exclusionary homosexual male; a gay man who holds gender-critical or anti-transgender views, particularly one who considers trans men to be women.


transvestigator

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You gotta be kidding me. Transvestigators are wild. Here I am just tryna find some Anne Hathaway movies and I see this. [screenshot of a Google search in which the top "people also ask" result is "Was Anne Hathaway born a boy?"]

2019 November 7, Devastated 24/7 (@roo_tea), Twitter:

No you can't always tell. Of the trans women I've known who told me they were trans I certainly couldn't "tell" when I met them. And the transvestigators just suspect every cis woman.

2020 August 10, Ann Coates (@setoacnna), Twitter:

I've known cisgender women who were kicked out of restrooms by transvestigators. It's the most poorly developed of all the Bigotry Sciences right behind phrenology.

2022 May 19, Lylac Doll (@LylacDoll), Twitter:

conspiracy theories
conspiracy theory#Noun

(Internet slang, conspiracy theories) A person who performs transvestigation; someone who routinely conducts or promotes informal investigations into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure.


autogynesmile

I guess deep dream decided you needed a bigger autogynesmile

2015 July 19, Mirah Image (@mirahimage), Twitter:

And there's that autogynesmile, that DUPER'S DELIGHT.

2017 December 7, Doctress Jiu Bao (@DoctressXiaoMao), Twitter:

And always with the autogynesmile. That smug face would make me lose my shit.

2020 July 24, Dixie Chick (@dixiechick547), Twitter:

(slang, derogatory, gender critical) A coy or gloating smile exhibited by a trans woman.


thembo

Blend of them + bimbo, by analogy with himbo.

2020, “Bimbos, himbos, thembos, and topping the almighty eggplant”, in Verse Magazine, 33rd edition, University of South Australia, published 2020, page 40:

Anyone who wishes to embrace their femininity and sexuality is welcome on the bimbos' glittery island, regardless of gender expression — Chlapecka address^([sic]) her audience as “bimbos, thembos, himbos, bimboys, or any 'bo' you wanna be” in a "get ready with me" video on her profile.

2021, Elena Plumb, “Rise of the Bimbo”, in The Avenue, Northeastern University, published Spring 2021, page 41:

Miller and Hanson hired nonbinary people and trans and cisgender men to staff their cart—describing the workforce as “himbos, thembos and flirts” on the cart's social media pages.

2021 November 3, Andrew Jankowski, “Hot Coffee Cart”, in Williamette Week, published 2021, page 24:

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A physically attractive non-binary person who lacks intelligence; the non-binary equivalent of a bimbo.


transpatient

If transpatients experience sub-standard, insensitive, or frankly discriminatory care in an emergency department, providers should address this deficiency directly with the department or hospital administration.

2005, R. Nick Gorton, Jamie Buth, Dean Spade, Medical Therapy and Health Maintenance for Transgender Men: A Guide For Health Care Providers, page 76:

Metabolic diseases also need to be considered in transpatients.

2014 January, Cécile A. Unger, “Care of the transgender patient: the role of the gynecologist”, in American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, page 23:

The quickest way to thwart analytic work with transpatients is to use legally assigned, as opposed to chosen, names and pronouns.

2018, Sheila L. Cavanagh, “Principles for Psychoanalytic Work with Trans Clients”, in Oren Gozlan, editor, Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies: In Transition, unnumbered page:


FART

Acronym of feminism-appropriating reactionary transphobe deliberately constructed to be homonymous with fart.

Reminder that FARTs don't actually believe trans women are men. They don't speak to people they think are men the way they do to trans women.

2018 September 16, Panic Dixie Scream Girl (@ChaKatKimber), Twitter:

“Blaming trans people for everything” is to FARTs as Three Blind Mice is to the bloody recorder.

2019 May 16, Dan (@DanDanYamagata), Twitter:

Tellingly, FARTs often end up in alliance with other far right movements with xenophobic, white supremacist, and nativist and ethno-nationalist reactionary politics.

2022, Alex Khasnabish, Making Sense of Society: Power and Possibility, page 118:

(derogatory) A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).


muh soggy knees

Distorted pronunciation of misogyny. See muh.


bioson

A second assessment session included Mr. Wallace, his second wife, his adopted son, and his two biosons.

1983, Clifford J. Sager, Hollis Steer Brown, Helen Crohn, Tamara Engel, Evelyn Rodstein, Libby Walker, “Adoption in Remarried Families”, in Treating the Remarried Family, New York, N.Y.: Brunner/Mazel, →ISBN, section III (Special Issues of Remarriage), page 317:

Steve, a high-energy, quick-to-anger type, has a hard time dealing with his bioson Martin, a quiet, thoughtful type.

1998, Ericka Lutz, “It’s the Children!”, in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Stepparenting, Alpha Books, →ISBN, part 2 (The Stepfamily in Daily Life), page 124:

“When Carl wouldn’t come to work with me and he said what I did was dumb, I was very, very deeply hurt because I had foregone my opportunity to have a bioson and the stepson was never going to meet that expectation.”

2003, Anne O’Connor, “The Morgan/Merdad Family System of Mesa, Arizona”, in The Truth about Stepfamilies: Real American Stepfamilies Speak Out about What Works and What Doesn’t When It Comes to Creating a Family Together, New York, N.Y.: Marlowe & Company, →ISBN, page 184:


fertility clinic

en-noun

fertility clinic (plural fertility clinics)

(obstetrics) A medical clinic that assists couples, and sometimes individuals, who wish to become parents.


rentoid

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From rent + -oid, influenced by incel slang such as femoid.

I fuck more girls on my parents couch than you ever will in your no frame bed rentoid

2021 February 25, @CogumeloImperor, Twitter:

Although it started explicitly as bait, the Landchad/Rentoid dichotomy, and specifically the way in which landlords can treat renters as inferior and even contemptible, reflects a real world dynamic.

2021 March 3, Gita Jackson, “Where People Pretend to Be 'Landchads' and Make Fun of 'Rentoids'”, in VICE:

Describing themselves as well-fed "Landchads" and their tenants as despicable "Rentoids" who waste their money on expensive coffee and Funko Pops, the supposed property owners who hang out in this forum trade stories of evicting single moms, neglecting repairs and the common prejudice they face (aka "landphobia").

