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cisgirl en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsɪsɡɝl/ (General-American)
  • /ˈsɪsɡɜːl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From cis- + girl.

Meanings

  1. (informal) A cisgender woman or girl.
    • Crossdresser, drag queen, transwoman or cisgirl laying it on thick, nobody had the guts to ask. 2017, K. C. Alexander, Nanoshock, unnumbered page:
    • Simply to say this novel clearly illustrates that transgirls issues face the same issues of cisgirls, and then some. 2018, Mary Ann Harlan, The Girl-Positive Library: Inspiring Confidence, Creativity, and Curiosity in Young Women, page 68:
    • The notion of “puberty” in this context reduced various kinds of maturation that cisgirls typically experience down to a single threshold event, menarche. 2019, Ashwini Tambe, Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws, unnumbered page:

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Hypernyms

cis person

Synonyms

cis woman