spokeswoman

From spoke (“past participle of speak”) + -s- + woman.

af

past participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">speak</i>

Topps[…] has signed the Clique Girlz as commercial spokeswomen for Baby Bottle Pop, one of the Top 10 nonchocolate candy brands.

2009 January 28, Brooks Barnes, “Sweet Deal to Promote Tweeny-Bop Girl Group”, in The New York Times:

A Chiltern spokeswoman told RAIL: "We have an excellent safety record and are working with the Rail Accident Investigation Branch to understand the causes of this incident."

2020 July 1, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: '165' runs through points and into path of LU service”, in Rail, page 20:

A woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people.


Stacy

A male given name from Ancient Greek transferred from the surname.

A female given name from Ancient Greek derived from the surname, popular in the 1970s.


tragedienne

tragediennes (plural)
tragédienne (alternative)

a female tragedian; a woman who acts in tragic drama


journeyman

From Middle English jorneman; from journe (from Old French jornee (“a day's work, a journey”)) and mon; equivalent to journey + -man.

der

[…] toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 26”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.

2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret:

A tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman.

чаляднік

A competent but undistinguished tradesman, especially one who works, and is paid by the day.

The Los Angeles Lakers added journeyman forward Bob McAdoo to their roster in hopes that he could help them win a title.

(sports) A player who plays on many different teams during the course of his career.


foreman

→ Gulf Arabic: فورمن (fōrman)

From Middle English foremon, forman; equivalent to fore- + man. Compare West Frisian foarman, Dutch voorman, German Vormann, Danish formand, Swedish förman, Icelandic formaður.

(US, historical) A slave assistant to the white overseer who managed field hands.


skimpy

en-adj

skimpy (comparative skimpier, superlative skimpiest)

skimpier (comparative)
skimpiest (superlative)

They served a pretty skimpy portion of ice cream as the free birthday dessert.

He was of a pallid complexion, hair of a kind of dirty fairness, greyish eyes, and a skimpy, immature moustache under his peaked indeterminate nose.

1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The Wheels of Chance: A Holiday Adventure, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co.; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Co., →OCLC:

You was a po' skimpy little boy no mo' than about fo'teen when you lef' home to come No'th; but I knowed you the minute I sot eyes on you.

1909, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Thimble, Thimble”, in Options:

[T]he driver was delayed there by a skimpy little woman with a thin piping voice practised in the art of defeating escape from it by a ceaseless stream of gabble.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 26:

Desert Hearts is one of the high spots in the skimpy history of gay movies — and probably the high spot in the even more barren history of lesbian films.

1986 April 19, Michael Bronski, “Two Views on Desert Hearts: Sexy? or simply Slow?”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

Food might be a tad skimpy in the portions.

1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 72:

Small or inadequate; not generous; diminutive.

(of a person) Wearing skimpy clothing; scantily clad.


skimpy

It's a curious mix: weatherworn miners, fresh faced bankers, and a couple of g-stringed skimpies.

2000, Australian Journal of Mining, page 2:

For an anthropological experience, the front bar at the Exchange Hotel provides a window into some locals′ lives at all hours of the day, with skimpies, TV sports and mine workers chain-drinking.

2007, Terry Carter, Lara Dunston, Perth & Western Australia, Lonely Planet, page 159:

‘[…]There are thirty-two hotels in Kalgoorlie, and only seven would have skimpies [scantily clad barmaids].’

2010, Kathy Marks, “Tears of the Sun”, in Robert Drewe, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2010, page 239:

Skimpy barmaids, or just “skimpies,” refers to female bar staff who wear a bikini or lingerie. They are a feature of working class pubs in industrial suburbs and mining towns, which often advertise skimpies during traditionally quieter times such as midweek lunch and dinner services in an effort to attract customers.

2017 March 27, Calla Wahlquist, “'Skimpies' night: the Western Australia pub tradition that refuses to die”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(Australia, Western Australia) A barmaid who wears little clothing.


panther

From Middle English panter, panther, pantere, from Old French pantere, from Latin panthēra, from Ancient Greek πάνθηρ (pánthēr, “panther”).

der

A cougar; especially the Florida panther.


high tide

en-noun

high tide (countable and uncountable, plural high tides)

high tides (plural)
hightide (alternative)
high-tide (alternative)

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Do you not like Aunt Irma? I've got an aunt like that.
It's my term for... my time of the month.
What time of the month? The weekend?
No... you know, it... it's high tide.
But we're not on the coast.

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


Miss Right

Miss Rights (plural)
Ms. Right (alternative)
Ms Right (alternative)

He waited for years and years, hoping someday to find Miss Right.

(idiomatic) A perfect, ideal or suitable female companion, especially a wife.


ectopic

From Ancient Greek ἐκτόπιος (ektópios, “away from a place, out of place, out of the way”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) + -topic τόπος (tópos, “place”).

uder

(obstetrics, colloquial) An ectopic pregnancy.


hubby

en-adj

hubby (comparative hubbier, superlative hubbiest)

hubbier (comparative)
hubbiest (superlative)

A road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.


ogress

Borrowed in the early 1700s from French ogresse, equivalent to ogre + -ess.

And in the seventh tale of the third day of the same collection, when Corvetto had hidden himself under the Ogre's bed to steal his quilt, "he began to pull quite gently, when the Ogre awoke, and bid his wife not to pull the clothes that way, or she'd strip him, and he would get his death of cold." "Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.]

1828, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, volume II, page 237:

Dear me, Mimsey!. . . you are perfectly outrageous! Do you think I'm an ogress ready to eat her up? On the contrary, I mean to be a friend to her.


Clare

The anglicized spelling of Irish Clár, from Old Irish clár (“plank, board”), from Proto-Celtic *klāros, *klārom (“table”).

A district municipality in Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada, named after County Clare.

A number of places in the United States, likely to be named after County Clare:

A city mostly in Clare County, Michigan; after its county and County Clare.


pops

From papa (“dad”) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

Hey, pops, I'm home.


gynecology

en-noun

gynecology (usually uncountable, plural gynecologies)

gynecologies (plural)
gynaecology (alternative)
gynæcology (alternative)

/ˌɡaɪnɪˈkɒlədʒi/

/ˌɡaɪnəˈkɑləd͡ʒi/

/ˌd͡ʒaɪnəˈkɑləd͡ʒi/

From French gynécologie, from Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + -logie (“-logy”). Replaced earlier gyniatrics.

Coordinate term: obstetrics

The study of, or the branch of medicine specializing in, the medical problems of women, especially disorders of the reproductive organs.

gjinekologji

branch of medicine specializing in the problems of women


IVG

From languages in which "voluntary interruption of pregnancy" has the initials IVG, like French interruption volontaire de grossesse, Italian interruzione volontaria di gravidanza, Portuguese interrupção voluntária da gravidez, etc.

bor

By the 1982 mobilisations to force the Left government to include IVGs under the Social Security system, […]

It seems less likely that the establishments now performing abortions illicitly will accept to report them in the future, inasmuch as their services are filling a void. The reimbursement of IVGs is not a Social Security item, but a[…]

In terms of the implementation, more than 97% of all IVGs are under the 'abortion on demand' option, which led to an improvement in the statistics regarding complications from illegal abortions.

2016 January 12, J. Outshoorn, European Women's Movements and Body Politics: The Struggle for Autonomy, Springer, →ISBN:

An inducted abortion (in the context of a country like France).


sis

big sis

My sis is tying the knot. I want you to play for the reception.


sis

head

sis (third-person singular, feminine, nominative case)

en-pron

sis is living my delusions, happy for her

2023 February 2, ㅊ (@jaja_girly), Twitter:

The internalized colorism that has inflicted Will is just… Referring to gorgeous Veronica as “Black bald dark-skin woman.” How she didn’t snatch him from his Mama’s highchair I do not know.. Sis dodged all the bullets.. #loveisblindbrazil

“Sue Me” sis snapped

2022 September 29, Kahlen Barry (@KahlenBarry), Twitter:

sis really said fuck the police go off

2023 January 3, sésé/gee☆♱ (@d0llydeathw1sh), Twitter:

Call me when ur 3 year old daughter knows SZA lyrics, girl said “you still playin the pick me, I’m still playin the victim” we don’t care if it’s backwards sis learned that all on her own 🥹

2023 January 3, amanda 🍒(@ amc0124), Twitter:

(chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang) she


granddad

granddads (plural)
grandad (alternative)

Hey! Get out of my way, granddad!

A familiar or disparaging term of address to an old man.


momma

Alternative spelling of mama; see further etymology there.

My momma’s so great: she bakes me cookies every week.


altar boy

A young man adhering to traditional values.


contraception

en-noun

contraception (usually uncountable, plural contraceptions)

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The use of a device or procedure to prevent conception as a result of sexual activity.

предпазване

от забременяване


pucelle

From Anglo-Norman pucele, Middle French pucele, perhaps from a Late Latin *pullicella, but the further etymology is disputed.

1608 (at the earliest), Ben Jonson, letter to John Fletcher
Lady or pucelle, that wears mask or fan.

Seven weeks before, Joan of Arc had ridden into Orleans. She was at the height of her strange career.…‘Maid or Witch, Pucelle or Puzzell – she is very hard to understand.’

(archaic) A girl, a maiden; a virgin (often with reference to Joan of Arc).


guyliner

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I threaded my way through a crowd of Goths slouching against cars in guyliner and black pants[…]

2011, Joanna Pearson, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills, page 29:

Trevor looks kind of emo, rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.

(informal) Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.


baronet

The bearer of a hereditary title, below a peerage and senior to most knighthoods.


stewardess

stewardess (plural stewardesses or (humorous, nonstandard) stewardii)

stewardesses (plural)
stewardii (humorous nonstandard plural)

flight nurse

obsolete form for air stewardess, from when medical qualifications were needed

A female flight attendant (a member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers).