2022 July 11, Miles Klee, “Now Everyone Can Experience the Joy of Being a Heartless Landlord”, in MEL Magazine:

(Internet slang, humorous, derogatory) One who rents property, especially one seen as lazy and pathetic.


antigenderist

From anti- + gender + -ist, anti- + genderist, or antigender + -ist.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:antigenderist.

One who supports or engages in antigenderism.


cisbi

I’m married, my husband is cishet but I’m always going to be cisbi.

2019 December 29, amanda (@rarityfirefly), Twitter:

Cisbi married couples elbow each other in the yogurt section when the young assistant manager with suspenders and Buddy Holly glasses walks by.

2021 December 16, Elizabeth (@EMK55102), Twitter:

I've seen it from cishet and cisgay people. But all my cisbi friends and my cisbi fiancée are as chill as can be.

2022 April 19, Joey (@AutumnBreezeOff), Twitter:

(LGBTQ, informal, neologism) Cisgender and bisexual.


cisbi

As a cishet married to a cisbi this doesn’t make her less bi for being in our relationship.

2020 January 1, RPGHour Studios (@RPGHour), Twitter:

The way cisgays gatekeep cisbis from the LGBT lunch table, telling them that they cannot sit with us and are too cishet for team rainbow

if a cisbi comes into queer spaces where we’re taking about our tangible oppression & they start yelling about not feeling *included* bc they’re in a straight passing relationship, sorry, but we aren’t even having the same convos, so there’s no point in trying to talk with them.

2022 June 7, sunglasses cryptid (@railroadlesbian), Twitter:

(LGBTQ, informal, neologism) A cisgender and bisexual person.


traquero

Borrowed from Spanish traquero, from traque + -ero.

(US, historical) A male Mexican-American railroad track worker.


Stepford wife

Stepford wives (plural)
Stepford Wife (alternative)

From the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (adapted into a 1975 film of the same name), in which a woman moves to the fictional town of Stepford, Connecticut and discovers its eerily docile housewives are android replacements.

Parroting back her husband’s words, by the end of the play, Kate sounds either like a brainwashed member of a bizarre religious cult or a Stepford wife, a woman whose personality has been wiped out and replaced by one more acceptable to her husband.

1995, Regina Barreca, Perfect Husbands & Other Fairy Tales): Demystifying Marriage, Men, And Romance, page 214:

"You can't just sit there and tell me you want Lili to become a 'Stepford wife' at your beck and call. […]

2005, Mollie Molay, An Engagement of Convenience, page 210:

So that prompted me to ask the question: isn’t the ideal Muslim wife in actual fact a Stepford Wife?

2006, Na'ima B. Robert, From My Sisters' Lips: A Unique Celebration of Muslim Womanhood, page 272:

(derogatory) A woman who unquestioningly submits to and serves her male partner, and/or does not seem to have interests, wishes, or pursuits of her own.

Ira Levin
The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives (1975 film)


humyn

From human, respelled so as not to contain the word man. Compare womyn.

Unfortunately, as the quantity of humyns grew, their ethical quality diminished. The Lord performed a moral evaluation of the behavior of humynkind and was not pleased.

1997, Robert Martin Walker, Politically Correct Old Testament Stories, page 25:

Beauvoir instead emphasises our fundamental intersubjectivity as humyns, that is, the undeniability of our relatedness to other humyns, and posits that this both shapes (and thus to some extent delimits) but also enables our existence.

2014, Lucy Nicholas, Queer Post-Gender Ethics: The Shape of Selves to Come:

(rare, nonstandard) Feminist spelling of human


humynkind

I have been mistaken as many things on this journey, by myself and others... there is no denying, however, the chaos my presence has brought across the usa^([sic]), the world, and indeed, the souls of humynkind.

2008, John Scott Ridgway, Waking Up Jesus:

(rare, nonstandard) Feminist spelling of humankind


brofessor

Once you have been introduced to the gym like some Freemason's initiation, you will begin copying everything your brofessor does.

2016, Dom Mazzetti, The Swoly Bible: The Bro Science Way of Life, page 10:

Ask a brofessor to choose between $10,000 prize money or an optimal testosterone level throughout his lifting career, and he will most probably select the latter.

2021, Vidur Saini, "10 Testosterone Facts You Can't Afford Not Knowing", Generation Iron


notch count

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From the English idiom notch on one's bedpost.

Guys who've only ever had long-term partners or a limited notch-count often have boring, bland, quick, vanilla sex.

2016, Tom Torero, Street Hustle, page 192:

Don’t reveal your notch count. If a woman asks you how many girls you’ve been with, just say something like, “What, today? Not many...” or “If I told you, I’d have to kill you.”

2022, Dominic Mann, Alpha Male: How to Become the Dominant, Masculine Alpha Male Women Want to Submit To, unnumbered page:

Many times a woman with a higher notch count is more difficult to get into bed with than a woman who has had few sexual partners.

2022, Sam Wilson, The Definitive Guide to Having Sex with Women in the 21st Century, unnumbered page:

(seduction community slang) The number of sexual partners of a given individual.


titty skittle

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In reference to Skittles candy, as well as the breast growth caused by the extended use of estrogen.

Kayla even used the nickname for the little blue pills sold as Estrofem: titty skittles.

After six months of researching options for non-binary amab folk who want titty skittles without the titty, I am OFF TO MY FIRST HORMONE APPOINTMENT

2018 August 2, farbandish, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

My girlfriend's 1 year on titty skittle was yesterday!!!,

2019 February 9, mmtruooao, “Ya girl just took her first titty skittle :^)”, in Reddit, traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

2019 August 29, Darcyblue, “Guess who finally got on the titty skittles? This girl right here! This was a long wait.”, in Reddit, traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

Trans people I knew—the cultists! —had insisted that the “titty skittles” would make my breasts grow.

