co-uncle

co-brother-in-law

relative to the married siblings rather than to the children; however, this term generally refers to a different relationship, that of two men who marry sisters

Cicero continued however to write anxiously to Atticus, his co-uncle, about the young man's remarkable gifts and unsatisfactory character.
[Cicero's younger brother married Atticus's sister, and the couple had a son Quintus; Cicero and Atticus were thus co-uncles to Quintus, the nephew they had in common]

1975, Elizabeth Rawson, Cicero: a portrait, page 195:

of a man, an uncle of one's niece or nephew who is not one's brother; a co-brother-in-law as common uncle to the children of two men's married siblings.


co-aunt

of a woman, an aunt of one's niece or nephew who is not one's sister; a co-sister-in-law as common aunt to the children of two women's married siblings.


co-father

From co- + father, in sense 1 as a calque of Latin compater, French compère.

Coordinate term: co-mother

gay co-fathers and their children are never sure of finding acceptance in straight communities.

2008, Elizabeth Rudd, Lara Descartes, The changing landscape of work and family in the American middle class, page 165:

In a male homosexual couple, the nonbiological father (partner of the biological father) of a child.


sororal nephew

The son of one's sister. (This entry is a translation hub.)


sororal niece

The daughter of one's sister. (This entry is a translation hub.)


fraternal nephew

en-noun

fraternal nephew (plural fraternal nephews)

The son of one's brother. (This entry is a translation hub.)


fraternal niece

fraternal niece (plural fraternal nieces)

The daughter of one's brother. (This entry is a translation hub.)


gunwoman

From gun + -woman, by analogy with gunman.


plowboy

plowboys (plural)
ploughboy (alternative)

A boy who helps the plowman by driving the draught animals in front of the plow.


fishmongeress

fishmongeresses (plural)
fish mongress (alternative)
fish-mongress (alternative)
fishmongress (alternative)


prepregnancy

After adjusting for prepregnancy weight, smoking status and other variables, the average birth weight of babies in the decaf group was a statistically insignificant one-half ounce higher than that of babies in the coffee-drinking group.

2007 February 13, Nicholas Bakalar, “Childbirth: Cutting Caffeine Not Found to Affect Birth Weight”, in New York Times:


nonmale

Feminists and others were expanding it by introducing aspects of beading, sewing, quilting, rug-making and more performance, thereby introducing elements of craft, the body and personal identity, and forcefully defining creators as nonmale or nonwhite.

2007 February 16, Roberta Smith, “Painting in the Heady Days, After It Was Proclaimed Dead”, in New York Times:


beardy

en-adj

beardy (comparative beardier or more beardy, superlative beardiest or most beardy)

beardier (comparative)
more beardy (comparative)
beardiest (superlative)
most beardy (superlative)

From beard + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian boartich (“bearded”), Dutch baardig (“bearded”), German bärtig (“bearded”).

The Doge is one of the popular barytone's most weighty performances, and we do not remember to have heard his voice more powerful, his acting more beardy and emphatic.

1851, The Musical World, volume 29, page 228:


menstrual period

en-noun

menstrual period (plural menstrual periods)

menstrual periods (plural)
menstruation period (alternative)

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An event of a woman's discharging of menstrual flow of blood and cells.


the rabbit died

Robin finally was able to announce: "Good news! The rabbit died!" She said she was thrilled and that everybody was happy for her except her mother.

1993, Maurice Apprey, Intersubjectivity, Projective Identification, and Otherness, page 153:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Indicates one's own pregnancy, or that someone has found out they are pregnant.


meemaw

meemaws (plural)
meema (alternative)
memaw (alternative)

Probably an affectionate alteration of mama or reduplication of maw (“mother”).

“Let's celebrate with drinks at Tipsy River.” “Uh, I don't want to go to Tipsy River. I don't want to bother my meemaw while she's working.” “Let's not push it. He's embarrassed of his country-ass grandma.” “Don't be embarrassed of your meemaw, Wayne. She's fun.”

2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (3:29 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by Wayne Edwards (Ike Barinholtz):

“Captain, we are in orbit of Brekka.” “Dr. Migleemo, you have the conn.” “Ba-ha-ha. A feast of opportunities to make you proud, Captain.” “Keep it together, Doctor. You'll do fine.” “[sniffles] It's really happening.” “Orders, sir?” “Yes. Initiate a subspace communication link to my meema. I want her to see her special boy being the captain!” “Yes, sir.”

2022 October 20, Ben M. Waller, “Trusted Sources” (17:12 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 3, episode 9, spoken by Dr. Gabers Migleemo (Paul F. Tompkins):

(US, dialect, Southern US) Synonym of mamaw (“grandmother”)


repairwoman

From repair + -woman on the model of repairman.

A female repairer, a woman who repairs things.


cat lady

Beacon Hill’s notorious cat lady was in the spotlight again yesterday after an angry confrontation with cops who say they found at least two dead felines in her freezer following a brief standoff at her Plymouth home.

2009 March 19, Jessica Fargen, “Cops: Lady froze her cats again”, in Boston Herald:

The most common is a female character. Single of course, lamenting that she can never own a cat because once you have one you won't be far away from being the cat lady of the neighborhood.

2009 November, Suzanne Mullett, ABC News:

We all know the stereotype of the crazy cat lady who lives alone in a home that smells of stale litter. But how unjust is it really?

2023 October 3, Sirin Kale, “Purring, parasites and pure love: what exactly makes someone a cat person?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Aniston was responding to recently resurfaced 2021 comments by Vance, who told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the US was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

2024 July 25, Catherine Shoard, quoting JD Vance, “Jennifer Aniston criticises JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ comment”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(informal, sometimes derogatory) A woman, often elderly, who devotes her time and attention to one or usually many domestic cats.

femme à chats

elderly lady who devotes her attention to cats


step-uncle

step-uncles (plural)
stepuncle (alternative)

The brother of someone's stepmother or stepfather.

The stepbrother of someone's mother or father.


step-niece

The daughter of someone's stepbrother or stepsister.


step-nephew

The son of someone's stepbrother or stepsister.


AIS

AIS (countable and uncountable, plural AISs or AISes or AIS's)

AISs (plural)
AISes (plural)
AIS's (plural)

/ˈeɪ ˈaɪ ˈɛs/

Australian Illawarra Shorthorn
w:en:Australian Illawarra Shorthorn

Initialism of Australian Illawarra Shorthorn (cattle breed).


wonderboy

Daddy had been using that child for a boy prophet, building up a whole new ministry around him, since the child was four years old, calling him a wonderboy...

...the wonderboys of Detroit and Wall Street...

He could have been a robot really. He could be taught to do anything, the coaches thought. He was a wonderboy.

2004, Joshua Cooper Ramo, No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport:

(informal) A male child prodigy, or (loosely) a talented male of any age.


saintess

From Middle English seintesse. By surface analysis, saint + -ess.


Klinefelter syndrome

Named after Harry Klinefelter, who identified the condition in the 1940s.

A genetic condition in which a person is born with two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome.


riot grrrl

riot grrrl (countable and uncountable, plural riot grrrls or riot grrrlz)

riot grrrls (plural)
riot grrrlz (plural)
riot grrl (alternative)
Riot Grrl (alternative)

The Riot Grrl scene emerged in the early '90s, but had faded as a driving force in popular culture by the end of the decade. Looking back, most associate the Riot Grrl movement mainly with music, and although the music entered the popular culture, it's fair to say that much of the feminist message has been lost.

2004, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, The F-word, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 86:

(uncountable) An underground feminist punk movement and subculture that began in the early 1990s.

Riot grrrls also wanted self-definition through the written word and promoted a female-centered version of punk's DIY politics.

2001, Miriam Forman-Brunell, Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 564:

(countable) A (usually female) member of this subculture.


masculineness

The state or condition of being masculine.


feminineness

feminineness (usually uncountable, plural femininenesses)

The state or condition of being feminine.


jillflirt

jillflirts (plural)
jill-flirt (alternative)
gil-flirt (alternative)
gill-flirt (alternative)

[W]hile a man is grappling with these gil-flirts, pardon the expression, Captain, he runs his reason a-ground […].

(obsolete) A flirtatious woman; a hussy.


cum dumpster

cum dumpsters (plural)
cumdumpster (alternative)
cum-dumpster (alternative)

The artist collected one hundred used white dress shirts and employed the formal conventions of male fashion to describe the double standards of society’s responses to sex for male versus female teenagers. […] On the back of each shirt, a centerline separated the categories “Male” and “Female.” The male side is articulated by only two adjectives: “stud” and “man.” On the female side is a spill of slanderous words and phrases used to characterize sexually active young women: “whore,” “cunt,” “slut,” “cum-dumpster.”

[1995, Patricia C. Phillips, “Peggy Diggs: Private Acts and Public Art”, in Nina Felshin, editor, But Is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism, Seattle: Bay Press, →ISBN, page 308:

“We fucked the shit out of this cum dumpster the other night,” he explains. Oh, I say. The photos show a woman, probably in her early twenties, wearing nothing except for white socks sagging around her ankles.

2001, Ken Baker, Man Made: A Memoir of My Body, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, →ISBN:

She was unclean, she had let herself be used in the filthiest way, she was a ratty hotel washrag, a cum dumpster.

2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 493:

I would be spending my evening with a nice cum dumpster named Bubbles. Dressed from head to toe in tight black leather, she only had to show me the ball gag in her hand.

2004 April 2, Lord Bumblebee, “Getting Tickled by Bubbles”, in The GW Hatchet, Washington, retrieved 2022-01-30:

I would explain it's because you aid and abet my skeezy ex, the Blowpipe! Devil Girl! The Cum Dumpster! Motorhole!

2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic, or, The Sexual Intellectual, Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, →ISBN, page 143:

(vulgar, derogatory, offensive, slang) A sexually promiscuous person, usually a woman or bottom, who has sexual relations with men who often ejaculate in their body cavities.


assassinatrix

From Latin assassinatrix. By surface analysis, assassinate + -trix.

surf

The young Socialists had glorified Vera Sassoulitsch, the Russian would-be assassinatrix.

1881, Leonard A. Montefiore, Essays and Letters Contributed to Various Periodicals between September 1877 and August 1879, together with Some Unpublished Fragments, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page xlvi:

[T]he Bride tracks down [David] Carradine's Bill—leader, mentor and more to this unstoppable assassinatrix.