She usually rang for the stewardess early, but this morning of course there had been no ring. The stewardess had gone in all the same about eight o'clock and found the cabin empty.

1888 September, Henry James, “The Patagonia”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 5, page 782:

Certainly a stewardess who may have fifty or even a hundred passengers to look after cannot give much attention to nursing, even if she knows how.

1905, The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review - Volume 35, page 296:

He regarded the tray with apprehension, then with dismay as the stewardess said: "She's just rung for breakfast in bed, going to stay there all day as she feels a cold coming."

1997, Violet Jessop, John Maxtone-Graham, Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Violet Jessop who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters, page 195:

I came into the industry as a chef with restaurant and catering experience but no real understanding of what the whole role of "stewardess" entailed on board.

2013, Julie Perry, The Insiders' Guide to Becoming a Yacht Stewardess:

A woman who works at housekeeping and passenger service aboard a ship, yacht, or other type of boat that carries passengers.

The stewardess, principal inspector of the cow stable and the butter establishment, was indeed with the young lady, who had just entered the yard.

1898, Luise Mühlbach, The Reign of the Great Elector, page 105:

The occasion – the very first trip of a stewardess on Capitol, eastbound B & O […]

1957, Baltimore and Ohio Employes Magazine - Volumes 43-44, page 15:

Arbitrator John Day Larkin upholds the discharge of a female employee who had a fight with a union stewardess on a company parking lot.

On the transfer of any hostess or stewardess from one permanent base to another, the employer shall pay the expenses properly incurred by the hostess or stewardess for the removal of her dependants, her furniture, and personal effects, such expenses to be mutually agreed upon.

1971, New Zealand. Department of Labour, Awards, Agreements, Orders, and Decisions Made Under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the Apprentices Act, the Labour Disputes Investigation Act, and Other Industrial Legislation for the Year 1970, page 3860:

The kitchen stewardess says madam sits there glaring at the paper on the wall.

2013, Tanith Lee, A Heroine of the World:


hustler

A male prostitute who sells his services to men.

面首

a male prostitute who sells his services to men


snip

en-verb

snip (third-person singular simple present snips, present participle snipping, simple past and past participle snipped)

snips (present singular third-person)
snipping (participle present)
snipped (participle past)
snipped (past)

From Dutch snippen (“to snip; shred”) or Low German snippen (“to snip; shred”), of imitative origin. Compare snap.

onomatopoeic

imitative

Circumcised fathers face a special problem. Do you want your son's willy to be that radically different from your own? So, parents should perhaps not be put off. Be good to your son's future lovers and have him snipped.

2001, David Cohen, The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century, John WIley & Sons Ltd, published 2001, →ISBN, page 72:

His children, however, were not snipped, possibly because Princess Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England.

2008, Ilene Schneider, Talk Dirty Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The Curses, Slang, and Street Lingo You Need to Know When You Speak Yiddish, Adams Media, published 2008, →ISBN, page 150:

By the outbreak of the First World War such claims had diminished and the medical profession touted circumcision as being 'hygienic' — fathers were not only encouraged to have their newborn sons snipped, but to belatedly enjoy the benefits themselves.

2012, Tom Hickman, God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis, Square Peg, published 2012, →ISBN, page 144:


odalisque

odalisques (plural)
odalisk (alternative)

Borrowed from French odalisque, from Ottoman Turkish اوطهلق (odalık, “chambermaid”), from اوده (oda, “room”).

der

When the young Mauretanians were his guests in the little houses before the town gates, and he was of a good humour, it would come about that he displayed his odalisques as others would their jewels.

1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

Though I could see the titan odalisques and their garden and knew them to be no more than dream-stuff recalled, I could not escape from their fascination and the memory of the dream.

1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 72:

The Sector is borne in a padded Waggon, like some mechanickal Odalisque.

1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 30, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 296:

(historical) A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio.


with young

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adulteress

adulteresses (plural)
adultress (alternative)

From adulter (noun) + -ess or adulterer + -ess.

And the righteous men, they shall iudge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their handes.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:45:

A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.


abortion pill

A drug, such as mifepristone (Mifegyne), used to terminate a pregnancy in its earliest stage.

abortuspil

drug used to terminate pregnancy in early stage


puerperal fever

en-noun

puerperal fever (countable and uncountable, plural puerperal fevers)

It was the rise of penicillin, not improved hygiene, that finally conquered puerperal fever.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 344:

(pathology, obstetrics) A fever, following childbirth or abortion, due to infection of the uterus.


pawpaw

Via Portuguese and Spanish papaya (which is botanically unrelated) from Kari'na kapaja; the reason for the change in spelling is unknown.
Via Yuchi pahpah

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Asimina triloba
Asimina triloba#Translingual

Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:

Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba).

Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America.


pawpaw

pawpaws (plural)
papaw (alternative)
pappaw (alternative)

Related to papa, or pa(w) pa(w) (one’s father’s father).


countryman

(Ireland, traveller) A settled person, as opposed to a traveller.


stripling

From Middle English stripling (“an adolescent, a youth (specifically one who is male); a child”) [and other forms], possibly from strepen (“to remove the clothes of, undress, strip; to peel off; to skin (an animal); to remove; to take something away from someone; to plunder, rob”) (connoting something that is stripped and thin, and yet to reach its full size) + -ling (suffix forming diminutives). Strepen is derived from Old English *strēpan (Anglian), *strīepan, *strīpan, *strȳpan (West Saxon), from Proto-West Germanic *straupijan, from Proto-Germanic *straupijaną (“to strip; to pluck; to wipe”), from *streupaną (“to touch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strew-, *sterw-, *ster- (“a strip; a streak; a beam, ray”)) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives from strong verbs with the sense of ‘to cause to do’). The English word is analysable as strip (“long, narrow piece”) + -ling.

nb...

strepelynge, stripeling, striplyng, strippelinge, stryplynge

inh

And the king ſaid, Enquire thou whoſe ſonne the ſtripling is.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 17:56, column 1:

And now, I suppose, my Striplings are formally clad, and togated, newly arrived at the Vniversities

Figure to yourſelf, Madam, a fair ſtripling, between eighteen and nineteen, with his head reclin'd on one of the ſides of the chair, his hair in diſorder'd curls, irregularly ſhading a face, on which all the roſeate bloom of youth, and all the manly graces conſpired to fix my eyes and heart.

1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 92:

This is the sort of witchery, not easily defined—but, by its votaries, pretty sensibly felt, in hunting the fox. The light-hearted, high-spirited stripling, when cigaring it careless to cover, with a kind of a knowing demi-devil-may-care twist of his beaver, receives in his transit a benison from every real friend of the chase he may chance to pass; and the airy, eager zeal of the youthful aspirant to rolls, tumbles, and the brush, will flush his memory with the frolic gayety of other days, and animate his mind with reflections most welcome to his heart.

1837, Venator [pseudonym; John Cooper], “Prefatory Remarks”, in The Warwickshire Hunt, from 1795 to 1836; […], London: Henry Harris, […]; Warwick, Warwickshire: J. Cooper, […], →OCLC, page vi:

A berth was reserved for me by my friends in the same cabin as that of Sjt. Tryambakrai Mazmudar, the Junagadh vakil. They also commended me to him. He was an experienced man of mature age and knew the world. I was yet a stripling of eighteen without any experience of the world. Sjt. Mazmudar told my friends not to worry about me.

1927, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “Outcaste”, in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume I, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC, part I, page 104:

Altman in particular passed what would become known at YC as the young founders’ test: Can this stripling manage adults?

2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:

(archaic, also attributive, sometimes humorous) A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. .

մանուկ

youth (young man) in the state of adolescence


great-uncle

great-uncles (plural)
great uncle (alternative)
greatuncle (alternative)

From Middle English gret-uncle, grete uncle, grete ouncle, equivalent to great- + uncle.

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


grandpappy

Come and say hello to your old grandpappy Cranky.

1995, Rare, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Nintendo, →OCLC, SNES, scene: Monkey Museum:


starlet

There were other flapper-era starlets, of course—Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo—but they were poseurs by comparison.

2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 25:

A young actress with a promising career ahead of her.


poster boy

poster boys (plural)
posterboy (alternative)

(idiomatic) A male exemplar of some trait.


poster girl

poster girls (plural)
postergirl (alternative)

(idiomatic) A female exemplar of some trait.


induced abortion

en-noun

induced abortion (plural induced abortions)

A surgical or medicinal procedure that terminates a pregnancy by removing the fetus; a therapeutic abortion. It is a non-contraceptive form of birth control.


barmaid

At one of the way-stations on his long journey a barmaid at a tavern speaks to Gilgamesh and tries to give him common sense on the human condition.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:

A woman who serves in a bar. [from 18th c.]


paperboy

Our current paperboy does a nicely consistent job of throwing the paper onto the porch. Our old paperboy sometimes would fling it into the bushes!

A boy who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.


legman

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From leg + -man, modelled after legwork, in reference to the walking such a person does.

During the nine-month Great Lakes shipping season, the ore hogs—shovelers, "larry" car weighers, bulldozer operators, car pushers and "leg" men—unite in this miracle of supply that stock-piles enough iron ore to last through the winter. The leg man on a Hulett iron-ore unloader must possess a special blend of brawn, brains and a "go for broke" attitude. He must also be conscious of the safety of fellow workers below him as he deftly maneuvers a 75-ton vertical ramrod and iron-jawed grab bucket.

1953 May, Dwight Boyer, “Giant Jaws Unload Ore Ship”, in H[enry] H[aven] Windsor, Jr., editor, Popular Mechanics, volume 99, number 5, Chicago, Ill.: Popular Mechanics Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 76:

[W]ell, anyway, he sent a chap who acts as his confidential ‘leg-man’ and ‘Man Friday’.

1958, Harry Stephen Keeler, Hazel Goodwin Keeler, “The Affair of the Two Other Men”, in The Case of the Two-headed Idiot: A Double-mystery Novel, 2nd edition, [United States]: Ramble House, published 2005, →ISBN, page 215:

Guillam was boss and legman, and twice a day he dropped the tapes on the Berne residency, using a parked car as a letter-box.

