he-she

noun
/hiːʃiː/

Etymology

From he + she.

  1. derived from *ḱe-
  2. inherited from *hijō
  3. inherited from *hiju
  4. inherited from hēo
  5. inherited from sche
  6. compounded as he-she — “he + she

Definitions

  1. A butch (or masculine) woman

    A butch (or masculine) woman; (sometimes also) a trans man (regarded as a masculine woman).

  2. A transsexual or transgender woman (a woman who was assigned male at birth).

    • Cops aren't very fond of prostitutes; they create work. […] The prostitutes in the Four-one bear no resemblance to Shirley McLaine's Irma La Douce. They are the ugliest assortment of hes, shes, he-shes, and she-hes in the world.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for he-she. 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