2004 April 14, Richard von Busack, “‘Bill’ Paying: When Everything is Cool, Nothing is Hip—Quentin Tarantino Kills Again [review of Kill Bill: Volume 2]”, in Metroactive, Metro Silicon Valley, archived from the original on 2015-09-21:

Having appeared with Jason [Statham] in Lock, Stock [and Two Smoking Barrels], Snatch and Mean Machine didn't necessarily qualify Jason Flemyng to play the hapless Russian villain Dimitri, while Kate Nauta's role as an evil assassinatrix dressed only in bra, pants, suspenders and high heels teetered from the initially sexy to the rudely ridiculous.

2011, Len Brown, Jason Statham: Taking Stock, London: Orion Publishing, →OCLC:

Charlotte Corday
French Revolution
Jean-Paul Marat
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
Reign of Terror


gendercide

en-noun

gendercide (usually uncountable, plural gendercides)

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From gender + -cide, by analogy with femicide, homicide, etc. Doublet of genocide.

The killing of people because of their gender.


butt-woman

butt-women (plural)
butt woman (alternative)

My thoughts always revert to the angry butt-woman when the second chapter of St. James' Epistle is read in its ordinary course.

1862, Margaret Goodman, Experiences of an English Sister of Mercy, London: Smith and Elder, page 26:

"It was more like a funeral than a wedding," said the butt-woman, who was the sole spectator of the ceremony, with the exception of the bride's uncle and aunt, told her friends afterwards.

1892 September, Annie Thomas, “The Honourable Jane.”, in Belgravia: a London magazine, volume 79, page 10:

The butt-woman was just setting forth the need of money for church repairs but she interrupted herself when she found me studying monuments.

1909 March, Edna Bourne Holman, “At Herrick's home in Devon”, in Scribner's Magazine, volume XLV, number 3, page 259:

(obsolete, chiefly British) A female lay church worker who tends the pews in a church; a sextoness.


fetus in fetu

fetuses in fetu (plural)
foetus in foetu (alternative)

(medicine, obstetrics) A fetus growing inside the body of another fetus, either from an unsuccessful twin pregnancy, or as a tumorlike growth.


ex-stepfather

A previous husband of one's mother during one's lifetime, other than one's father, typically following the divorce or death of the father.


ex-stepmother

A previous wife of one's father during one's lifetime, other than one's mother, typically following the divorce or death of the mother.


ex-stepdad

(informal) An ex-stepfather, implying affection.


ex-stepmom

(informal) An ex-stepmother, implying affection.


materfamilias

materfamilias (plural materfamiliases or matresfamilias)

materfamiliases (plural)
matresfamilias (plural)

From Latin māter familiās, mother of the household.

The materfamilias and her daughters do a good deal of the housework, and even open the front door on occasion.

1903, Luigi Villari, Italian Life in Town and Country, pages 110–111:

That my old-country materfamilias is actually Chinese--Mandarin Chinese, yet--is a negligible discrepancy.

1990 June 1, Mary Shen Barnidge, “Who Killed the Dragon Lady”, in Chicago Reader:


boys' club

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(informal) A male-dominated organization, especially in business, that excludes or mistreats women.


old boys' club

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A boys' club (an organization that excludes women), especially one with an established history of male control.


tenniswoman

tenniswoman (plural tenniswomen or tenniswomans)

tenniswomen (plural)
tenniswomans (plural)

From French tenniswoman. Equivalent to tennis + -woman.

I will speak whit a tenniswoman please can you me whrit .

1999 November 7, etienne.wala, “VIDEOS OF GREAT TENNIS MATCHES”, in alt.video.tape-trading (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

I'm french (rouen) and i think that french tenniswomans will be the best. mary pierce is 5, nathalie tauziat is 7, julie halard-decugis is 9 and amelie mauresmo is 10. i think it's very great!
what do you think about french tenniswomans?
what do you think about french tennis in generality?
tnanks, seb

1999 November 21, Sank76, “FRENCH TENNISWOMAN”, in alt.tennis (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

Give the tenniswomen their "own" grandslams: the first 2 days for the women with a 16 players draw and playing two matches a day which is easy because they play best of three "matches" only.

2005 June 5, Carty Staniu, “Tenniswomen demand less prizemoney”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

In this case, fake nude photos of Steffi Graf, the retired tenniswoman, showing her head morphed to another woman's nude body, were posted on a Web site run by the ISP Microsoft Germany. She asked the company to remove the pictures that appeared on its site. The ISP complied with her request but the tenniswomen asked also the company to sign an undertaking that they would not appear again.

2008 December 8, Vari L. Cinicke, “... Agassi sues Graf”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

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


Turner syndrome

Named after Henry Turner who first described the condition in 1938.

(medicine, medical genetics) A particular genetic condition, caused by partially or completely missing an X chromosome (monosomy), that leads to sterility and other issues.


postgenderism

A sociopolitical and cultural movement which arose from the eroding of the cultural, biological, psychological and social role of gender, and an argument for why the erosion of binary gender will be liberatory.

A sociopolitical and cultural movement for the voluntary elimination of gender in the human species through the application of biotechnology.


xyr

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

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

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

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

There's no central authority, and each server administrator owns xyr own server sets xyr own policy. Each server administrator sets xyr own policy for honouring cancel messages, too.

2010 November 5, Kevin G. Rhoads, “Re: Spam in the group.”, in openwatcom.users.fortran (Usenet), message-ID <4CD469A3.3985E10C@alum.mit.edu>:

This is xyr book.

(nonstandard, possessive) Belonging to xe, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.


xyrself

head

xyrself (the third person singular, gender-neutral, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of xe, feminine herself, masculine himself, neuter itself, plural themselves)

en-pron

xe (reflexive-of)
herself (feminine)
himself (masculine)
itself (neuter)
themselves (plural)

Xe injured xyrself.

Judy said: [...] What I am interested in is how does it feel for the autistic person xyrself to go through this program. I have heard many negative testimonials [...]

1995 May 23, Phil Schwarz, “Re[1]: Giant Steps”, in bit.listserv.autism (Usenet):

(reflexive pronoun, rare, nonstandard) xyr; the gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject


ovotestis

(biology) A gonad with characteristics of both ovaries and testicles. Considered an intersex condition in humans and some other animals.


antitranssexual

en-adj

antitranssexual (comparative more antitranssexual, superlative most antitranssexual)

more antitranssexual (comparative)
most antitranssexual (superlative)
anti-transsexual (alternative)

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"The idea that I am part of an antigay, antitranssexual conservative conspiracy is laughable," says Bailey. "

2003 December 12, Dennis Rodkin, “Sex and Transsexuals”, in Chicago Reader:


transvestitism

en-noun

transvestitism (usually uncountable, plural transvestitisms)

And if you factor in transvestitism, things get really stirred up.

2009 August 21, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:


witcher

From witch + -er, a male equivalent of witch using the -er suffix as masculine, as in widower vs. widow, a calque of Polish wiedźmin. Possibly influenced by witchery.
The Polish word was coined in 1986 by author Andrzej Sapkowski as a male equivalent of wiedźma (“witch”) for his The Witcher book series and media franchise. The English calque witcher was popularized by the series' English translation.


birthmother

birthmothers (plural)
birth mother (alternative)

The Agency educated us on the adoption process and gave us the opportunity to meet with other adoptive parents and also prospective birthmothers.

1989 June 16, Adoptive mother and father, “Top-Notch Agency”, in Chicago Reader:

The biological mother of an adopted child.


contracept

en-verb

contracept (third-person singular simple present contracepts, present participle contracepting, simple past and past participle contracepted)

contracepts (present singular third-person)
contracepting (participle present)
contracepted (participle past)
contracepted (past)

Back-formation of contraception. Attested US 1932, with earlier occasional use as abbreviation for contraceptive in the medical literature; popularized US mid-1960s in the context of the sexual revolution.

(transitive) To administer contraception, especially to a population of wild animals


immunocontraception

(medicine) The use of an immune response to facilitate contraception


genitrix

en-noun

genitrix (plural genitrixes or genitrices)

genitrixes (plural)
genitrices (plural)
genetrix (alternative)


belsire

From Middle English bellsyre, bel sire, belsire, belsyre, equivalent to bel- + sire.


dollface

dollface (usually uncountable, plural dollfaces)

(slang, often endearing) An attractive woman.


foundress

foundresses (plural)
founderess (alternative)

From Middle English founderess, founderesse, foundress (“female founder or builder of a city; female founder or benefactor of a religious house; (figuratively) female inventor or originator; (figuratively) a source”) [and other forms]; from founder, foundere, foundour (“founder or builder of a building, city, country, etc.; builder or endower of a church, college, monastery, etc.; benefactor or patron of such an institution; charter member of a guild; first head of a religious organization; inventor, originator; (figuratively) earliest of a class of people; (figuratively) a source”) + -esse (“suffix forming female forms of words”). Foundour is derived from Anglo-Norman fundur, Old French fondeor, fondeur (“creator, instigator, founder”) (modern French fondeur), from Latin fundātor (“founder”) (rare), from fundō (“to make by smelting, found”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”)) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns). The English word is analysable as founder + -ess (suffix forming female forms of words).

suffix

But whether he departed without the French kings conſent or diſaſſent, he deceiued in his expectacion, and in maner in diſpaire, retourned againe to the Lady Margaret his firſt fooliſh foundreſſe.

1569, Richard Grafton, “Henry the Seuenth”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 898:

Forgetfull of himſelfe, his bearth, his Country, friends, and all, / And onely minding (vvhom he miſt) the Foundreſſe of his thrall.

1602, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XX.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 94:

He humbly louted in meeke lovvlineſſe, / And ſeemely vvelcome for her did prepare: / For of their order ſhe vvas Patroneſſe, / Albe Chariſſa vvere their chiefeſt foundereſſe.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44, page 147:

This VVoman conceiving there vvas not already Sects enough amongſt Chriſtians, had it in her Head to make another. And moreover, Perſons of her Sex having not been accuſtomed to be Foundreſſes of Religions, ſhe thought that hers vvould make her conſiderable in the VVorld by the ſingularity of its Original.

1689, [Pierre] Jurieu, “An Article of Controversie. Reflections on a Writing Newly Sent to the Churches of France. A Continuation of the Matter Concerning the Unity of the Church.”, in [anonymous], transl., The Pastoral Letters of the Incomparable Jurieu, Directed to the Protestants in France Groaning under the Babylonish Tyranny, Translated: […], London: […] T. Fabian, […]; and J. Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, page 144:

For zeal like her's her ſervants vvere too ſlovv; / She vvas the firſt, vvhere need requir'd, to go; / Herſelf the foundreſs and attendant too.

c. 1691 (date written), John Dryden, “Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem, Dedicated to the Memory of the Late Countess of Abingdon”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 233:

[I]f he had been acquainted vvith the names of the many foundreſſes and benefactreſſes in our tvvo univerſities, he vvould not have advanced ſo great an untruth.

