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femalia

US/ˌfiːˈmeɪli.ə/

femalia noun: the female genitalia.

Noun

femalia

  1. The female genitalia.
    • so he started playing the water over my legs and then directly on my . . . femalia, and I held my lips open so that he could see my inner wishbone1992, Nicholson Baker (1992), Vox: a novel (New York: Random House), pages 143–144 (ellipsis in the original)
    • femalia1993, Joani Blank (ed., 1993), Femalia (1st ed.), photographs by Tee A. Corinne, Michael Perry, Jill Posener, and Michael A. Rosen (San Francisco: Down There Press), front cover (book title: the book...
  2. Anything pertaining to females or femaleness.
    • Yes sir! Here it is! The dope on the latest epidemic of femalia (or femania or what you will) that has swept this section of the building1932, "That fourth floor", The College Cord (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Waterloo College), 7(12):3–4 (col. 2), 26 November 1932, page 3 (col. 2)
    • And the very next page of ‘Femalia’ offered her a more practical answer. Food fads, swore the copy, this time built around a broad sporting the narrowest of bras, didn’t help any. What you needed was a spot reducer, guaranteed to milk you clean of all your unwanted fat.1976, Dadri (15 February 1976), "A tale of our times", Yojana (New Delhi), 20(2):23–24 (col. 1), page 24, column 1 (apparent jocular use as the title of a fictional women's magazine)

Examples of femalia in a sentence

  • Presumably there's no taboo against it after so many years of feminist celebration of the flower-petal beauties of femalia, the paintings of Judy Chicago et al.1995, Henry Allen (14 September 1995), "Intellectual passions", Washington Post (retrieved 2017-08-26; from the original 2017-08-26)
  • One thousand women saw photos of the femalia of fifteen workshop participants, up close and personal1997, Veronica Vera (1997), Miss Vera's finishing school for boys who want to be girls (1st ed.; New York: Doubleday), page 16

Origin of femalia

Principal sense (female genitalia) introduced in the novel Vox by Nicholson Baker (1992); popularized as the title of the book Femalia, edited by Joani Blank (1993). Likely coined by Baker as a portmanteau of female and genitalia. Rare uses in other senses attested before 1992. The most general sense (anything pertaining to females or femaleness) may be derived by analogy to regalia; this sense, and this analogy, may also influence all the other, more specific senses.

Words that rhyme with femalia

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Questions about femalia

What does femalia mean?
Femalia means the female genitalia.
How do you use femalia in a sentence?
Presumably there's no taboo against it after so many years of feminist celebration of the flower-petal beauties of femalia, the paintings of Judy Chicago et al.
What part of speech is femalia?
Femalia is a noun.
How do you pronounce femalia?
Femalia is pronounced /ˌfiːˈmeɪli.ə/ (US).

Words near femalia in the dictionary

  1. femaleness
  2. femalenesses
  3. femaler
  4. females
  5. femalest
  6. femalia
  7. femalish
  8. femalism
  9. femalist
  10. femalists
  11. femalities

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