1974, John le Carré [pseudonym; David John Moore Cornwell], chapter 21, in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN; trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, October 2002, →ISBN, page 181:

A large ship was discharging LASH (lighter aboard ship) barges at its aft end. [...] The crane broke down and a repairman was called. One legman descended from his post on a small raised platform to the deck next to the crane. Once repaired, the crane operator sounded a warning siren. Thinking all was clear, he started the crane toward the aft. The legman next to the crane ran aft and attempted to climb a small ladder next to his post. He was caught between the ladder and the crane, suffering multiple injuries.

1992 August, “Analysis”, in Selected Occupational Fatalities Related to Marine Cargo Handling as Found in Reports of OSHA Fatality/Catastrophe Investigations, [Washington, D.C.]: Office of Statistics, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, →OCLC, page 39:

Once in Hollywood he [Andrew J. Fenady] became a legman for Paul Coates, which led to writing and producing Coates' controversial television series, Confidential File, winner of three Emmy awards.

1998, Andrew J. Fenady, “[Biography of Andrew J. Fenady]”, in Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus: A Play in Two Acts: […], Woodstock, Ill., London: Dramatic Publishing Company, →ISBN:

He [Walter Lippmann] studied at Harvard with [George] Santayana, took tea with William James, worked as a legman for Lincoln Steffens, debated socialism with [George] Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells, was in Belgium when the Germans invaded and at the House of Commons when Britain declared war in 1914.

1999, Ronald Steel, “Prologue: The Name that Opened Every Door”, in Walter Lippmann and the American Century, new edition, New Brunswick, N.J., London: Transaction Publishers, published 2008, →ISBN, page xv:

Their targets included kings and commoners, civilians and soldiers, military recruits and senior commanders, political legmen and party chairmen, businessmen and academicians, journalists and belletrists—and ultimately a train of victims' families: husbands, wives, and children.

2015, Howard M[orley] Sachar, “Preface”, in The Assassination of Europe, 1918–1942: A Political History, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page xii:

(originally US) A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner.

فَيْج

person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place — see also errand boy, runner


lady-in-waiting

From lady + in + waiting (“attendance, service”).

refn

From the collection of the Musée du Second Empire in the Château de Compiègne, Compiègne, Oise, France.

[T]he electreſs [Sophia Charlotte of Hanover] was heard to ſay to one of her ladies in waiting, "that it vexed her to the very heart to go and act in Pruſſia the theatrical queen along with her Eſop.["]

1751, [Frederick the Great], “Frederick III. the First King of Prussia”, in Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg. From the Earliest Accounts, to the Death of Frederick I. King of Prussia. […], Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for G. Faulkner […], and Matt[hew] Williamson […], →OCLC, page 100:

This night, after eleven o'clock, as the royal family were returning from Drury-lane theatre, when the carriages had reached the end of John-street, Pall Mall, a stone was flung with such force as to break one of the glass pannels in the coach, in which were their majesties and the lady in waiting; which, after striking the queen on the cheek, fell into lady Harrington's lap.

1796, “Chronicle. [February 1st.]”, in The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1796, 2nd edition, volume XV, London: Printed by B[uchanan] McMillan, […], for the proprietors of Dodsley’s Annual Register, […], published 1807, →OCLC, page 5:

Of a sudden a man leapt up to the top of the wall from the other side, and then, hanging for a moment, dropped lightly upon the grass within. All the ladies-in-waiting shrieked at the suddenness of his coming, but the man ran to the Queen and kneeled at her feet, and she saw it was Robin Hood.

1883, Howard Pyle, “The Chase of Robin Hood”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part seventh, page 250:

The political influence wielded by many of the court ladies, and especially by the first lady-in-waiting (mother of the present Emperor), bears a certain resemblance to that which the eunuchs wielded under the later Manchus at the court of Peking. [...] And behind the 30 ladies-in-waiting there are the rank and file of female palace attendants, some 300, all of Kyoto stock—quite sufficient to keep any conscientious chamberlain on the qui vive.

1920, J[ohn] O[tway] P[ercy] Bland, “[Exhibit G.] Three Palaces.”, in Administration of Immigration Laws: Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization: House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session: […], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 373:

In the Queen's coach are the Queen's stateroom and bathroom, the Royal Family lounge, lady-in-waiting's compartment and bathroom, and dresser's room. […] Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret are accommodated in one coach, and each of the two suites comprises a stateroom with its adjoining bathroom. A bedroom is provided for each of two ladies-in-waiting, and a separate compartment for the maid.

1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:

At last she [Makeda, the Queen of Sheba] was overcome by a desire to go to Jerusalem and see with her own eyes the things about which she had heard. [...] She chose as her companion on the journey her lady-in-waiting, and the two of them travelled in sedan chairs mounted on the backs of camels.

1986 September–October, Harold Courlander, “How Makeda Visited Jerusalem, and How Menelik Became King”, in Robert G. Forman, editor, Michigan Alumnus, volume 93, number 1, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Published by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37, columns 2–3:

Young girls from wealthy families were often sent to the royal court to help the queen and noblewomen. After becoming a teenager, a girl could then be named a lady-in-waiting. These ladies assisted their mistress in any way and usually went with her when she traveled.

2013, Joanne Mattern, “A Life at Court”, in Dona Herweck Rice, editor, Geoffrey Chaucer: Medieval Writer, Huntington Beach, Calif.: Teacher Created Materials, →ISBN, page 14:

A lady, often a noblewoman, in the household of a queen, princess, or other woman of higher rank who attends her as a personal assistant, generally a role considered an honour.

Château de Compiègne
Compiègne
Eugénie de Montijo
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Napoleon III

plac'h-enor

lady in the household of a woman of higher rank who attends her as a personal assistant

kamarineiti

woman who is a maid or servant to a lady


anchorman

From anchor + man. Senses 1 and 4 derive from sense 2, sense 3 is literal.

(athletics) The most reliable runner in a relay team, usually the one that runs last.

(blackjack) The last player in sequence, seated furthest to the right of the dealer.


trannie

Sitting mute, I watched the faint line of smoke fade into oblivion, and with it went the hopes of this CQ Contest... The Receiver power trannie had packed up.

1968, CQ; the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 24, numbers 7-12, page 52:

Alternative spelling of tranny (“mechanical transmission”)

My experience here has made me realise that gaining acceptance as a trannie is an ongoing process.

1999, Tracie O'Keefe, Sex, Gender & Sexuality: 21st Century Transformations, page 138:

Alternative spelling of tranny (“transsexual, transgender or transvestite”)


chemical abortion

en-noun

chemical abortion (countable and uncountable, plural chemical abortions)

A medical, rather than surgical, abortion induced by a drug.


nursing bra

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A bra specifically designed for breastfeeding mothers, with cups which fold down, allowing easy access to the nipple when the infant is to be fed, usually constructed of fabric only.


battle axe

battle axes (plural)
battleaxe (alternative)
battle-ax (alternative)
battleax (alternative)

(informal, sometimes humorous) A domineering, antagonistic woman.


housemaid

housemaids (plural)
house maid (alternative)
house-maid (alternative)

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A female domestic worker attached to the non-servant quarter part of the house, as opposed to a scullery maid.

աղախին

female servant attached to the non-servant quarter part of the house


sisterhood

sisterhood (countable and uncountable, plural sisterhoods)

From Middle English susterhede; equivalent to sister + -hood (with a modification in the suffix).

What does the rallying cry of sisterhood and the concept of feminism mean when last year, the majority of white, female voters chose whiteness as a political identity over womanhood?

2017 September 23, Kaitlyn Greenidge, “‘Sisterhood’ Felt Meaningless. So My Sisters and I Got in the Car.”, in The New York Times:

(feminism) The idea of universal experience amongst women, regardless of other traits or factors. (Considered obsolete in third-wave feminism.)

sororidade

feminism: the idea of universal experience amongst women


perinatal

en-adj

perinatal (comparative more perinatal, superlative most perinatal)

more perinatal (comparative)
most perinatal (superlative)

Perinatal HIV infection of infants is a problem in sub-Saharan Africa.

Of or pertaining to the time around birth.

perinataalinen

of or pertaining to the time around birth


headmistress

(chiefly Commonwealth, Ireland) A female headteacher.


enceinte

These labours upon Phœnician necropoli are of great importance. [...] M. [Louis Félicien] de Saulcy, one of the first travellers who has thrown light upon these necropoli, devoted himself to a very interesting examination of the tombs of the kings, of the prophets and judges, and upon the immense necropolis that surrounds Jerusalem, like a funeral enceinte.

1853, Abbé de St. Michon [i.e., Jean-Hippolyte Michon], chapter XIV, in [anonymous], transl., Narrative of a Religious Journey in the East in 1850 and 1851, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 338:

And so across the bridge and into the enceinte of the massive walls, threading their way towards the quarter where the morgue lay.

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 824:


kino

Coined by Ross Jeffries, from kinesthesia.

I noticed, however, that the more interested the 11 became, the more kino the 10 gave me.

2005, Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, Text Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 154:

It is the specific pacing of escalating kino that is important, not the physical touches.

2007 February 6, Erik von Markovik, The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 138:

There's no way for me to find out a girl's attitude toward kino without giving it a try and pushing some limits, so I never miss an opportunity to touch her.

2008 September 23, Tony Clink, The Plan: Have Sex Tonight with a Gorgeous Woman in 69 Easy Steps, New York: Citadel Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 27:

(seduction community) Physical contact with another person, touch.


wahine

Borrowed from Maori and Hawaiian wahine (“woman”), from Proto-Polynesian *fafine.


brach

Originally in plural, from Old French brachez, plural of brachet, a diminutive of Occitan brac, from Frankish. Cognate to the German Bracke. More at brachet.