1766, “PEMBROKE, (Mary Sidney, countess of)”, in Biographium Fæmineum. The Female Worthies: Or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies, of All Ages and Nations, […], volume II, London: […] S. Crowder, […], →OCLC, page 191:

[I]n death repose, / For her, the founderess of the shrine, / That holocaust to wrath divine, / Not only error to atone, / But grateful homage for a throne!— […]

1859, H[arriet] M[ary] Carey, Matilda of Normandy. A Poetical Tribute to the Imperial Academy of Caen, London: Saunders & Otley, […], →OCLC, page 70:

She [Anne Geneviève de Bourbon] was one of the early founderesses of those literary gatherings which attained such renown in the Hôtel de Rambouillet, and lavished her bounties freely among a crew of poetasters, whom she naïvely thought sublime.

1873 June, “The French Press. I. First Period. The French Press, from Its Foundation to the Death of Mazarin.”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XXVII, number 162, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, section IV, page 726:

Miss Sellon, the foundress of English sisterhoods, adopted and brought up in her convent at Devonport a little Irish waif who had been made an orphan by the outbreak of cholera in 1849.

1897, [George William Erskine Russell], “Children”, in Collections & Recollections […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1898, →OCLC, page 431:

Saint Brigid is one of the great figures in the epoch immediately succeeding the first coming of the Word. She was the foundress of a school of religious teaching for women at Kildare, or Killdara, "The Church of the Oak-woods," whose name still records her work.

1902, Charles Johnston, “The Saints and Scholars. a.d. 493–750.”, in Ireland Historic and Picturesque, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry T. Coates & Co., →OCLC, page 210:

The method of healing of Jesus Christ and that of the foundress of Christian Science [Mary Baker Eddy] are not one and the same method, although called by the name of faith they appear at first sight to the unwary to be identical.

1904, John H[enry] Stapleton, “Christian Science”, in Moral Briefs. A Concise, Reasoned and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals, New York, N.Y., Cincinnati, Oh.: Benziger Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 125:

Where is our highly honourworthy salutable spouse-founderess?

1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part II, page 244:

Their doctrines are eclectic and simple and, unlike the ministers of established schools, the founders (or more frequently the founderesses) make claim to unusual spiritual power in divination, sorcery, and faith healing.

1991, Minoru Kiyota, “Japan’s New Religions (1945–65): Secularization or Spiritualization?”, in Leslie S. Kawamura, editor, The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism (SR Supplements; 10), Waterloo, Ont.: [F]or the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 203:

Francis [of Assisi]'s own unlovely tunic, and that of his female colleague Clare, foundress of parallel communities for women, are lovingly preserved and displayed by the nuns of St Clare in Assisi, so amid the stateliness and beauty of Clare's thirteenth-century basilica, there is a perpetual reminder of what it means to live like the destitute.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, “A Church for All People? (1100–1300)”, in A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Allen Lane, Penguin Books, →ISBN, part IV (The Unpredictable Rise of Rome (300–1300), page 404:

(dated) A female founder (“one who founds or establishes”).

perustajatar

[T]he comparison of multiple inseminations and multiple foundress associations showed that the number of foundresses, a component of migration structure, affects the potential for social evolution more strongly than the number of inseminations per foundress, a component of the mating structure.

1987, Michael J. Wade, Felix J. Breden, “Kin Selection in Complex Groups: Mating Structure, Migration Structure, and the Evolution of Social Behaviors”, in B. Diane Chepko-Sade, Zuleyma Tang Halpin, editors, Mammalian Dispersal Patterns: The Effect of Social Structure on Population Genetics, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, part V (Mathematical Models of Population Structure), page 281:

When two [European paper wasp] foundresses meet at the nest site after hibernation, the foundress with the higher corpus allatum activity usually becomes dominant.

1991, Peter-Frank Röseler, “Reproductive Competition during Colony Establishment”, in Kenneth G. Ross, Robert W. Matthews, editors, The Social Biology of Wasps, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Comstock Publishing Associates, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, figure 9.4 caption, page 329:

Like many vertebrate cooperative breeders, foundress associations of paper wasps are composed of individuals of varying relatedness (typically full sisters, cousins, and unrelated individuals;[…]), […] However there is also very clear helping behaviour: subordinate foundresses hunt for caterpillars and other insect food to provision the offspring of the dominant female.

2021, Michael Taborsky, Michael A. Cant, Jan Komdeur, “Conflict”, in The Evolution of Social Behaviour, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 131, column 1:

(zoology, specifically) A female animal which establishes a colony.


foundress

From founder (“one who founds or casts metals”) + -ess (suffix forming female forms of words). Founder is derived from Middle French fondeur (“owner of a foundry; ironworker in charge of smelting, founder”) (modern French fondeur), from Latin fundātor (“founder”) (rare): see further at etymology 1.

der

The great bell of my heart is crack'd, and never / Can ring in tune againe, till't be nevv caſt / By one only skilfull Foundreſſe.

c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 35:

(metallurgy, obsolete, rare) A female founder (“one who founds or casts metals”).


glam lesbian

"No Day Like Sunday" is becoming a chic weekly institution among the snooty and glam lesbian set.

Nevertheless, there have been some notable exceptions, from the lesbian mom in Ellen to the glam lesbian couple in If These Walls Could Talk.

2003, Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 221:

A lesbian with a very feminine appearance.


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confirmed bachelor

en-noun

confirmed bachelor (plural confirmed bachelors)

To Sebastian's pleasure, he had remained a confirmed bachelor, for many years with no one other than a few now deceased sexual partners, the now deceased detective, Arek Mannheim and the elusive Gustav Barnas knowing his true sexual preference.

2003, Alan M. Bickel, The Fall of Stara Ves, page 439:


wife-in-law

A wife in law only, such as one who has abandoned her husband

co-wife

synonymous with the polygamous sense of the term

A wife who provides domestic or social support, but not love or affection

Instead she arranges, offhand, a nice little farewell dinner for her husband that was and the lady, Flora, who is to be her successor three months hence. […] Flora is generously constrained to leave the sometime-husband and wife to talk the matter over. "Are we not wives-in-law?" says Madame. And the upshot is that although Flora interrupts them by phone from her flat below several times until the receiver is left off, Madame easily wins back her husband. Indeed, so complete is their absorption that they have forgotten completely the trifling circumstance that they are no longer man and wife.

1922, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, Appraisements and asperities as to some contemporary writers, pages 116–117:

the collection of people who would gather in either of the two houses for Christmas and Thanksgiving, and sometimes again in summer. This collection involved former mothers-in-law, former husbands, ex-wives of former husbands, and doddering uncles from distant marriages, as well as, of course, the various and sundry children and dogs (dogs-in-law as one family member calls them) of the now recombined families. In the process, I believe, we were responsible for the creation of a new American family relative—the wife-in-law, or the husband-in-law.

2002, John Hanson Mitchell, The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness, page 38:

"Your plan provides Browne with two charming wives and gives me but one. […]"
"But, my lord," said Saunders, "doesn't the plan give Lady Deppingham two husbands? It's quite a fair division."
"It would make Lord Deppingham my husband-in-law, I imagine," said Drusilla quaintly. "I've always had a horror of husbands-in-law."
"And you would be my wife-in-law," supplemented Lady Agnes. "How interesting!"

1908, George Barr McCutcheon, Harrison Fisher, The Man from Brodney's, page 148:

Many husbands, like the wives-in-law themselves, were deeply divided and upset over a family life that could no longer be defined as a single unit.

1994, Philip Leroy Kilbride, Plural marriage for our times: a reinvented option?, page 22:

Another wife of one's husband. Typically used in cases of divorce and subsequent remarriage for one's husband's ex-wife, but sometimes used in polygamy for a co-wife.


husband-in-law

A husband in law only, such as one who has abandoned his wife


spironolactone

(pharmacology) A steroid drug which acts as an antimineralocorticoid (for which purpose it is used in the treatment of certain types of edema and hypertension) and an antiandrogen (for which purpose it is used as part of some types of hormone therapy, especially for transgender women).


vulvovaginitis

vulvovaginitis (countable and uncountable, plural vulvovaginitises or vulvovaginitides)

vulvovaginitises (plural)
vulvovaginitides (plural)

(medicine) Inflammation of the vulva and vagina.


vulvitis

vulvitis (usually uncountable, plural vulvitides)

(medicine) An often painful inflammation of the vulva.


feminoid

We may speak, therefore, of a feminoid intersexuality at puberty...

1932, Gregorio Marañón, Warre Bradley Wells, The evolution of sex and intersexual conditions:

On the other hand, there are men with more bisexual, more feminoid natures, who seek the missing complement of their own masculinity in women.

1962, Marie Bonaparte, Female sexuality:


feminoid

From feminist + -oid (suggesting a robotic, heartless quality as in android).

These establishments serve as headquarters for covens of feminoids primarily to pursue their own agendas and only secondarily to help these alleged victims.

2000, Laura K Egendorf, Male/female roles: opposing viewpoints:

That may have changed just a little bit, time will tell, since the professional feminoids have discovered the evils and dangers of pornography.

2006, George P Garrett, Empty bed blues:


blondine

A bleach that colors a woman's hair blonde.

A woman who has bleached her hair blonde.


bigender

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Having a tendency to move between feminine and masculine gender-typed behaviour depending on context.


counterfeminist

en-adj

counterfeminist (comparative more counterfeminist, superlative most counterfeminist)

more counterfeminist (comparative)
most counterfeminist (superlative)


maternity bra

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neofeminist

A proponent of any of various new or postmodern forms of feminism.


groundswoman

(rare) The female equivalent of a groundsman.


DSD

Defence Signals Directorate
w:Defence Signals Directorate

Initialism of Defence Signals Directorate: an Australian government intelligence agency responsible for signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information security (INFOSEC).


protofeminism

en-noun

protofeminism (usually uncountable, plural protofeminisms)

A philosophical tradition anticipating modern feminist concepts before their arrival.

protoféminisme

concept that anticipated the feminist movement


opposite sex

The divorce rate for opposite sex marriages is increasing.

He doesn't believe opposite sex friendships are possible.

(attributively) Heterosexual, or otherwise relating to a relationship between a woman and a man.

الْجِنْس الْآخَر

the other gender to which one is referring


dogman

From dog (“the domesticated mammal Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris”) + -man (suffix denoting someone (possibly implied male) who is an expert in an area, who is employed or holds a position in an area, or who takes part in an activity) or man (senses 2 and 3).

suffix

Every one of those dogmen has been either cajoled, bribed, or commanded by his own particular Circe to take the dear household pet out for an airing.

