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wimmin|ˈwɪmɪn|
A semi-phonetic spelling of ‘women’, recently adopted by some feminists as a form not containing the ending -men. Also, at an earlier date, occasionally used ironically in other contexts.
1910H. G. Wells Hist. Mr Polly vi. 201 ‘Wimmin's a toss up,’ said Uncle Penstemon. ‘Prize packets they are, and you can't tell what's in 'em till you took 'em 'ome and undone 'em. Never was a bachelor married yet that didn't buy a pig in a poke.’ 1938Snow White & Seven Dwarfs 31 ‘Didn't I tell you?’ sniffed Grumpy. ‘She's crazy. Wimmin! Pah!’ 1983Observer 13 Mar. 16/4 Another woman was writing the words of a song... ‘We coil and spring we grow and sing we dance with the tree of life we are the serpents of healing and rebirth wimmin have reclaimed the earth’... ‘Why ‘wimmin’?’ I asked... ‘We want to spell women in a way that does not spell men.’ 1983Sunday Times 10 Apr. 36/3 Return to Greenham Common, view the wool webs, the papier mâché masks, the eccentric re-spelling of words like ‘wimmin’, the improbable cosiness of the little tents in a landscape of wire fencing and policemen. 1983Listener 14 Apr. 4/1 Meanwhile, what of the Peace Women (‘wimmin’ in feminist placards) camped outside Greenham Common? 1983Private Eye 22 Apr. 5/2 (heading) Wimmin. 1985Sunday Tel. 11 Aug. 13/8 The Greenham women—God bless 'em! (Sorry—I should write ‘wimmin’, since the word ‘women’ contains the horrid inclusion of ‘men’. Their little eccentricity!) |