FOOL: Truth's a dog that must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when Lady, the brach, may stand by the fire and stink.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], lines 109-111:

Mastiffe, Grey-hound, Mongrill, Grim, / Hound or Spaniell, Brache, or Hym […].

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

A sow-pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown, “would miraculously hunt all manner of deer, and that as well, or rather better than any ordinary hound.”

(archaic) A hound; especially a female hound used for hunting, a bitch hound.


dyspareunia

/dɪspəˈɹuːnɪə/

From dys- + Ancient Greek πάρευνος (páreunos, “lying beside, lying with”) + -ia.

uder

deep dyspareunia ― pain on deep penetration

(medicine) Painful or difficult sexual intercourse, especially in women.


eme

emes (plural)
eam (alternative)
eem (alternative)
eame (alternative)
neam (alternative)
neame (alternative)
neme (alternative)

From Middle English éam, eom, em, eme (“uncle”), from Old English ēam (“uncle”). See eam.


mpreg

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of male pregnancy.


domina

From Latin domina (“mistress”). Doublet of dame and donna.

A precious article is the paint with which the Roman domina was beautified; it was well worthy of the case of ivory and rock-crystal in which it was preserved.

1863 November 21, “Literary Extracts, &c.”, in The Hull News, number 621, Kingston upon Hull, E.R.Y., page 3, column 4:

“Can you translate this invitation? I hate to display my ignorance around your Latin students,” Mrs. Dooley, who was attired in a royal purple gown as a Roman domina, graciously complied, so if you’ve been worrying over the translation to the first paragraph, here ’tis.

1956 May 23, Jean Yothers, “On the Town”, in Orlando Sentinel, volume 66, number 272, Orlando, Fla., page 20, column 1:

Flavius on the other hand holds the career of the gladiator in high esteem, as despite running the unavoidable risk of death at every turn, gladiators are the most renowned and admired of all men and are sought after by the most beautiful and wealthy Roman dominae. […] Though dressed like Roman patrician dominae, their height, features and hair colour show that they are young Briton girls.

2012, Armando Roggero, The Revenge of the Ninth: Heading to Honor and Glory through Effort and Trial, Lulu, →ISBN, pages 71 and 152:

The ancient historian Horace remarked once that respectable women should not draw attention to themselves by using cosmetics, perfume, or hairpieces. However, that didn’t last long with the Roman dominas.

2012, J. F. Ridgley, Vows of Revenge, →ISBN, page 498:

The exotic mistress fulfilled the lust of his body, but her status came far short of entertaining him as he’d grown accustomed with fair Roman dominas, engaging their obscene wittiness and patrician prattle.

2017, Mary Dove, “Quintus”, in The End of Seven, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 346:


Franciscan

From Medieval Latin Franciscānus, from Franciscus + -ānus (“-an”).

(Catholicism) A member of the Order of the Friars Minor.


schoolmaster

schoolmasters (plural)
scholemaster (alternative)

From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school + master.

A male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.

johtajaopettaja

male teacher in charge of a small school


transsexualism

en-noun

transsexualism (usually uncountable, plural transsexualisms)

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Transfolk are not covered in any applicable laws like Title VII or the ADA - in fact, transsexualism is explicitly excluded from the ADA. Therefore, you have no causes of action against an employer based on federal law.

1997, A. Spencer Bergstedt, Transition and Beyond, page 28:

Being a transsexual is not something that can be ignored or suppressed forever. Unlike the fascinations of the cross dresser or the partially altered transgenderist, the absolute compulsion of classical transsexualism is a matter of life and death.

2012, Patrick Slattery, Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era:

Transsexuality; the state of being transsexual.


heiress

"Do you know, Julia, that Charles has taken some wild-goose fancy into his head about marrying?"
 "Why, what heiress have you picked up?" asked his sister. "I am sure that I am very glad of it, though I cannot form a guess who it is. I never knew a season so unprofitable in that respect as the present."

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 120:

A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.

A woman who has received an inheritance.


cervical cap

A small latex or silicone contraceptive device that fits over the cervix and stays in place either by suction or by surface viscosity.


chickenhawk

/ˈt͡ʃɪkɪnˌhɔk/

From chicken + hawk. The political sense is derived from figurative meanings of "chicken" (coward) and "hawk" (militarist).

Any of the North American hawk species (Cooper's hawk, sharp-shinned hawk and red-tailed hawk), or counterparts elsewhere, mistakenly believed to be pests.


presbyteress

From Medieval Latin presbyterissa. By surface analysis, presbyter + -ess.

Age was doubtless a requisite in presbyters, as it is here stated to have been in presbyteresses, with a view to their influence on the younger persons of their sex. They were supported by the Church, but not the only widows so supported.

1863, Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset, David Brown, A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments:

(obsolete) A female presbyter (elder of the congregation in early Christianity).


amniotic fluid

amniotic fluid (countable and uncountable, plural amniotic fluids)

(zoology) In placental mammals, a fluid contained within the amnion membrane that surrounds a developing embryo or fetus.

سُخْد

fluid that surrounds a developing embryo or fetus


boys will be boys

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It's not hard to see the parallels between the sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the 2012 Steubenville rape case. Three decades apart, there is one central difference: Kavanaugh has denied the allegations, and has never been criminally charged. In the Steubenville case, two star football players were convicted of raping a girl, and sentenced to prison. But amid the outrage in both cases, there has been a chorus of "boys will be boys," the excuse of youth, of teenage brains that can't control themselves and the victim shaming that accompanies that perception.

2018 September 27, Mary Kilpatrick, “Why the 'boys will be boys' justification of sexual violence doesn't fly: Comparing Kavanaugh to Steubenville”, in Shatter on Cleveland.com, published 2019 January 29, retrieved 2021-03-19:

(informal, offensive) Predatory behavior of suitors should be viewed as excusable because it comes naturally to many boys and men.


maternal aunt

大姨

mother's eldest sister, if older than her

二姨

middle daughters in mother's family in numerical rank following eldest

小姨

mother's youngest sister, if younger than her


paternal aunt

hallë

the sister or sister-in-law of someone's father

The wife of a sibling of someone’s father.


femme fatale

femme fatale (plural femmes fatales or femme fatales)

femmes fatales (plural)
femme fatales (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from French femme fatale (literally “deadly woman”).

ubor

Cause everybody knows (She's a femme fatale) / The things she does to please (She's a femme fatale)

1967, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Femme Fatale”, in The Velvet Underground & Nico, performed by The Velvet Underground:

An attractive and seductive but ultimately dangerous woman.


berdache

From French bardache, from Italian bardassa, perhaps from Arabic بَرْدَج (bardaj, “slave”). Doublet of bardash.

These culturally bound assumptions have bedevilled the entire anthropological literature on the berdache in Native American cultures, and it is because of this that I have followed the lead of Angelino and Shedd when referring to the phenomenon of the berdache-transgenderal, for as Fitzgerald (1977) points out: "A berdache . . . may be a transvestite, but a transvestite need not be a berdache; and neither need be homosexual."

1980, Kenneth E. Read, “Observations on the Current State of Anthropological Research on Homosexual Behavior”, in Other Voices: The Style of a Male Homosexual Tavern, Novato, Cali.: Chandler & Sharp Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:

Gender is the sociocultural designation of biobehavioral and psychosocial qualities of the sexes; for example, woman (female), man (male), other(s) (e.g., berdaches²). Notions of gender are culturally specific and depend on the ways in which cultures define and differentiate human (and other) potentials and possibilities. While many people in Western society may think first of heterosexual women and men when the word "gender" is mentioned, there are more gender possibilities than just those two.

1989, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Christine Roberts, “Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Gender Variance”, in Sandra Morgen, editor, Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching, Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 439:

Male berdache have been documented in nearly 150 North American societies, while female berdache (females who take on the lifeways of males) appear in half as many groups.

2005, Michael J Horswell, Decolonizing the Sodomite, University of Texas, published 2006, page 20:

(anthropology, dated, now offensive, ethnic slur) Among Native Americans, a person who identifies with any of a variety of gender identities which are not exclusively those of their biological sex; a transgender person.

bardache

Native American who identifies with a gender identity not exclusively corresponding to their biological sex — see also two-spirit


sangoma

Borrowed from Zulu isángoma (“diviner, witch doctor, sangoma”), possibly from i- + sa- (prefix meaning ‘of’) + íngoma (“dance song performed at a festival; hymn”). The English word is cognate with Afrikaans sangoma, Swazi sángoma.

bor

The Natal Zulu believes in witchcraft, prophesy, love philtres, and such like. He is firmly fixed in his mind that the witch doctors and sangomas (female diviners) have power to bring rain, to trace spells of witchcraft, to heal by incantation, and to perform sundry other wonders and miracles.

1895, J. Forsyth Ingram, “Section III. People, Language, Government, and Settlements”, in The Colony of Natal: An Official Illustrated Handbook and Railway Guide, London: […] Sir Joseph Causton and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 21:

Sangoma is a type of healer rare in the surveyed area, but seems to be more common in other parts of Botswana. [...] In the majority of cases the Sangoma is a female, but some male Disangoma are found. The Sangoma would often, as a young person during a severe illness, be 'called' by the Badimo through a dream and then seek guidance and training from an elder Sangoma. [...] In some cases the Sangoma would specialise in some types of exorcism during which she would engage in singing, dancing and in some cases using her drum, often entering into a state of trance.

1986, Frants Staugard, “Traditional Health Care in Botswana”, in Murray Last, G[ordon] L[loyd] Chavunduka, editors, The Professionalisation of African Medicine (International African Studies; 1), Manchester: Manchester University Press in association with the International African Institute, →ISBN, part I (Professional Associations and Government), page 57:

Sangomas nowadays tend to have at least two or three, and at times as many as fifteen or more, spirits that guide and assist them in their healing practice. Sangomas describe a division of labour among such spirits whereby each tends to have a specialized purpose, ranging from guidance in diagnosis to help in collecting overdue patient fees.

