"transvestigate" meaning in English

See transvestigate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /tɹænzˈvɛs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /tɹænzˈvɛs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/ [General-American], /-tə-/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-transvestigate.wav Forms: transvestigates [present, singular, third-person], transvestigating [participle, present], transvestigated [participle, past], transvestigated [past]
Rhymes: -eɪt Etymology: Blend of transgender + investigate. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|transgender|investigate}} Blend of transgender + investigate Head templates: {{en-verb}} transvestigate (third-person singular simple present transvestigates, present participle transvestigating, simple past and past participle transvestigated)
  1. (Internet slang) To perform transvestigation; to informally investigate into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Alt-right, Transphobia Related terms: transvestigating, transvestigation, transvestigator Translations (to investigate someone's gender): transvestiguer (French)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "transgender",
        "3": "investigate"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of transgender + investigate",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of transgender + investigate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "transvestigates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "transvestigating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "transvestigated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "transvestigated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "transvestigate (third-person singular simple present transvestigates, present participle transvestigating, simple past and past participle transvestigated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "trans‧ves‧ti‧gate"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Alt-right",
          "orig": "en:Alt-right",
          "parents": [
            "Conservatism",
            "Fascism",
            "Ideologies",
            "White supremacist ideology",
            "Politics",
            "Society",
            "Anti-Semitism",
            "Racism",
            "All topics",
            "Forms of discrimination",
            "Fundamental",
            "Discrimination"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Transphobia",
          "orig": "en:Transphobia",
          "parents": [
            "Forms of discrimination",
            "Transgender",
            "Discrimination",
            "Gender",
            "LGBTQ",
            "Society",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "Sexuality",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Sex",
            "Fundamental",
            "Human",
            "Reproduction",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The poster has transvestigated this celebrity because of her defined jawline.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 August 14, Quispe López, “How “Transvestigation” Crawled Out of the Worst Corners of the Internet Into the Mainstream”, in Them, archived from the original on 2024-08-14:",
          "text": "Who are transvestigators, and what does it mean to transvestigate?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perform transvestigation; to informally investigate into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure."
      ],
      "id": "en-transvestigate-en-verb-EgQ1aIQf",
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "transvestigation",
          "transvestigation"
        ],
        [
          "investigate",
          "investigate"
        ],
        [
          "public figure",
          "public figure"
        ],
        [
          "transgender",
          "transgender"
        ],
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "anatomical",
          "anatomical"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang) To perform transvestigation; to informally investigate into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "transvestigating"
        },
        {
          "word": "transvestigation"
        },
        {
          "word": "transvestigator"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to investigate someone's gender",
          "word": "transvestiguer"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɹænzˈvɛs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tɹænzˈvɛs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-tə-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-transvestigate.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-transvestigate.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-transvestigate.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-transvestigate.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-transvestigate.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "transvestigate"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "transgender",
        "3": "investigate"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of transgender + investigate",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of transgender + investigate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "transvestigates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "transvestigating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "transvestigated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "transvestigated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "transvestigate (third-person singular simple present transvestigates, present participle transvestigating, simple past and past participle transvestigated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "trans‧ves‧ti‧gate"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "transvestigating"
    },
    {
      "word": "transvestigation"
    },
    {
      "word": "transvestigator"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English internet slang",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/eɪt",
        "Rhymes:English/eɪt/4 syllables",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "en:Alt-right",
        "en:Transphobia"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The poster has transvestigated this celebrity because of her defined jawline.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 August 14, Quispe López, “How “Transvestigation” Crawled Out of the Worst Corners of the Internet Into the Mainstream”, in Them, archived from the original on 2024-08-14:",
          "text": "Who are transvestigators, and what does it mean to transvestigate?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perform transvestigation; to informally investigate into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "transvestigation",
          "transvestigation"
        ],
        [
          "investigate",
          "investigate"
        ],
        [
          "public figure",
          "public figure"
        ],
        [
          "transgender",
          "transgender"
        ],
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "anatomical",
          "anatomical"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang) To perform transvestigation; to informally investigate into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɹænzˈvɛs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tɹænzˈvɛs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-tə-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-transvestigate.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-transvestigate.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-transvestigate.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-transvestigate.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-transvestigate.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪt"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to investigate someone's gender",
      "word": "transvestiguer"
    }
  ],
  "word": "transvestigate"
}

Download raw JSONL data for transvestigate meaning in English (3.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.