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feminoid

adj

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-eh₂✻ — “(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”
  2. derived from fēminīnus
  3. derived from feminin,feminine
  4. inherited from feminine,femynyne,femynyn
  5. suffixed as feminoid — “feminine + oid”

Definitions

  1. Apparently, but not actually, female.

    • We may speak, therefore, of a feminoid intersexuality at puberty...
    • On the other hand, there are men with more bisexual, more feminoid natures, who seek the missing complement of their own masculinity in women.

  2. A feminist.

    • These establishments serve as headquarters for covens of feminoids primarily to pursue their own agendas and only secondarily to help these alleged victims.
    • That may have changed just a little bit, time will tell, since the professional feminoids have discovered the evils and dangers of pornography.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for feminoid. 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