"merm" meaning in Anglais

See merm in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

  1. Personne intersexuée dotée de testicules et de certains aspects de l’appareil reproducteur féminin, mais sans ovaire. Tags: offensive, slang
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ferm, herm

Inflected forms

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  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms communs en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Néologismes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Vocabulaire LGBTIQ en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Forme courte de « male pseudohermaphrodite », c’est-à-dire littéralement « pseudo-hermaphrodite mâle »."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ferm"
    },
    {
      "word": "herm"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Insultes en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Termes argotiques en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "But the standard medical literature uses the term intersex as a catch-all for three major subgroups with some mixture of male and female characteristics: the so-called true hermaphrodites, whom I call herms, who possess one testis and one ovary (the sperm- and egg-producing vessels, or gonads); the male pseudohermaphrodites (the \"merms\"), who have testes and some aspects of the female genitalia but no ovaries; — « The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough », Anne Fausto-Sterling, The Sciences March/April 1993, p. 20-24."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Personne intersexuée dotée de testicules et de certains aspects de l’appareil reproducteur féminin, mais sans ovaire."
      ],
      "id": "fr-merm-en-noun-JTSr5dQg",
      "tags": [
        "offensive",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "merm"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Lemmes en anglais",
    "Noms communs en anglais",
    "Néologismes en anglais",
    "Vocabulaire LGBTIQ en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Forme courte de « male pseudohermaphrodite », c’est-à-dire littéralement « pseudo-hermaphrodite mâle »."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ferm"
    },
    {
      "word": "herm"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
        "Insultes en anglais",
        "Termes argotiques en anglais"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "But the standard medical literature uses the term intersex as a catch-all for three major subgroups with some mixture of male and female characteristics: the so-called true hermaphrodites, whom I call herms, who possess one testis and one ovary (the sperm- and egg-producing vessels, or gonads); the male pseudohermaphrodites (the \"merms\"), who have testes and some aspects of the female genitalia but no ovaries; — « The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough », Anne Fausto-Sterling, The Sciences March/April 1993, p. 20-24."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Personne intersexuée dotée de testicules et de certains aspects de l’appareil reproducteur féminin, mais sans ovaire."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "offensive",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "merm"
}

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