fangirl

Coordinate term: fanboy

It's often an all or nothing world for the fangirl who has yet to learn to bridle the imagination. She is notorious for being incapable of passively enjoying stories.

2016, Kathleen Smith, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal, Penguin, →ISBN:

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


supermom

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Coordinate term: superdad

(US, informal) A mother who looks after her home and children whilst being in full-time employment.


superwoman

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From super- + woman.
From 1943's Superwoman, published by DC Comics in 1943.

(informal) A woman who looks after a home and children as well as being employed in a full-time job.


enfantement

"Which? She's expecting a second enfantement, you know, immediately...Oh, she's such a quick puss."

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 112


shopman

The proprietor, manager, or operator of a small store.


grandsire

From Middle English graunsire; compare grand and sire.


okama

A gay man, in the context of Japanese culture, especially one who is effeminate or cross-dresses.


mama's boy

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

He's such a mama's boy that he can't even ask a girl out for a date without his mother's approval.

And now we have plenty of mama’s boys who just want to have fun, who just want to —I don't know— use some women, have fun, have great sex, but they are not able to offer this responsibility in case something happens (!) so that’s why women, they are insecure because sex is something very precious that we have to offer; we women, because it’s our bodies, and our bodies, uhm, we become pregnant and men cannot become pregnant, so we bear all of these risks. And, for us, it’s a huge opening if we say yes to a man, if we give ourselves to a man, it’s not only that we open —uh, I’m sorry for the expression— our legs, but, it’s just that we open our heart and soul and we trust that this man is responsible; and if something happens (!) he will take action, he will be there (!) for us; he will behave... [nodding] like a man.

2020, Alexandra, 8:48–9:45 from the start, in Strong women and weak men, spoken by speaker, Family Code, via YouTube:

(informal, idiomatic, derogatory, Canada, US) A male who has a very close bond with his mother, and may consequently be perceived as soft or effeminate.


taskmistress

Not only under the laſh of my taſk-miſtreſs, but the drudge of the maid, apprentices and children, I never had a taſte of human kindneſs to ſoften the rigour of perpetual labour.

1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter V, page 87:

A woman who assigns tasks; a female overseer.


maestra

From Italian maestra, female form of maestro.

“That is fair,” we say of a rhymed page that sounds as if it might have been indited to the fair Caroline and she only. But the maestra curls her lip contemptuously and utters “umph! Pope!” We are shy of gems. If, therefore, we attribute to Moore what rightly belongs to the scribe here recorded, may his shade forgive us, and appreciate the compliment./[…]/ “The interesting feature of the book,” said the maestra, “is its ministerial records. Do you notice what an assembly of the saints is there represented?”

1872, “Editorial Department”, “Album Literature”, in The Ladies’ Repository, a Universalist Monthly Magazine for the Home Circle, volume XLVII, Boston: The Universalist Publishing House, page 392, column 1:

Four o’clock struck, and I and my young companions were setting out when the maestra stopped us. “Where are you going?” she said; “to hear a sermon? These girls must not go without leave.”[…]The manager used to watch as she passed with her Bible in her hand, and tell her that she must never bring that book to the factory. She told him she had a right to bring her Bible to read in the intervals of her work, and she would do it, come what might. The maestra used to tell her that she would turn her out if she ever brought a book or tract with her; but Antonia conciliated her with little attentions, and now the woman has actually bought a New Testament for herself.

1874 May 1, “Bible Visits in Madrid”, in L. N. R., editor, The Missing Link Magazine, or Bible Work at Home and Abroad, volume X, London: The Book Society, page 142:

The central boys’ school has three native masters and the central girls’ school has two maestras.

1901, Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War, page 551:

Her tears fell upon the cold floor she’d found herself dancing upon for several years now. Maestra has forced Katya to do the same taxing routine fourteen times since 7 am.

2024, Carter Enslein, “Цикл (Cycle)”, in Joey Knizner, editor, Expressions: St. Xavier High School Literary and Fine Arts Journal, number 59, Cincinnati, Oh.: St. Xavier High School, page 42:


man-bag

man-bags (plural)
man bag (alternative)
manbag (alternative)

From man + bag, influenced by (punning on) handbag.

Unisex styling gave the ‘man-bag’ its brief moment and many rough hewn embroidered denim and handtooled leather shoulder bags were worn by both sexes.

2005, Valerie Steele, Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion:

The equivalent of a woman's small handbag designed for use by men, having compartments for mobile phones, etc.


breastfeeding

en-noun

breastfeeding (countable and uncountable, plural breastfeedings)

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nursing

terms applicable to any mammals (including quadrupeds and whales)

(countable) An instance (session) of such feeding activity.


genderqueer

From gender + queer. First known appearance in print was in 1995 in a newsletter by Riki Wilchins.

(LGBTQ, sometimes offensive) Not exclusively male or female; having or pertaining to a gender identity which is not represented by the gender binary.

genderqueer

having a non-binary gender — see also non-binary


gender binary

A gender system in which people are categorized, in terms of gender and often also sex, exclusively as either male or female.


right-hand man

This guy is the real thing [...] and he's plucked my girl up to be his right-hand man because he knows she's the real deal, too.

2014, Christina Lauren, Dirty Rowdy Thing, pages 303–304:


right-hand woman

right-hand woman (plural right-hand women)

Magnussen is as cartoonish as his character while there are small, sparky opportunities for Patti Harrison as Hazel’s old friend and Noma Dumezweni as Byron’s right-hand woman, that are hopefully expanded in future episodes.

2021 March 31, Benjamin Lee, “Made for Love review – Black Mirror-esque comedy needs an upgrade”, in The Guardian:


man Friday

man Friday (plural man Fridays or men Friday or men Fridays)

man Fridays (plural)
men Friday (plural)
men Fridays (plural)

From man (“adult male servant”) + Friday, coined by the English writer Daniel Defoe (c. 1660 – 1731) in his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719) as the name of the protagonist Crusoe’s companion and servant; he is rescued by Crusoe from cannibal captives on a Friday. Crusoe frequently refers to him as “my man Friday”.

nb...

of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque; having been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Deliver’d by Pyrates.

This man—our lackey, our servant, our unquestioning slave though he was, was still a gentleman— […] We asked our man Friday’s name.

1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIII, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, page 119:

Nothing is less true, as far as intellectual initiative is concerned, than the idea that those who are good in obeying will also be good in commanding. Very similar difficulties arise in political parties: the ‘Man Friday’ of the party leader is seldom a capable successor.

1945, K[arl] R[aimund] Popper, “The Principle of Leadership”, in The Open Society and Its Enemies, 4th edition, volume I (The Spell of Plato), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, published 1962, section V, page 135:

A trusted man whose job is to assist and organize someone else's day-to-day business or personal tasks; a personal assistant, a right-hand man; also, a trusted male companion.


girl Friday

en-noun

girl Friday (plural girl Fridays or girls Friday)

girl Fridays (plural)
girls Friday (plural)
Girl Friday (alternative)
girl friday (alternative)

By extension from man Friday, from the character Friday in Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe
Friday (Robinson Crusoe)
Robinson Crusoe


lochia

Learned borrowing from Latin lochia, from Ancient Greek λοχεία (lokheía), neuter plural of λοχείος (lokheíos, “of childbirth”), from λόχος (lókhos, “childbirth”).

In April 1819, I attended a young married lady in her first pregnancy, in whose case the lochia began to diminish on the seventh day after parturition, [...]

1822, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal:

Variations in the quantity, quality, or odour of the lochia not unnaturally excite great alarm in the mind of the patient, who regards any deviation in this secretion as a proof of serious disease. Yet very remarkable differences do occur, without any morbid affection of the uterus or vagina.

1866, Fleetwood Churchill, On the theory and practice of midwifery:

In three or four days the distinctly bloody character of the lochia is altered. They have a reddish watery appearance, and are known as the lochia rubra or cruenta [...]

1884, William Smoult Playfair, A Treatise on the Science and Practice of Midwifery, volume II (fifth edition), part III, chapter IX:

1921, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, published by the American Gynecological Society
On the fifth day the coryza, cough and rash were all improved, but the patient was irrational; the lochia were thin, watery and odorless; …

1924: The Canadian nurse, published by the Canadian Nurses' Association
Check lochia and change sterile pad. If the patient's pulse is under 90, the fundus is firm and the lochia is normal, the patient may be left at the end ...

1927, The Indian Veterinary Journal, published by the Indian Veterinary Association
In one Magra ewe which gave birth to twins, lochia continued for 8 days …

1946: Nicholson Joseph Eastman and Emil Novak, Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey
By the fifth day, however, the lochia was normal in most of the patients and in only 4 patients was it heavy.

For the first three or four days after delivery the lochia are red; [...] three different types of lochia are distinguished: ‘lochia rubra’ or ‘red lochia’, ‘lochia serosa’ ‘serous lochia’, which appears five to six days after delivery, and ‘lochia alba’ meaning ‘white lochia’, the final lochial discharge [...]

1998, Giovanni Maciocia, Obstetrics & Gynecology in Chinese Medicine, page 609:

Normal post-partum vaginal discharge; blood, mucus, and placental tissue that are discharged from a female's vagina (similar to menstruation) for several weeks after she has given birth.


futz

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Janet gets on my nerves. She's a dumb futz, ain't she?

(vulgar, colloquial, dialectal, derogatory) An objectionable woman.


futz

en-verb

futz (third-person singular simple present futzes, present participle futzing, simple past and past participle futzed)

futzes (present singular third-person)
futzing (participle present)
futzed (participle past)
futzed (past)

From German herumfurzen (literally “to fart around”) (herum- + furzen), perhaps via Yiddish אַרומפֿאַרצן (arumfartsn); alternatively, a euphemism for fuck.

der

אַרומפֿאַרצן

I am nobody to futz around with when I know myself to be four hundred per cent in the right.

