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In the early 1960s, dude became prominent in surfer culture as a synonym of guy or fella. The female equivalent was "dudette" or "dudess", but these have both fallen into disuse and "dude" is now also used as a unisex term. This more general meaning of "dude" started creeping into the mainstream in the mid-1970s.
According to Dictionary.com, the term femboy originated in the 1990s and is a compound from the words fem (an abbreviation of feminine and femme) and boy. [1] [2] One early usage can be seen in a 1992 piece by gay artist Ed Check. [3] The variant femboi uses the LGBT term boi. [1] By 2000, the term boi [4] had come to denote "a young ...
(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 ...
Dyke is a slang term, used as a noun meaning lesbian. [1] It originated as a homophobic slur for masculine, butch, or androgynous girls or women. Pejorative use of the word still exists, but the term dyke has been reappropriated by many lesbians to imply assertiveness and toughness [2] (for example: the Dykes on Bikes motorcycle club).
Gyatt (/ ɡ j ɑː t / ⓘ) (also commonly spelled as Gyat) is a term from African-American Vernacular English originally used in exclamation, such as "gyatt damn".In the 2020s, the word experienced a semantic shift and gained the additional meaning of "a person, usually a woman, with large and attractive buttocks and sometimes an hourglass figure".
(slang, derogatory) foolish person, used esp. in northern England but also common elsewhere. Derived from the Northern English term pillicock, a dialect term for penis, although the connection is rarely made in general use. pinch * to steal. pisshead (vulgar) someone who regularly gets heavily drunk (cf. BrE meaning of pissed).
Literally, a bitch is a female dog; as an insult, it originally compared a woman to a dog in heat. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term bitch comes from the Old English word bicce or bicge, meaning "female dog", which dates to around 1000 CE. It may have derived from the earlier Old Norse word bikkja, also meaning "female dog ...
The word girl originally meant "young person of either sex" in English; [16] it was only around the beginning of the 16th century that it came to mean specifically a female child. [17] The term girl is sometimes used colloquially to refer to a young or unmarried woman; however, during the early 1970s, feminists challenged such use because the ...