1989, Edward C. Green, “Mystical Black Power: The Calling to Diviner-mediumship in Southern Africa”, in Carol Shepherd McClain, editor, Women as Healers: Cross-cultural Perspectives, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 188:

This case also attracted a large crowd – not to see me, but to find out whether the white man's laws could be applied to a sangoma.

1994, Nelson Mandela, chapter 16, in Long Walk to Freedom, London: Abacus, published 2010, →ISBN, page 176:

The coffins eventually reached cold storage, where they were to lie for another six weeks. Enter the sangomas. The antidote for zombies requires that sangomas reunite the zomboid spirits with their bodies. A Cape Town sangoma told me that once she had danced herself into a trance, she was able to spiritually enter the cupboard and catch the zombies (who, she assured me, are terribly strong).

2003, Brett Bailey, “The Horror! The Horror!”, in The Plays of Miracle & Wonder: Bewitching Visions and Primal High-jinx from the South African Stage, Cape Town, South Africa: Double Storey Books, →ISBN, page 33:

Lesedi was a sangoma, you know. I think she tried to put a curse on me because I was spying on her. But I wasn't really spying, I just thought that she was nice and wanted her to be my friend and then I saw the mask and I didn't anymore.

2014, Miranda Sherry, Black Dog Summer, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 187:

(South Africa and other parts of Southern Africa) A (usually female) traditional healer or herbalist, or witch doctor.

sangoma

traditional healer or herbalist, or witch doctor — see also witch doctor


gendered knowledge

(feminism) According to feminist studies and gender studies, mainstream knowledge that is produced by men and privileges the masculine over the feminine.


baby girl

baby girls (plural)
babygirl (alternative)

(fandom slang) Alternative spelling of babygirl (“male character or celebrity of whom one is extremely fond”)


courtesan

courtesans (plural)
courtezan (alternative)

Borrowed from Middle French courtisane, from Italian cortigiana, feminine of cortigiano (“courtier”), from corte (“court”), itself from Latin cohors.

What wine, what drug, what philtre known of man / Will drown this ancient foe, / Ruthless and ravenous as a courtesan, / Sure as an ant, and slow?

1909, Charles Baudelaire, “The Irreparable”, in John Collings Squire, transl., Poems and Baudelaire Flowers:

In the notes he wrote for Nana, his novel about a courtesan in Second Empire Paris, Zola imagined ‘a whole society hurling itself’ at her body, ‘a pack of hounds after a bitch, who is not even on heat and makes fun of the hounds following her’. This might also describe the life of Harriette Wilson, whose unguarded pursuit by the leaders of the British aristocracy, the army, the government and opposition made her the most desired, and then the most dangerous, woman in Regency London.

2014, Frances Wilson, The Courtesan's Revenge, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 10:

A female prostitute, especially one with high-status or wealthy clients.


raincoat

Moe said he'll go first, I said I'll take next / Here, take this raincoat and practice safe sex!

1993, “Tearz”, in Enter the Wu-Tang, performed by Wu-Tang Clan:


gamine

A (usually female) street urchin; a homeless girl.


gentlewoman

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From Middle English gentilwoman, modelled after gentilman (“gentleman”), equivalent to gentle + -woman.

'The gentlewoman from California.' Or 'the gentlewoman from Texas.' Gentlewoman?

1998 December 11, “GENTLEWOMEN AND GENTLEMEN DON'T SAY 'LADY'”, in Daily Press:

House of Representatives
House of Representatives

(US, politics) A female member of a legislature, especially a female member of a House of Representatives.


MRA

And while Esmay cites several instances of feminist “bullying” and “censorship,” the talk and user pages — which record disciplinary action against Wikipedians — suggest that most MRAs were banned for edit-warring (i.e., redoing the same changes over and over), for editing a topic with a conflict of interest, or for making personal attacks against other editors — all of which are violations of Wikipedia’s terms.

2014 April 8, Caitlin Dewey, “Men’s rights activists think a “hateful” feminist conspiracy is ruining Wikipedia”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2014-08-04:


menstrual cup

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A receptacle worn inside the vagina during menstruation to collect menstrual fluid.


girl next door

girls next door (plural)
girl-next-door (alternative)

Coordinate term: boy next door

She didn't want to marry the girl next door: she yearned for the big city.

Playboy's motto is: the girl next door. They look for girls that are wholesome and fresh and young and naive. They look for all of that.

1983, Teresa Carpenter, Bob Fosse, Star 80, spoken by Dorothy Stratten:

The Nippy became a national icon, symbolic of the girl next door, always approachable and proper; […]

2014, Paul Chrystal, Tea: A Very British Beverage:

A regular, typical girl, as opposed to a superstar.


sorceress

From Middle English sorceresse, from Anglo-Norman sorceresse.

The strange-looking chamber, the red glare of the charcoal, her tall form, and long black hair loose, realised the wildest dream of one of the sorceresses of old, bending over herb and drug, to form their potent spells.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Laboratory”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 328:

A female sorcerer, especially one who is elegant; compare witch.


drama queen

If he is thwarted in his effort to enjoy them, he may either go to the dogs or the drama queens, become short-tempered, sullen, grouchy and eventually feel that, in a way he is a failure.

I’ve known quite a few drama queens in my time, and I always have the same thought: She reminds me of junior high. Most girls are drama queens at that age.

2009, Mark Atteberry, So Much More Than Sexy, Cincinnati, Ohio: Standard Publishing, →ISBN, page 145:

(idiomatic, informal, derogatory) An overly or exaggeratedly dramatic person, especially a woman or a girl.


repercussion

en-noun

repercussion (countable and uncountable, plural repercussions)

/ˌɹiː.pəˈkʌʃ.ən/

/ˌɹɛ.pɚˈkʌʃ.ən/

From Middle French répercussion, from Latin repercussio (“rebounding; repercussion”), from repercutio (“cause to rebound, reflect, strike against”), from re- + percutio (“beat, strike”), from per- (“thoroughly”) + quatio (“shake”).

uder

(obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.


mam

Alteration or clipping of mama. Compare Scots mam, Early Scots mame (“mother”), mamye (“wet nurse”), Saterland Frisian Määme (“mother”), West Frisian mem (“mother”).
Alternatively, possibly either conserved from or influenced by earlier Brythonic language.

She'd sit by the fire, arms crossed, demanding that Ruby spike her tea with a cinder. But Ruby would never give in to her demands, no matter how much her mam begged. There was no alcohol in the house now; Arthur had made sure of that in an effort to get Mary sober.

(UK, Ireland, regional, informal, colloquial) Mum, mom; diminutive of mother.


deaconess

Inherited from Middle English dekenesse; equivalent to deacon + -ess.

A female servant in the early Christian church.


autogynephilia

/ˌɔː.təʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfɪ.li.ə/

Coordinate term: autoandrophilia

Charles Moser (2010) “Blanchard’s Autogynephilia Theory: A Critique”, in Journal of Homosexuality, volume 57, number 6, →DOI, pages 790–809: “If autogynephilia were a paraphilia, we would expect that MTFs would want estrogens to feminize themselves, but decline anti-androgens or report that they disliked the effect. This is contrary to the observation that MTFs request and like the effects of anti-androgens.”

gender identity disorder
gender identity disorder

transvestic fetishism
transvestic fetishism

In Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the supposed paraphilic tendency of a male person to be sexually aroused by the thought of being a female, sometimes framed as a form of gender identity disorder or transvestic fetishism.


ayr

Borrowed from Manx ayr. Doublet of faeder, father, padre, pater, and père.


authoress

authoresses (plural)
authouress (alternative)
authress (alternative)

/ˈɔː.θə.ɹɛs/

From Middle English aucteuresse; equivalent to author + -ess.

This obſervation is verified in our authoreſs, who, without deſign, without art, and without inſtruction is arrived at a wonderful perfection in the art of poetry, and may be placed amongſt poets of the firſt claſs.

1765 January, “A further Account of the celebrated German Poeteſs”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 5:

Eve was the authoress of sin, Mary the authoress of merit… the one wounded, the other healed.

1841, Thomas Butler, The Truths of the Catholic Religion, page 102:


cock tease

cock teases (plural)
cocktease (alternative)
cock-tease (alternative)
cockteaser (alternative)

Coordinate term: clit tease

That bird is a total cock tease; she's been winding blokes up all night.

(slang, vulgar, chiefly derogatory) A person, usually a woman, who teases a man but then withdraws an alluded-to promise of sexual intercourse.


catcher's mitt

en-noun

catcher's mitt (plural catcher's mitts or catchers' mitts)

catcher's mitts (plural)
catchers' mitts (plural)


denidation

Finally, he [Aveling] believes that menstruation is probably determined by the act of “denidation,” as he calls it, because it is from the denided surface that the menstrual flow comes.

1894, Walter Heape, “The Menstruation of Semnopithecus entellus”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 185:

The breakup and expulsion of the endometrium during menstruation.


cocotte

This one is a woman, with all a woman’s wit, combined with the heartlessness of a cocotte.

1911, Bram Stoker, chapter XXI, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC:

[…] she had had the novel experience of looking down from the restaurant terrace on an audience of "cocottes," and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears.

1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:


Becky

Beckys (plural)
Beckies (plural)
Becki (alternative)
Beckie (alternative)

A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca.


footman

From Middle English fotman, footman, foteman (“foot soldier, running footman”), from Old English *fōtman, *fōtmann (attested only as Old English fēþman, fēþemann (“footman”), equivalent to foot + man.

Coordinate term: footwoman

[…] on October 29, 1888, the Russian imperial train was derailed at Borki by defective track, and twenty-one persons were killed. Although these did not include the Emperor Alexander III, who escaped with a bruising, a footman serving coffee to him at the critical moment, and his dog, which was lying on the floor beside him, were both killed on the spot.

1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, pages 251–252:

And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.