(Northern US) To be frivolous and waste time.


comfort woman

Calque from Japanese 慰(い)安(あん)婦(ふ) (ianfu).

She carefully watches the efforts of Koreans who are suing Japan to get reparations for the comfort women. It was only in 1993 that Japan formally recognized its involvement in the forced prostitution.

1995 September 10, Jane H. Lii, “The Memories of a Comfort Woman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(idiomatic, historical, euphemistic) A woman forced, or supposedly recruited, into brothels by the Japanese occupation forces before or during World War II.


comfort girl

(idiomatic, euphemistic) A female sex slave; prostitute.


daughterling

BLOSSOM of the almond-trees, • April's gift to April's bees, Birthday ornament of spring, Flora's fairest daughterling; — [...]

2003, William Patten, Poems Old and New:

Would I have my vanished sight once more I Tell me, daughterling, how looks this promised land towards which we have been journeying these months and years?

2004, Flora Annie Webster Steel, Dramatic History of India:

(diminutive, endearing) A daughter, especially a young or precious one.


due date

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The date on which a pregnant woman is expected to give birth.


memaw

en-verb

memaw (third-person singular simple present memaws, present participle memawing, simple past and past participle memawed)

memaws (present singular third-person)
memawing (participle present)
memawed (participle past)
memawed (past)


demimondaine

However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:

A sexually promiscuous woman (of the demimonde).


coiffeur

Borrowed from French coiffeur, from coiffer, from Old French coife, from Late Latin cofia (“cap”).


Knight Bachelor

en-noun

Knight Bachelor (plural Knights Bachelor)

(British) A man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organized orders of chivalry; the lowest rank of knight in the British honours system.


direct maternal death

direct maternal death (plural direct maternal deaths)

A maternal death resulting from a complication of the pregnancy or delivery, or their management.


indirect maternal death

indirect maternal death (plural indirect maternal deaths)

A pregnancy-related death in a female patient with a preexisting or newly developed health problem.


stuntman

stuntmen (plural)
stunt man (alternative)

During filming a stuntman was injured as he jumped from a railway bridge onto the roof of a train passing below.

In films, someone who performs stunts that are deemed too dangerous or physically difficult for the main actors to attempt.


cousin sister

cousin sisters (plural)
cousin-sister (alternative)

Late in 1997 the entire family returned to India to arrange the marriages of Nimrat's brothers and cousin-sister.

2006, Nicola Mooney, “Aspiration, reunification and gender transformation in Jat Sikh marriages from India to Canada”, in Global Networks, volume 6, number 4, page 394:

Welfare Ministry Secretary Upali Dahanayake, his elderly father, daughter, and a cousin sister died on the spot in a tragic accident in Mahiyangana yesterday.

2007 July 2, Kurulu Kariyakarawana, Yohan Perera, “Ministry secretary, three others killed in road accident”, in Daily Mirror e-edition, Sri Lanka, page 1:


cousin brother

cousin brothers (plural)
cousin-brother (alternative)

I got one cousin-brother. He dam rich. I speak him for the ten thousand rupees.

1853, J. H. Stocqueler, The Old Field Officer or The Military and Sporting Adventures of Major Worthington, volume 2, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 3:

In Punjabi joint families, first cousins are considered siblings (cousin-sisters and cousin-brothers).

2006, Nicola Mooney, “Aspiration, reunification and gender transformation in Jat Sikh marriages from India to Canada”, in Global Networks, volume 6, number 4, page 392:

"I was just recovering from the death of my close cousin brother," says Patil.

2007, Deepa Venkataraman, "Brave Hearts," expressindia.com, Mumbai, 2 July


abortuary

/əˈbɔɹt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/

/əˈbɔːt͡ʃʊəɹi/

/əˈbɔːt͡ʃwəɹi/

(slang, anti-abortion, derogatory) A place where abortions are performed.


women's libber

Shortened form of women's liberation + -er

(derogatory) A member or supporters of the women's liberation movement; a feminist


man crush

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2004, Joyce Anthony Huff, Meadowlark, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 52,
“[…] Her old man crushes were always just that—crushes. But maybe she really is dating him. […]”

2005, Amy Scheibe, What Do You Do All Day?, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 65,
We talk a bit about the man crushes we have in common, recount our conquests, celebrate our fabulous younger selves. We don't talk about the men we lost, or how utterly decimating the eighties were, or how lucky we are to be sitting here, drinking ourselves silly.

2005, Jennifer Crusie, Flirting with Pride & Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece, BenBella Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 119,
[…] for a certain faction of American women, the accent is swoon-worthy on its own. I will confess that the Darcy accent I concocted in my head while reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time was a huge contributor to my fictional man crush.

(colloquial) A crush on (sexual attraction toward) a man.


proprietress

proprietresses (plural)
proprietess (alternative)
proprietoress (alternative)

In addition, the proprietress is a Nazi. We barely escaped with our lives.

1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 3, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 55:


transgendered

en-adj

transgendered (comparative more transgendered, superlative most transgendered)

more transgendered (comparative)
most transgendered (superlative)

RAQUEL WELCH (left), moviedom's sex queen soon to be seen as the heroine/hero of Gore Vidal's transgendered "Myra Breckinridge," will be featured in her first television special at 8 p.m. today on CBS.

1970 April 26, “Raquel Welch”, in TV Guide, archived from the original on 2012-06-04:

(now uncommon and often offensive and proscribed) Transgender; denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth.


transvestism

en-noun

transvestism (usually uncountable, plural transvestisms)

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

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

(clinical psychology, psychiatry, pathology) A paraphilia typically found in heterosexual males characterized by compulsively seeking and deriving sexual arousal from cross-dressing, especially if the urges and behavior cause the patient distress or social impairment.


pro-lifer

pro-lifers (plural)
prolifer (alternative)

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A person with pro-life views, or who advocates such policies


proconsul

(in ancient Rome) A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province.

проконсул

in ancient Rome: a magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province


pro-choicer

pro-choicers (plural)
prochoicer (alternative)

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A person with pro-choice views, or who advocates such policies.


poncy

en-adj

poncy (comparative poncier, superlative ponciest)

poncier (comparative)
ponciest (superlative)
poncey (alternative)

From ponce (“kept man; pimp; effeminate man; homosexual man”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’).

suffix

With sudden interest Morse turned up the volume [of the radio]: the voice was donnish, slightly effeminate. [...] 'Shert erp, you poncy twit!' he said aloud, got out of bed, pulled on his clothes, walked downstairs and dialled the speaking clock.

1976 April, Colin Dexter, chapter 38, in Last Seen Wearing, London: Pan Books, →ISBN; paperback edition, London: Pan Books, 2016, →ISBN:

It was Johannesburg's only regular gay bar in those days, and not even a proper bar. [...] Since apartheid was a way of life, only the ponciest of African queens, only the butchest of Indian dykes could appear—noncitizens acceptable, in this underworld that was deviant but uncourageous, so long as they were no more than bedding material.

1990, Dale Gunthorp, “Gypsophilia”, in Naomi Holoch, Joan Nestle, editors, The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, published 1999 (2010 printing), →ISBN, page 86:

After lunch, Her mother suddenly produced a poncy lace dress out of her bag and announced, 'This is the family christening dress, which you were christened in,' etc., etc. [...] Looking at it close to, I saw that it was even poncier than the other one.

1992, Simon Brett, How to Be a Little Sod, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN; republished London: Orion Books, Orion Publishing Group, 2011, →ISBN:

He wore a cream-colored linen suit of a cut and color designed expressly for garden parties, the kind of suit Tom would surely have called "poncy" had he seen it on another man.

2008, Galt Niederhoffer, The Romantics, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN:

None of the gallery staff took any notice of a gangly, stick-thin, nose-picking, acne-faced youth wearing a plastic imitation leather jacket, winkle-picker shoes and a greasy Mick Jagger hairstyle. We all looked like that in those days, except those poncey Mods.

2009, David Stedman, chapter 1, in That Terrible Shadowing: The Quest across Time for Caravaggio’s Killer, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicester: Matador, →ISBN, page 1:

Fixing your hair is also something that needs to be done in private (unless it is literally a quick pat and fluff). There are some who will happily stand in front of the mirror (there is only one mirror, you see, none of this fancy mirror-above-every-sink malarkey) and style their hair with pout and pose included, but they are usually too popular to get abuse about how poncey and womanly they look.

2011, Tom Clempson, “Last Break Hanging Out”, in One Seriously Messed-up Week in the Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life of Sam Taylor Jack Samsonite, London: Atom, →ISBN:

(chiefly British, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, informal) Of, relating to, or (supposedly) characteristic of a ponce.

Chiefly of a male person: effeminate; gay, homosexual.


ubersexual

ubersexuals (plural)
übersexual (alternative)

2005 August 25, Marian Salzman, Ira Matathia, Ann O'Reilly, The Future of Men: The Rise of the Ubersexual and What He Means for Marketing Today, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:

First it was Metrosexuals. Now it's Ubersexuals. Everyone wants to tell men how they should dress, groom themselves and behave.

2005 November 3, “Enough Already With The Trends And Labels”, in Business Wire:

Unlike the effeminate metrosexual, the ubersexual’s sexuality is not in question.[…] And he won't mind being grouped with the trendsetters' top three ubersexuals Bono, George Clooney and Bill Clinton.

2006, Femina, numbers 2517-2520, Associated Magazines, page 16:

A heterosexual male displaying confidence and concern for others.


playgirl

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/ˈpleɪˌɡɜːl/

The female counterpart to a playboy: a woman, specially a wealthy one, who devotes herself to a life of leisure and pleasure, often sexual, without commitments or responsibilities.


primipara

en-noun

primipara (plural primiparas or primiparae)

/ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/

/ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpɹə/

/pɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/

Borrowed from Latin prīmipara (“pregnant for the first time; having given birth to only one offspring; primiparous”), from prīmus (“first”) + parere (from pariō (“to bear, give birth to; to beget, produce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth”)). The word is cognate with French primipare.

der

(obstetrics, veterinary medicine) A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy.