2020, Grace Lavery, “Egg Theory's Early Style”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly, page 388:

I DREAM OF A WORLD WHERE ONE DAY ALL GOATS CAN HOLD THEIR HEADS UP HIGH AND BLEAT A SONG OF JOY BECAUSE THEIR PRIVATES MATCH THEIR GENDER IDENTITY AND EVERYONE IS OK WITH THAT PLUS THEY GET FREE GOVERNMENT TITTY SKITTLES

2021 May 16, fred k. engels®, “Trans goat rights are caprine rights”, in rec.radio.shortwave (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-18:

I'm misses estradiol
I'm misses E
I'm misses titty skittle
I'm misses HRT
Friends call me girlmiser
Whatever I touch
turns to girls in my clutch
I’m just too much

2022 January 16, Hex_Bomb, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-01-16:

2022 February 8, Jaydee_O, “I got my titty Skittles! 💥🎊🎉🍈🍈”, in Reddit, MtF, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

Yes, I know.
Thinking about this is scary.
Believe me, I was there every day of every month leading up to when I personally finally popped a titty skittle.
I'm just saying, this has been the best decision I've literally ever made & I regret not making it sooner.
Just saying.

2022 April 22, RileyGryc, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-04-22:

hormone replacement therapy
hormone replacement therapy

(transgender slang, humorous, usually in the plural) An estrogen pill taken as part of hormone replacement therapy.


Fem&M's

It's the little things while you are pre everything. Hopefully not for long though because I go on Thursday to hopefully get my Fem&m's

2017 September 24, ccbarber1014, “I got my belly button pierced!”, in Reddit, MtF, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

2019 April 19, Fraih, “MRW I got a prescription for fem&m's after my first endo appointment without any gatekeeping.”, in Reddit, traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

Congrats Hun! Enjoy the Titty Skittles, Fem&M's, Breast Mints, Tit Tacs, Galtoids, Anticistamines

2019 February 9, Syn-the-Guardian, “I started on E!!!”, in Reddit, traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

THREE GODDAMN YEARS OF FEM&M’S TODAY AND IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER HELLLL YEA

2019 December 8, SomeBWord, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

Good luck! Get them Fem&M's, Girl!

2019 December 9, ThatEdgyOne, “Got my first appointment in 2 hours for hrt so so so so soooooo excited but also super nervous hope you all have an amazing day today <3”, in Reddit, traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

I'm still only on Fem&M's and Antidudeimines.

2020 April 23, Riggy_Minus, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

At the pharmacy waiting to pick up my titty skittles, fem&ms and anticistamines 💜💙

2022 March 1, Selenaissapphic, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

(transgender slang, humorous) Estrogen pills taken as part of hormone replacement therapy.


endosexism

There's nothing threatening about saying some common trans ontologies in their infancy were rooted in endosexism

2017 October 6, Siobhan O'Leary, tweet (archived)

In fact, numerous studies have demonstrated how manhood also relies on and reproduces societal patterns of cissexism, endosexism, monosexism, heterosexism, classism, racism, ageism, nationalism, and religious privilege in the United States.

2020, J. E. Sumerau, Violent Manhood, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, pages 6–7:

We discuss this finding with reference to cisgenderism and endosexism, focusing particularly on being critical of ‘gender’ and foregrounding biological sex, and views for and against self-identifying gender.

2020, Elizabeth Peel, Hannah J. H. Newman, Gender's wider stakes: lay attitudes to legal gender reform, in feminists@law (ISSN 2046-9551)

Stigma and discrimination combined with minority stress, and cultural and social norms that give preference to heterosexuality, cisgenderism and endosexism, are some of the root causes that contribute to these health inequalities.

2020 May, Valeria Donisi et al., “Training healthcare professionals in LGBTI cultural competencies: Exploratory findings from the Health4LGBTI pilot project”, in Patient Education and Counseling, volume 103, number 5, pages 978–987:

Intersex people are not extremely rare, although endosexism (up to and including forced genital surgery in infancy) has contributed to conditions that lead us to believe they are.

2022 September 6, Reese Minshew, Treating Trauma in Trans People: An Intersectional, Phase-Based Approach, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

(rare) A system, practice, or bias privileging endosex people over intersex people.


goddex

First off: to anyone feeling an iota of guilt for indulging your plant-loving inner green goddex during the pandemic—you stop that right now.

2020 November, Cheryl Rafuse, “Why You Should Quarantine (Your Plants)”, in Boston Compass, page 6:

These days, a Witch or pagan might welcome a warm summer wind as an inherently feminine blessing from a femme goddex, […]

2021, Elliot Director, "The Gender Evolution of Air", in Astraea Taylor, Air Magic, page 56

Thank God, or Goddess, or Goddex we failed and found each other.

2022, Monique Jenkinson, Faux Queen: A Life in Drag, unnumbered page:

(neologism) A genderless or non-binary deity; a deity whose gender is unknown.


shobe

tlb

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial)

shobes (plural)
siobe (alternative)
shob (alternative)
shobs (alternative)

Borrowed from Hokkien 小妹 (sió-bē, “younger sister; youngest sister”).

bor+

(informal) a younger sister; little sister

(familiar) a young female junior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)

(informal) term of address for a younger sister

(familiar) term of address for a young female junior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)


nigcel

en-noun

nigcel (countable and uncountable, plural nigcels)

Blend of nigger + incel. By surface analysis, nig + -cel.

Nigcel is a play on the word incel, which stands for “involuntary-celibate.” This term refers to a subculture of men who are typically white males.

[2020 November 19, Sade Spence, “What is a Nigcel?”, in StayHipp.com, archived from the original on 2021-11-21:

Nigcels were being described as a particular type of Black “man”. He, in the logic offered in the room, is one that could be rehabilitated out of their violent ideology. Nigcels are a radicalized Black man, not a “real” or “good” Black “man”.

2021 March 1, Misandrynoir, “Our Obsession with Redeeming Men”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2021-03-03:

They’re often characterized by resentment, misogyny, misanthropy, self-pity and self-loathing, racism, a sense of entitlement to sex, and the endorsement of violence against sexually active people.” I was becoming that, but the Black version. A Nigcel.

2021 March 11, Stanley Fritz, “I Almost Became an Nigcel Because I Couldn't Get a Girlfriend”, in Let's Not Be Trash, archived from the original on 2022-04-29:

After thousands & thousands of comments from nigcels objectifying & villainizing me I’ve come to the conclusion that I no longer have the capacity to have empathy for cis straight black men.

