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Alternate perspective: English has substantive adjectives -- where an adjective is used as a noun, for instance, "the good, the bad, and the ugly" or "the good die young." This is a part of English grammar. And "female" and "woman" are not synonyms - "female" is a biological or anatomical term that refers to sex, while "woman" refers to gender.
(M./Mme) Machin/Machine (familiar terms, used when one does not wish take the trouble to think of a more specific term); [21] (Un) Gazier originally, a man who worked in gas transport; nowadays, it is a familiar way to say "Someone" (mostly for a man; this term is rare for women, and in such case, the correct word is the feminine form "Gazière ...
many figurative senses derived from baseball, e.g. off one's base (crazy), to get to first base (esp. in neg. constr., to get a first important result); more recently (slang), a metaphor for one of three different stages in making out (q.v.) – see baseball metaphors for sex; more s.v. home run: bash
The term is used also against people with still good mental capabilities, merely due to their age. Sheng nu: A derogatory Chinese slang term loosely translating to "leftover women", used to describe unmarried older women.(see "Spinster" below) Silver fox: A sexually-attractive or promiscuous older person. (see "cougar" above)
According to cultural anthropologist Gayle Rubin, heteronormativity in mainstream society creates a "sex hierarchy" that graduates sexual practices from morally "good sex" to "bad sex". The hierarchy considers reproductive, monogamous sex between committed heterosexuals as "good", whereas any sexual act or individual who falls short of this ...
Non-heterosexual is a word for a sexual orientation or sexual identity that is not heterosexual. [1] [2] The term helps define the "concept of what is the norm and how a particular group is different from that norm". [3]
What makes a woman is who they are as a human being." Corcoran, who sometimes posts images of herself pre-transition, says it's all part of using her platform to be her full self and to help ...
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...