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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

transvest en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from transvestite.

Meanings

  1. (formal, uncommon) To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.
    • […] both their gender role and their gender status must have been so distinctively androgynous that they probably did not transvest. 2010, Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures:

Forms

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transvests Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
transvested Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
transvested Tense=Past lexicographic
transvesting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

transvestism · transvestist · transvestite

Synonyms

cross-dress