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Meaning of "she-male" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHE-MALE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHE-MALE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
She-Male is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHE-MALE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Shemale

Shemale is a term primarily used in sex work to describe a trans woman with male genitalia combined with female secondary sex characteristics, usually including augmented female breasts, from breast augmentation and/or use of hormones. Many transgender people regard the term shemale as offensive, arguing that it mocks or shows a lack of respect towards the gender identity and gender expression of transgender individuals; in this view, the term emphasizes the biological sex of a person and neglects their gender. Using the term shemale for a transsexual woman often implies that she is working in the sex trade. The phrase is commonly found on porn sites. The term she'male has been used since the mid-19th century, when it was a humorous colloquialism for female, especially an aggressive woman.

Definition of she-male in the English dictionary

The definition of she-male in the dictionary is a male-to-female transsexual.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHE-MALE

she
she is no spring chicken
she-bear
she-cat
she-devil
she-goat
she-oak
she-wolf
she´d
she´ll
she´ll be right
she´s
she´s apples
she´s jake
shea
shea butter
sheading
sheaf
sheaflike
sheafy

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHE-MALE

alpha male
antifemale
antimale
dwarf male
female
intermale
male
metafemale
metamale
parasitic male
rogue male
superfemale
supermale
tamale

Synonyms and antonyms of she-male in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «she-male» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHE-MALE

Find out the translation of she-male to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of she-male from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «she-male» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

她,男
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

She-Male
570 millions of speakers

English

she-male
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वह पुरुष
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انها بين الذكور و
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

она - мужчина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

travesti
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সে-পুরুষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

she-male
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dia-lelaki
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

She-Male
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

シーメール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

그녀 - 남성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dheweke-lanang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cô - nam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

திரு-நம்பி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ती-पुरुष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

travesti
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

she-male
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

she- male
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вона -чоловік
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ea - mascul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

she- αρσενικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

she-male
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hon - hane
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hun -hann
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of she-male

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHE-MALE»

The term «she-male» is regularly used and occupies the 56.603 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHE-MALE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «she-male» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «she-male» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about she-male

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHE-MALE»

Discover the use of she-male in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to she-male and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hope
For Shamin's parents and family, life had become difficult and miserable after constantly hearing from other families that Shamin was different and that she was a she-male. One evening, these people came to Shamin's family to take her along ...
Jenny, 2010
2
Pheromones and Animal Behaviour: Communication by Smell and ...
However, in about 15% of mating balls, there is no female at the centre, instead one male, a 'she-male', is being courted by the other males (Mason & Crews 1985). The skin lipid pheromone of the she-males matches the pheromone of the  ...
Tristram D. Wyatt, 2003
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Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles
A she-male gains because other males do not interfere during courting, or by courting a she-male, a normal male's reproductive effort is misdirected and potentially lost. While she-males may have a mating advantage, they may not have a ...
George R. Zug, Laurie J. Vitt, Janalee P. Caldwell, 2001
4
Chasing The Cyclone
Something wicked,” the she-male tells me. “Maybe. But not what you're thinking.” “What you looking for? I have everything you could want,” she says with a decadent smirk that makes me want to run as fast as I can to Mary Queen of Heaven ...
Peter Thomas Senese
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Biological Evolution: An Anthology of Current Thought
Biologists had long explained the behavior of such "she-male" snakes as an example of sexual selection rather than natural selection: they reasoned that the behavior was actually competitive and must help the she-males mate with the true ...
Katy Human, 2005
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The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade
... males congregate around females, forming a so-called mating ball. ... In 16 percent of the balls, the snake being courted by the males was in fact a disguised male, what we call a she- male. She-males have testes that produce normal sperm ...
Wendy Doniger, 2005
7
99 Cent Adventure Time Stories Murder Strikes Back
“No doubt.” “She-male?” He nodded and sent us whooshing around a squatty civilian jeep, which promptly emitted an anguished squawk and went bouncing over somebody's front lawn. “Yeah. She-male.” I said grimly: “That's what I thought.
Robert Leslie Bellem, 2014
8
Israel and the Covenants in New Testament Times
When the wife (any Israelite) dies in (Holy Spirit) baptism “she” dies to the old covenant so has a new husband – Christ; then “she” (male or female) will be part of the “inner temple” of God's church and subject to Christ as the church's (Israel's ) ...
Peter Williams, 2012
9
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
By a pun. she-male, n. and adj. Female: orig.—ca. 1880-London lower classes' > by ca. 1912 fairly gen. joc. (Ware.) Pairing with he-male, q.v.-—2. A male with ( very) long hair or other of what were once considered to be female external ...
Eric Partridge, 2006
10
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper
Thi'i shulde take ensample of this, Whiche I haue tolde: for soth it is. My lady Venus, whom I serue, What woman woll hir thanke deserue, She male not thilke loue eschewe Of peramours, hut she mote sewe Cupides lawe, and netheles Men ...
Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson, 1810

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHE-MALE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term she-male is used in the context of the following news items.
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RuPaul's Drag Race axes 'You've Got She-Mail' catchphrase
... reality show last year attracted criticism for a segment in which contestants were asked to guess from a photo whether someone was a 'female or she-male'. «PinkNews, Mar 15»
2
Australian newspaper makes second apology attempt after calling …
A newspaper in Australia which came under heavy criticism for describing the transgender victim of a brutal murder as “she-male” has once again attempted to ... «PinkNews.co.uk, Oct 14»
3
Australian newspaper's 'shemale' headline about murder victim …
Its front page headline on Tuesday read “Monster Chef and the She-Male”, featuring a picture of Ms Prasetyo, 27, in a bikini and an inside story was headlined ... «The Independent, Oct 14»
4
Outrage follows 'she-male' headline on Brisbane paper
THE Courier-Mail newspaper has provoked outrage by calling a murdered transgender woman a "she-male" and a "ladyboy". Mayang Prasetyo, from Indonesia, ... «Toowoomba Chronicle, Oct 14»
5
'RuPaul's Drag Race' to drop controversial segment
As the Huffington Post reports, the controversy emerged after a March 17 mini-challenge called “Female or She-Male” presented current Drag Race contestants ... «Entertainment Weekly, Apr 14»
6
RuPaul Sort of Apologizes for Transphobic “Shemale” Segment
Hopefully, “She-male” will remain one of the few missteps in a show that, by my reckoning, is largely a force for good in the world. If nothing else, Drag Race's ... «The Slatest, Mar 14»
7
'Shemale' category on driving licences upsets LGBT community …
Shemale (also she-male) is defined by Wikipedia as “a derogatory term used (but not exclusively) in sex work to describe trans women with male genitalia and ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jan 14»
8
How She-Male Birds Win the Girl
"By contrast," the researchers wrote, "female-like males tolerated male decoys (both she-male and male) and directed their aggression towards female decoys… «Discovery News, Nov 11»
9
She-male bulldog baffles researchers
Bijou, an 18-month old, healthy and well-behaved French bulldog has an abnormally large clitoris, so large that her owner brought her to the Université de ... «CBS News, Sep 11»
10
She-male kick in head for Ronaldo
RONALDO, ONE OF the world's best soccer players, is up to his knee-socks in scandal today after his run-in with a pair of transvestite prostitutes wound up on ... «New York Daily News, May 08»

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« EDUCALINGO. She-Male [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/she-male>. May 2024 ».
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