ambisextrous

Adjective

ambisextrous (comparative more ambisextrous, superlative most ambisextrous)

1. (humorous, offensive, sometimes) Bisexual.
   • His hips were jaunty,
     And his gestures too dextrous.
     A versatile lad!
     He was ambisextrous.1928, Joseph Moncure March, The Wild Party (poem), Pascal Covici, Inc., page 33
   • Ivor was ambisextrous and loved women physically, too.1978, Fabia Drake, Blind Fortune, Kimber, →ISBN, →OL, page 94

   Synonyms:

   bi, AC/DC, curious, flexible, Kinsey 3, open-minded, switch-hitting, versatile

2. Epicene; androgynous.
   • “Yatakang?” said the purser of the express, an elegant young biv-type sporting ambisextrous shoulder-long bangs.1968, John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, New York: Doubleday, →OL
   • The embryogenesis of such male-directed stromal cells remains a puzzle, and it can be only theorized that it represents masculine differentiation of the mesenchyme derived from the embryonic “ambisextrous” primitive gonads.1984, Stanley Leonard Robbins with Ramzi S. Cotran and Vinay Kumar, Pathologic Basis of Disease, 3rd edition, W. B. Saunders, →ISBN, →OL, page 1154
3. Having both male and female, or masculine and feminine, elements.
   • One searches to see whether the author [of “He created them male and female”, Genesis 5:2] meant to say that man was at the start ambisextrous […]1920, Ezra Pound, “Genesis, or, The First Book in the Bible”, reprinted in Pavannes and Divagations, New Directions Publishing (1974), page 171
   • “So you think, wonderful woman; but you're so utterly unlike your sisters in that particular. You're ambisextrous, do you know that?”1921 November 19, Richard Matthews Hallet, “The Canyon of the Fools”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 194, number 2, page 55