2021 September 13, Ann Brown, “What Is A Bullet Bag? Inside The New Liberal Smear Against Black Men”, in The Moguldom Nation, archived from the original on 2021-10-11:

(incel slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person who is an incel.


pronounphobia

pronounphobia (countable and uncountable, plural pronounphobias)

Pronounphobia omg. Do they realise that they’ve used pronouns in that tweet 🤦

2020 April 10, Charlie (@ThenonbinaryC), Twitter:

Fr [for real]. All this internalised pronounphobia, like duh, everyone has pronouns

2020 November 11, 'Ala ad-Din (@IbnAbiQ), Twitter:

I agree, there needs to be more research into pronounphobia. Why do so many people get so upset about a part of speech?

2021 May 19, Max Harvey (@max_harvey), Twitter:

(chiefly sarcastic) Fear, hatred, or aversion to pronouns, especially as relates to gender.


TERFspeak

Truth be told parroting actual TERFspeak for it's^([sic]) comedy value might have been a bad call.

2018 March 13, venyle (@cold_inthewater), Twitter:

"Trans-identified male" is TERFspeak for trans woman.

2019 December 17, fern +r | Badenlily (@fernseasons), Twitter:

“Respecting other people’s boundaries” is just TERFspeak for “trans women are not welcome to use public spaces”.

2022 March 3, Bette Joy (@SlaggitySlag), Twitter:

The jargon and rhetoric of gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminists.


trans cult

trans cults (plural)
transcult (alternative)

The rage and despair of seeing your flesh and blood drift into the trans cult and turn against you is unspeakable.

2018, "GenderCriticalDad", "'I'm Not A Hideously Bigoted Parent Who Doesn't 'Get' It'", in Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body (eds. Heather Brunskell-Evans & Michele Moore), page 82

Clichéd insults await the wrongthinkers: deny TW and you’re a bigoted transphobe; assert it and you’re a deluded member of the transcult.

2020, Alex Byrne, “Are women adult human females?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 177, page 3798:

There is seemingly a widely held concern that trans men are simply naive and manipulated gender non-conforming lesbians who have been led astray by the so-called trans cult or trans cabal.

2021, Finn Mackay, Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex, unnumbered page:

(gender-critical, derogatory) The transgender community, viewed as cultlike.


SWERFy

en-adj

SWERFy (comparative SWERFier, superlative SWERFiest)

SWERFier (comparative)
SWERFiest (superlative)
SWERF-y (alternative)
swerfy (alternative)

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Maybe this year we stop saying brandwh*re? Maybe that slur doesn't belong to all of us?? Maybe we think about the SWERFy streak in our community??? Just some thoughts

2021 February 9, nifty nif (@nifty_nif), Twitter:

The most artistic SWers I know don’t want to make NFTs because they see how misogynistic, transphobic, racist and SWERFy the culture is.

2021 November 21, natrix (@crypt0natrix), Twitter:

I was in a panel today & pushed back against "public health" narratives that position people selling sex + using drugs as traumatized people first. This is actually a really SWERFy position to take.

2022 February 25, Raani Begum (@raanibegum), Twitter:

(informal, neologism) Resembling, characteristic of, or related to anti-sex work feminism.


genderology

As long as societies label people “male/female,” “boy”/“man,” “girl”/“woman” and attach some significance to these labels, genderology has a subject matter — a reason for existence.

1996, Clinton J. Jesser, Fierce and Tender Men: Sociological Aspects of the Men's Movement, page 6:

Around me I noticed piles of manuscripts, stacks of magazines, genderology journals, feminist mags, and women’s self-improvement glossies—Gendereflections, m/f/n, Annals of Applied Gyngnomics, Femme Vitale, Moué, elfin, Executress, and Chrysalis: The Magazine for Women Who Change—all bristling with coded Post-its.

2012, Tom Vorlen, The Healer of Our Time: A Novel of Medicine, page 334:

Genderology in the broadest sense examines gender-related issues from the point of view of psychology and sociology.

2021, Liu Juan, Laris S. Pichkova, Olga O. Chertovskikh, “Gender Education as a Way to Overcome Cultural Conflict”, in Aleksei V. Bogoviz, Artem I. Krivtsov, Elena G. Popkova, editors, Strategies for the Global Economic System for 2030, page 76:

The study of gender, gender roles, or gender relations.


gendersex

Holm provides a contextualised analysis of two life stories by persons in trans or intersex(ed) positions who applied for the legal change of their gendersex status, as Holm innovatively names it.

2019, Riikka Taavetti, “From Present Trans and Intersex(ed) Politics to Past Embodied Experiences”, in Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran, →DOI:

the technologies and histories of racial and colonial gendering that have established binary gendersex as one of the primary fault lines for securing and differentiating the national body

2022, Christopher Joseph Lee, “Transmedia Uprising”, in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, →DOI:

Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.


khwaja sira

From Urdu خواجہ سرا (xāja sarā), ultimately partly from Persian.
Emphasising the mismatch between their visible bodies (hazir) and the invisible soul (ruh), they presented the khwaja sira as a feminine soul that was stuck in a masculine body. In presenting this definition of their gender and seeking legitimacy for it, khwaja siras seek to define the distinctiveness of their soul. It is not just any feminine soul but one endowed with certain spiritual qualities.1

That the discussion kept focusing on the sexual behavior of khwaja siras agitated a number of transgender activists, who were uncomfortable that these issues were being discussed in the presence of people who were not khwaja siras. […] Beena's response demonstrates the tendency of khwaja sira activists to represent themselves and their communities in a socially acceptable manner as respectable and religious people. She emphasized the conservatism[…]

2014 December 18, Susan S Wadley, South Asia in the World: An Introduction: An Introduction, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 182–183:

Funding that is targeting the Khwaja Sira community ought to go through Khwaja Sira organisations, she says, insisting on being more than a token for international NGOs that have little or no knowledge about the local conditions.

2018 June 12, Lena Martinsson, Diana Mulinari, Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms: Visions of Feminism. Global North/Global South Encounters, Conversations and Disagreements, Routledge, →ISBN:

The individual and shared identity of khwaja siras is pivotal to studying why and how they are persecuted. According to Khan (2014a), there is no universally agreed upon definition for a khwaja sira, and the fluid term has a distinct trajectory of use in Pakistan. Transgender Pakistanis may use the term hijra to refer to themselves,[…]

2018 December 6, Arzu Güler, Maryna Shevtsova, Denise Venturi, LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective: Persecution, Asylum and Integration, Springer, →ISBN, page 52:

A member of a traditional transfeminine third gender in Pakistan and India since Mughal times.


