weaker sex
nounDefinitions
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see weaker, sex.
Women
Women; the female gender.
- For a man raised since birth to be strong, resolute, spare with words, and never to bow to the weepings and handwringings of the weaker sex, he had poured out his heart in that letter.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for weaker sex. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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