cisboy
/ˈsɪs.bɔɪ/
cisboy noun: a cisgender man or boy.
Noun
cisboy (plural cisboys)
- A cisgender man or boy.
- Indeed, the heavy and active involvement of (cis)women soldiers in the torture of prisoners stands in clear contradiction to not only the U.S. military's self-image as the quintessential masculine institution that turns cisboys into cismen, but also seems to falsify feminist scholarship on the...2016, Nadja Al-Ali, Nicola Pratt, “Positionalities, intersectionalities, and transnational feminism in researching women in post-invasion Iraq”, in Annick T. R. Wibben, editor, Researching War...
- Of course, cisboys and trans girls may also want and obtain these items (and clearly, many do), but representing them as specifically girls' toys overdetermines their location.2018, Claudia Schwabe, “Pedagogy”, in Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, Lauren Bosc, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures, unnumbered page
Synonyms of cisboy
Forms of cisboy
| plural | cisboys |
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Origin of cisboy
From cis- + boy.
Questions about cisboy
- What does cisboy mean?
- Cisboy means a cisgender man or boy.
- What part of speech is cisboy?
- Cisboy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cisboy?
- Cisboy is pronounced /ˈsɪs.bɔɪ/.
- What is the plural of cisboy?
- The plural of cisboy is cisboys.
Words near cisboy in the dictionary
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