enby
nounEtymology
The noun is a pronunciation spelling of NB, an initialism of non-binary. The word was coined by the Tumblr user “revolutionator” in 2013 as “an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls”: see the quotation. The adjective is derived from the noun.
Definitions
Pronunciation spelling of NB (“a non-binary person
Pronunciation spelling of NB (“a non-binary person; a person whose gender identity is not strictly female or male; one who is outside of the gender binary”).
- i wish there was an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls / nb / enby / enbies
- I doubt most wedding fair vendors would recognise an enby even if you carried an explanatory sign.
- So, boys and girls and enbies, if the sex isn't good at or very near the beginning, the passage of time and/or muttering of vows isn't going to fix it.
Pronunciation spelling of NB (“non-binary
Pronunciation spelling of NB (“non-binary; having or pertaining to a gender identity that is not strictly female or male, that is, outside of the gender binary”).
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for enby. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA