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shrinkette

shrinkette noun: a female shrink (psychiatrist or psychotherapist).

Noun

shrinkette (plural shrinkettes)

  1. (slang) A female shrink (psychiatrist or psychotherapist).
    • I go to that dyke shrinkette who helped me “get over” Felix.2020, Larry Kramer, The Brutality of Fact (The American People), volume 2, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN

Forms of shrinkette

pluralshrinkettes

Origin of shrinkette

From shrink + -ette.

Questions about shrinkette

What does shrinkette mean?
Shrinkette means a female shrink (psychiatrist or psychotherapist).
What part of speech is shrinkette?
Shrinkette is a noun.
What is the plural of shrinkette?
The plural of shrinkette is shrinkettes.

Words near shrinkette in the dictionary

  1. shrinkees
  2. shrinker
  3. shrinkers
  4. shrinkest
  5. shrinketh
  6. shrinkette
  7. shrinkettes
  8. shrinkflate
  9. shrinkflated
  10. shrinkflates
  11. shrinkflating

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