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pseudofeminine en · ADJ

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Etymology

From pseudo- + feminine.

Meanings

1. feminine or apparently feminine in certain aspects, but not truly feminine
   • As a result, nouns of this kind are likely to be interpreted and treated as feminine. Thus, Mifsud calls them pseudo-feminine collective Semitic nouns. 2018, George Farrugia, Grammatical Gender in Maltese:
   • Peter was not a "drag queen" as such, but ever since moving north from Hollywood had adopted several of their witty, pseudofeminine ways of speech […] 2012, Bernard Duncan Mayes, Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest, page 158:

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