1899–1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Ulysses and the Dogman”, in Sixes and Sevens, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1911, →OCLC, page 64:

A dogman, he [John Moore] said, likes having tails wagged at him, wants to be looked up to, and tends for that reason to be quite a good leader. A catman, on the other hand, is made slightly uncomfortable by spaniel eyes and devoted tail thumpings. Dogmen seem to prefer the outdoors, adventure, jungles, deserts, and are attracted by the army. Little is heard of cats in army officers' messes or barracks.

1968, John Montgomery, “Are You a Catman?”, in The World of Cats, London, New York, N.Y.: Hamlyn Publishing Group, published 1970, →ISBN, page 11, column 1:

It is an error of modern dog men to wean puppies too soon—they should run with the bitch till six weeks old, being at the same time fed.

1893, Hugh Dalziel, Alexander C. Piesse, “FEEDING”, in The Diseases of Dogs: Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment. […], 4th edition, London: L. Upcott Gill, […], published 1905, →OCLC, page 12:

Abscess of the Jaw.— […] The system will require good support, and, it may be, a course of tonics, such as a grain or two of quinine, night and morning, in the form of a pill; or, using one of the Condition Pills you see advertised in this book—Clayton's, Dent's or Sergeant's—they are all good, made by dogmen for dogs, and you won't go amiss in using either of them in such cases.

1902, “TEETH”, in Al[vin] G[eorge] Eberhart, editor, Everything about Dogs […], 2nd edition, Camp Dennison, Oh.: The Eberhart Kennels, →OCLC, page 112:

Dogfights are most commonly staged in secluded rural areas such as barns or fields. […] When a contract is drawn up for a fight, the participants decide on a central location. They then contact a dogman in that area to make arrangements to have the fight at a location that he provides. […] On the day of the fight the participants and the spectators, usually members of the fraternity, which tends to be almost exclusively male, meet at a dogman’s house near the location where the fight will take place. […] This gathering of the fraternity before the event is a very important element of the dogmen subculture.

2001, Rhonda D. Evans, Craig J. Forsyth, “The World of Dogfighting”, in Alex Thio, Thomas C. Calhoun, editors, Readings in Deviant Behavior, 2nd edition, Needham Heights, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, part 11 (Deviant Sports), page 333:

A man who has charge of dogs, such as a dog breeder or dog trainer; specifically, a man who trains dogs for the bloodsport of dogfighting.

koiramies

man who has charge of dogs; specifically, a man who trains dogs for the bloodsport of dogfighting

Now another important component of the skeleton is under scrutiny by some of our most respected dogmen and -women: the anatomy of the chest and the relationship between the correct rib cage and loin.

2010, AKC Gazette: The Official Journal for the Sport of Purebred Dogs, volume 127, New York, N.Y.: American Kennel Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 1:

Alternative form of dog man (“a man who likes dogs or prefers dogs as pets, often as opposed to liking cats”)

dog man

[T]his tradition certainly influenced that of Dog-Men (cynanthropy) and of dog-headed men (cynocephaly), […] Dog-Men, however, have historically enjoyed a much richer and more varied mythology than their lycanthropic cousins, no doubt as a result of the ambiguity of the dog itself as much as of cultural or historical trends.

1991, David Gordon White, “Hell is Other People”, in Myths of the Dog-man, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 15:

A dogman’s legs are back bent, crooked as a dog’s. Its body is covered in fine fur, and its face has a dog-like snout and ear. A dogman’s arms and torso are completely humanoid, save for the its strange paws, that are vaguely human-like, but with thick dark claws.

2002, Sovereign Stone: Bestiary of Loerem, Lake Geneva, Wis.: Sovereign Press, →ISBN, page 56, column 1:

I was interested in the Wisconsin dogman sightings, which were kind of scary, but when you started talking about the ones showing up in bedrooms I must have been agape and my hair [standing] on end.

2016, Linda S. Godfrey, quoting Matt Ballotti, “Shadow Wolves”, in Monsters among Us: An Exploration of Otherworldly Bigfoots, Wolfmen, Portals, Phantoms, and Odd Phenomena, New York, N.Y.: TarcherPerigee, →ISBN, pages 95–96:

Sightings of mysterious creatures that appear to be part human and part wolf are reported in modern times all over the world. […] Their apparent hybrid nature makes them “dogmen” or “man-wolves.” […] Reports of dogmen date to ancient times. In some cases, they were thought to be a type of debased human.

2018, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, “Introduction: An Overview of Werewolves and Their Kin”, in Rosemary Ellen Guiley, editor, Fate Presents Werewolves and Dogmen, New Milford, Conn.: Visionary Living, →ISBN:

(cryptozoology, mythology) An alleged cryptid or mythological creature that is part dog and part man; also (religion) a deity who is part dog and part man.

koiramies

You think he could barter and cheat / As vulgar diplomates use, / With the people’s heart in his breast? / […] / And filch the dogman’s meat / To feed the offspring of God?

1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Napoleon III in Italy”, in Poems before Congress, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza XV, page 16:

(obsolete, rare) A man who sells dog meat.


dogman

From dog (“part of a crane that holds the items to be lifted”) + -man (suffix denoting someone (possibly implied male) who is an expert in an area, who is employed or holds a position in an area, or who takes part in an activity), from the fact that such a person would often ride on the load lifted by the crane when carrying out their duty.

Throughout 1970 there were repeated calls, particularly from Brian Hogan and Owens, for the banning of dogmen riding hooks, a demand firmly resisted by employers unwilling to hire the extra dogmen required. Accordingly, during 1972 the union embarked upon a concerted campaign to enforce the use of two dogmen on each crane.

1998, Meredith Burgmann, Verity Burgmann, “Civilising the Industry”, in Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Federation, Sydney, N.S.W.: University of New South Wales Press, published 2000, →ISBN, part 2 (A New Concept of Unionism), page 108:

The usual crane crew required for operation of the site was one crane driver and two dogmen, but the BLF insisted that the builder keep a relief crane driver and a relief dogman permanently on site.

2005, Henry Pollack, The Accidental Developer: The Fascinating Rise to the Top of Mirvac Founder Henry Pollack, Sydney, N.S.W.: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, →ISBN, page 243:

The only work I had done as a dogman was to use a crane on the back of a truck ‘slinging loads’ and work the crane and truck myself.

2011, Raymond D. Clements, Aussie Rogue, Bangkok, Thailand: Bangkok Book House, published 2017, →ISBN, page 59:

(Australia, New Zealand) An assistant to a crane operator, responsible for securing the crane's load and directing the operator.


nonpregnancy

en-noun

nonpregnancy (usually uncountable, plural nonpregnancies)

The state of not being pregnant (carrying offspring).


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nift

From Middle English nyfte, nift, nifte, from Old English nift (“niece, granddaughter”), from Proto-Germanic *niftiz (“niece”), from Proto-Indo-European *néptih₂. The male is neve. Doublet of niece.


cissy

From cis(gender) + -y, on the analogy of tranny and punning on sissy.

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> Cis- is a Latin prefix meaning "on this side" or, less correctly, "near", as opposed to trans-, Latin for "across" or "through".
Gee, I guess that makes most folks cissies! :-)

1998 June 10, Karen Ross, “Re: what does cisgendered stand for anyway ...”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):

"She could be a straight cissy who just had a bunch of plastic surgery done," Tabitha said. A cissy was a 'cisgendered' person, someone who wasn't transsexual, someone happy with being and dressing like whatever gender they were born as.

2003, Brian St.Claire-King, Fates Worse Than Death: Sunrise Hotel, →ISBN, page 104:

If a coalition of queer and trans-rights groups came together and called for a big demonstration outside the Fox News studeios in midtown Manhattan, I would be there along with tons of other gay, lesbian, straight and bi cissies. How about it?

2014 January 8-15, Dan Savage, in Philadelphia Weekly

(slang, rare, often humorous, sometimes derogatory) A cisgender or cissexual person.


Pappy

Pappy told me about his life.


Grandpappy

Grandpappy told me about his life.


RLE

en-noun

RLE (countable and uncountable, plural RLEs)

run-length encoding
run-length encoding#English

(computing) Initialism of run-length encoding.


transie

[…] understand that we need to work on our own issues as transies, and that we need to prepare for the "next transformation" […]

1995, Sandy Stone, in TransSisters: the Journal of Transsexual Feminism (Spring 1995)

[>How interesting it would be to watch and assist her as she grows to fully embrace her womanhood, and how delightful to lend your masculine touch to her life.]
Oh, yes, when I think of the "masculine touch" I immediately envision a transie.

1997 October 11, Mrs Butkus, “Re: Confessions of a Middle-Aged Transfan Wannabe”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A transsexual, transgender, or transvestite person; a tranny.


glamourpuss

Perhaps that is what is lacking in the work of the younger glamourpusses around today. Zubin Mehta, for example, strikes me as being in something of a mess.

1968 May, New York Magazine, volume 1, number 5:

Even Joan Collins, that perennial glamourpuss, goes to Barbara for the Daly magic for special occasions.

1991, Sally Moore, The Definitive Diana: An Intimate Look at the Princess of Wales from A to Z:

The person who asked that question was holding some image of the actor as just a glamourpuss affair; she had no idea of what acting is about.

1995, Nicholas Ray, Susan Ray, I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies:


nonvertex

(anatomy, chiefly obstetrics) Not of or pertaining to the vertex.


gender studies

An academic discipline which analyses constructions of gender and sexuality in society (with reference to other sociological characteristics like class, education, ethnicity, nationality, religion, etc.).

Frauen-, Männer- und Geschlechterforschung


women's studies

The academic field which examines topics concerning women, feminism, and the relationship of gender and politics.


nontransgender

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multiple birth

A birth in which more than one baby is born.


officeress

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What are the functions of this lady—what it was she desired to try—whether her name begins with N., T., Or P., seem to be moot questions; but they positively say, not only that such an officeress exists, but that she keeps a Clerk.

1839 June, Morgan O'Doherty, “Familiar Epistle to the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia.”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 19, James Fraser, page 742:

It required a sketch from the life by Burton of the inky hag who was chief officeress of his brigade to put matters right at home.

1931, Fairfax Davis Downey, Burton, Arabian Nights Adventurer, C. Scribner's sons, page 214:

I can hear the tumbrel wheels creaking again and the swift slide of the blade—in my dream I was being interviewed by a female Mont Court parole officeress or whatever, dreams take their own course, and pretty soon the doctor or the male Mont Court, or somebody, came back.

