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cisboy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsɪs.bɔɪ/

Etymology

From cis- + boy.

Meanings

  1. (informal) A cisgender man or boy.
    • We had a bunch of cis-girls and cis-boys in the unit. 2019, Rudy Akbarian, quoted in Jorge Paniagua, "Devoted To His Country, Dismissed by Trump", The Pride, 8 February - 21 February 2019, page 5
    • Indeed, the heavy and active involvement of (cis)women soldiers in the torture of prisoners stands in clear contradiction to not only the U.S. military's self-image as the quintessential masculine institution that turns cisboys into cismen, but also seems to falsify feminist scholarship on the foundational role of militarized masculinity in military operations […] 2016, Nadja Al-Ali, Nicola Pratt, “Positionalities, intersectionalities, and transnational feminism in researching women in post-invasion Iraq”, in Annick T. R. Wibben, editor, Researching War: Feminist Methods, Ethics and Politics, page 93:
    • Of course, cisboys and trans girls may also want and obtain these items (and clearly, many do), but representing them as specifically girls' toys overdetermines their location. 2018, Claudia Schwabe, “Pedagogy”, in Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, Lauren Bosc, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures, unnumbered page:

Forms

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cisboys Number=Plur lexicographic

Hypernyms

cis person

Synonyms

cisguy · cis man · cisdude