enby

See also: Enby

English edit

Etymology edit

Pronunciation spelling of the letters NB, an initialism of non-binary. Coined by the Tumblr user revolutionator in 2013 as “an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls”.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈɛnbi/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun edit

enby (plural enbies)

(neologism, informal) A person whose gender identity is not strictly male or female; one who is outside of the gender binary.
- 2013, revolutionator, “i wish there was an nb equivalent…", Tumblr, September 10, 2013:
  i wish there was an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls
  
  nb
  
  enby
  
  enbies
- 2017 October, Will McCreath, “My Non-binary Wedding”, in Diva, page 18:
  I doubt most wedding fair vendors would recognise an enby even if you carried an explanatory sign.
- 2018, Dan Savage, “Savage Love”, Santa Fe Reporter, June 27 – July 3, 2018, page 28:
  So, boys and girls and enbies, if the sex isn’t good at or very near the beginning, the passage of time and/or muttering of vows isn't going to fix it.
- 2019, Claire G. Coleman, The Old Lie, unnumbered page:
  ‘Ladies and enbies,’ she said, the five foot three height requirement for pilots continued to mean that nearly all the human fighter pilots she had ever met were women or enbies.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:enby.

Hyponyms edit

Descendants edit

→ German: Enby

Translations edit

non-binary person

Esperanto: neduumulo
French: enby (fr), NB (fr)
German: Enby (de) n
Icelandic: (adults) kvár n; (children and adolescents) stálp n
Japanese: Xジェンダー

Adjective edit

enby (not comparable)

(neologism, informal) Non-binary; having a gender identity that is not male or female.
Synonym: genderqueer
- 2017, S. Bear Bergman, Meg-John Barker, Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders, Palgrave Macmillan, page 43:
  For non-binary-identified (or, to use my current favourite term, enby) people, this is magnified by the fact that while most of everyone except Germaine Greer and Donald Trump are prepared to recognise that trans people do exist these days, the enby population is still struggling up that hill […]
- 2018 May 14, Zoë Godden, “Interview: Saffron Kershaw-Mee”, in The Courier, page 23:
  Would you consider yourself an enby BNOC?
- 2018 August, Peach Delosreyes-Yu, “A Stream of Consciousness on Self-Acceptance”, in ENBY Magazine, page 7:
  […] and the enby community needs to be welcoming of nb lesbians a well,” says Evee Sams, a lesbian, polyamorous, agender, trans gxrl.

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

Translations

French: enby (fr), NB (fr)

References edit

^ The original post can be seen at 02348294832908091 [username] (2013 September 10) “02348294832908091 [page title]”, in Tumblr‎^[1], retrieved 2021-05-21: “i wish there was an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls / nb / enby / enbies / [in the post’s tags:] #its my sworn foe.... lexical gaps #gender bullshit tag by vector” (requires logging in). A contemporary and publicly viewable reblog recording the Tumblr user’s name at the time can be see at revolutionator (2013 September 10) “walk with the shadows”, in Tumblr‎^[2], retrieved 22 July 2020.

Anagrams edit

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[1] The original post can be seen at 02348294832908091 [username] (2013 September 10) “02348294832908091 [page title]”, in Tumblr‎^[1], retrieved 2021-05-21: “i wish there was an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls / nb / enby / enbies / [in the post’s tags:] #its my sworn foe.... lexical gaps #gender bullshit tag by vector” (requires logging in). A contemporary and publicly viewable reblog recording the Tumblr user’s name at the time can be see at revolutionator (2013 September 10) “walk with the shadows”, in Tumblr‎^[2], retrieved 22 July 2020.

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