1998, Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song, Vintage International, →ISBN, page 361:

(archaic or humorous, rare) A female officer.


half nephew

half nephews (plural)
half-nephew (alternative)

half aunt

antonym(s) of “with regards to ancestry”

son of one's half brother or half sister

filius fratris uterini

son of a half brother with a different father

filius fratris consanguinei

son of half brother with a different mother

filius sororis uterinae

son of a half sister with a different father

filius sororis consanguineae

son of a half sister with a different mother


half niece

half nieces (plural)
half-niece (alternative)

Daughter of one's half brother or half sister.


superfemale

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A female with an additional X chromosome in each cell (triple X syndrome).


period pants

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(British, informal, plural only) Underwear worn by a woman or girl during menstruation, typically old, cheap, or of a dark colour in case of staining.


men's studies

The academic field which examines topics concerning men, masculinity, and the relationship of gender and politics.


chacha

Display rhythm instruments from other cultures, such as Tibetan singing bowls; carved frog and cricket wood rasps from Indonesia; rain sticks and goat hoof chachas rattles from Bolivia; the telavi from Ghana; and woven shakers from Africa, Brazil, and India.

2012, Joan Bouza Koster, Growing Artists: Teaching the Arts to Young Children, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 299:

(music) A type of cylindrical metal rattle, derived from an instrument in the Haitian musical tradition, and used to play rhythm in certain Cuban genres (and in other nearby countries).


portress

portresses (plural)
porteress (alternative)

From Middle English porteresse; equivalent to porter + -ess.

(rare, dated) A female porter (person in control of the entrance to a building)


pseudocyesis

pseudocyesis (usually uncountable, plural pseudocyeses)

From pseudo- + cyesis, from Latin pseudo- + Ancient Greek κύησις (kúēsis).

A false pregnancy; the appearance of signs and symptoms associated with pregnancy when the person or animal is not pregnant.


mankini

Blend of man + bikini, equivalent to man + -kini.

Then he spray-tans and parades before a panel of judges in a posing suit, known in the sport as a mankini.

2012 April 1, Mary Pilon, “Sculptured by Weights and a Strict Vegan Diet”, in The New York Times:

A few supporters even wore mankinis of their own in solidarity.

2024 February 19, Yan Zhuang, “An Olympic Equestrian Rode a Horse in a ‘Mankini.’ Australia Loves Him.”, in The New York Times:


cock sock

cock socks (plural)
cocksock (alternative)


whoopsy

whoopsies (plural)
whoopsie (alternative)

From whoops + -y.
(1) Shortening of whoops-a-daisy which in turn is a mispronunciation of upsadaisy.

(British, slang) A homosexual man, especially one with camp mannerisms.


GAB

GAB (countable and uncountable, plural GABs)

(psychology) Initialism of gender-atypical behavior.


supermale

supermales (plural)
super-male (alternative)

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XYY syndrome

An aneuploidy of the sex chromosomes in which a human male receives an extra Y chromosome, giving a total of 47 chromosomes instead of the usual 46; the condition is associated with learning difficulties and above-average height.


GLBTI

Initialism of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual and intersex. Alternative form of LGBTI


LGBTI

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual and intersex.


girlchild

girlchildren (plural)
girl-child (alternative)
girl child (alternative)

The male is esteemed "the head of the family;" it belongs to him; he maintains it; and the rest of the world is a wide hunting ground and battlefield wherein he competes with other males as of old. ¶ The girl-child, peering out, sees this forbidden field as belonging wholly to men-kind; and her relation to it is to secure one for herself—not only that she may love, but that she may live.

1911, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, chapter 2, in The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture:

She had a baby slung on her back in a shawl, a girl child clinging to her skirts, and a heavy-faced boy plodding behind her.

1941, Emily Carr, chapter 5, in Klee Wyck:

"Patróklos,
why all the weeping? Like a small girlchild
who runs beside her mother and cried and cries
to be taken up, and catches at her gown,
and will not let her go, looking up in tears
until she has her wish: that's how you seem,
Patróklos, winking out your glimmering tears.

1974, Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, The Iliad, Doubleday, Book Sixteen, p. 377:

In the final, affirming piece, "They Tell Me...Now I Know," the girlchild narrator begins menstruation, thus undergoing her rite of passage into womanhood.

1989 December 17, Terri L. Jewell, “The Power Of Black Women Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 13:


bully boy

bully boys (plural)
bullyboy (alternative)
bully-boy (alternative)

"Then, boys, here's to the health of Mr. Ferguson. He's a bully boy, and no coward."

1878, Horatio Alger, chapter 19, in The Young Adventurer:

"For troth I'm a merry dog, I—a wanton wag, a bully boy and jovial, though woeful o' look!"

1920, Jeffery Farnol, The Geste of Duke Jocelyn, Fytte 5

(dated) A familiar male associate who is regarded rather fondly, especially one who is spirited and genial.


steel magnolia

* Combining the contrasting images of steel, a hard metal, and magnolia, a flower.

Reporters called Nancy Reagan an iron butterfly and Rosalind^([sic]) Carter a steel magnolia.

1983, Roland Bartel, Metaphors and symbols: Forays into Language, National Council of Teachers of English, →ISBN, page 48:

Ms. Deen is an irresistible example of that extraordinary phenomenon of Southern womanhood, the steel magnolia. She is always appealing and gracious but possessed of an unfailing survival instinct — a necessary character trait for a Southern cook to make it.

1998, John Berendt (introduction), The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook, Random House, Inc., →ISBN, page xv:

"That's how Candy refers to herself to make the vamps think she's just a little Southern belle."
"When she's really a steel magnolia?"

2009, Nancy Haddock, Last Vampire Standing, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 111:

(chiefly Southern US) A woman, unashamed, who exemplifies both traditional femininity and an uncommon fortitude.


cervicitis

cervicitis (usually uncountable, plural cervicitides or cervicites)

cervicitides (plural)
cervicites (plural)


dancing girl

dancing girls (plural)
dancing-girl (alternative)


masturbatrix

masturbatrix (plural masturbatrices or masturbatrixes)

masturbatrices (plural)
masturbatrixes (plural)

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I thought at first she was a regular intriguer, but came to the conclusion that I had had the first of her; and that until then she had been a masturbatrix, and frigged her flesh off her bones.

Mony quickly divested himself of his clothes, then, cock aloft, fully rigid, he flung himself upon the two masturbatrices, attempting to separate them. But his hands slipped on their damp and gleaming bodies which were coiled about like snakes.

1995, Guillaume Apollinaire, Flesh Unlimited: Two Erotic Novellas, page 17:

The actress wanted to stretch in a role that was 180 degrees away from the omnivorous Tramell and the masturbatrix from Sutton.

1997, Frank Sanello, Naked instinct: the unauthorized biography of Sharon Stone:


barefoot and pregnant

"The only way to keep a woman happy," he said, "is to keep her barefoot and pregnant."

Ms. Frank finds it a strange, if not a perverse coincidence that, after all these centuries of Jewish history, just when Jewish women are demanding greater and more meaningful participation in Jewish religious and communal life, certain segments of the Jewish community are loudly hitting the old "barefoot and pregnant motif."

1994, Steven Bayme, Gladys Rosen, The Jewish family and Jewish continuity:

I was to stay the ol' barefoot and pregnant wife. And I saw no need for that. I found myself in a rut. Get up, fix breakfast, send hubby off to work...

2007, Edward M Tauber, Jim Smoke, Finding the Right One After Divorce:

"He wanted me barefoot and pregnant," she said. But staying home was driving her crazy.

2007, Greg J Duncan, Aletha C Huston, Thomas S Weisner, Higher ground: New Hope for the working poor and their children:

(derogatory, of women) Kept at home to perform the traditional duties expected of women.


dad dancing

The first National Dad Dancing Championships were held in Northampton's Grosvenor Centre on Saturday, 19 June, 2004.

2004 June, “Dad dancing”, in BBC Northamptonshire:

I gather that he was a bit of a “dad dancer” – embarrassing on his feet, seeming old before his time. […] The moral of the story is to be aware of dad-dancing, or the display of any other behavioural oddities, when you first meet.

2009 April 16, “How bad dancing can ruin your love life”, in The Times, London:

Middle-aged men who embarrass their children with flamboyant dance moves now have the perfect excuse – evolution. The cringeworthy "dad dancing" witnessed at wedding receptions every weekend may be an unconscious way in which ageing males repel the attention of young women, leaving the field clear for men at their sexual peak.

2009 December 15, Matthew Moore, “‘Dad dancing’ may be the result of evolution, scientists claim”, in The Daily Telegraph, London:

The making of embarrassing flamboyant dance moves to pop music by middle-aged men.

George W. Bush
Louisiana
New Orleans
President of the United States


foremilk

foremilk (countable and uncountable, plural foremilks)

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The first milk drawn from a cow during milking; in humans, the milk secreted initially during breastfeeding, typically low in fat and rich in protein.


hindmilk

hindmilk (usually uncountable, plural hindmilks)

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The milk secreted during the later part of breastfeeding, typically high in fat and low in protein.


dad dancer

Someone who practises, or is regarded as engaging in, dad dancing.


boykind

From boy + -kind, by analogy with mankind.

Coordinate term: girlkind


groomzilla

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It is unlikely that the groom will turn into Groomzilla, so obsessed by wedding details that he drives even the bride crazy. But it does happen.

2005, Leslie Milk, It's Her Wedding But I'll Cry If I Want To:

He was the one turning into Groomzilla. He was losing it.

2008, Sharon Hanby-Robie, A Simple Wedding: A Faith-Filled Guide to Enjoying a Stress-Free Wedding:

(usually humorous) A demanding and perfectionistic groom (man who is to be married).


foresister

From fore- + sister. Compare forefather.

Another method of concealing lesbian history is the post-mortem straightening out of the lesbian, in which Haiviette becomes Joan of arc's "girlhood friend," Ebba Sparre becomes Queen Christina of Sweden's "companion," and the Ladies of Llangollen become "famous friends." Many of our fore-sisters have been stolen from us in this manner.

1976, Xenia S. Williams, “The Power of History...or History Is Written by the Powerful”, in Dave Peterson, Johnathan Cross, Lyn Rosen, editors, A Gay Person's Guide to New England, 2 edition:

Only then will we be able to adequately tell what our foresisters have done in memory of her.

1984, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In memory of her: a feminist theological reconstruction of Christian origins:

Of course, women and men are always children of their time, and feminists today are children of their time, sitting on the shoulders of their foresisters even if they do not recognize it.

1999, Deborah F Sawyer, Diane M Collier, Is there a future for feminist theology?:

(feminism) A feminist of an earlier generation.


mari complaisant

mari complaisant (plural maris complaisants)

Unadapted borrowing from French mari complaisant.

ubor

She was reputed to have had many lovers, and Nessim was regarded as a mari complaisant.

