womanface

noun
/ˈwʊ.mənˌfeɪs/

Etymology

From woman + face, modeled on blackface.

  1. derived from faciēs
  2. derived from facia
  3. derived from face
  4. inherited from face
  5. compounded as womanface — “woman + face

Definitions

  1. Women's clothing or a female presentation adopted by men or people assigned male at…

    Women's clothing or a female presentation adopted by men or people assigned male at birth, likened to blackface.

    • Her teacher, Mrs. Calcagni, who Shirley characterized to her friends as an “Uncle Tom in womanface,” hated girls who, in her view, “tried to be smarter than everybody,” which meant smarter than the boys, too.
    • “Molly's people found, well, I don't know what you'd call it—a hive, let's say, of male prostitutes in womanface. But that's not why I called you here.” She flipped the page and smoothed it down gently. “I want you in Raymond tomorrow[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for womanface. 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