първескиня

woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy — see also primigravida

(obstetrics, veterinary medicine, specifically) A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.

primipara

woman or female animal that has carried a pregnancy to a viable gestational age


menfolk

The old woman was surprised when the soldiers stopped to look at her camouflage quilts, since menfolk are rarely interested in needlework.

At our family reunion, the menfolk generally have a ball game, while the womenfolk gossip and trade snapshots.

[…] when the pleasant time of night is come, and the stewardess is tucking up the ladies, and putting oranges and other goodies under their pillows, and the menfolk assemble in the capstan house to smoke their last cigar.

1877, Official Guide and Album of the Cunard Steamship Company, page 95:


mannish

en-adj

mannish (comparative more mannish, superlative most mannish)

more mannish (comparative)
most mannish (superlative)

From Middle English mannish, mannisshe, mannysh, from earlier mennish (“human”), from Old English mennisċ (“human, natural, humane”), from Proto-West Germanic *mannisk, from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz (“human”). By surface analysis, man + -ish. Doublet of mennish, mense, and mensch.

inh

A woman impudent and mannish grown
Is not more loathed than an effeminate man
In time of action.

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

She detested the look of herself in large goggles, detested being forced to tie on her hat, detested the heavy, mannish coat of rough tweed that Sir Philip insisted she must wear when motoring.

1928, Radclyffe Hall, chapter 7, in The Well of Loneliness, London: Jonathan Cape, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Covici Friede Publishers, October 1932, →OCLC, book 1, section 1, page 68:

(of a woman) Resembling or characteristic of a man, masculine.

And let us, Polydore, though now our voices
Have got the mannish crack, sing him to the ground,

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

And so, with an air of mannish superiority, he seems rather to pity the bashful girl, than to apprehend that he shall not succeed.

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter VIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:

[…] Aunt Lucy found out about it and woke me up the next morning with a switch in her hand. . . . But I got all mannish that morning, Joyce. I said, “Aunt Lucy, you ain’t gonna whip me no more. I’se a man now—and you ain’t gonna whip me.”

1957, Langston Hughes, Simply Heavenly: A Comedy with Music, Dramatists Play Service, act I, scene 4, page 25:

It’s things like these that remind me that for all his mannish ways, he’s still just a little tyke after all.

2011 March 30, Mickel Brann, “Don’t take it personal”, in Antigua Observer:

Resembling or characteristic of a grown man (as opposed to a boy); mature, adult.

2014, Kurt Campbell, “Police left 15-year-old to die — Relatives,” inewsguyana.com, 11 March, 2014,
“They could have saved his life because he was still living, one woman said when she told the police that the boy was alive he said leave him to die, he’s wanted,” Giddings cried, adding that “I know he bad, he mannish, he does misbehave but I never know he was wanted… how can they make the claim without medical assistance.”

(Caribbean, Guyana) Impertinent; assertive.

(Caribbean, African-American Vernacular) Precocious.


donzel

From Italian donzello. Compare donzella.


postpartum depression

en-noun

postpartum depression (countable and uncountable, plural postpartum depressions)

postpartum depressions (plural)
post-partum depression (alternative)

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Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.

1999, Ridha Arem, The Thyroid Solution, →ISBN, page 216:

(psychiatry) Depression experienced by a parent, usually the mother, after childbirth.


contadina

contadina (plural contadinas or contadine)

The mellowest lamplight and the easiest chair had been placed at his disposal by Baptiste—subtlest of servants; the novel half uncut, the novel lemon-coloured and tender, with the ivory knife athwart it like a dagger in a contadina's hair, had been pushed within the soft circle—a circle which, for some reason, affected Strether as softer still after the same Baptiste had remarked that, in the absence of a further need of anything by Monsieur, he would betake himself to bed.


feticide

feticide (countable and uncountable, plural feticides)

feticides (plural)
fetucide (alternative)
foeticide (alternative)

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From fetus + -cide or fetus + -icide, from Middle French -cide, from Latin -cīda (“cutter, killer”) and its derivation -cīdium (“killing”), from -cīd (combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”, forming agent nouns).

Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh.

2002, Daniel Schiff, Abortion in Judaism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 68:

Notwithstanding the earnest opposition of writers and lecturers and preachers and legislators, the practice of feticide appears to be on the increase.

1878, H. Gibbons, "On Feticide" in Transactions of the Session of the Medical Society of the State of California vol. 8; J. Anthony & Co., Printers; page 209

(dysphemistic) The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion.


gammer

If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail
Will sing in sorrow, 'neath the brinded cow,
And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale […]

1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX:


babcia

These cakes are from family recipes, from great-grandmothers and babcias, from kitchens as far apart as Knoxville, Tennessee, and Warsaw, Poland.

2001, Whispers from Heaven for the Christmas Spirit, Publications International, Ltd., →ISBN, page 273:

I visited my babcia Lottie Korosz in Hunlock Gardens and all the relatives on my mother’s side of the family. My babcia Jadwiga Gobolewski died while I was still in Washington, but my grandfather Wiktor greeted me warmly in Glen Lyon.

2008, Gene Gomolka, Coal Cracker’s Son, Xlibris, page 191:

My babcia would only stare morosely at photographs of my father’s father, showing me the black and white albums, their youth in Poland, the countryside, the funny dress, the world outside a world outside a world of memories and lost hopes.

2010, Jaap Stijl, Pacing the Bird, Greenwinter Press, →ISBN, page 9:

But there’s no question she’s brought Polish food back to the neighborhood—the menu features potato pierogi, golabki, borscht, kielbasa, and a few items you probably wouldn’t recognize if you didn’t grow up with a babcia cooking for you.

2010 January 14, Mike Sula, “Not Your Babcia’s Pierogi”, in Chicago Reader:

However, with the increased geographic mobility in Poland after 1989, and the greater push to look for jobs in other cities, fewer relatives are on hand to provide child care. Women who had babcias considered themselves lucky.

2015, Joanna Mishtal, The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland (Polish and Polish-American Studies Series), Ohio University Press, →ISBN:

The Germans were “kind” to some families in Poland, too. Just not us. What difference did it make if you were kind to some, if you were beating and stealing others’ mothers and babcias? I suddenly understood more than my father did.

2019, Rachel DeWoskin, Someday We Will Fly, Viking, →ISBN, page 49:

My babcia was hired to attend funerals and weep for those who had few friends or family members.

2021, Creating Inclusive Writing Environments in the K-12 Classroom: Reluctance, Resistance, and Strategies that Make a Difference, Routledge:


newsboy

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A newsboy passed by, yelling, "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"

A boy, or by extension a man, who sells and/or delivers newspapers.

Coordinate term: flat cap

He was wearing a gray newsboy and a tan jacket.


newsgirl

A newsgirl passed by, yelling, "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"

A girl who sells and/or delivers newspapers.


newswoman

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break water

en-verb

break water (third-person singular simple present breaks water, present participle breaking water, simple past broke water, past participle broken water)

breaks water (present singular third-person)
breaking water (participle present)
broke water (past)
broken water (participle past)

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To lose one's amniotic fluid a.k.a. water, usually during the last phases of pregnancy.


puerpera

en-noun

puerpera (plural puerperas or puerperae)

Borrowed from Latin puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”), substantive of puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).

af

I saw a very serious hemorrhage result from relaxation of the uterus on the eleventh day when the puerpera had been frightened by a domestic quarrel.

1918, Joseph Bolivar De Lee, Principles and practice of obstetrics, page 813:

Since one of the principal reasons for keeping the puerpera in a recumbent posture is avoidance of strain upon relaxed and weakened supporting structures by a large heavy uterus, the length of the stay in bed is not made a matter of routine

1934, Karl Mathias Beierlein, Pamphlets and Reprints, page 350:

A statistically significant circadian rhythm for urine volume was revealed in 6 of 10 pregnant women in the first trimester and in 6 of 9 puerperas on the 7th puerperal day.

1984, Erhard Haus, Hugh F. Kabat, editors, Chronobiology 1982-1983:

Abdominal ultrasound of the puerpera usually does not require a full bladder, because the enlarged uterus directly abuts the anterior abdominal wall and can be scanned without difficulty.

2011, Eberhard Merz, “Ultrasound in the Puerperium”, in Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, volume 1, page 39:

(obstetrics) A woman undergoing puerperium; a woman whose uterus is still enlarged from pregnancy.

An often proved Remedy to bring away what is, or should not be left in the Womb of a Puerpera, though it were Part of a dead Child.

1731, Robert Boyle, Medicinal experiments, volume 3, page 6:

"I must acknowledge, if Kolletschka's disease and the disease from which I saw so many puerperae die, are identical, then in the puerperae it must be produced by the self-same engendering cause, which produced it in Kolletschka."

1860, Henry E. Brady, David Collier, quoting Ignaz Semmelweis, Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 224:

Among the ancient Iranians, the puerpera, like the menstruating woman, was regarded as "unclean".

1885, Hermann Heinrich Ploss, Max Bartels, Paul Bartels, translated by Eric John Dingwall, Woman: an historical, gynæcological and anthropological compendium, page 150:

With the exception of the very nearest, — for instance, the husband and the mother of the puerpera, — visitors should be kept away until she has been out of bed for a few days, and even then admitted only in small numbers and one at a time.

1907, Henry Jacques Garrigues, A Text-book of the science and art of obstetrics, page 243:

(rare) A woman who has recently given birth.


houseboy

houseboys (plural)
houseboi (alternative)
house boy (alternative)
house-boy (alternative)

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From house + boy (“young male; (historical or offensive) non-white male servant regardless of age”).

compound

House servants are usually either Chinese or Tamil, the former predominating, especially in towns of any size. The domestic staff will in general consist of a houseboy (in large establishments two houseboys), a water carrier (tukang ayer), whose duties include washing dishes and preparing baths, a cook, a gardener, a chauffeur or sais, and perhaps an ayah (if Chinese, amah) or two, according to the size of the family.

