pseudofeminine
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pseudofeminine (comparative more pseudofeminine, superlative most pseudofeminine)
- feminine or apparently feminine in certain aspects, but not truly feminine
- 2012, Bernard Duncan Mayes, Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest, page 158:
- 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 […]
- 2018, George Farrugia, Grammatical Gender in Maltese:
- 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.