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shemales

US/ˈʃi.meɪlz/

shemales is the plural of shemale.

Meaning of shemale

Noun

shemale (plural shemales)

  1. (derogatory, especially, offensive, proscribed) A male-to-female transsexual or transgender person; a trans woman.
    1. (broadly, derogatory, especially, offensive, proscribed, uncommon) A male or non-binary person with feminine characteristics; a femboy.
  2. (nonstandard) A male animal which displays female traits or behaviors; for example, a male reptile which gives off female pheromones.
    • She-male garter snakes exploit the amorous attentions of other males to warm up.2001, R. Shine, B. Phillips, H. Waye, M. LeMaster, R. T. Mason, Benefits of female mimicry in snakes, in Nature (414, 267)

Questions about shemales

What is shemales the plural of?
Shemales is the plural of shemale.
How do you pronounce shemales?
Shemales is pronounced /ˈʃi.meɪlz/ (US).

Words near shemales in the dictionary

  1. shemagh
  2. shemaghs
  3. Shemaiah
  4. Shemakha
  5. shemale
  6. shemales
  7. shematrin
  8. shematrins
  9. shemaya
  10. shemayas
  11. Shemini Atzeret

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shemales (page history and authors); shemale (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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