"nu-male" meaning in English

See nu-male in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: nu-males [plural]
Etymology: From new + male. Etymology templates: {{m|en|new}} new, {{m|en|male}} male Head templates: {{en-noun}} nu-male (plural nu-males)
  1. (derogatory, slang) A New Man. Tags: derogatory, slang Related terms: alta-male, fatbeard
    Sense id: en-nu-male-en-noun-coqURUjP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for nu-male meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "new"
      },
      "expansion": "new",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "male"
      },
      "expansion": "male",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From new + male.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nu-males",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nu-male (plural nu-males)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Tim Dowling, The Giles Wareing Haters' Club",
          "text": "Xi Male – virtually indistinguishable from Nu Male, but sadly gay.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 December 29, Nicholas Laskin, “Nicholas Laskin's Top 10 Films Of 2015”, in Indie Wire",
          "text": "This list is disgustingly Nu-Male.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 February 23, “No Fixed Abode: Night of the Potholes”, in The Truth About Cars",
          "text": "I think I've just seen the “nu-male” in action. Heck, the girlfriend was far more manly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 22, Cote Keller, “Why Kumail Nanjiani's 'Stuber' Exemplifies Hollywood Hypocrisy”, in The Federalist",
          "text": "The personality clash between these two figures—a sniveling nu-male smart aleck and an emotionally pent-up tough guy—supplies most of the movie's humor and heart.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A New Man."
      ],
      "id": "en-nu-male-en-noun-coqURUjP",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "New Man",
          "New Man"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory, slang) A New Man."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "alta-male"
        },
        {
          "word": "fatbeard"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nu-male"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "new"
      },
      "expansion": "new",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "male"
      },
      "expansion": "male",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From new + male.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nu-males",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nu-male (plural nu-males)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "alta-male"
    },
    {
      "word": "fatbeard"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Tim Dowling, The Giles Wareing Haters' Club",
          "text": "Xi Male – virtually indistinguishable from Nu Male, but sadly gay.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 December 29, Nicholas Laskin, “Nicholas Laskin's Top 10 Films Of 2015”, in Indie Wire",
          "text": "This list is disgustingly Nu-Male.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 February 23, “No Fixed Abode: Night of the Potholes”, in The Truth About Cars",
          "text": "I think I've just seen the “nu-male” in action. Heck, the girlfriend was far more manly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 22, Cote Keller, “Why Kumail Nanjiani's 'Stuber' Exemplifies Hollywood Hypocrisy”, in The Federalist",
          "text": "The personality clash between these two figures—a sniveling nu-male smart aleck and an emotionally pent-up tough guy—supplies most of the movie's humor and heart.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A New Man."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "New Man",
          "New Man"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory, slang) A New Man."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nu-male"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.