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morphodite

morphodite noun: hermaphrodite.

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 morphodite

pluralmorphodites

Words formed from morphodite

Questions about morphodite

What does morphodite mean?
Morphodite means hermaphrodite.
What part of speech is morphodite?
Morphodite is a noun.
What is the plural of morphodite?
The plural of morphodite is morphodites.

Words near morphodite in the dictionary

  1. morphodemes
  2. morphodifferentiation
  3. morphodifferentiations
  4. morphodike
  5. morphodikes
  6. morphodite
  7. morphodites
  8. morphodyke
  9. morphodykes
  10. morphodynamic
  11. morphodynamical

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