STEMinist

A self-proclaimed “STEMinist,” Imamura is looking forward to this new challenge as much to pave the way for others even as she completes her own education in the sciences.

2016 July, Dwain Hebda, “The Steminist Way”, in Savvy, page 25:

How can English teachers harness the power of nonfiction to inspire girls to be STEMinists?

2018, NCTE Annual Convention Program, page 66:

And most importantly, it shows that women in science come in all shapes and sizes, that we can become STEMinists at any age, and that STEM can be and should be an inclusive field.

2021, Chona VinceCruz-Abeledo, “STEMotivation”, in NatureVolve, number 9, page 32:

(neologism) A woman or girl who works in or is interested in a STEM field.


unsexlike

unsexlike (comparative more unsexlike, superlative most unsexlike)

more unsexlike (comparative)
most unsexlike (superlative)

Her pleasant tutor, for such I must call Master Ascham, hath writ that nothing could distract her from these her wondrous and unsexlike studies.

1822, The Saturday Magazine, volume 2, page 370:

[…] the bigotry of Mary, and the unsexlike despotism of her sister Tudor […]

1841, Mary Anne M'Mullan, Lines from the Land of Streams, page 14:

(archaic) Not befitting a person's sex; unmanly (for a man) or unwomanly (for a woman).


allocishet

allocishet (comparative more allocishet, superlative most allocishet)

more allocishet (comparative)
most allocishet (superlative)

It's frustrating that allocishet folks are often unable to grasp the nuances of queer sex.

2018, K. M. Szpara, quoted in Caroline M. Yoachim, "Interview: K. M. Szpara", Uncanny Magazine, July/August 2018, unnumbered page

I can't think of a single allocishet person taking the time to explain their identity to anyone.

2022, Saundra Mitchell, Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder, unnumbered page:

Black consumers who are beyond the allocishet “norm” must search harder, look deeper, to find their community .

2022, Jessica P. Pryde, “Introduction”, in Jessica P. Pryde, editor, Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters, page xvii-xviii:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Allosexual, cisgender, and heterosexual.


STEMinism

"STEMinism" is necessary in order to overcome the current stereotype that boys are more suited for careers in hard sciences.

2017 March 3, Jessica Jen, “STEMinism: a step for gender equality”, in The Smoke Signal, Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, CA, page 3:

STEMinism places the onus on the individual student or scientist to succeed in STEM fields rather than interrogating and removing structural barriers to success.

2019, Kristen Myers, Courtney Gallaher, Shannon McCarragher, “STEMinism”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume 28, number 6:

STEMinism campaigns are growing up but if these campaigns are promoted by only women the engagement will be more difficult [17-18].

2020, Sofia Scataglini & Estela Perez Luque, "Closing the Gender Gap in DHM", in DHM2020: Proceedings of the 6th International Digital Human Modeling Symposium, August 31 - September 2, 2020 (eds.D. Högberg, E. Brolin, & L. Hanson), page 409

(neologism) The movement to improve the representation of women in STEM fields, and to remove professional, academic, and social barriers to women's advancement.


Tejanx

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

-a-o-x

He also understood reciprocal paternalistic obligation as more important than the impersonal alienations of contract or law—something an older generation of Texans, or Tejanxs, might have appreciated.

2021, Ethan Blue, The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal, Oakland: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 244:

A Texan of Mexican descent (of any gender); a Tejano or Tejana.


transplain

en-verb

transplain (third-person singular simple present transplains, present participle transplaining, simple past and past participle transplained)

transplains (present singular third-person)
transplaining (participle present)
transplained (participle past)
transplained (past)
trans-splain (alternative)
transsplain (alternative)

When you lead with story instead of education, then it becomes absorbed emotionally and intuitively so you don't really have to explain things. I don't think people respond as well to being transplained.

2015, Rhys Ernst, quoted in Mehera Bonner, "Rhys Ernst on the Pop Culture Trans Movement", Marie Claire, 21 August 2015

The “they” I’m referring to is not transgender people. (Though the bullies will pretend that it is.) I’m referring to the “trans activists” — some sinister, most joyless, and more than a few who don’t even identify as transgender themselves — who delight in “transplaining” to the rest of us the rules of this new, glittering utopia, where spaces must be shared, safeguards dismantled, disagreement decreed to be hate speech, and women must not be allowed to gather to discuss laws that will affect them.

2018 October 1, Lucy Bannerman, “Trans movement has been hijacked by bullies and trolls”, in The Times, UK:

"It's all about the lens to me," Escola continues. "A lot of culture and art is created with the straight audience in mind, gay-splaining and transsplaining to a straight audience. Like, 'We are human. Look, we cry just like regular people! And you're a good person because you cried when we cried.'"

2021, Cole Escola, quoted in Meredith Blake, "Contains Multitudes", Los Angeles Times, 21 January 2021

(colloquial, usually derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain transgender issues to a cis person (as a trans person or ally), especially in a condescending, heavy-handed, or preachy manner.


breast mint

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this just reminded me that i forgot my breast mints today, thank you~

2016 February 24, @CryptChiroptera, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-04-17:

thanks 🖤 yea I’ve been on breast mints up to now

2018 April 23, @janusrose, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-04-19:

Hmmm, I know it's only day two of being on breast mints but I figured I'd feel something by now?

2022 March 21, @ByCharlotteFinn, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-03-22:

(transgender slang, humorous, usually in the plural) Synonym of Tit Tac.


Tit Tac

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god i can never remember if i took my tit tacs already anymore

2018 December 5, @im_a_bitch_ty, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-04-15:

Hey it's been 7 months on HRT so here's the thread i do every month about my progress with the tit tacs!

2020 February 15, @sup_im_sammy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-02-16:

today is 23 months on tit tacs 😋

2021 June 12, @emily_dawnxo, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-06-12:

(transgender slang, humorous, usually in the plural) A pill taken as part of feminizing hormone replacement therapy, especially spironolactone (called by this name due to its peppermint smell) or estrogen such as estradiol.