1935, Ralph Lionel German, Handbook to British Malaya, 1935, [London]: [R. L. German]: Obtainable from the Malay Information Agency, Waterlow and Sons, →OCLC, page 50:

A married man with a family of three living in a private house will require in most cases a cook, houseboy, an amah (female servant) for washing and ironing, a second amah to take care of small children or infants, and one or possibly two gardeners depending on the size of the lot. A syce (chauffeur) is optional in each individual case. Cooks, houseboys, and amahs are usually Chinese, while gardeners and chauffeurs are Malay.

1949, Office of International Trade with Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, International Reference Service, volume 6, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 64:

(chiefly historical) A young male domestic servant, especially in a British colony in former times.

прислужник

(chiefly historical, derogatory, offensive) A non-white adult male domestic servant.


daughter of the manse

en-noun

daughter of the manse (plural daughters of the manse)


son of the manse

son of the manse (plural sons of the manse)

Dr McIntyre . . . is a son of the manse, always a good step on the high road to fortune in Scotland.

The next prime minister is always referred to as a son of the manse, but what was his Scottish upbringing really like?

2007 June 9, “The making of Gordon Brown”, in The Telegraph:

A male child of the manse, the son of a Christian minister or a diligent male person. Most often used in Scotland of the sons of Presbyterian clergy.


stable boy

stable boys (plural)
stable-boy (alternative)
stableboy (alternative)

A boy or young man who attends in a stable.


right-to-lifer

One who espouses a position of support for fetuses' right to life; a pro-lifer; one who opposed abortion.


office boy

office boys (plural)
office-boy (alternative)

A junior male clerk employed in a professional office to perform odd jobs, such as running errands or making copies.

راش

boy or junior clerk employed in a professional office


rent boy

rent boys (plural)
rentboy (alternative)

From rent (“to lease, let out”) + boy, a diminutive term for man.

Francis Urquhart: Got anything on him?
Tim Stamper: There was a whiff of scandal about ten years ago.
Francis Urquhart: Rent boy. In a train. To Red Hill. Yes. Wanted to sell his story but we bought it and hushed him up. Be ungentlemanly to bring that up. A man's private life should be private.
Tim Stamper: On the other hand, getting sucked off in second class is hardly prime ministerial behaviour.
Francis Urquhart: Yes, you have a point there.

1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 4:

An Irishman came up to him, bought him a drink, asked him if he was a rent boy, and agreed to give £40 for coming back.

1992, Donald James West, Buz De Villiers, Male prostitution, page 93:

Just then, a rent boy with perfect white teeth and a babyface flashed me one of those unforgettable Thai smiles.

2007, John Patrick, Dangerous Boys, Rent Boys, page 12:

(chiefly British, informal) A male prostitute, typically young and gay.


menstruous

From Anglo-Norman menstruus, Middle French menstrueus, and their source, Late Latin menstruosus (“menstruating”), from Latin mēnstruum.

There shall be a confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruous women shall bring forth monsters:

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Esdras 5:8:

Foolish, drunken, or hairbrain women most part bring forth children like unto themslves, morosus et languidos, and so likewise he that lies with a menstruous woman.

(of a female) Currently undergoing menstruation.


grandmamma

She is staying here on a visit to her grandmamma and aunt, very worthy people; […]

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 92:

“Your grandmama is going to be so impressed by this beautiful, loving family, and beautiful, loving families take boat trips together.” “Do they, though?” “Well, the boat salesman said yes.”

2024 November 10, Zac Oyama, “National Lampoon's The Odyssey!” (1:56 from the start), in Krapopolis, season 2, episode 6, spoken by Shlub (Matt Berry):


troon

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English gender
English transgenderblend.
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōm
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
Proto-Germanic *gumô
Proto-West Germanic *gumō
Old English guma
Middle English gone?
English gooney
English goonblend.
English troon
Blend of transgender + goon (“member of Something Awful”). Coined in the comedy website and internet forum Something Awful in the late 2000s.

etymon

transgender>having a gender different from one's assigned sex

blend

goon<t:member of Something Awful><id:member of Something Awful>

Coordinate term: pooner

Good Woke Boys pretending like they didn't obsessively post "troons are mentally ill" for 5 years is my favorite* part of twitter

2016 September 19, @uchimatador, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-05-29:

When the troons speak about ‘gender neutral spaces’ ALWAYS maintain they are promoting unisex spaces.

2020 August 29, @fifyfomum, Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-08-29:

how do I wear skirts without coming off like a troon twitter no-fashion-sense transbian

2021 October 26, @coolestrogen, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-10-26:

(anti-LGBTQ slur, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) A transgender person; most commonly, a trans woman.


orchi

Listen, when I come down to Mexico for my “orchi,” I want Dr. Arias to do some other stuff as well.” “Orchi” is a name we use for the surgical castration of our testicles. It's technically called an orchiectomy.

2012, Judith D. Rudakoff, Trans(per)forming Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 216:

(surgery, transgender slang) Clipping of orchiectomy.


pretty boy

(slang, usually used by women) A good-looking young man, especially whose good looks are rather feminine than masculine.


deadbeat dad

If the '90s offer one villain by consensus, it is the deadbeat dad, that selfish fugitive condemned by liberals and conservatives alike for his irresponsible behavior and generous contributions to the cycle of welfare dependency.

1995 April 3, David Van Biema, “Dunning Deadbeats”, in Time:

(chiefly US and Canada, idiomatic, derogatory) A man, especially one who is divorced or estranged from his partner, who fails to provide monetary child support when he is legally required to do so.


ballerino

en-noun

ballerino (plural ballerinos or ballerini)

/ˌbæləɹˈiːnoʊ/

As aware as you are, though, consider how much more keenly the leaping ballerinas and ballerinos of the world feel the tow with every move they make.

2007 June 17, David Colman, “The Merman of La Scala”, in New York Times:

The star male ballet performer of a company.


venter

Borrowing from Latin venter (“the belly; the womb; a swelling”).

bor

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(biology) A protuberant, usually hollow structure, notably:

(botany) The swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops.


repairman

repairmen (plural)
repair man (alternative)
repair-man (alternative)

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A male repairer, a man who repairs things.


tennisman

From French tennisman. Equivalent to tennis + -man.

Im a tennisman who love playing tennis :-)

1996 January 31, baudry christophe, “Tennis Pictures ???? Where ???”, in news.newusers.questions (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

René Lacoste was known as a tennisman in the late 20's or early 30's. Well before my time, but there are books and magazines.

1999 August 7, Pierre Jelenc, “loanwords without source”, in sci.lang (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

For sweet^([sic]) in your eyes the best is a head band in towell^([sic]) tissue like the tennismen wear.

2001 August 7, Carlos Klimann, “Which eyeware^([sic]) for hard contact wearer?”, in rec.bicycles.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

Viktor has "captured" the most beatiful^([sic]) grilfriend I've ever seen for a tennisman.

2010 May 28, Manuel aka Xax, “Men's Side - Matches Ups, Upsets?”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

(non-native speakers' English) A male tennis player.


quiche-eater

The idiom derives from the book on stereotypes about masculinity, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, by Bruce Feirstein, published in 1982. The computer circle version was popularised by an 1983 article Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, that specifically accuses the creator of Pascal language, Niklaus Wirth, of being a "quiche eater" due to the nature of Pascal.

(idiomatic) A man who is effeminate or who lacks some putative masculine virtue.


gender-neutral

en-adj

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

more gender-neutral (comparative)
most gender-neutral (superlative)
genderneutral (alternative)
gender neutral (alternative)

kønsneutral

not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender

The women's sleeping quarters are on the left side of the dormitory, the men's are on the right; gender-neutral restrooms are located in the middle.

Not having, indicating, or being restricted on the basis of, gender.

Used by or intended for people of any gender; not restricted to (only one) gender; available to all genders.

Many modern laws use gender-neutral constructions like "they" in place of the old, supposedly unmarked "he".

Gender-neutral pronouns like "ey" and "ze" are used by many genderqueer, intersex, and neutrois individuals.

“[…] Tes name was Iptim Op’tarmk and te was nineteen years old.[…]” / Ramant’s brain had to switch gears. Of course he knew that the Vonarians used a gender-neutral pronoun set when referring to themselves, and he’d even practiced it, but when it rolled off Boë’s sweet and mellow tongue it sounded like an alien language.

1995 November, Kandis Elliot, “The Androgyne Murders”, in Science Fiction Age, volume 4, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 50–51:

Alongside its vital role of maintaining and reviewing each of the rail industry's 294 technical and safety standards, the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) is about to turn its attention to how to make the term 'pilotman' gender-neutral.

2022 April 20, “Network News: RSSB to explore new terms to replace 'pilotman'”, in RAIL, number 955, page 16:

Berlin’s recently appointed conservative mayor has said he will refuse to use gender-neutral language in office, insisting he wanted to use a language “that everyone understands”.

2023 May 22, Kate Connolly, “Bürger*innen? Backlash as Berlin mayor refuses to use gender-neutral language”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Of words, phrasing, etc.: not indicating or referring to (only one) gender.

(grammar) In particular, in languages where words are assigned to one grammatical gender or another: lacking such an assignment.


cabin boy

cabin boys (plural)
cabin-boy (alternative)

(dated) A boy or young man who is employed to serve as an attendant for passengers or crew members on a ship.


gynocracy

en-noun

gynocracy (countable and uncountable, plural gynocracies)

(government, sociology) Synonym of gynecocracy


mamaw

mamaws (plural)
mammaw (alternative)
mawmaw (alternative)

Probably an affectionate alteration of mama or reduplication of mother.