“And when Vera wanted to go off with Lord Moyne, he would say, ‘I hope you have fun. God bless you. See you when you get back.’ That's not to say his feelings weren't hurt. He was too weak to say no — a mari complaisant.”

Stephen Quinn, mari complaisant of Blunkett's former lover, Kimberly Quinn, told a colleague of mine that he resented being called rich.

2005 November 6, Nick Cohen, The Guardian:

A husband who tolerates his spouse's adultery.

husband who tolerates his wife's adultery

knoǰ anhavatarmutʻyunə čʻtesnelu tvoġ amusin

կնոջ անհավատարմությունը չտեսնելու տվող ամուսին

muž, zakryvájuščij glazá na nevérnostʹ žený

муж, закрыва́ющий глаза́ на неве́рность жены́


interesting condition

en-noun

interesting condition (plural interesting conditions)

I cannot honestly report that I have ever seen a feline matron of this class washing her face when in an interesting condition.

1880, Charles Dickens, Great expectations, page 549:

His young wife ... was at church with her mother, and suddenly overcome by indisposition, arising from her interesting condition, she could not remain standing, she drove home in the first sledge, a smart-looking one, she came across.

1917, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Constance Garnet, Anna Karenina, Part 2, Chapter 5:

... and replied that he was come there about a lady, now an inmate of Horne's house, that was in an interesting condition, poor body, from woman's woe (and here he fetched a deep sigh) and to know if her happiness had yet taken place.

They borrowed a female [cat] in an interesting condition and set their trap under the cypress tree at the top of the vacant lot.

1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, page 168:

That knee-trembler put Angela in an interesting condition and, of course, there was talk.

1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes: a memoir, page 15:


spontaneous abortion

spontaneous abortion (countable and uncountable, plural spontaneous abortions)


womenkind

From Middle English wommenkynde. By surface analysis, women + -kind.

All women around the world viewed as one entity.


two-spirited

en-adj

two-spirited (comparative more two-spirited, superlative most two-spirited)

more two-spirited (comparative)
most two-spirited (superlative)

An organization established this year in San Diego is one of the few in the country made up of Two Spirited people (a Native term for gay men and lesbians), according to one of its founders, Tom Lidot.

1991 December 22, Dawn Schmitz, “New Two Spirited Group Formed”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 23, page 2:

Of, pertaining to or being a two-spirit.


women's liberation

Fourier was the most ardent and voluminous advocate of women's liberation and of sexual freedom among the early socialists.

1966, New Left Review, November–December, p 12

The freedom of women from sexism; equal rights for women.


cohostess

Julia Meade assisted Ed as cohostess and chief product seller during and for a while after his Toast of the Town years.

1971, Ronald W Lackmann, Remember television:


magical girl

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Calque of Japanese 魔法少女 (まほうしょうじょ, mahō shōjo).

calque

まほうしょうじょ, mahō shōjo

The magical girl starts out as a typical schoolgirl. Her transformation—via a glamorous costume, and amplified by special powers—gives her a new identity.

2013, Christopher Hart, Magical Characters, Watson-Guptill Publications, →ISBN, page 17:

Contrary to conventional magical girl anime, in which protagonists happily accept their superpower, shōjo heroines are reluctant to become Magical Girls in Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

2014, Lien Fan Shen, “The Dark, Twisted Magical Girls: Shōjo Heroines in Puella Magi Madoka Magica”, in Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter, Bob Batchelor, editors, Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 183:

The magical girl genre was originally aimed at girls: series like Sailor Moon were first serialized in shōjo manga (girls' comics) magazines and contained many traits common to that genre.

2015, Deborah Shamoon, “The Superflat Space of Japanese Anime”, in Lilian Chee, Edna Lim, editors, Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 98:

In Japanese anime and manga, a young girl with superhuman abilities who is called upon to fight evil.

девочка-волшебница f (devochka-volshebnitsa, literally “a girl wizard”)

девушка-волшебница f (devushka-volshebnitsa, literally “a young woman wizard”)


black man

en-noun

black man (countable and uncountable, plural black men)

black men (plural)
Black man (alternative)
blackman (alternative)

Coordinate term: black woman

I saw a black man with a dog and a white man on a bicycle.

A male adult member of an ethnic group having dark pigmentation of the skin, typically of sub-Saharan African descent; or the appearance thereof.


vacuum aspiration

vacuum aspiration (countable and uncountable, plural vacuum aspirations)

(medicine) A method of inducing abortion, during the first trimester of pregnancy, in which the embryo and placenta are drawn off through a narrow tube.


mennish

* Modern uses are probably men + -ish.
* Older ones may be from Middle English mennish (“human”), from Old English mennisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *mannisk, from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz, from Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person, human”), from Proto-Indo-European *mon- or *men-. By surface analysis, man + -ish. Doublet of mannish, mense, and mensch.

But Men are Mennish[;] don't seek perfect Men.

1910, John Bunyan Robinson, Bird Or Feather Convention:

I hate men and all things mennish!

2009, Jennifer Clare Burke, Visible: A Femmethology:

Among numerous other examples, menniscnyss connoted humanity, a state of being among the mennish race; […]

2010, Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English, page 496:


loverboy

loverboys (plural)
lover boy (alternative)

→ Dutch: loverboy


popsy

From pop + -sy (hypocoristic suffix), compare pops.

Dear Popsy,
I need your help. Mother writes that if I don't return the leg immediately she will come to the school and take it by force. You must stop her, Popsy.

2013, Eric Bishop-Potter, Dear Popsy: Collected postcards of a private schoolboy to his father, Troubador Publishing, page 51:


pseudofeminist

en-adj

pseudofeminist (comparative more pseudofeminist, superlative most pseudofeminist)

more pseudofeminist (comparative)
most pseudofeminist (superlative)
pseudo-feminist (alternative)

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The ads deployed pseudofeminist rhetoric with implicit references to Title IX and sexual assault, casting trans students as patriarchal threats to women’s hard-won rights: “The end of girls’ sports? Her dreams of a scholarship shattered, your 14-year-old daughter just lost her position on an all-girl team to a male … and now she may have to shower with him. Are you willing to let that happen?”

2019, Mia Fischer, chapter 5, in Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →LCCN, page 176:

Seemingly feminist; feminist perhaps in form, but certainly not in essence.


pseudofeminism

en-noun

pseudofeminism (usually uncountable, plural pseudofeminisms)

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The period of these blockbuster franchises has also seen such popular pseudofeminisms as 'girl power' that claim empowerment while buying in to materialisms that are patriarchal.

2007, John Lennard, Octavia E Butler: Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood, page 14:

A belief system that resembles, but is not in fact, feminism.


vaginal ring

Inequality, research shows, [is why] we still see Aids-related deaths in an era when we have all the antiretrovirals, HIV prevention pills, vaginal rings, injections and harm-reduction plans needed to end the pandemic.

2023 August 7, Mia Malan, “A pandemic is not just a disease – it’s a political, social and economic crisis fuelled by inequality”, in The Guardian:

(medicine) A device consisting of a flexible ring held in the vagina which provides a controlled release of drugs, typically used for contraception.


neopenis

Coordinate term: neovagina

The neopenis can only become erect by inserting stiff material into it or by having plastic tubes implanted into the groin, so that pressing a bulb will cause the penis to hydraulically inflate with fluid and erect.

1994, Gordene Olga MacKenzie, Transgender nation:

Although many of the phalloplasty techniques may achieve closely the goals of a neopenis with normal urination, none of them are perfect, and therefore none have achieved universal acceptance.

2015, Vincenzo Mirone, Clinical Uro-Andrology, page 39:

sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery

A surgically constructed penis, as of a transgender man who has undergone sex reassignment surgery, or a cisgender man who lacked a penis due to a congenital defect, illness, or injury.


vernix

Derived from Medieval Latin vernix (“varnish”).

The cheesy stuff is called vernix, and it's a natural moisturizer that protects the baby's skin while she's in the womb.

2004, Armin A Brott, The New Father, Mitchell Beazley, published 2011, page 21:

But when – like Troy in the end of the film – you are presented for the first time with an angry, purple, bloody, vernix-covered, shit-smeared, breathing human being, everything changes.

2009 November 7, Sam Leith, The Guardian:

(obstetrics, medicine) Vernix caseosa; a fatty deposit covering the skin of newborn babies.


senatrix

From Latin senātrīx, the feminine form of senātor.

The Federal elections, for which women were entitled to stand as senatorial candidates, had come previously, though old prejudice had been too strong to the extent of many votes to grasp that a woman might really be a senatrix, and that a vote cast for her would not be wasted, still one woman candidate had polled 51,597 votes […]

2014, Miles Franklin, Some Everyday Folk and Dawn:

(rare) A female senator (a female member of a senate)


sperminator

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My stomach jumped off a cliff and my legs became stone. The Pill . . . was she on it? I never asked. First shot lucky. The Sperminator.

1998, Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma, page 44:

And the epic pain I was about to endure any day now was going to make the sperminator's backache seem like a hangnail.

2013, Vicki Murphy, MotherFumbler, page 28:

I rubbed elbows with Bravo Housewives Teresa Giudice, Kyle Richards, Brandi Glanville, and Gretchen Rossi, and sperminator Jon Gosselin.

2014, Courtney Robertson, I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain, page 215:

(slang, humorous) A man who impregnates a woman or women.

Men are not getting enough sex: men with their greater levels of testosterone, and their role as sperminators.

1997, Ian Grey, Sex, Stupidity and Greed: Inside the American Movie Industry, page 83:

What chance did a woman stand? The man was the Sperminator — melting all logic and self-restraint in his sensuous wake.

[…] There's so much gorgeous manmeat at Princeton. What about Tim? Now that's the kind of sperminator I went after in college. Big hunky wrestler guy."

2016, Kate Siegel, Mother, Can You Not?, page 136:

(slang, humorous) A desirable or sexually promiscuous man.


cot-quean

What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face? Will she paint it so horribly? We are a king, cotquean, and we will reign in our pleasures, and we will cudgel thee to death if thou find fault with us.

1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster, act 4, scene 4:

(obsolete, derogatory) A female cuckold; a cuckquean.


womanism

womanism (countable and uncountable, plural womanisms)

From woman + -ism. Coined by Alice Walker in 1983.

Although womanism raises the issue of gender, it simultaneously offers a distance from the “enemy,” in this case, Whites generally and White women in particular.

2001, Sheila Ruth, editor, Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studies, McGraw-Hill:

In line with femalism, African womanism is committed to the quest for total freedom of the colonized African men and women.