1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

Reading their accounts, you can't help feeling they got a more thrilling frisson from sharing a pot of home-made stew without a footman than they took in any of their convoluted couplings.

2023 September 23, Tim Hayward, “Not so easy does it”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:

A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.


inverted

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(chemistry, of sugar) Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar.

Among the Normans, everywhere, homosexuality was markedly prevalent; the spread of sodomy in France about the eleventh century is attributed to the Normans, and their coming seems to have rendered it at times almost fashionable, at all events at court. In England, William Rufus was undoubtedly inverted, as later on were Edward II, James I, and, perhaps, though not in so conspicuous a degree, William III.

1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, volume 2:

(dated, psychology) Homosexual, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.

conspiracy theories
conspiracy theory#Noun

(Internet slang, conspiracy theories, of a person) Assumed to be transgender, in the terms of transvestigation.


philandry

Coined from Ancient Greek φιλέω (philéō, “I love”) + ἀνδρός (andrós), genitive of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”), equivalent to phil- + -andry. Compare philander.

If a man is philogynous towards his partner, she is more than likely to denote her philandry of fondness, love, or admiration for him.

2014, Troy Mckenzie, WOMEN'S WORTH, PRICELESS, pages 111–112:


MGTOW

This is my command - to spread this Declaration to all MGTOW and never surrender it to outsiders for they have no knowledge or wisdom in living well and free forever.

2007 July 27, MCP [username], “Bachelor Declaration”, in soc.men (Usenet):

The MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) movement began as a way for desperate men to avoid exploitation by women.

2012 November 11, BetterOffSingle [username], “New Video: Why MGTOW is the new PUA!”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

Is Zed the Zenpriest still around, or has Mr. Elam permanently retired that persona in favor of its MGTOW philosophy of copping out from the real world?

2013 April 23, Revelations [username], “Re: The Victory (Over Semiramis) Is the Lord's”, in soc.men (Usenet):

... who gets a little too addicted to the kindred "broship" he gets from MGTOW blogs and subreddits. If you haven't already guessed, the manosphere does have a few female ecelebrities on board, some of whom exhibit confounding behavior, ...

2018, Eric W. Saeger, Russian Nazi Troll Bots!: The Busy Person’s Guide to How Trump’s Trolls Won the Internet, What’s Ahead, and What You Can Do, Metro Clarion Media, →ISBN:

Men Going Their Own Way
w:Men Going Their Own Way

(neologism, sometimes used attributively) Acronym of Men Going Their Own Way. (an anti-feminist movement)


housemother

The mother of a family; the female head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primitive community.


chambermaid

chambermaids (plural)
chamber maid (alternative)
chamber-maid (alternative)

A maid who handles the chores in a bedroom.

خَادِمَة

a maid who handles the chores in a bedroom


showgirl

She was a Las Vegas showgirl when she was younger.

A non-starring but physically beautiful female dancer in an often lavishly produced theatrical revue; a chorine.


eir

Coined by Christine M. Elverson by removing "th" from their.

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

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

A person whose habit is to stand and walk splay-footed may *think* eir feet are straight ahead, when they are actually pointed only slightly less out.

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

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

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

The adult worries much less; is cautious, sensible and knows how to protect emself and eir system from attack and error.

2004 March 31, Sue Thomas, Hello World : travels in virtuality, Raw Nerve Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 78:

And ultimately: I think my readers are mature enough that knowing eir assigned gender is not going to give them an “excuse” to misgender em.

2011 March 15, RJ Edwards, “#89: New Friend”, in Riot Nrrd, retrieved 2012-10-06:

“You idiot girl! Are you childsick?” She grabbed Asu’s wrist; Asu made no effort to twist away. “Sand and soil, tell me you’re not pregnant. Is it that—what’s eir name? Aeran? Have you lain with em? Tell me!”
[…]
Empre waded out to help them cross the last stretch. More people, a few hundred, perhaps, had gathered along the shore. One of them came running at Melu with a cry—she threw up her arms in defense. But it was Aeran, only Aeran. E seized Asu and clasped her close, eir eyes closed tightly as e sobbed eir relief.

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

(rare, nonstandard) Belonging to em, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to the singular their and coordinate with his and her.


gadgie

gadgies (plural)
gadgy (alternative)
gadgee (alternative)
gadge (alternative)
gage (alternative)

Borrowed from Romani gaʒe, plural of gaʒo (“a non-Roma”).

They also said (many times) “Fuck” and “Some gadgie's just knacked me 'ouse.”

2008, Ian Black, “An earthquake hits Newcastle”, in Geordies vs Mackems & Mackems vs Geordies, Black & White Publishing, →ISBN, page 97:

"He's in a wheelchair." Cobb took a large gulp from the bottle, showed his teeth. "How dangerous can a gadgie in a wheelchair be, eh?"

2013, Ray Banks, Wolf Tickets, Blasted Heath Ltd, →ISBN, page 49:

(Scotland, Geordie, Mackem, Teesside) A man.

(Scotland, especially Dundee, derogatory) A person who is poorly educated and engages in hooliganism, petty criminality or loutish behaviour. This usage sometimes carries the connotation of youth.


radgie gadgie

/ˈɹædʒi ˈɡædʒi/

(Geordie, derogatory) A bad-tempered old man.


zenana

From Hindi ज़नाना (zanānā), Urdu زنانه (zanānah), from Classical Persian زنانه (zanāna, “womanly”), from زن (zan, “woman”). Related to Old English cwene (“woman”). More at quean.

uder

(South Asia) Synonym of sissy, an effeminate man.


sausage party

From sausage, a slang term for the penis.

1999 March 1, Billy (an anonymous American teenager), journal entry, published in Real Teens, Volume 5: Diary of a Junior Year, Scholastic Paperbacks (2000), →ISBN, page 76,
Ok, so it was actually a sausage party, which means ha ha there weren’t so many girls there but it was still pretty great.

Of course, it doesn’t seem like a miracle that there’d be a lady at a metal show unless you’d been touring with a useless, plodding sausage party like say, oh I don’t know . . . Anthrax.

2004, Michael Ruffino, Gentlemanly Repose: Confessions of a Debauched Rock 'n' Roller, Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 131:

2005, Jessica Hopper, “Punk Is Dead! Long Live Punk!: A Report on the State of Teen Spirit from the Mobile Shopping Mall That Is the Vans Warped Tour”, originally in the Chicago Reader, reprinted in J. T. LeRoy (guest editor) and Paul Bresnick (series editor), Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005: The Year’s Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Country, and More, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 70,
The audience at Warped, unlike the sausage party you get at a typical ground-level punk show, is half-female, maybe more.

(slang, derogatory) A gathering with many more men than women.


Clarissa

Clarissa
Clarissa (novel)
Samuel Richardson

Borrowed from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Popularized in English by Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa. Doublet of Clarisse.

My wife's maiden name—Unmarried name, I should rather say […] was Harlowe—Clarissa Harlowe—you heard me call her my Clarissa—
I did—but I thought it to be a feigned or a love-name, said Miss Rawlins. […]
No—it was her real name, I said.

A female given name from Latin or Italian.


Clarissa

Clarissas (plural)
clarissa (alternative)

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

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

In the protomonastero of Santa Chiara in Assisi, erected from the outset for the Clarissas, however, equally frequent changes and modifications in the location of the nuns' choir suggest that there were still uncertainties as to the best place for it.

1992, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Hearing Is Believing: Clarissan Architecture, ca. 1213–1340”, in Gesta, volume 31, number 2, page 85:

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

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

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


bamp

‘Shut up’ hissed Gwilym. ‘Don't be so rude! He's a great old bloke. I wish he was my bamp.’

2013, Karenne Griffin, New Voices in the Valley, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 181:

Bell went back to Wales and my stayed with me. A week later Dave's brother, Ann Jane, mum and me went to lay Dave's ashes at the same spot where his mum and dad, my nan and Bamp had been laid.

2013, Angela Rogers, Dancing in the Rain: Seize the Day, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 167:

[I] might be a builder ... or a carpenter ... Might even be an engineer.... My Bamp does it. He’s an engineer

2015, D. Mannay, E. Staples, S. Hallett, L. Roberts, A. Rees, R. Evans, D. Andrews, Understanding the educational experiences and opinions, attainment, achievement and aspirations of looked after children in Wales, →ISBN, page 69:


marchioness

marchionesses (plural)
marquise (alternative)

From Medieval Latin marchionissa, feminine form of marchion, from Late Latin marca, from Frankish *markōn (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *markō (“area, region, edge, rim, border”).

der

The beauty and charm of the little marchioness and the tender hearted old colored man, with their mutual affection, forcibly remind the reader of "Uncle Tom" and "Eva."

1896, The Chautauquan, volume 22, page 382:

(slang, obsolete) An old-fashioned maid-of-all-work; female servant.


he-man

What's the matter with his talking so polite? Hell's bells, Harry, no harm in being polite. There's some regular he-men that are just as polite as women, prett' near.

1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXIX, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section V, page 352:

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
A lotta draggy party-type people there...girls all decked out & guys with he-man cologne on.

One of the better jokes arrives late into the movie, when Guy is forced to take on a brawny he-man doppelgänger—a planned addition to the game’s sequel—who the programmers haven’t finished scripting, and his unfinished dialogue is all placeholders.

2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:


pantyliner

pantyliners (plural)
pantiliner (alternative)

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A pad worn on the inner surface of women's underpants, up against the vulva, during a low-flow day of the menstrual period, designed to absorb small, spotty quantities of menstrual fluid, in contrast to a tampon or sanitary napkin, worn on heavy-flow days.


intrauterine device

en-noun

intrauterine device (plural intrauterine devices)

intrauterine devices (plural)
as IUD (abbreviation)

A contraceptive device consisting of a spiral or similar shape of plastic or metal inserted through the vagina into the uterus in order to prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg.


viscountess

viscountesses (plural)
V (alternative)
Vis. (alternative)
Visc. (alternative)
Visct (alternative)
Vtesse (alternative)

From Middle English viscountes, viscountesse, probably from Middle French viscontesse; equivalent to viscount + -ess. Doublet of vicomtesse.


quatrayle

He was the quatrayle of Zaccheus Gould, the New England immigrant.

