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transvest

transvest verb: to wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.

Verb

transvest (third-person singular simple present transvests, present participle transvesting, simple past and past participle transvested)

  1. (formal, uncommon) To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.
    • […] both their gender role and their gender status must have been so distinctively androgynous that they probably did not transvest.2010, Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures
    Synonyms:
    cross-dress

Synonyms of transvest

Forms of transvest

third-person singular presenttransvests
present participletransvesting
past participletransvested
pasttransvested

Origin of transvest

Back-formation from transvestite.

Questions about transvest

What does transvest mean?
Transvest means to wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.
What part of speech is transvest?
Transvest is a verb.
What is the past tense of transvest?
The past tense of transvest is transvested.

Words near transvest in the dictionary

  1. transvertible
  2. transverting
  3. transverts
  4. transvesical
  5. transvesicular
  6. transvest
  7. transvested
  8. transvestic
  9. transvestic disorder
  10. transvestic fetishism
  11. transvestic fetishisms

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