2004, Chioma Carol Opara, Her Mother's Daughter: The African Writer as Woman, page 20:

Feminism is the form of women's organisation that is prioritised both in the media and academia, but many black women have turned to womanism in an attempt to counter the ways in which the combined oppressions of race and gender affect our lives. Womanism is not just feminism for women from minorities; it is based in our spirituality, honouring our foremothers and a desire to support both men and women.

2010 April 10, Renee Martin, “I'm not a feminist (and there is no but)”, in The Guardian:

An extension to feminism that incorporates respect for women of all races and classes.


femspeak

The aim of this jargon-sodden Femspeak is to set up a myth of women artists as a hated underclass, which they were not in 1975 and are not today; in such a scheme, vagina hatred is imputed to men as automatically as penis envy once was to women.

1980 December 15, Robert Hughes, “An Obsessive Feminist Pantheon”, in Time:

The Bergers assert that “the family is a problem”, and note that the concept of 'gender roles' is merely “femspeak” – a technique for arguing that the assignment of roles within the family is arbitrary and that it can/should be changed, so as to advance women's welfare (p 64).

2005, Ann Oakley, The Ann Oakley Reader: Gender, Women and Social Science, The Policy Press, →ISBN, page 44:

According to Warren Farrell, an Orwellian “lace curtain” of governing “femspeak” is virtually indistinguishable from the propaganda machinery of tyranny states.

2007, Robert Menzies, “Virtual Backlash: Representations of Men's 'Rights' and Feminist 'Wrongs' in Cyberspace”, in Susan B. Boyd, Dorothy E. Chunn, Hester Lessard, editors, Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 83:

(derogatory) The characteristic jargon of feminists and feminist discourse.


housefather

Compound of house + father. Cognate with Dutch huisvader, German Hausvater, Swedish husfader, Icelandic húsfaðir.

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


blood sister

A female bound to another one in commitment and friendship by a ceremonial mingling of blood (aka the blood oath).

sœur de sang

a female bound to another one in commitment and friendship by a ceremonial mingling of blood


bumfluff

From bum + fluff, from its resemblance to the sparse hair on the buttocks.

bum fluff (alternative)
bum-fluff (alternative)

He still had bumfluff on his cheeks, he was that young. About once a month he used to shave it off, and come skiting about it. I smiled at the memory of him all lathered up, grinning at me through the mirror as he went to work on the bumfluff.

1983, John Carroll, Token Soldiers, Boronia, Vic.: Wildgrass Books, →ISBN, page 247:

Dad'd kill me for doing this. It's so obvious that I mustn't touch his shaver, he's never even told me not to. […] His shaver came closer to the bumfluff on my upper lip ... closer ... It bit me! I unplugged it. Oh God. Now my bumfluff had a ridiculous patch missing.

2006, David Mitchell, Black Swan Green: A Novel, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

There was a basic core of twelve: hard, canny females, with a few young males coming into their strength, just beginning to grow manes: bumfluff lions.

2008, Simon Barnes, How to be Wild, London: Short Books, →ISBN, page 18:

In my peer group I looked the oldest because I had bum fluff. Who can forget bum fluff? Wispy growths of hair around your chin that you thought made you look like Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

2008, Christian O'Connell, The Men Commandments: The Bible for Blokes from the Daddy of Breakfast Radio, London: Collins, →ISBN:

Sometimes the post-pubertal life stage of a young male figure is indicated by the appearance on his cheeks of ‘bum fluff’ or an incipient beard. […] The pictorial context would, therefore, suggest that the representation of ‘bum fluff’ on the cheeks of a male youth usually indicates that he has passed beyond the limits of minority status and has already reached at least his eighteenth year when in civic, legal, military and social terms he was accorded new roles and responsibilities not appropriate to the status of those who were still paides, or boys.

2012, Lesley A. Beaumont, Childhood in Ancient Athens: Iconography and Social History (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies), London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 27:

There was me, Eddie, Wilco and a guy called Bobby Thomlinson who we never went around with much because he wore a lot of crushed velvet and had bumfluff. Our thinking was he could get the tickets because, thanks to the bumfluff on his face, he looked much, much older than the fourteen-years-old that he was.

2013, Rikki Brown, Frankie Vaughan Ate My Hamster: Growing Up in the East End, Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing, →ISBN:

There was no way I was twenty-one. I looked nineteen at a push. Maybe sixteen-and-a-half, which is what I was. Big though – not fat – but tall. No baby-face and no bum-fluff moustache. The fisher boys had their bum-fluff moustaches and they looked total pricks.

2016, James Yorkston, Three Craws, Glasgow: Freight Books, →ISBN:

(Australia, British, New Zealand, derogatory) The first, sparse beard growth of an adolescent.


sorosis

According to Webster Suppl. 1879, an arbitrary use of the botanical term, adopted as the name of the first club of the kind, founded in 1868. It follows that it shares the same etymology, referring to aggregation, rather than the etymology of sorority, which referred to sisterhood.

Yet these women were not a clique, nor a sect, nor a Sorosis, but all our wives, and sisters, and daughters, and lovers. They were just the common lot […]

1869, Putnam's Magazine, volume 3, page 640:

They gathered up all the privacies of the city and poured them into his ear, and his family became a sorosis, or female debating society of seven hundred, discussing, day after day, all the difficulties between husbands and wives[…]

1890, John Van Valkenburg, Jewels of Pythian Knighthood:

(US historical) A women's club; a society to further the educational and social activities of women.


tumtum

bor

Hebrew טומטום

Therefore, if a man died leaving a son and a tumtum or a hermaphrodyte, the son inherits everything, since the heirship of the tumtum or of the hermaphrodyte is doubtful.

1949 (printing), Maimonides, The Code of Maimonides: The Book of Civil Laws, p. 273

As it happens, the baraita in question speaks of the tumtum twice, introducing an apparent redundancy into the text. To be specific, Abbaye's solution, proposing an unusual interpretation of the first tumtum ("his testicles are evident from the outside"), allows for a different reading of tumtum in each of his two usages.

1996, David Charles Kraemer, Reading the Rabbis: the Talmud as Literature, page 122:

A tumtum and a hermaphrodite should not dress like a woman, but neither should they cut the hair on their head like a man.

2001, Ruth N. Sandberg, Development and Discontinuity in Jewish Law, page 100:

A. DEFINITION OF THE TERM The term tumtum, meaning ambiguous genitalia, is not found in Scripture.

2003, Avraham Steinberg, Fred Rosner, Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics, page 50:

(Judaism) One whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.


bigendered

Once converted, southern white men abandoned many of the male-only public domains for the bigendered and biracial public world of evangelicalism.

2006, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810:


transmasculine

en-adj

transmasculine (comparative more transmasculine, superlative most transmasculine)

more transmasculine (comparative)
most transmasculine (superlative)

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Bodybuilding as a form of body modification is understood by transmasculine individuals to further enhance a desired masculine presentation.

2011, Anurag Saxena, Biomechanics in Physical Education, →ISBN:

I approach this issue through a focus on the role of the voice in constituting the masculine gender positionalities of trans men and others on the transmasculine identity spectrum. Transmasculine is an umbrella term referring to individuals who were assigned to a female gender role at birth but at some point come to self-identify as men, or with some other masculine identity, rather than seeing themselves as women.

2014, Tommaso M. Milani, Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197:

[...individuals for whom] “man” or “woman” may not accurately reflect identity but are nonetheless on the transmasculine or transfeminine spectrum. We also acknowledge the limitations of language in reflecting agender clients who do not identify as masculine or feminine ...

2017, Michael R. Kauth, Jillian C. Shipherd, Adult Transgender Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Training Mental Health Professionals, Routledge, →ISBN:

For transmasculine individuals, it has been commonly assumed that voice and communication training is not warranted, because testosterone administration, which many undergo for gender dysphoria, is often sufficient for masculine voice [development].

2018, Richard K. Adler, Sandy Hirsch, Jack Pickering, Voice and Communication Therapy for the Transgender/Gender Diverse Client: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide, Third Edition, Plural Publishing, →ISBN, page 141:

Pertaining to people who were assigned female but whose gender identities are masculine.


cismasculine

cismasculine (comparative more cismasculine, superlative most cismasculine)

more cismasculine (comparative)
most cismasculine (superlative)

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Of or pertaining to male cisgender people or experiences.


neam

(dialectal) Alternative form of eam (“uncle”).


only daughter

A sole female child, whether one among multiple siblings, or one who has no siblings.


only son

Mr. Doyle, an only son, grew up with the undivided attention of affectionate parents and two doting sisters.

1991 November 18, Alessandra Stanley, “The Symbols Spawned by a Killing”, in New York Times:

A sole male child, whether one among multiple siblings, or one who has no siblings.


executioneress

Twelve umbrellas, covering as many Bo-fetiche priestesses, followed by two brass shields, a large drum, two large scimitar-shaped blades, fretted as usual, and having skulls on the hilts, eighteen Bo Kpo in red avo, six executioneresses in leopard cloths of yellow with black spots, silver horns and bracelets; a number of black affairs like Highlanders’ targets, and five flags.

1874, J. A[lfred] Skertchly, “The So-Sin Custom—(continued)”, in Dahomey as It Is: Being a Narrative of Eight Months’ Residence in That Country, […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 267:


multigravida

en-noun

multigravida (plural multigravidas or multigravidae)

multigravidas (plural)
multigravidae (plural)

If all is well, a multigravida can often push the head out in seconds, but you donʼt want it that way.

2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 13:

A pregnant woman who has had at least two previous pregnancies.


anti-choice

en-adj

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

more anti-choice (comparative)
most anti-choice (superlative)
antichoice (alternative)

[...her campaign techniques] demonstrate a pattern to deceive potential contributors by failing to disclose without ambiguity that she is soliciting funds for her presidential candidacy and not for the antichoice movement.

1976, NARAL complaint against Ellen McCormack, “Complaint may block federal matching funds”, in the Beaver County Times, 1976 February 18

Gamble also warned the audience that the possibility of judicial change is "not remote". She said that two anti-choice Reagan appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court would put anti-choice justices in the majority by one vote.

1984 February 4, Sue Hyde, “Abortion Activists Mark Jan 22. Anniversary”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 1:

(derogatory, dysphemistic) Not pro-choice; opposed to the individual's choice, especially of abortion or euthanasia.


prodeath

prodeath (comparative more prodeath, superlative most prodeath)

more prodeath (comparative)
most prodeath (superlative)
pro-death (alternative)

A contrary view was expressed by Helen Cindrich, president of People Concerned for the Unborn Child.
"He (Huyett) has not crumpled under the pressure of the well-funded prodeath profiteers," she said in a press release.

