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womyn

womyn noun: feminist spelling of woman.

Noun

womyn (plural womyn or wymyn)

  1. (rare) Feminist spelling of woman.
    • Summoning all my courage, I touched and kissed a womyn for the first time. I cannot describe what I felt at that moment.1980, Susan J Wolfe, Julia Penelope, The coming out stories
    • I dug with my bare hands through the bullshit where beneath I discovered a womyn. She was an incredibly angry womyn, but a womyn nonetheless.2004, Misty Marie, I Too was a Child...
  2. (rare) Feminist spelling of women.
    • And I'm sure you know that so many straight womyn are so miserable that "going to the shrink" has become their major occupation, if they can afford it.1983, Anita Cornwell, Black Lesbian in White America
    • Likewise, simply dismissing post-operative male-to-female transsexuals as "men," and making an artificial distinction between "women" and "womyn" neither justifies their policy, nor eliminates any of the substantive issues involved.1991 December 22, Davina Anne Gabriel, “Still More On Michigan”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 23, page 4

Examples of womyn in a sentence

  • I do not expect to be included in all 'womyn space' (nor, truth be told, do I wish to be).
  • But if the choice is between womyn space and myn space, I sure as heck do not belong in the latter.
  • I know other trans womyn who are solidly butch, and others who are totally femme, and, of course, the equivalents among straight and bi womyn.

All 11 example sentences with womyn

Forms of womyn

pluralwomyn
pluralwymyn

Origin of womyn

Respelling of woman and women to avoid association man or men. Compare myn.

Words formed from womyn

Questions about womyn

What does womyn mean?
Womyn means feminist spelling of woman.
What part of speech is womyn?
Womyn is a noun.
What is the plural of womyn?
The plural of womyn is womyn.

Words near womyn in the dictionary

  1. wompoos
  2. womps
  3. Womrath
  4. WOMs
  5. womxn
  6. womyn
  7. womyn's land
  8. womyn's lands
  9. womyn-born-womyn
  10. womynhood
  11. womynkind

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