Femme&M's

(transgender slang, humorous) Alternative spelling of Fem&M's.


femsplainer

(informal) One (especially a woman) who femsplains.


dwarrowdam

Coined by online Tolkien fans in the early 2010s, from dwarrow, an alternate word for the fantasy race of dwarves in Tolkien's legendarium, and dam (“female parent, mother”).

Kiaran stands at the heart of the room, speaking to a dwarrowdam with fiery red hair.

2014 May 1, LineofDurin (@Tiorvi), Twitter:

Goodnight dwarrows and dwarrowdams. As well as all others. I am retiring to my chambers for the eve. Court shall be held tomorrow.

2014 December 16, King Thrór (@Actual_Thror), Twitter:

Samila smiled and he sensed that this dwarrowdam was tougher than flint and able to go whatever lengths necessary to save her people.

2017, Anne Olga Vea, A Dragonslayer's Tale, page 472:

(chiefly Tolkien fandom slang, fantasy) A female of the dwarf race.

Dwarves (Middle-earth)
Tolkien's legendarium


lanklet

One time, I thought I saw a freakishly tall Goblin, but it was just a skinny lanklet Orc.

2021 July 14, @baalbuddy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-21:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A tall but scrawny man.


grandmomma

There’s been an “accent on youth” where exhibitors are concerned, and Nat Bernstein, owner Bernstein Circuit, followed suit.[…]But, the mommas and grandmommas figured the accent was in the wrong place, so they suggested something just for them on the same par, with prizes as well.

1948 September 1, “News of the Territory”, in The Exhibitor, page NT-4:

No sooner do we walk in the door, than here come the kids, the mommas, the poppas, the grandmommas and the grandpoppas, all holding these little autograph books.

1962 July 9, Huston Horn, “Baseball’s Babbling Brook”, in Sports Illustrated, page 63:

We have systematically been taught to worship beauty and brains, as everyone else, and so have our grandmommas and grandpoppas and uncles and aunts and cousins and neighbors.

1974, James Dobson, Hide or Seek, Old Tappan, N.J.: Power Books, Fleming H. Revell Company, →ISBN, page 49:


grandpoppa

The gallery about any nursery window is probably the proudest assemblage to be found anywhere. Poppas, grandpoppas, grandmammas, sisters, brothers, pizons and gumbods. We used to delight in our anonymity and enjoy their comments on our daughter.

1952, Marie Killilea, Karen, Dell Publishing, published 1960, page 17:


grandmumma

Besides, my grandmumma always said that you come out the wuss whenever you get into a pee’n contest with a skunk.

1983, Betty Jane Morison, Port and a Star Boarder: A Little Maine Murder, Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 93:

Suddenly, from the crumpled body erupted a loud moan followed by childlike howls of “Grandmumma! Grandmumma! Grandmumma!”

2004, Anthony C. Winkler, The Annihilation of Fish and Other Stories, Macmillan Caribbean, →ISBN, page 132:

Every culture has its own folklore, magic and mystical practices. If you’re not sure of yours, talk to your family, trace your family heritage and ask questions of your aunties and grandmummas.

2017, Lisa Lister, Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic., Hay House, →ISBN, page 41:


woman ☕

Bro💀, I was on my way back home and this woman ☕ driver almost ran her car over me..

As a woman☕, I find this funny.

2022 July 31, u/ApatheticScoundrel, “get it guys? because women!”, in Reddit, r/terriblefacebookmemes, archived from the original on 2022-08-01:

that's not just a woman, that's a Woman☕

2022 August 11, u/Clear-Mongoose-3935, “Woman☕☕☕☕☕”, in Reddit, r/antimeme, archived from the original on 2022-08-12:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A woman, especially one acting in a stereotypically feminine way.


JBW

‘JBW’ or ‘Just Be White’—the idea that being white automatically makes you more attractive, particularly to non- white women

2021, Will Gerdes-McClain, "Differents: Essays About a Human (and Humans)", thesis submitted to Georgia College, page 96

In misogynist incel communities, the acronym “JBW” (Just Be White) is a popular expression of white men’s perceived sexual advantages.

2021, Megan Kelly, Alex DiBranco, Dr. Julia R. DeCook, in collaboration with the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism, "Misogynist Incels and Male Supremacism", https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/reports/misogynist-incels-and-male-supremacism/a-brief-overview-of-intersections-with-race-and-class/

I'm not denying that, being white gives you an advantage, what annoys me about JBW spammers is they think ONLY being white will get you laid, when being white is merely an advantage, just like being tall. That's all really, if JBW spammers would say being white is just an advantage that's fine, I agree being white is advantageous, but simply being white alone won't get you laid. Same with being tall for that matter.

2021, TigerFestival, quoted in Hugo Engholm, "The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus", thesis submitted to the University of Uppsala, page 43

(incel slang) The belief that white men are unjustly privileged over other men in the sexual marketplace.


urban lumberjack

en-noun

urban lumberjack (plural urban lumberjacks)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see urban, lumberjack.


wifeism

In this chapter I examine the emergence of wifeism and the bureaucratization of women's concerns in Nigeria through state involvement, especially since the early 1980s.

1999, Amrita Basu, C. Elizabeth McGrory, Women's Movements in Global Perspective, page 213:

But this is not unconnected with the fact that the electoral system in Nigeria is still skewed in favour of wifeism.

1999, Matthew Hassan Kukah, Democracy and Civil Society in Nigeria, page 168:

(Nigeria, politics) A patriarchal societal tendency whereby women can only achieve things as the wives of men of rank.


legal sex

(law) A person's sex or gender which is recognized under the law.


en-proverb

gender is between your ears, not between your legs

Coined by American writer, musician and actor Chaz Bono, who is also a trans man.

coinage

Gender only exists as a social construct, and is not confined to one's birth sex.


super straight

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Coined by Canadian TikToker Kyle Royce in a video posted on February 21, 2021, in which he explained that he had begun identifying as "super straight" in order to avoid accusations of transphobia for not wanting to date transgender people. It was later popularized by the 4chan board /pol/.

superstraight (alternative)
super-straight (alternative)
Super Straight (alternative)

These TikTok users have also come up with a flag to symbolize 'super straight' people. The flag is made up of black and orange colors. Several users have made the flag their profile picture or have been using it on their bio.

