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hondose

Syllables: hon·dose/ˈhʌnˌdəʊs/US/ˈhʌnˌdoʊs/

hondose noun: a low dose of hormone replacement therapy in a trans woman which produces inadequate feminization and fails to suppress testosterone.

Noun

hondose (countable and uncountable, plural hondoses)

  1. (derogatory, 4chan /lgbt/ slang) A low dose of hormone replacement therapy in a trans woman which produces inadequate feminization and fails to suppress testosterone.
    • The gender clinic must hate me because they've given me a hondose again.
    • whenever a tgirl posts a picture of her newly acquired hrt and it's like 100mg of spiro and 1mg of sublingual estradiol the kill bill siren goes off in my head, i black out, and i wake up with bruises everywhere and "hondose" written all over my body in permanent marker[2022 August 8, @Sick1663, Twitter

Forms of hondose

pluralhondoses

Origin of hondose

From hon (“a trans woman who does not pass”) (derogatory, offensive) + dose.

Questions about hondose

What does hondose mean?
Hondose means a low dose of hormone replacement therapy in a trans woman which produces inadequate feminization and fails to suppress testosterone.
What part of speech is hondose?
Hondose is a noun.
How do you pronounce hondose?
Hondose is pronounced /ˈhʌnˌdəʊs/ (UK).
What is the plural of hondose?
The plural of hondose is hondoses.

Words near hondose in the dictionary

  1. hondes
  2. Hondius
  3. hondle
  4. Hondo
  5. hondom
  6. hondose
  7. hondoses
  8. Hondrich
  9. Honduran
  10. Honduranean
  11. Honduraneans

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