(US, dialect, Southern US) One's grandmother, especially one's maternal grandmother.


sarong party girl

sarong party girl (plural sarong party girls)

(Singapore, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Asian girl who dates a non-Asian, especially a white expatriate.


abortogenic

en-adj

abortogenic (comparative more abortogenic, superlative most abortogenic)

more abortogenic (comparative)
most abortogenic (superlative)

/əˈbɔɹ.təˌd͡ʒɛ.nɪk/


administratrix

en-noun

administratrix (plural administratrices or administratrixes)

administratrices (plural)
administratrixes (plural)

The Princess Sophia was named in the act of settlement […] not for her merits as a temporary administratrix of a power, which she might not, and in fact did not, herself ever exercise.

1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 24:


abortee

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aborter

[…] these findings are consistent with other studies which have shown that most aborters tend to be highly informed about contraceptives but failed to use them at the time they became pregnant.

1992, D. C. Reardon, chapter 1, in Life Stories, Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books, page 8:

One who or that which aborts.
(derogatory) One who has an abortion.

One who or that which aborts.
One who has an abortion.

But when is one an accomplice? Is a thief the accomplice of his receiver, a briber the accomplice of the official he corrupts […] an abortee the accomplice of the aborter […]?

1963, Richard H. Kuh, “A Prosecutor Considers the Model Penal Code”, in Columbia Law Review, 63.4, p. 616:


fisherwoman

/ˈfɪʃəˌwʊmən/

The fisherwoman cast her line.

She is a fisherwoman, out on a trawler for days at a time.

“My parents were fishermen.” He turned to me and smiled, “Shall I call my mother a fisherwoman? Does that suit you?”

2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 139:

A woman whose profession is catching fish.


paternity leave

paternity leave (usually uncountable, plural paternity leaves)

From paternity + leave, modelled after maternity leave.

My husband is on a three-month paternity leave while he looks after our newborn baby and I’m working abroad.

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


stepmom

Susan Sasse of Chesapeake City, Md., vice president of the International Stepfamily Association, a nonprofit group, said: "What I hear from new stepmoms all the time, especially with older kids, is, 'They just hate me. They don't want to give me a chance. They think I'm taking their dad.'"

2000 August 17, Tamar Lewin, “Differences Found in Care With Stepmothers”, in The New York Times:

The Papster, my stepmom, her sister Angela the psychoanalyst, and Angela's husband Eric the kazillionaire were strolling along the canal.

Now that I’m a stepmom legally, I would argue that it’s a wonderful role: You learn how to parent with your partner before the stress of a newborn comes into the mix.

2020 April 16, Chloe Caldwell, “I Always Wanted to Be a Stepmom”, in The New York Times:

A few years later when Doug and I got married, Cole, Ella, and I agreed that we didn’t like the term “stepmom.” Instead they came up with the name “Momala.”

2024 July 21, Kamala Harris, “Kamala Harris on Being ‘Momala’”, in ELLE:


dyke

Dyke (slang)
Green's Dictionary of Slang
dyke

Uncertain. Attested since the 1940s (in Berrey and Van den Bark’s 1942 American Thesaurus of Slang) or 30s. Semantic development from dyke (“ditch”) has been proposed, and some sources from the 1890s are said to record dyke as slang for "vulva" and hedge of the dyke as slang for "pubic hair", but Green's Dictionary of Slang says this is not found in connection to lesbianism and Dictionary.com considers a connection unlikely.
Bull dyke / bulldike is attested earlier, in reference to women since at least the 1920s (the 29 July 1892 Decatur Daily Review in Illinois mentions a woman who "won the affections of Harvey Neal, alias 'Bulldyke'", whose gender is unclear); compare dike (“noun: well-dressed man; verb: be well dressed”)), bulldyker, and bulldyking, which are all attested earlier than bare dyke, e.g. in Parke's 1906 Human Sexuality, in the speech of Philadelphians, and backcountry black Americans. Compare bulldagger, attested since around the same time and used especially by black women.
Other linguists suggested that bull dyke(r) referred to strong black women who dug dikes, or derived from bull + dick, perhaps in reference to black men. It has also been suggested dyke is a shortening of morphodyke, from morphodite, from hermaphrodite, but the derivation may go in the other direction instead, with morphodyke being a blend of morphodite with the already-extant word dyke.

(slang, usually derogatory, offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.


First Laddie

A pun on the term First Lady, with laddie.

Clinton suggests 'first laddie' title from UPI

The perils of having two presidents in the White House from The Australian

Imagining a Clinton White House from New York Magazine

(US, humorous) A man who is the spouse of a sitting president.


progestin

progestin (countable and uncountable, plural progestins)

(chemistry) A synthetic progestagen intended to mimic the effects of progesterone, often for contraceptive purposes.


abstinence only

Programs have been developed that either advocate abstinence only […] or abstinence-plus […].

2002, Marysol Asencio, Sex and Sexuality Among New York's Puerto Rican Youth, page 149:

Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas specify the teaching of abstinence only until marriage.

2002, Larry D. Burlew, Dave Capuzzi, Sexuality Counseling, page 75:

Not only was the federal government encouraging abstinence only; […].

2003, Judith Levine, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, page 101:

[…] directly to organizations that teach abstinence only without going through the states.

2006, David Cooper, Broken America, page 182:

sexually transmitted diseases
sexually transmitted diseases

A form of sex education that advocates only abstinence as a means to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.


obasan

"This woman really my aunt, my obasan, but I call her my grandmother, obaasan.[…]"

1985, Kenneth Fenter, Mo Ichido, Once More: An American Family in Japan, the Second Year, Cross Cultural Press, →ISBN, page 25:

In the novel [Obasan] Naomi stands between two obasans, the one of the title, her great-aunt, the other aunt Emily, her mother’s sister.

1992, Wilhelm G. Busse, editor, Anglistentag 1991 Dusseldorf: Proceedings, Max Niemeyer Verlag, page 380:

When Naomi’s uncle dies, Naomi travels home to her obasan, where she is newly confronted with questions about her mother’s inexplicable and permanent disappearance before the war when Naomi was still a small child.

2003, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, volume 24, page 139:

She forced her thoughts into it, thought hard about the sakura viewing festivals and her obasan’s beloved samisen as she sang traditional songs under the cherry blossom trees.

2014, Julia Rios, Alisa Krasnostein, editors, Year’s Best: Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013, Twelfth Planet Press, →ISBN:

I see my best friends, Walter Okura and Alvin Wakayama, with their obasans and moms visiting the very spot where Buddha attained Enlightenment.

2020, R.K. Lindsey, Jr., Waimea I Ka La’i, iUniverse, →ISBN:

After more than three months of staying with her obasan and ojisan, she could finally go home.

2021, Wesley Leon Aroozoo, chapter 20, in The Punkhawala and the Prostitute, Epigram Books, →ISBN:


flower girl

flower girls (plural)
flowergirl (alternative)

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unprotected sex

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Sexual intercourse without protection from pregnancy; non-use of birth control.


directress

And now a maiden […] ſupplied them, next, / With a reſplendent table, which the chaſte / Directreſs of the ſtores furniſh'd with bread / And dainties, remnants of the laſt regale.

1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book I.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 9, lines 172 and 174–177:


TG

TG (countable and uncountable, plural TGs)

Often, TGs are forced to revert to their original gender in order to obtain services.

1997, Nancy Goldstein, Jennifer L Manlowe, The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women:

you can get rid of a man you don't like by writing a letter of introduction and putting him, with it, into the train. TG's are best treated thus.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, 'A Friend's Friend', Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 176:

temporary gentleman
temporary gentleman#English

transformational grammar
transformational grammar#English


stepfather-in-law

From step- + father-in-law or stepfather + -in-law.


baby bump

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(informal) Visible signs of pregnancy, noticeable abdominal swelling in a pregnant woman.


family man

But the breakup and awkward love rectangle were a recurring topic in Google's gossip mill, adding even more tension. Page, a devout family man, didn't speak with his co-founder for some time afterward.

2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN:

An adult male with a spouse and children to whose well-being he is dedicated.


sky girl

(aviation, dated, now offensive) A female flight attendant.


oinker

The slug they dug out of him was a .22. A woman's gun? Or was I being a sexist oinker?

2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, →ISBN, page 150:

(derogatory slang) An MCP; male chauvinist pig.


manorexia

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Preparing for the role— taking in only 900 calories a day and running 5 miles — he [Dennis Quiad] says he developed "manorexia."

2006 April, David A. Keeps, “Dennis Quiad”, in Best Life, page 74:

He's getting too flaquito, nena, all scrawny like Marc Anthony with his manorexia chiseling up his face.

2008, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Dirty Girls on Top, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

Manorexia has taken the younger gay community by storm, and gay hearts weep for the scrawny skin-and-bones younger gay hearts who look like they are on an emo hunger strike […]

2010, Freeman Hall, Stuff That Makes a Gay Heart Weep: A Definitive Guide to the Loud & Proud Dislikes of Millions, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 36:

(humorous, informal) Anorexia nervosa (or any similar eating disorder) when occurring in a male.


HB

(slang, seduction community) A hot babe, someone pickup artists try to seduce. (Usually followed by a number in the 1-10 scale of physical beauty, e.g. HB10.)


lobsterman

lobstermen (plural)
lobster-man (alternative)
lobster man (alternative)

A fisherman (male or female) for lobsters.

Coordinate term: lobsterwoman

A male fisher of lobster, masculine of lobsterwoman.


link boy

link boys (plural)
link-boy (alternative)
linkboy (alternative)

“Servants is in the arms o' Porpus, I think,” said the short chairman, warming his hands at the attendant link-boy’s torch.

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

By the early eighteenth century link-boys had long been part of London's criminal and sexual mythology.

2009, Dan Cruikshank, The Secret History of Georgian London, Random House, page 94:

(historical) A boy employed to carry a torch or other light at night to help people navigate through the streets.


ass bandit

(dated, US, slang) A man who (eagerly) seduces young women.


stepuncle

stepuncles (plural)
step-uncle (alternative)

(rare) The brother of one's mother's husband (stepfather) or father's wife (stepmother).