2021 March 7, Prerna Nambiar, “What is super straight movement on TikTok? Super straight flag gets slammed”, in HITC, archived from the original on 2021-03-07:

Super straight, yeah, you can check the flag / I was bisexual for a minute, but switched back

2021 March 7, “Super Straight”performed by LilCockPump:

"I've made a new sexuality," Kyleroyce said in his video. "Straight men get called transphobic because I wouldn't date a trans woman. Now, I'm super straight. I only date the opposite gender, women, that are born women. So you can't say I'm transphobic now because that is just my sexuality."

2021 March 8, Steven Asarch, “A social-media trend has people identifying as 'super straight.' The transphobic campaign was meant to divide LGBTQ people.”, in Insider:

We also encountered numerous posts referring to the trend as "SS pride" and one talking about tattooing the SS rune as part of their "Super Straight pride."

2021 March 11, Nur Ibrahim, “Did the 'Super Straight' Trend Originate With Nazis on 4chan?”, in Snopes, archived from the original on 2022-01-27:

According to super straight "advocates", this sexual orientation describes cisgender people who are only attracted to cisgender individuals of the opposite gender. Super straight people claim that the identity is just like any other identity that falls under the LGBTQ spectrum, and that identifying as one is a way to "come out" and express that they are proud to be straight and cis.

2022 June 14, “Is there a straight Pride flag? Exploring the controversy of the heterosexual flag”, in LGBTQ Nation, archived from the original on 2022-08-17:

(alt-right, Internet slang) Being sexually attracted only to cisgender people of the opposite sex.


lunachick

A lunachick.” “Lunachick?” Lux thought of the little girl with uncombable hair. A girl like that is always stigmatized and misunderstood. Of course she'd be called crazy because of her syndrome; her hair spiraling in a hive of curls[…]

2007 July 31, Maria Flook, Lux: A Novel, Little, Brown, →ISBN:

When your woman becomes a self-destructive “lunachick” and drives you up the wall, she's not trying to break off the relationship. She's trying to transform herself, yourself, and the relationship to next level.

2003, Thomas David Kehoe, Hearts and Minds: How Our Brains Are Hardwired for Relationships, Casa Futura Technologies, →ISBN, page 217:

Freaking lunachick. I can imagine her looking at herself in her mirror and going, “Mirror God, Mirror God on the wall—am I, like, the hottest, most radical Christian Crusader of them all? Amazing! I will spread your word, Mirror God,[…]

2020 August 11, Lori Lansens, This Little Light: A Novel, Abrams, →ISBN:

(colloquial, derogatory) A lunatic girl or woman.


debate bro

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So, the other day, I was just chilling, vibing, minding by own business online, and I got a little notification on my bird app account, and I took a look. It was from a follower and it was like 'AI generated debate bros', okay?

2022 December 5, Shark3ozero, quoting Shark3ozero, 0:20 from the start, in The Most Racist Anime AI Generator EVER:

(usually derogatory, Internet slang) A male streamer who often engages in heated public political debates.


cissplainer

(LGBTQ, colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) A person who practices or engages in cissplaining.


mesonephric rest

en-noun

mesonephric rest (plural mesonephric rests)

(medicine, gynaecology) Remnants of the mesonephros in a girl or woman that have persisted past the embryonic stage.


orgasm shot

(medicine, gynaecology) A procedure involving the injection of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) into the vagina, claimed to improve orgasms.


bachelorx party

bachelorx party (plural bachelorx parties)

"Replacing 'bachelor/ette' with 'bachelorx' welcomes the growing number of straight folks who aren't into the outdated idea surrounding these get togethers as their 'last night of freedom,'" Blattel says. "With that attitude, it's no shock that gendered bachelorx parties are seen as the last chance for fun."

2019 August 29, Louis Baragona, “What's a Bachelorx Party? The Binary-Breaking Way to Celebrate”, in The Knot:

(neologism) A party held for a couple about to be married; a bachelorette party or bachelor party open to all guests, rather than those of a specific gender.


bachelorx

From bachelor + -x (“used to replace a gendered suffix”).

suffix

One of my personal fave sex educators, Stella Harris, is your guide for this hilarious live, interactive game show, where contestants complete challenges to win a date with an eligible "bachelorx," and audience members are encouraged to forge love connections on their own!

2019 September 12, Steven Humphrey, “Where to See Portland's Best Sex Shows”, in Portland Mercury:

Nevertheless, we would like to take this opportunity to celebrate bi folks. Let’s start with a list of very eligible bachelors, bachelorettes, and bachelorxes.

2022 September 24, “50 of The Most Eligible Single Bi+ Celebrities”, in Gayety:

(neologism) Someone who has not yet married; a bachelor or bachelorette of any gender identity, especially one identifying as non-binary.


faerself

Solomon faerself is ambiguous about the term, suggesting of The Deep that: […]

2021, Megan de Bruin-Molé, "Salvaging Utopia: Lessons for (and from) the Left in Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017), The Deep (2019), and Sorrowland (2021)", Humanities, Volume 10, Issue 4 (link)

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

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

For Sara, growing up in a Baptist home and being involved in the Baptist church faerself is not in contradiction to the usage of southern folk magic common in the south.

2022, Gina Snooks, "Between Words: Artful Auto/Biography and/as Pagan Healing", thesis submitted to Western University, page 90

(rare, nonstandard) Reflexive case of fae.


faers

But familiarity with Solomon (fae/faer/faers)’s previous work led me to believe this would not be simply (for lack of a better phrase) torture porn.

2021 July 24, Christina Orlando, “Monstrosity: On Rivers Solomon’s 'Sorrowland'”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:

Once we see Soul's gorgeous glass work, we immediately recognize the piece as theirs/faers because the because the bouquets are arranged in the shape of their/faer scars, which is a stylemark of Soul's art.

2022, Sherry Paris, You Can Make a Difference!: A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young Activists, page 117 (bolding in original altered for emphasis)

They paused at a door halfway down the corridor and waved their key at the lock pad. “Here—press your hand here to add your biometrics, please.”
Ari did so, and then stepped aside to let Bettea press faers, too.