1880, The New England Register, volume 34, New England Historic Genealogical Society, published 1996, page 433:

This means that two individuals A and B whose most recent common ancestor C is the quatrayle (or great-great-great-grandfather) of the former and the quatrayle of the latter cannot belong to the same lineage, because the genealogical chain linking A to B contains ten degrees of kinship.

2012, Oliviu Felecan, Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives, page 80:

(rare) A great-great-great-grandfather; the grandfather of the grandfather of one's father.


councilwoman

When it was the defense’s turn to try to rebut the prosecution’s case, lawyers for Mr. James called just two witnesses [—] two former councilwomen who tried to bolster the assertion of Mr. James that he could not approve property sales unilaterally.

2008 April 17, Jonathan Miller and Richard G. Jones, “Ex-Newark Mayor Convicted of Fraud”, in The New York Times:

A New York City councilwoman was charged with assault after a heated protest at the Brooklyn site of a proposed men’s homeless shelter at which, the authorities say, she bit a police chief.

2024 July 17, Hurubie Meko and Nate Schweber, “City Councilwoman Is Charged With Biting Police Chief During Protest”, in The New York Times:

A female member of a council, especially a city council; now often replaced by gender-neutral councilor (British, councillor).


councilman

Ms. Ford, a former captain in the Navy Reserves and a management consultant, and Ms. Pfeifer are often at odds with the three councilmen over policy issues.

2011 October 1, Zusha Elinson, “A Hand Slap Resounds in Sausalito”, in The New York Times:

Council says the mayor and a former councilman may have engaged in a "quid pro quo." / […] / Council says, according to a handwritten note, Fey offered to support a pay raise for Mayor Ellis if Ellis would support a raise or a job appointment for Fey's wife, Gina.

2019 March 4, “Phillipsburg council calls for new investigation of alleged quid pro quo”, in 69 News:

A male member of a council, especially a city council.

rådmand

historical. Currently used term for committee chairmen in certain cities


products of conception

(medicine) The human fetus, placenta and other such by-products of a miscarriage or abortion.


gramma

/ˈɡɹæ(m)mɑː/

Go on, there, driver, gramma is going.

1901, Karl Groos, James Mark Baldwin, The Play of Man, page 138:

My gramma—all her hair is white Like snow is, but it isn't cold.

1910 January, W.D.N., “The Dinner at Grampa's”, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 120, number 716, page 321:

Polly trotted here and there with motions of taking gramma's hand, and so forth.

1952, Louise Woodcock, Life and Ways of the Two-year-old, page 244:


gramma

Traditionally Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata have been placed into two groups - pumpkins and grammas respectively.

1941, H. Barnes, Robert Veitch, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, John Howard Simmonds, The Queensland Agricultural and Pastoral Handbook, Volume 1, page 238,
Pumpkins and grammas are harvested when mature, usually when the vines have died or been frosted.

The papaw pumpkin belongs to a different species (C. moschata) and is classed as a gramma.

1952, Desmond Andrew Herbert, Gardening in Warm Climates, page 151:

1983, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, Revised 2005, Republished 2009, page 493,
Gramma, or bugle, pumpkin is the variety traditionally used for pumpkin pie, but if it is not available, use butternut instead.

Cucurbita moschata
Cucurbita moschata#Translingual

(Australia) A variety of pumpkin, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata.


gramma

Accompanying said proposal any effort was made by the government to was a bond executed by said Drachman as obtain gramma hay for use at Ft. Huachuca.

1898, “Dennis v. United States”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 52, page 355:

It is sometimes known as the "gramma grass," and is probably as valuable as any of the true gramma grasses; it is also called "mesquite grass."

1902, Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior, page 233:

It is relished by cattle and horses, and is next to the gramma in value in those regions.

1906, William Harding Carter, Horses, Saddles and Bridles, page 369:


gramma

From Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma). Doublet of gram.

The studies were divided into three branches. First, the grammata, which included reading, writing, and arithmetic; secondly, music; and thirdly, gymnastics.

1855, J. Talboys Wheeler, The Life and Travels of Herodotus in the Fifth Century Before Christ: An Imaginary Biography Founded on Fact, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 22:

The subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic.


beldame

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From late (1400–1450) Middle English bel (“good”), from Old French bel (“beautiful”) + Latin bellus + dam (“mother”), Middle English dame.

Justice is an old hobbling beldame, and I can't get her to keep pace with Generosity, for the soul of me.

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

[…] have a curiosity to hear my fortune told: therefore, Sam, order the beldame forward.

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:

The tablets upon which the events of the day were recorded refer to enchantresses, and we can conclude that they were by no means restricted to ancient beldames.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 25:

Suddenly the beldam shrieks as if she's been stuck with a dagger, long rasping insuck of breath: ‘Eeeeeeeee!’

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 6:

(now archaic) An old woman, particularly an ugly one.


crone

From Middle English crone, from Anglo-Norman carogne (compare central Old French charogne (a term of abuse, literally “carrion, carcass, old sheep, hag”), whence modern French charogne). Doublet of carrion.

вещица

ugly evil-looking or frightening old woman; a hag

But still the crone was constant to her note.

1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bathe’s Tale. As it was Written by Geffrey Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:


eclampsia

en-noun

eclampsia (usually uncountable, plural eclampsias)

eclampsias (plural)
eclampsy (alternative)

Borrowed from New Latin eclampsia, from French éclampsie, from Ancient Greek ἔκλᾰμψῐς (éklămpsĭs, “sudden development, violent onset”, literally “brightness”), from ἐκλᾰ́μπω (eklắmpō, “to shine or beam forth; to burst forth violently”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, nominal suffix).

af

(pathology) A complication of pregnancy characterized by seizures and coma due to hypertension.


come on

en-verb

come on (third-person singular simple present comes on, present participle coming on, simple past came on, past participle come on)

comes on (present singular third-person)
coming on (participle present)
came on (past)
come on (participle past)

The light came on as soon as I flicked the switch.

She pressed the power button and waited for the screen to come on.

(intransitive, of an electric or electronic device, especially a light) To activate; to turn on.


kept woman

He said: "Why bother about a career? After all, kept woman is a thoroughly respectable occupation—or can be made so by any preacher or justice of the peace. . . ."
"I could not belong to a man unless I cared for him," said she.

1912, David Graham Phillips, chapter 6, in The Price She Paid:

"I'm a kept woman," she explained. "What else is any woman?"

1919, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 5, in All Roads Lead to Calvary:

Fannie Hurst's tender and moving biography of a kept woman is here reproduced in a sincere, detailed picture. Irene Dunne . . . falls in love with John Boles, a pedigreed young banker, who by a series of misunderstandings, makes her his mistress instead of his wife.

1932 August 8, “Cinema: The New Pictures”, in Time:

A woman who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married man).


suction curettage

en-noun

suction curettage (usually uncountable, plural suction curettages)

products of conception
products of conception

A common method of abortion where the products of conception are removed by a vacuum arrangement.


pre-op

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(transgender) A preoperative trans person.


preoperative

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Coordinate term: postoperative


preoperative

A transgender person who has not yet undergone gender reassignment surgery.


pseudohermaphroditism

pseudohermaphroditism (countable and uncountable, plural pseudohermaphroditisms)

A condition in which an individual has the internal reproductive organs of one sex but the external genitalia of the other.

pseudohermafroditisme

having different internal and external sexual organs


stableman

In fact, a horse that has been accustomed to be attended by a stableman will want to have little niceties done to him that a hawbuck of a groom never thinks of doing.

1851, Harry Hieover, The Pocket and the Stud, page 93:

A person employed to take care of horses in a stable.


yorga

yorgas (plural)
yok (alternative)
yoka (alternative)
yorgah (alternative)
york (alternative)

1910, E. Hassell, My Dusky Friends
At last he took a third york. She was a foolish young thing, but very fond of him ... he paid her more attention than the generality of husbands.

1968, W. H. Douglas, Aboriginal Language of south-west Australia
‘Yokas’ is ‘girls’ (Note the English plural suffix on yoka).

1981, Archie Weller, Day of Dog
‘Not much work going ’ere, orright, drinkin’ gabba and smokin’. Where’s all the yorgas?’ Pretty Boy grins.

1982, J. Davis, Kullark
I’ll tell you what ’e’ll do, e’ll finish up marryin’ some Wetjala yok, ’ave blue-eyed kids and ’e won’t want nothing to do with us.

1986, A. Weller, Going Home
‘Yeah. Us blokes are fuckin’ muritch,’ said Morry lazily ... ‘Ssh, youse mob. Couple yorgas comin’ in.’

1991, G. Ward, Unna you fullas
Their mother had told them he met a yorga, whom he was mardong for.

‘Right,’ said the old fella, ‘I'll get the ute ready, an' tell Auntie Florrie you an' me goin' out. You tell your yorgah too.’

1996, Alf Taylor, ‘The Wool Pickers’, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 174

(Australian Aboriginal) A woman, especially an Aboriginal woman.


gamin

Borrowed from French gamin (“street urchin; young boy”), apparently an “eastern dialect” word of unknown origin.

bor

Dearest Eloise,— There is one little and perhaps insignificant French cake, which I feel certain would soon become a favourite in the cottage, more particularly amongst its juvenile inhabitants. It is the famed galette, the melodramatic food of the gamins, galopins, mechanics, and semi-artists of France.

1854, Alexis [Benoît] Soyer, A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy, London, New York, N.Y.: George Routledge & Co., →OCLC, page 125:

The Paris gamin is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has bad teeth, because he is poorly fed, and his stomach suffers and fine eyes because he has genius. [...] To sum up all once more, the gamin of Paris of the present day is, as the grœculus of Rome was in ancient times, the people as a child, with the wrinkles of the old world on its brow. The gamin is a beauty and, at the same time, a disease of the nation—a disease that must be cured. How? By light.