(rare) The stepbrother of one's father or mother.


stepaunt

stepaunts (plural)
step-aunt (alternative)


stepniece

(rare) The daughter of one's stepbrother or stepsister

(rare) The stepdaughter of one's sibling


vaginal birth

vaginal birth (countable and uncountable, plural vaginal births)

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Birth via the vagina (as opposed to caesarean section).


gravidity

gravidity (countable and uncountable, plural gravidities)


father-to-be

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A male partner of a pregnant woman (mother-to-be), especially when she is pregnant for the first time.


hirs

S/he leaned forward and, to Selar's surprise, took the doctor's hand firmly between hirs.

1997 July 1, Peter David, Star Trek New Frontier (Book 1), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

She saw that Burgoyne was hefting hirs experimentally, sweeping it through the air. S/he twirled it around a few times, swung it back and forth.

2000, Peter David, Renaissance (Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur #2), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 157:

Ze takes my right hand in hirs and folds it into a fist.

2006 March 22, Leslie Feinberg, Drag King Dreams, New York: Carroll & Graf, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PS3556.E427 D73 2006, page 205:

(nonstandard) That which belongs to hir, theirs (singular). Possessive case of hir, used in place of a noun. Coordinate with his and hers.


hirself

head

hirself (a reflexive, third person singular, gender-neutral (or multigendered) personal pronoun)

en-pron

From hir + -self, following pattern of herself, himself, and itself.

It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep.

1996 June, Catilin Sullivan with Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure, New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC PS3569.U3449 N43 1996, page 13:

Hir nostrils flared, and s/he stopped where s/he was, balancing hirself on hir toes without thought, as if poising hirself to make some sort of attack on whoever was there.

2000, Peter David, Renaissance (Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur #2), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OL, page 229:

The working person discovered that hir own body belonged, not to the state or to the moralist or to the authoritarian doctor, but to hirself.

2001 June 9, Timothy Leary, chapter 8, in Your Brain is God, Oakland: Ronin Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC BP570.L43 2001:

Alas, S/He then remembered S/He had created Hirself to be omnisciently all-knowing and all-seeing, so there were no possibilities S/He didn't already know.

2009, Pope Gus Rasputin Nishnabotna Sni-A-Bar, “Biscuitus”, in The Nuclear Platypus Biscuit Bible: A Spiritual Guide for the Disciples of Biscuitism, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 16:

Ze changed hir name to one of those New Testament names, and re-fashioned hirself into a soft, puffy, half-finished hermaphrodite nicknamed, The Pop n' Fresh Doe.

2010 October 12, Erica Lopez, The Girl Must Die: A Monster Girl Memoir, Hicken, Jeffrey, San Francisco: Monster Girl Media, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 143:

A harrowing series of violent and transphobic confrontations (including some with hir parents) drives Ludo to attempt to kill hirself by going to sleep in a freezer.

2011, Jody Norton, “Transchildren and the Discipline of Children's Literature”, in Kenneth B. Kidd, Michelle Ann Abate, editors, Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature, University of Michigan, →ISBN, LCC PS374.H63 O84 2011, page 306:

(reflexive) Hir, themselves; gender-neutral third-person singular object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, coordinate with gendered himself and herself.

The trouble starts when gender (identity) ceases to be a reference point for connecting with a living growing person and is substituted for the person hirself.

1997 December 18, Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely, London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC HQ1075.B69 1998, page 164:

OOC talk and actions are taken to represent the player hirself and help other players to form an image, however tentative it may be, of that player.

2002, Frank Schaap, The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality, Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →OL, page 90:

Ash hadn't experienced much of that hirself, but s/he assumed it could happen.

2003 April 1, Susan Wright, Slave Trade (Slave Trade Trilogy #1), Pocket Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 97:

(emphatic) Sie; an intensive repetition of a gender-neutral subject, often used to indicate exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of a predicate.


cisgender

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From cis- (“on this side of”) + gender, by analogy with transgender. First attested in 1997. Compare slightly earlier cisgendered (1994).

To uphold the inequality that we choose to engage in, we regularly present the myth that trans people are deviant or a danger to cisgender people.

2009 April 25, Renee Martin, The Guardian:

As trans people, we have many cisgender allies—those who show their support for the concerns, needs, and rights of trans people, even though they may not personally face the same issues.

2014, Laura Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, page 6:

R. Moskowitz charges cisgender readers to be as conscious and deliberate with our religious identities as transgender and gender non-conforming people are with theirs, arguing that holiness is only achieved through continuous and unrelenting struggle and change.

2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun:

Gender assumed many roles in this pandemic. Cisgender men were more likely to die from the virus, which seemed to be about inherent vulnerabilities of those with XY chromosomes.

2020 April 17, Rebecca Solnit, “Coronavirus does discriminate, because that’s what humans do”, in The Guardian:

Transgender people report discomfort with their birth sex and a strong identification with the opposite sex. The current study was designed to shed further light on the question of whether the brains of transgender people resemble their birth sex or their gender identity. For this purpose, we analyzed a sample of 24 cisgender men, 24 cisgender women, and 24 transgender women before gender-affirming hormone therapy. We employed a recently developed multivariate classifier that yields a continuous probabilistic (rather than a binary) estimate for brains to be male or female. The brains of transgender women ranged between cisgender men and cisgender women (albeit still closer to cisgender men), and the differences to both cisgender men and to cisgender women were significant (p = 0.016 and p < 0.001, respectively). These findings add support to the notion that the underlying brain anatomy in transgender people is shifted away from their biological sex towards their gender identity.

2022 March, Florian Kurth, Christian Gaser, Francisco J. Sánchez, Eileen Luders, “Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity”, in Journal of Clinical Medicine, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-25, Abstract:

Having a gender identity which matches the sex one was assigned at birth; or, pertaining to such people.

متوافق الجنس

having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth


cisgendered

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They seemed to be rather tense at first, and it was very funny to see that after talking for a while they found out that a TS guy is actually just a person you can have a chat and a giggle with, just like they are! Amazing, isn't it? 9:-) Anyway, kind of feels nice, the fact that you might have created understanding and compassion for another T* which you don't even know, through 'educating' cisgendered people.

1996 April 11, Carl Buijs, “A new perspective on an old topic”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

Gendering is the process of classifying and identifying the gender of other people, quickly and usually unconsciously, based on just a few visual and/or audio clues. This process of gendering privileges cisgendered people as few cisgendered people have had the experience of being misgendered. The experience of being misgendered is common for all transgendered people before they transition and for many transgendered people after they transition.

2013, Kelby Harrison, “Introduction: Many Have Passed; Some Have Failed”, in Sexual Deceit: The Ethics of Passing, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 12:


cisgendered

The fact that many cisgendereds accept me as a woman despite the fact that my body is male and they know it says some cisgendereds accept the concept that 'person' defines gender. The fact that other cisgendereds and transgendereds(!) will only define my gender by my body shows that others reject the idea that gender is defined by person.

1996 April 24, MarlaB 01, “Re: Interesting Book”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

(nonstandard, rare) Synonym of cisgender.


rhythm method

A method of natural birth control that involves counting days of a woman's menstrual cycle in order to determine when sexual intercourse is most or least likely to result in pregnancy.


calendar method

A rhythm method of natural birth control.


demirep

he had no knowledge of that character which is vulgarly called a demirep; that is to say, a woman who intrigues with every man she likes, under the name and appearance of virtue [...] in short, whom everybody knows to be what nobody calls her.

1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 569:

Madam by this Time Lady Brittle is the Talk of half the Town—and I doubt not in a week the Men will toast her as a Demirep.

1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i:

[…] in short, this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal prince, was a violator of his word, a libertine, over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps […] .

1813, Leigh Hunt, in a journal article about the prince.(Chambers, R.. "'The Book of Days': A miscellany of popular antiquities. Londres: W & R Chambers, 1832." Google Books)

[…] the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers […].

1822, Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:

With the mincing step of a demirep / Some sidled up the stairs […].

1904, Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol:

In this new world, ruled by charlatans and dominated by demireps, Talleyrand may have found much to shock his sense of decorum, but little to outrage his moral standards.

1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 65:

(colloquial, dated) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.


crown princess

en-noun

crown princess (plural crown princesses)


breast pump

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A device used by a lactating woman to extract milk from her breasts (typically for short-term storage).


childbed

childbed (countable and uncountable, plural childbeds)

childbeds (plural)
child-bed (alternative)
child bed (alternative)

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From Middle English child bed; equivalent to child + bed.

(uncountable) The final stage of pregnancy; confinement.


chorionic villus sampling

chorionic villus sampling (countable and uncountable, plural chorionic villus samplings)

(obstetrics, pathology) A form or prenatal diagnosis in which part of the placental tissue is tested for genetic abnormalities.


hello girl

/həˈləʊ ˌɡɜːl/

/hɛˈloʊ ˌɡɝl/

From the fact that the telephone operators would greet callers with “Hello” when contacted.

The latest model of the multiple switch-board is in position, and in a few days the "Hello" girls will render complete the inside view of a modern telephone exchange.

1884 September, “The International Electrical Exhibition at Philadelphia, Sept. 2, 1884”, in F. L. Pope, editor, The Electrician and Electrical Engineer. A Monthly Review of Theoretical and Applied Science, volume III, New York, N.Y.: Electrical Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, page 193, column 2:

Surely, we must include the Long-Distance Telephone among the electrical achievements of the year. And if we may add the automatic switch-board, by which the services of the "hello-girl" are to be dispensed with; and if the new company, just formed in Chicago, fulfill its promise to give us telephone service at half the present rates, it will afford us an illustration of "applied science," which I am sure we shall be quick to appreciate.

1893, J[ohn] T. Pettee, “Annual Address: A Review of the Year 1892 by the President”, in Transactions of the Scientific Association, Meriden, Conn., Meriden, Conn.: Press of E. A. Horton & Co., →OCLC, page 17:

The humblest hello-girl along ten thousand miles of wire could teach gentleness, patience, modesty, manners, to the highest duchess in Arthur's land.