1982 December 8, “Abortion Clinics Prepare For New Law”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:


pro-abort

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

more pro-abort (comparative)
most pro-abort (superlative)
proabort (alternative)

In its newsletter, Defense of Life described Thornburgh as "pro-abort" and said Woods had no recorded abortion position.

1987 April 29, “Thornburgh turns down Reagan offer”, in Gettysburg Times:

As she stood outside the clinic on Saturday, she lamented the lost opportunities as the counterdemonstrators clogged the sidewalks. "They're the real lunatic, pro-abort people," she said[…]

1989 July 17, “Abortion Battle: 2 Foes on Front Lines”, in The New York Times:


proabortion

proabortion (comparative more proabortion, superlative most proabortion)

more proabortion (comparative)
most proabortion (superlative)
pro-abortion (alternative)

Supportive of the practice and/or legalization of abortion.

abortuszpárti

supportive of the practice and/or legalization of abortion


pro-abortionist

pro-abortionists (plural)
proabortionist (alternative)

One who supports the practice or legality of abortion.

partisan de l’avortement

one who supports or defends the practice and/or legality of abortion


anti-choicer

anti-choicers (plural)
antichoicer (alternative)

(informal, derogatory, dysphemistic) One who opposes pro-choice views.


midhusband

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By analogy from midwife, where wife long ago meant any woman.

(rare, usually humorous) masculine equivalent of midwife: A male midwife.


man of means

A man who possesses sufficient wealth to be regarded as prosperous or well off.


woman of means

A woman who possesses sufficient wealth to be regarded as prosperous or well off.


lengthman

lengthmen (plural)
length man (alternative)
lengths man (alternative)
lengthsman (alternative)

From length + -man (suffix denoting a man or person who is an expert in an area or who takes part in an activity).

suffix

Plans have already been prepared for signalboxes, lengthmen's huts, and first aid rooms. […] Lengthmen's huts are to be built in brick.

1952 February, “British Railways Standard Buildings”, in Railway Magazine, page 74:

A derailment which occurred on April 18 last between Laindon and Pitsea on the London Tilbury & Southend Line was caused by a lengthman who in a moment of aberration clipped a set of spring catch points in the derailing position, concludes Col. J. R. H. Robertson in his report […]

1961 December, “Talking of Trains: Derailment near Laindon”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 717:

I started working on the canal when I was only 14. I was a lengths man on the Shrewsbury, the canal. It was my job to cut hedges and to keep the toe path^([sic – meaning towpath]) clear.

2006 October, Mal Edwards, “Money for Old Rope”, in BBC Wales, archived from the original on 2021-04-21:

It became common practice for day-to-day maintenance to be undertaken by a number of roadmen, each appointed to maintain a length of road. This gave rise to the term, ‘the lengthsman’. Over time, greater mechanisation and centralisation replaced lengthsmen with area-based work teams, controlled from County offices and depots. […] In 2000 Herefordshire Council launched a local initiative, the ‘Lengthsman Scheme,’ to devolve some minor highway works to Parish Councils. […] Parishes are permitted to use the delegated budget to employ a local contractor to undertake the works – the lengthsman. […] Works carried out by lengthsmen can range from clearing minor storm debris discharged onto the highway, cutting back overgrown hedges encroaching on footways and verge cutting as required by the parish.

2021, “Lengthsman Scheme”, in Herefordshire Association of Local Councils, archived from the original on 2021-02-08:

(nautical, rail transport, road transport, chiefly historical) A man responsible for the care and maintenance of a length of canal, railway, or road.

ratavartija

man responsible for the care and maintenance of a length of railway or road


denial of pregnancy

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(medicine, psychology) A condition whereby a pregnant woman refuses to accept or recognise her pregnancy.


epididymitis

en-noun

epididymitis (usually uncountable, plural epididymites or epididymitides)

epididymites (plural)
epididymitides (plural)

From epididymo- + -itis (“inflammation”).

(pathology) inflammation of the epididymis


salpingectomy

From salping- (“of or relating to the salpinx”) + -ectomy (“surgical removal”).

af

(gynaecology, surgery) Surgical removal of the Fallopian tubes.


village bike

From the joke that "everyone gets a ride" (i.e. sexual intercourse).

He said of the girl complainant: 'She was the village bike.' 'What do you mean by that?' asked the Chairman. 'Everybody rode her,' was the reply. The idiom is evidently widely diffused, and there is little profit in trying to establish who invented it […]

1983, Philip Howard, A word in your ear:

The local people privately called Jean's mother 'The Village Bike', on which everyone got to ride. Jean had no way of knowing whether the man who lived with them was her father; the man himself may not have known.

Dexter wrote: > […] My charity is always extended to the local drunks of the village where I was brought up.
You were the village bike then?

2003, Effervescing Elephant, “Re: Stealth aircraft over Lincs”, in uk.local.lincolnshire (Usenet):

The boys nicknamed her the “village bike” and any lad who wanted affection or experience picked her up for the night.

2009, Annette J. Dunlea, Always and Forever:

She has a bit of a Village Bike reputation, and she usually wears her hair in two pigtails.

2009, Brent Crawford, Carter Finally Gets It:

My ex wife's a bit of a village bike, does that count? :-P

2012 May 15, Bob Milutinovic, “Re: Attn : TPG Techs”, in aus.computers (Usenet), retrieved 2014-09-23:

(UK, slang, derogatory) A local woman who is sexually promiscuous.


Grandmummy

Grandmummy told me about her life.


antisexist

en-adj

antisexist (comparative more antisexist, superlative most antisexist)

more antisexist (comparative)
most antisexist (superlative)


antiman

antiman (comparative more antiman, superlative most antiman)

more antiman (comparative)
most antiman (superlative)

Feminism was often portrayed by the media as an attempt to put women's rights ahead of other people's, as being antiman and antifamily...

2004, Steven P. Schacht, Doris W. Ewing, Feminism with men: bridging the gender gap:


antigender

antigender (comparative more antigender, superlative most antigender)

more antigender (comparative)
most antigender (superlative)

Heaven's Gate's antifamily, antigender, radical egalitarian celebration of sameness...

2003, Harry G. West, Todd Sanders, Transparency and conspiracy: ethnographies of suspicion in the new world order:

Opposing gender roles or gender distinctions.


writeress

writeresses (plural)
writress (alternative)

(dated, rare) A female writer; an authoress.


batwoman

(UK, military) A female batman (servant)


Hermaphroditus

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἑρμαφρόδιτος (Hermaphróditos, from Ἑρμῆς (Hermês) + Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē)).

bor

Ἑρμαφρόδιτος

A male Aphrodite (Aphroditus), represented as a herm with a phallus, the symbol of fertility.


godsister

From Middle English godsuster, equivalent to god- + sister.

Let's go back to the thirteen-year-old girl introduced in Chapter 8 who found out her godsister was her half sister.

2005, Diane Ehrensaft, Mommies, daddies, donors, surrogates:

Before she met the man who became and remains her pimp, she was selling drugs with her godsister; he was one of their clients.

2007, Cynthia Cole Robinson, From the classroom to the corner:

What seemed a promising turn in their relationship was dashed when he began introducing her to his friends as his godsister.

2009 August 23, Katie Zezima, “Leah Squires and Eric Traub”, in New York Times:

"Mother, are you going to take her in as your goddaughter? I'm going to have a godsister? "

2020, Ruan Bao, Deep Affection of You and Me: Volume 1, Funstory, →ISBN:

The daughter or goddaughter of one's godparent, or the goddaughter of one's parent.


salpingostomy

(obstetrics, surgery) The surgical unblocking of a blocked Fallopian tube.


menorrhea

menorrhoea (alternative)
menorrhœa (alternative)


androcracy

(government, sociology) Government or rule by men.


feminal

en-adj

feminal (comparative more feminal, superlative most feminal)

more feminal (comparative)
most feminal (superlative)

Of or pertaining to women, femininity or feminism


Quiverfull

From quiver + full, in reference to the Old Testament: "As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them."

A conservative evangelical Christian movement that promotes procreation, rejects birth control, and regards children as a blessing from God.


vaginoplasty

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Although a functional vaginoplasty is performed in a single stage, further feminization of the mons pubis can be performed at a second surgical stage.

2016, Loren S. Schechter, Surgical Management of the Transgender Patient, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 25:

(surgery) A surgical procedure used to construct or reconstruct a vaginal canal and mucous membrane.


bluehair

bluehairs (plural)
blue hair (alternative)
blue-hair (alternative)

Compound of blue + hair.
The "elderly person" sense, first documented in the 1980s, refers to the blue rinse once used by older women to conceal grey hair.
The second sense emerged from the stereotypical association of dyed blue hair with social-justice activists.

I have memories from a young age in which my father is yelling about "blue hairs" and their inability to drive. And everyone remembers that scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in which the old lady cannot see over the steering wheel and is swerving down the road.

1997, Karin Vonesh, "Who are the worst drivers of all?", Southwords (Maine South High School, Park Ridge, IL), Volume 34, Issue 7, 19 December 1997, page 3

He'd recently swiped the little orange bottle of OxyContin from the old hag he often watched on Tuesday nights when her cold, indifferent middle-aged daughter played bingo with the other bluehairs from the strip-mall salon she frequented.

2011, Lola Newmar, Devlin's Beast, page 33:

“Anyone can join,” O'Neill says. “We have age ranges from children to blue hairs.”

2019, Chris O'Neill, quoted in Jordan Bradley, "Do Something Different: Try These Alternative Recreation Options", Encore (Michigan), June 2019, page 25

(slang, derogatory or humorous) An elderly person, especially a woman or one viewed as senile, old-fashioned, or out of touch.


breastfeeder

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From breastfeed + -er or breast + feeder.

A nursing mother, one who breastfeeds (suckles a baby).


prud'homme

prud'hommes (plural)
prudhomme (alternative)

Borrowed from French prud’homme. Compare prude.

A male member of an employment tribunal or labor court in certain French-speaking countries, formed of employers and employees.


Dworkinian

Dworkinian (comparative more Dworkinian, superlative most Dworkinian)

more Dworkinian (comparative)
most Dworkinian (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005), American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography.


menometrorrhagia

(pathology) Excessive uterine bleeding occurring outside of the normal menstrual period.


ecbolic

ecbolic (comparative more ecbolic, superlative most ecbolic)

more ecbolic (comparative)
most ecbolic (superlative)

(medicine) Producing abortion of a fetus or accelerating childbirth, oxytocic.


ecbolic

(medicine) An agent that produces abortion of a fetus or hastens delivery of the same.