1862, Victor Hugo, “The Ancient Soul of Gaul” and “Ecce Paris, Ecce Homo”, in Cha[rle]s E[dwin] Wilbour, transl., Les Misérables. Marius. […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: [George W.] Carleton, publisher, […], →OCLC, book 2, page 14:

Here, in front, the deserted street was white and black and silent, under the electric lamps. All the lonelier for two wretched gamins, counting their dirty sous, and draggled newspapers.

1894, [Robert William Chambers], chapter XVII, in In the Quarter, New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill.: F. Tennyson Neely, publisher, →OCLC, page 313:

Then—far-off music and excitement. Faces at the windows. Naked yellow gamins begin to dance. [...] Down the square the procession goes, followed by the music, turns a corner, and is lost. The gamins leave off dancing.

1923, Evelyn Scott, “Part IV”, in Escapade, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 135:

According to [Gustave] d'Outrepont, Paris is the boy's metaphoric mother, rocking and nursing him in the streets. Attending all municipal events, street spectacles, and popular theater (where he managed by his wits to get in for free), the gamin is constructed in dualities: child and man, cowardly and brave, serious and laughing, cruel and sympathetic.

2017, Marilyn R. Brown, “The Gamin de Paris and the Revolution of 1830”, in The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-century Visual Culture: Delacroix, Hugo, and the French Social Imaginary, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 39–40:

(dated, also attributively) A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally), a cheeky, street-smart boy.


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From wife + -let (diminutive suffix). Sense 3 (“long-term girlfriend; mistress”) is said to have been coined in the 1960s by Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (1932–2020) in reference to his numerous mistresses.

The Marquess [Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath], now 74, who is best known for his remarkably unorthodox dress sense, his pornographic murals and his series of wifelets, is fixing me with a priapic eye while slurping wine from a beer glass. "I need some more," he declares loudly. "Wine?" I inquire. "No, wifelets, of course."

2007 March 30, Petronella Wyatt, “The Marquess of Bath – on the prowl for ‘wifelet 76’”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-04:

The multi-millionaire [Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath] named his numerous girlfriends wifelets when he embarked on his "polyamorous" lifestyle shortly after marrying in 1969. [...] The trouble between two of the women erupted on Sunday night as a fight broke out in his Wiltshire stately home, Longleat – famed for its safari park lions. As the wifelets fought for his affections Lord Bath retired to his bedroom, which is decorated with murals inspired by the Kama Sutra, the Indian sex manual.

2011 June 11, Sara Dixon, “Police called over love-tussle for the Loins of Longleat”, in Hugh Whittow, editor, Daily Express, London: Express Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-09-27:

The polyamorous lifestyle of Alexander Thynn, the 7th Marquess, has been scarcely concealed by the Marquess himself and well documented in the press, who had sunk their teeth into the latest episode just weeks before this ride. The nose of a well-proportioned lady with the remarkably appropriate name of Trudi Juggernauth-Sharma, believed to be wifelet number 68, allegedly came into close physical contact with the fist of Amanda Doyle, an Irish singer and also a wifelet (sequential number unknown), after an exchange of words about the prospects of Mr Thynn, 79 at the time, fathering a child with Ms Doyle.

2013, Richard Guise, “Stage 6: Prohibited Activities”, in A Wiggly Way through England, [s.l.]: Richard Guise, →ISBN, page 71:

Now 83, he [Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath] has a fortune of more than £150 million and famously lives on the estate with several girlfriends who he refers to as ‘wifelets’.

2016 June 2, Alice Vincent, “We hope to move Glastonbury to Longleat by 2019, says Michael Eavis”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-27:

(informal, by extension) A long-term girlfriend; a mistress (the “other woman” in an extramarital relationship).


crowning

From Middle English crouninge, crounynge, coroning, coronyng, equivalent to crown + -ing.

When your baby’s head remains visible without slipping back in, it is known as crowning.

2012 April, Baby Crowning, American Pregnancy Association:

(obstetrics) The stage of vaginal childbirth when the infant's head remains consistently visible at the vulva.


beardless

en-adj

beardless (comparative more beardless, superlative most beardless)

more beardless (comparative)
most beardless (superlative)

From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard + -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”).

cog

shall a beardless boy,
Cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields,
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
And find no check?

1596, Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, Scene 1:

(by extension, of a male) Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.


sex change

A change in sex, either natural or artificial.


prophetess

From Middle English prophetesse, from Old French prophetesse, from Late Latin prophetissa. By surface analysis, prophet + -ess.

What made matters worse was that Montanus was accompanied by female prophetesses who spoke in states of ecstasy.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 138:


paternal grandfather

en-noun

paternal grandfather (plural paternal grandfathers)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paternal, grandfather. (This entry is a translation hub.)


maternal grandmother

maternal grandmother (plural maternal grandmothers)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see maternal, grandmother. (This entry is a translation hub.)


maternal grandfather

maternal grandfather (plural maternal grandfathers)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see maternal, grandfather. (This entry is a translation hub.)


Homecoming King

Homecoming King (plural Homecoming Kings)

(US) In colleges and high schools, a young man chosen by his peers to "reign" over the traditional activities associated with the Homecoming football game, usually alongside a Homecoming Queen.


prom queen

Coordinate term: prom king

(US) In colleges and high schools, a young woman chosen, or sometimes elected by her peers, to have an honored status over the school's prom and related activities.


prom king

Coordinate term: prom queen

(US) In colleges and high schools, a young man chosen, or sometimes elected by his peers, to have an honored status over the school's prom and related activities.


postfeminism

postfeminism (usually uncountable, plural postfeminisms)

Any of a wide range of theories that respond to feminism, arguing that it is no longer relevant or that it needs to be extended to fit the changing expectations and experiences of women.

postfeminisme

range of viewpoints that position themselves as reactions to feminism


machosexual

/ˌmæt͡ʃ.əʊˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/

From macho + -sexual, modelled after metrosexual.

A man who eschews modern trendy aesthetics in favor of pursuits traditionally considered more manly.


family planning

Birth control, especially when carried out by monogamous heterosexual couples.

計劃生育 /计划生育

birth control, especially when carried out by monogamous heterosexual couples


usuress

/ˌjuːʒəˈɹɛs/

That woman — that usuress — only lent me £20, but expected £50 back after just one week!


ASD

ASD (countable and uncountable, plural ASDs)

anti-slut defense
anti-slut defense#English

(seduction community) Initialism of anti-slut defense.


interlocutress

Milly hereupon replied appreciatively that such a description of herself made her feel as if pink paper were her dress and lavender its trimming; but Aunt Maud was not to be deterred by a weak joke from keeping it up. Her interlocutress could feel besides that she kept it up in perfect sincerity.

1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:


antifeminist

en-adj

antifeminist (comparative more antifeminist, superlative most antifeminist)

more antifeminist (comparative)
most antifeminist (superlative)

He evolved to connect the antifeminist ridicule of the New Woman to the growing backlash against male homosexuals, the Somdomites and inverts.

2013, Doug Kirshen, Six Weeks—The New Man and the London Theatre Season of 1895: Henry James, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde (thesis at Brandeis University)


antifeminist

This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male supremacist world.

2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism:

A person who is antagonistic to feminism.


antifeminism

en-noun

antifeminism (countable and uncountable, plural antifeminisms)

antifeminisms (plural)
anti-feminism (alternative)

Instead, they rallied around issues like free speech and antifeminism, portraying themselves as truth-telling rebels doing battle against humorless “social justice warriors.”

2019 August 6, Kevin Roose, “The Making of a YouTube Radical”, in The New York Times:


temptress

An alluring woman who seduces or exploits men.


maid of honour

maids of honour (plural)
maid of honor (alternative)


seeress

As the seeress stood irresolute the tall young secretary half rose and whispered something in her ear.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

From the numinous fire of fehu Frigg and Freyja receive their gifts as seeresses.

1989, Edred Thorsson, Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, York Beach, Me.: S. Weiser, page 115:


sistren

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Analysable as sister + -en (plural ending).

nonlemma

[…] teachers, parents, and above all his classmates the seething masses of dutiful zombies and sistren of the Evervirgin Sorority.

1997, Enrico Brizzi, Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band:

(figuratively) The (female) body of members, especially of a sorority or religious order.


sistren

Come out of the dark and come into the light, sistren.

2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 157:

(Rastafari) A close female friend, family member, or comrade.


bunny girl

(slang) A club hostess or other female entertainer wearing a sexually provocative outfit with rabbit-like ears and tail.

兔女郎

club hostess in provocative costume suggestive of a rabbit


fembot

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Blend of female + -bot. Coined by screenwriters Arthur Rowe and Oliver Crawford in the television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), specifically in "Kill Oscar" (season 2, episode 5) first broadcast on October 27, 1976.

(science fiction) A robot in female or feminine form.

A robot in female or feminine form.
A female sexbot.


fae

head

fae (oblique fae, possessive adjective faer, possessive pronoun faers, reflexive faerself)

fae (oblique)
faer (adjective possessive)
faers (possessive pronoun without-noun)
faerself (reflexive)

Vandikas' parents, for example, haven't yet fully embraced the concept. Faer mother once asked faer to help her understand how fae would like her to talk about faer. Fae was encouraged, but faer mother's use of the pronouns didn't last – maybe, fae said, because it was such a foreign concept to the older generation, "so I just said to myself, she's my mom, I'll deal with it."

2016 September 22, Kim Zarzour, “Language Matters”, in Parkdale Villager, Parkdale, Toronto, ON, page 15:

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

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

Soul describes and shares part of the "I AM" poem which fae wrote for faer college application.

2022, Sherry Paris, You Can Make a Difference!: A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young Activists, page 24:

(rare, nonstandard, neologism) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they, and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.


anchorwoman

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