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There are a range of religious, cultural, punitive, and personal reasons why someone may choose to emasculate themselves or another person. The term emasculation may be used in a metaphorical sense, referring to the perceived loss of attributes traditionally associated with masculinity , such as strength, power, or autonomy.
The parallel of castration for female animals is spaying. Castration may also refer medically to oophorectomy in female humans and animals. The term castration may also be sometimes used to refer to emasculation where both the testicles and the penis are removed together. In some cultures, and in some translations, no distinction is made ...
Twat is an English-language vulgarism which means the vulva or vagina, and is used figuratively as a derogatory epithet. [1] [2] [3] In British English, and Irish English it is a common insult referring to an obnoxious or stupid person regardless of gender; [1] [3] in American English, it is rarer and usually used to insult a woman.
And even with nouns referring to persons, one could not always determine gender by meaning or form: for example, with two words ending in -mæg, there was the female-specific neuter noun wynmæg, meaning "winsome maid" or attractive woman; as well as the gender-neutral noun meaning "paternal kindred" or member of father's side of the family ...
Trump's executive order declares sex as "an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female" and states that "gender identity" cannot be included in the definition of ...
فلانی (Folānī): Loan word from Arabic, which is used in Persian for both male and female subjects. [47] یارو (Yarū): Mainly derogatory, and associated strongly with the Tehrani dialect. Is used to mean "that person over there". [48]
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., doubled down on using an anti-transgender term during a House hearing Wednesday after a Democratic congressman pointed out it was a slur. At the Committee on Oversight and ...
According to Polish language dictionary from 1915, it has been defined as "pisspants"; a conflation between the Yiddish term and its similarity to the Polish verb sikać ("to piss"). In today's language however, it is roughly equivalent to the English terms "snot-nosed brat", "little squirt", and "naughty schoolgirl" in a humorous context.