1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Sandy’s Tale”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 177:

Now imagine that the main automatic exchange is out of service and all those calls have to be made the old-fashioned way, by hello girls, taking ten times as long.

2001, Ken Follett, chapter 17, in Jackdaws, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Dutton, 2002, →ISBN, page 162:

(telephony, informal, dated) A female telephone operator.

sentraalisantra

(informal) female telephone operator — see also telephone girl


divorcé

Coordinate term: divorcée


divorcée

Borrowed from French divorcée (“divorced woman”).


half sister-in-law

en-noun

half sister-in-law (plural half sisters-in-law)

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


Clarisse

Borrowed from French Clarisse, from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa (“Poor Clare”); see there for more. Doublet of Clarissa and Clarice.

Clara... withdrew herself... to the Church of St. Damian, and there gave beginning to the poor Maids, called from her name Clarisses...

1693, Gabriel d'Emillianne, translated by Antonio Gavin, A Short History of Monastical Orders, page 253:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare, sometimes particularly such a nun who followed the original rules of Saint Clare of Assisi.


TW

(pharmacology) Initialism of treatment week.


beachboy

A male who is a lifeguard or other worker at a beach.

A young male who frequently goes to the beach, especially in sunny climates.


balanitis

From balanus (“glans”) + -itis (“inflammatory disease”).

af

(pathology) Inflammation of the glans penis.


employée

/ˌɒmplɔɪˈeɪ/

/ˌɑmˈplɔɪeɪ/

/ˌɑmplɔɪˈeɪ/


vive la différence

/ˌviːv lɑː ˌdɪfəˈɹɒns/

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Borrowed from French, literally “long live the difference”, from vive (“long live”) + la (“the”) + différence (“difference, diversity”). Although correct and unremarkable French, it is not a stock phrase in French as it is in English.

2001 November 1, Sandra Díaz with Marcelo Cabido, “Vive la différence: plant functional diversity matters to ecosystem processes”, in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, volume 16, number 11, pages 646–655:

(often humorous) Used to express appreciation of diversity, especially between the sexes; sometimes referring to cultural diversity, and more rarely to diversity of opinion, as in "let's agree to disagree".


OB-GYN

en-noun

OB-GYN (countable and uncountable, plural OB-GYNs)

OB-GYNs (plural)
ob-gyn (alternative)
obgyn (alternative)
ob/gyn (alternative)
ObGyn (alternative)
Ob-Gyn (alternative)
Ob/Gyn (alternative)
OBGYN (alternative)
OB/GYN (alternative)
OB-Gyne (alternative)

(countable, initialism, acronym) (prefixed with the) A clinic or doctor's office with these specialties.


unipara

A woman who has given birth to one child.


GCS

Costs for GCS can vary depending on regional factors, surgeon competence, and competition.

2017, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 704:

gender confirmation surgery
gender confirmation surgery#English

(medicine) Initialism of gender confirmation surgery.


scrubwoman

Coordinate term: scrubman

(US) A woman employed to do general housework, such as cleaning a house or office.


dudess

Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too—I know that; but when I left America it had disappeared—at least to all intents and purposes. The remnant of it was restricted to the dudes and dudesses. When a disease has worked its way down to that level, it may fairly be said to be out of the system.

1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster and Company, →OCLC:

Marge recently dressed Joanne Dru ranch style during the making of Howard Hawks' Red River. Miss Dru, in old-style calicoes and ginghams, felt grubby beside the dudes and dudesses who galloped over from near-by ranches […]

1947, Collier's, volume 120, New York, N.Y.: P. F. Collier, →OCLC, page 258:

“Sorry, dude,” I said. “Dispatch One, she's gonna call me?” / “Yo, the dudess,” he said, heading out the door.

1988, Larry Beinhart, You Get What You Pay For, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN:

DEALING WITH DEFIANT DUDES (AND DUDESSES) [chapter title]

1997, Ed Dunlop, chapter 10, in “How Do I Get These Kids to Listen?”: Practical Ways to Gain and Hold Attention in the Classroom, Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Sword of the Lord Publishers, →ISBN, page 181:

Those smart dudes (and dudesses) on ESPN (and virtually every other channel, it seems) winning hundreds of thousands, or even millions, at Texas Hold 'Em, don't become legends because they're lucky, although that is an element of poker, as it is in life, that should never be discounted.

2007, “Foreword”, in Otto Penzler, editor, Dead Man's Hand, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, →ISBN:

(colloquial) A woman, generally a younger woman, especially one who is perceived to be cool or hip.


PIV

PIV (countable and uncountable, plural PIVs)

(pathology) Abbreviation of parainfluenza virus.

(optics) Initialism of particle image velocimetry.

(electronics) Initialism of peak inverse voltage.

(LGBTQ) Initialism of penile inversion vaginoplasty.


danceress

From Middle English daunseresse; equivalent to dancer + -ess.


rubber baby buggy bumper

rubber baby buggy bumper (plural rubber baby buggy bumpers)


hypomenorrhea

hypomenorrhea (usually uncountable, plural hypomenorrheas)

hypomenorrheas (plural)
hypomenorrhoea (alternative)
hypomenorrhœa (alternative)

The condition of menstrual blood flow that is extremely light.


pickup artist

Researching a book proposed by an editor, I allowed myself to be taken under the wings of the greatest self-proclaimed pickup artists in the world and entered an underground subculture of men dedicated—sometimes to an unhealthy extreme—to figuring out the mystery of the opposite sex.

2004 January 25, Neil Strauss, “HE AIMS! HE SHOOTS! YES!!”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(seduction community) One who uses specialized tactics to seduce women.


chieftainess

From chieftain + -ess. Middle English had an equivalent form cheventaynes but the OED asserts the term was derived anew in modern English in the 19th century. Piecewise doublet of captainess.

He gazed in silence for some minutes upon the body of Meg Merrilies, as it lay before him, with the features sharpened by death, yet still retaining the stern and energetic character which had maintained in life her superiority as the wild chieftainess of the lawless people amongst whom she was born.

1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], “chapter ?”, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

Mrs. Douse was more important than Mr. Douse; she was a chieftainess in her own right, and had great dignity.

1941, Emily Carr, chapter 20, in Klee Wyck:


queen of spades

queen of spades (plural queens of spades)

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(card games) One of the 52 playing cards in a standard deck.


party girl

party girls (plural)
partygirl (alternative)


anembryonic pregnancy

anembryonic pregnancy (countable and uncountable, plural anembryonic pregnancies)

(medicine) A form of early miscarried pregnancy in which the embryo fails to develop, though the gestational sac appears to grow normally.

gestação anembrionária

pregnancy in which the embryo fails to develop, though the gestational sac grows normally


omg

(chiefly Internet, slang) Alternative form of OMG:


Aunt Flo

Pun on flow and Flo (nickname for Florence, Flora, etc).

Aunt Flo came to visit last night: that's why I was so ratty.

(euphemistic slang) A personification of the menstrual period or menstruation.

大姨媽 /大姨妈

slang, personification of the menstrual period


copy boy

(publishing) A boy employed to carry copy and run errands.


disengagement

disengagement (countable and uncountable, plural disengagements)

(medicine, obstetrics) The emergence of the fetus from the birth canal.


pseudohermaphrodite

pseudohermaphrodites (plural)
pseudo-hermaphrodite (alternative)

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An individual that has the external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.


pseudohermaphrodite

In the case described by Recasens himself of a pseudohermaphrodite woman there was a formation of testicular appearance on the labia majora; but its histological examination demonstrated that this was not a gonad, but a glandular mass of a nature which defied diagnosis.

1932, Gregorio Marañón, translated by Warre Bradley Wells, The Evolution of Sex and Intersexual Conditions, page 106:

The chief psychologic and psychiatric problems encountered in the adrenogenital syndrome are those associated with the sex orientation of untreated and undiagnosed pseudohermaphrodite women (33).

1966, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, Endocrines and the Central Nervous System, page 431:

However, prostate cancer does not appear to occur in a cohort of pseudohermaphrodite men in whom 5-alpha reductase is absent.

1996, Roger S. Kirby, Timothy J. Christmas, Michael K. Brawer, Prostate Cancer, Mosby, →ISBN, page 27:

They form one group of the pseudohermaphrodite men mentioned above: their prostate glands remain in the pre-pubertal state, and never become cancerous.

2010, Tom Smith, Coping Successfully with Prostate Cancer, 2nd edition, Sheldon Press, →ISBN:

Having external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.


MFM

MFM (countable and uncountable, plural MFMs)

Initialism of maternal and fetal medicine. The specialty of medicine, a subspecialty of obstetrics, that deals with high-risk pregnancies.


baby mama

baby mamas (plural)
baby-mama (alternative)
babymama (alternative)
baby momma (alternative)

Formed in African-American Vernacular English, attested since c. 1986 and popularized in the 2000s. Possibly from or influenced by same term in Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole baby-mother (“pregnant woman”) (1966), alternatively due simply to grammatical similarities between AAVE and Jamaican Creole.

der

She's not his girlfriend now, but she's one of his baby mamas.

Except for Rasheena, the rest of the baby mamas was at least struggling to live halfway right. They used to clown and act shitty whenever they came by Noojie's and saw Carmiesha there. But every last one of them ended up being grateful to her for the things she did for their kids.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 128:

For men who must deal with these situations and others like them, the result is what has now been deemed as "baby-mama drama."

2008, Ebony Vol. 63, No. 8, Sidestepping Baby Mama Drama - Jun 2008, page 154

(US, slang, possibly derogatory) The mother of a child in common, particularly unmarried.

African-American Vernacular English
baby mama


right to choose

Strict abortion laws have been attacked in the courts, on the grounds that they violate a woman's fundamental right to choose whether or not to bear children.