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

(rare, nonstandard) Possessive case of fae.


nounself pronoun

en-noun

nounself pronoun (plural nounself pronouns)

nounself pronouns (plural)
noun-self pronoun (alternative)

According to [Judith] Butler, identity is tied to gender, and we perceive each other through the lens of gender (1999:22). This makes the gender binary with only its two choices very limiting. Nounself pronouns can be seen as an attempt to break free from this.

2016, Ehm Hjorth Miltersen, “Nounself pronouns: 3rd person personal pronouns as identity expression”, in Journal of Language Works, volume 1, number 1, page 48:

Nounself pronouns are when you adapt a noun of your choosing into a pronoun to create a wide variety of very personal and descriptive pronouns.

2021, Erin Ekins, Queerly Autistic The Ultimate Guide For LGBTQIA+ Teens On The Spectrum, page 105:

This suggests that neopronouns in general and nounself pronouns in particular are used to express something very individual about the selector.

2022, Katrina Callaway, "From Ey to Ze: Gender-Neutral Pronouns as Pronominal Change", dissertation submitted the University of Georgia, page 67

third-person singular
third-person singular

(linguistics) A type of third-person singular neopronoun constructed (often as an in-group identifier or nonce word) from a referent noun.


cold approach

Since I became a pick-up artist, I've performed over two hundred cold approaches.

(seduction community) The act of approaching a stranger (usually female) and asking them on a date.

kylmä lähestyminen

the act of approaching a stranger and asking them on a date


Miss Girl

Miss Girls (plural)
miss girl (alternative)
Miss Gurl (alternative)
miss gurl (alternative)


male-

Ignoring male-odorous patriarchal rituals and ceremonies, we celebrate New Sparks of Elemental Feminist Genius with our own festivals.

1998, Mary Daly, Quintessence: Realizing the Archaic Future:

(rare, derogatory, feminism) Variant of mal-; used to associate men with negative things


femstruate

en-verb

femstruate (third-person singular simple present femstruates, present participle femstruating, simple past and past participle femstruated)

femstruates (present singular third-person)
femstruating (participle present)
femstruated (participle past)
femstruated (past)

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Blend of fem- + menstruate, to avoid the word men.

(rare, nonstandard, feminism) Synonym of menstruate


femopause

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Blend of fem- + menopause, to avoid the word men.

(rare, nonstandard, feminism) Synonym of menopause


one joke

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I should add that Gilliam also made that one joke during his aforementioned rants about #MeToo, saying he identifies as, "a melanin-light male."

2020 December 9, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, “One Joke too Many”, in Pride Source:

I have seen fucked up things that suck before and I already know the joke. They only have the one joke. Anti-woke trans-bash comedians are cultivating an audience I want very much not to be a part of.

2022 May 25, Steve Albini (quoted), Will Richards, “Steve Albini hits out at Ricky Gervais' "fucked up" Netflix special”, in NME:

When it boils down to it, there is only one transphobic joke, and it repeats itself ad infinitum - indeed, the joke is so stale that there’s a whole subreddit (r/onejoke) that exists to parody it. Without the "one joke," comedians like Gervais and Dave Chappelle would have to figure out some fresh material - the Babylon Bee would go out of business entirely.

2022 May 30, Dani Di Placido, “Ricky Gervais Has Become The Man He Used To Mock”, in Forbes:

(LGBTQ) Humour satirising transgender and non-binary gender identities through mocking self-identifications (typically by "identifying" as something absurd or self-evident).


posadnik

Borrowed from Russian поса́дник (posádnik).

(historical) a mayor in some East Slavic cities, towns, and oblasts.


modern girl

(historical) A Japanese woman who followed westernized fashions and lifestyles in the period after World War I.


NAMALT

Coordinate term: AWALT

Initialism of not all men are like that.


LGBTI+

The Australian men’s national team released a video on Thursday morning with 16 players delivering their message line by line, raising concerns about the “suffering” of migrant workers and the inability in Qatar of LGBTI+ people “to love the person that they choose”.

2022 August 26, Natasha May, Mike Hytner, “Socceroos make collective statement to speak out about Qatar’s human rights record”, in The Guardian:

(LGBTQ) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex etc.


trans the gay away

trans the gay away (third-person singular simple present transes the gay away, present participle transing the gay away, simple past and past participle transed the gay away)

transes the gay away (present singular third-person)
transing the gay away (participle present)
transed the gay away (participle past)
transed the gay away (past)

We're seeing this new 'trans-the-gay-away' movement happening, and people think that it's progressive, when in reality this is happening in some of the most conservative areas across the globe.

2020 February 13, Mary Farrow, quoting Mary Kate Fain, “On transgenderism: Common ground, and real differences, between Catholics and radical feminists”, in Catholic News Agency:

One plausible line of inquiry by those questioning transitioning is whether it involves homophobia, as in the phrase "trans the gay away".

2020 May 4, Monica Rose, “10 painful things I learned when my daughter transitioned”, in MercatorNet:

A gay clinician there resigned due to concerns that some parents appeared overly happy to "trans the gay away".

2021 August 12, Petra Kindler, “Conversion Therapies Bill”, in Irish Times:

LGB Alliance believes that treatment at the NHS’s Tavistock Clinic is "transing the gay away". It argues that puberty blockers and experimental drugs are the "greatest threat" to young people it represents.

2022 September 12, Hayley Dixon, “Tavistock clinic 'putting young gay people at risk by treating them as trans'”, in The Telegraph:

(gender-critical slang, derogatory) To induce a gay person to undergo gender transition so that they become heterosexual.


passoid

easy to say as a passoid

2020 May 4, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:

I find it very interesting that "hons" (ugly masculine men) and "passoids" have so much animosity

2022 July 27, @MalesOfReddit, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-02-03:

i don't usually block chasers, but if any tgirl calls me a youngshit or a passoid it's on sight

2022 November 4, @kateisdeflate, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-02-02:

Our FedEx delivery person is a voice passoid

2022 November 9, @FemboyLifestyle, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-11-15:

I used to really hate being tall, but now that I've been on E for a while and am a bit of a passoid I've realized that being a tall queen is hot shit and I am totally here for it. I love being a 6'3 blonde bitch.

2023 January 28, @Cassandra_Nya, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-02-03:

(4chan /lgbt/ slang, sometimes derogatory) A transgender person who is passing.