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transvesting

transvesting is the present participle and gerund of transvest.

Meaning of transvest

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

Questions about transvesting

What is transvesting the present participle and gerund of?
Transvesting is the present participle and gerund of transvest.

Words near transvesting in the dictionary

  1. transvestigating
  2. transvestigation
  3. transvestigations
  4. transvestigator
  5. transvestigators
  6. transvesting
  7. transvestism
  8. transvestisms
  9. transvestist
  10. transvestists
  11. transvestite

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