1969 November 12, “Significant Step Taken on Abortion”, in St. Petersburg Times (Washington Post Service), retrieved 2009-03-22, page 7D:

(public policy, law, ethics) The moral or legal entitlement of a pregnant person to make the full and final decision either to give birth to their child or to abort the fetus.


right to life

Texas Right to Life, a statewide, anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia organization, was organized last summer. Right to Life groups in Dallas and Houston have been active for some time.

1974-03, Martha Hume, "Abortions in Texas", Texas Monthly, page 65

That means women should have the right to be free about their own bodies. I believe a woman has a right to life. The opposition is an anti-freedom group, rather than, as they have very effectively called themselves, a right-to-life group.

1987-06, Dale Keiger, "The Quiet Minority", Cincinnati Magazine, page 68

(US, public policy, law, ethics) The moral or legal entitlement of an unborn child to be born, and not have its birth prevented through an abortion or other medical procedure.


cover girl

cover girls (plural)
cover-girl (alternative)

Whether it's in next-to-nothing swimsuits in Sports Illustrated or starring in ex-husband Billy Joel's rock videos or in countless boldface tabloid mentions, the quintessential California blond cover girl has become a fixture on the cultural landscape.

2008 July 2, Frank Eltman, “Christie Brinkley divorce trial set to begin”, in Associated Press, archived from the original on 2008-07-06:

She's sitting opposite a window that's gently breezing into her face, wafting her hair into cover-girl perfection and when I joke about this she roars with laughter.

2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this...' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):

(informal) An attractive, usually well-known, female model whose image has been featured on one or more magazine covers.


hymenoplasty

en-noun

hymenoplasty (countable and uncountable, plural hymenoplasties)

Dr. Robert Stubbs, a Toronto-based plastic surgeon . . . has won international acclaim for refining the hymenoplasty procedure, which involves cutting away the scarred edge of the membrane broken during intercourse and narrowing the entrance of the vagina, then putting the pieces back together.

2008 July 12, Diana Zlomislic, “The Virgin Makers”, in Toronto Star, page L1:

One of the options available to women under such pressure is hymenoplasty, in which a surgeon uses remnants of the hymen or tissue from the vaginal wall to create a "new hymen" that will break and bleed during intercourse.

2010, Emily Maguire, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 36

(medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.


eldfather

From Middle English eldfader, variant of olde fader, from Old English eald fæder (“grandfather, ancestor”), equivalent to eld (“old”) + father. Cognate with Scots eldfader (“grandfather, father-in-law”), Old Frisian aldafeder (“grandfather”).


eldmother

eldmothers (plural)
eldermother (alternative)

From Middle English eldmoder, from Old English eald mōdor (“grandmother”), equivalent to eld (“old”) + mother. Cognate with Scots eldmoder, eldmother (“mother-in-law”), Old Frisian aldemōder.

Item I gyve vnto my eldmother his wyffe my wyffes froke and a read petticote and a smoke.

1571 November 5, John Heworth of Gatisheid, Will, in Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham (1835)

John Morpeth [...] saith that, on Sondaie last [...] the said John Robson said to the said Arthure, "Thou haiest a witch to thy eldmother[.]"

1586 July 15, “Isabel Chamber against John Robson in Causa Defamationis”, in Depositions and Other Ecclesiastical Proceedings from the Courts ... of Durham, published 1845:

(dialectal, now archaic) One's grandmother or other female ancestor, or one's mother-in-law.


gynaecologist

gynaecologists (plural)
gynecologist (alternative)

In the last analysis, the fate of each individual woman rests in the hands of the gynaecologist.

1950, Moya Woodside, Sterilization in North Carolina: A Sociological and Psychological Study, University of North Carolina Press, page 56:

Since there is an important bill under study today, we are asked to hope that a gynaecologist will sit on a therapeutic committee.

1969, Canadian House of Commons, Debates, Official Report, page 8287:

During the past 5 years considerable interest has been shown by gynaecologists in the technique of laparoscopy (Steptoe, 1967; Cohen, 1970).

1972, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, volume 12, page 194:

According to the Bill, from the moment that the embryo insertion has been completed, the authority for the gynaecologist to have an embryo in his possession immediately and automatically ends.

1984, British House of Commons, Parliamentary debates (Hansard), page 345:

Mr Shikuku: […]Was there any gynaecologist among those doctors?
Mr. Angatia: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there was a gynaecologist and also a midwife.

1995 October 31, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 2287:

2009, India Today, Volume 34, Issues 36-43, page 592,
With one of the highest birth rates across the world (22.69 births per thousand), one can be sure that no gynaecologist will be without work in India.

(Australia, British spelling, Commonwealth) (Canadian spelling, also common) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.

طَبِيب نِسَاء

specialist in diseases of the female reproductive system


mother's milk

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From Middle English moderis mylke, equivalent to mother + -'s + milk.

Breast milk; milk produced by a human or animal mother for her offspring to nurse.


GG

G.G. (alternative)
G. G. (alternative)
G.-G. (alternative)
G-G (alternative)


intersex

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From German Intersexe; corresponding to inter- + sex. Doublet of intersect

His confidentiality was broken, and soon the entire staff and residential population were aware that Jim was intersex. […] we faced the fact that most programs were gender segregated and would not be a safe place for Jim to be known as intersex.

2006, Dean Spade, “Compliance Is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy”, in Paisley Currah et al., editors, Transgender Rights, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 225:

When I had learned that I was intersex, I brought this issue to my mother.

2010, Sean Saifa Wall, “I am the ‘I’”, in Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman, editors, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 109:

A survey of 1100 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people by Griffith and Bond University researchers found that the overwhelming majority had been victims of targeted harassment as well as physical and sexual abuse.

Of an individual, having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes.


feministic

en-adj

feministic (comparative more feministic, superlative most feministic)

more feministic (comparative)
most feministic (superlative)

Someone might be feministic without “officially” being a feminist.

Of or relating to or in accordance with feminism.


genderless

From gender + -less (“without, lacking”).

A genderless noun includes both the masculine and feminine forms.

Should retailers promote genderless shopping?... Through its Agender concept store, Selfridges is selling clothing, accessories and beauty supplies that, it says, "transcend notions of 'his' and 'hers'."

2015 August 10, Aimee Picchi, Moneywatch

Without a gender, in its various senses.

neutered

having had one's sexual distinction removed


femdom

en-noun

femdom (countable and uncountable, plural femdoms)

→ Russian: фемдо́м (femdóm)

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From female + dom, short for domination or dominance.

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

I'm acutely aware that I'm on my knees in front of a gorgeous femdom.

2017, D. L. King, Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink:

She wished she had some fuck-me stiletto thigh-high boots on to give her more of a Domme appearance, but she had seen plenty of femdoms at the club wearing comfortable walking shoes.

2018, Kallypso Masters, Box Set: Rescue Me Saga Books 4-6 and Bonus Western Dreams:

(BDSM, countable) A female dominator in sadomasochistic sexual practices.


femdom

(rare) Females considered as a group; womankind.


domme

Alteration of dom with the pseudo-French feminine inflection.

No amount of fetish wear or powerful looking garments can make a domme out of a woman who hasn't worked on her power and grace within.

2005, Midori, Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink, Los Angeles: Daedalus Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN, page 95:

Something dommes know is that fear can be controlled — and even used to your advantage.

2006, Emily Dubberley, Whip Your Life into Shape, Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 94:

Leather and rubber fetish has always been popular but there’s a massive need for dommes who specialise in foot and shoe worship; there are just not enough of us to go around.

2011, Rebecca, “Rebecca”, in Julian Davies, Hookers: Candid Confessions of Real Call Girls, Milo Books, page 179:

A female dominant in a BDSM relationship.


fanne

Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans.

1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, Fannes, page 31:

A little more than a week ago two fen and one fanne left for London as delegates to a big gathering formally billed as the Science Fiction Festival Convention but more intimately described as a fanference. […] Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen […] many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and fenne after all.

1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life, volume 30, number 21, →ISSN, page 127:

Dorothy lived in the middle of the great western plains, far away from any other fans. She was a very lonely little fanne, who could not afford to go to the annual World Conventions, and had been only to one Oklacon.

1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Cyclone”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 2013-07-21:

(dated, sometimes derogatory, fandom slang) A female science fiction fan.


hysterotomy

(surgery) The surgical procedure of making an incision in the uterus, commonly combined with a laparotomy during a caesarean section.


in a family way

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She mentioned that she was in a family way and . . . stated that she needed all her money to pay the doctor's bills at the approaching deliverance.

1855 August 25, “Law Intelligence: Supreme Court—Special Term”, in New York Times, page 8:

Her way of paying for these gift subscriptions was to choose one of her sows which was in a family way and, when the sow littered, to sell its offspring.

1947 November 10, “Dear TIME-Reader”, in Time, retrieved 2008-08-11:

Three pregnancies occur in this novel: Nina, Fran and Danielle all find themselves in a family way.

2005 April 15, Carolyn See, "Squab and Squabbles" (book review of Mothers and Sons by Paul Hond), Washington Post, p. C03 (retrieved 11 Aug. 2008)

in the family way
in the family way#English

(euphemistic) Alternative form of in the family way.


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birthing chair

birthing chairs (plural)
birth chair (alternative)

Two nurse-midwives at the Milwaukee Birth Center (MBC), Milwaukee, OR, designed a new birthing chair that has received rave reviews from the first 25 women who used it for labor and delivery.

1984, “Clinical News: Rebirth of the Birthing Chair,”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 84, number 7, page 872:

(obstetrics) A chair designed to place a woman who is in labor in a position which facilitates childbirth.


SRS

SRS (countable and uncountable, plural SRSes)

sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery#English

(medicine) Initialism of sex reassignment surgery.


Láadan

From Láadan Láadan, created by Suzette Haden Elgin in 1982.

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language designed as an experiment in feminist linguistics.


grand duchess

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