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morphadite

morphadite is the alternative form of morphodite.

Meaning of morphodite

Noun

morphodite (plural morphodites)

  1. (slang) Hermaphrodite.
    • Atticus strolled over to Miss Maudie’s sidewalk, where they engaged in an arm-waving conversation, the only phrase of which I caught was “…erected an absolute morphodite in that yard! Atticus, you’ll never raise ’em!”1960, Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
  2. (dated, derogatory, slang) Any person exhibiting sexual or gender divergence, such as a transvestite or homosexual.
    • [Recounting an event from 1926] The rest of the summer I'd get a bit of head on from the Speakeasy's Special […] and scuffle around with the guys in front of the Cribs. On the way home, one of the guys who had noticed I hadn't gone in with the rest of them, gave me what turned out to be a "pat"...1994 October, Harry Hay, “Focussing On NAMBLA Obscures The Issues”, in Gay Community News, page 16

Forms of morphadite

pluralmorphadites

Questions about morphadite

What is morphadite the alternative form of?
Morphadite is the alternative form of morphodite.

Words near morphadite in the dictionary

  1. morphable
  2. morphactin
  3. morphactins
  4. morphadike
  5. morphadikes
  6. morphadite
  7. morphadites
  8. morphadyke
  9. morphadykes
  10. morphallactic
  11. morphallaxes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morphadite (page history and authors); morphodite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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