androgynousadj.

Brit.

/anˈdrɒdʒᵻnəs/, U.S.

/ænˈdrɑdʒənəs/

Forms: 1600s androginous, 1600s– androgynous, 1700s androgynus, 1800s– androgenous.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin androgynus , -ous suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin androgynus androgyne n. + -ous suffix.In form androgenous probably partly by association with formations in -genous comb. form.

a. Originally (chiefly depreciative): designating a man who is effeminate or who has a feminine appearance; (later also) designating a masculine or unfeminine woman. Now more commonly in positive or neutral use: neither clearly male nor clearly female, esp. in appearance; combining elements of masculinity and femininity; of indeterminate sex.The positive or neutral use develops from the mid 20th cent.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > androgynous

androgynous1628

androgyne1958

the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > effeminate man

womanisha1393

womanlike1440

feminatea1533

effeminate1549

womanlike1565

cockney1573

feminine1614

androgynous1628

muliebrious1652

petit maître1729

Miss Nancyish1855

gynaecomorphous1865

gynandrous1878

girly-girly1882

nancified1901

wimbly-wambly1929

tapette1930

queeny1936

female1940

poofed-up1964

pansy-ass1976

wussy1977

effete1981

1628 W. Prynne Vnlouelinesse of Louelockes 49 Clemens condemnes all such for androginous and effeminate persons, who Curle, and Crispe their Haire like women.

1800 J. Dallaway Anecd. Arts Eng. ii. vi. 302 An effeminate or androgenous figure of Ampelus.

1821 S. T. Coleridge in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 254 Milliners, tailors, and the androgynous correlations of both,..now yclept dandies.

1887 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 344/2 We found one of those useful androgynous personages known as courier-maids.

1922 W. V. Kelley Open Fire 72 Protestantism has no use for the androgynous feminine male; it wants the bone, and brawn, and sinew of manliness.

1966 Ebony Apr. 138/2 Great new boy-girl look has an androgynous appeal that is accentuated to the ultimate in these leather levi pants.

1993 Guardian 1 July ii. 5/5 The androgynous planes of her face.

2005 Rip & Burn Mar. 44/3 The modelishly rake-thin Sergio..looks every inch the modern-day heartbreaker: equal parts thuggish Faces wideboy and androgynous pretty-boy.

b. Of clothing, a hairstyle, etc.: that makes a man look feminine or a woman masculine; that gives the wearer an appearance that is neither clearly male nor clearly female. rare before late 20th cent.

ΚΠ

1842 G. H. Lewes in Monthly Mag. June 578 ‘Shocking’ the respectability of some immaculate Englishwoman, by appearing in an androgynous costume—and..a cigar in her mouth!

1895 Cosmopolitan July 265/1 She went riding on a bay horse in an androgynous costume—half jockey and half Roman matron.

1966 Illustr. London News 26 Feb. 24/3 British girls oscillate between the androgynous styles of the King's Road boutiques and the camp femininity of Portobello Road hand-me-downs.

1991 G. Burn Alma Cogan (1992) vi. 115 Starting from his feet we had: suede cowboy boots, pressed jeans,..tumbling long blond androgynous hair.

2017 Mail Online (Nexis) 15 July (TV & Showbiz section) The 33-year-old star oozed cool as she broke away from the tennis event's flurry of feminine frocks in favour of an androgynous trouser suit.

a. Having physical characteristics of both sexes, (typically) having both male and female sexual organs; hermaphroditic.In biological contexts hermaphroditic is now the usual term. In mythological and religious contexts, androgynous remains widely used; cf. androgyne n. 1a.

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the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > having characteristics of both sexes

bisexed1605

hermaphroditical1605

epicene1607

hermaphrodite1607

hermaphroditic1631

promiscuousa1637

androgynal1646

masculo-feminine1646

androgynous1651

ambosexous1656

hermaphroditish1764

androgyne1765

bisexual1793

hermaphrodital1823

heautandrous1837

amphigonic1876

intersexual1916

intersex1920

intersexed1921

harumphroditic1924

man-womanly1929

ambosexual1931

bi-gendered1976

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋69 Nature..contenteth herself with that which is androgynous and promiscuous.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Androgyne Many of the Rabbins are of opinion, that Adam was created Androgynous.

1748 London Mag. Dec. 562/2 I believe this insect to be androgynous, having always found the signs of a male in such spiders as lay eggs.

1828 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlii. 167 To suppose these insects are truly androgynous, as strictly uniting both sexes in one.

1877 R. Brown Great Dionysiak Myth I. 360 The androgynous Hindû Ardanari-Iswara, a figure male on the right side and female on the left, presents the same idea.

1935 H. A. Curtiss & F. H. Curtiss Inner Radiance xxviii. 253 Male and female..in an androgynous body, in which the two reproduced by fission—as the amoeba does today.

2004 C. Scott Endangered & Threatened Animals Florida & their Habitats xiv. 282/1 The Stock Island tree snail is androgynous, having characteristics of both sexes, however, it is not capable of self-fertilization.

2004 Eng. Hist. Rev. 119 1232 The re-creation of the prelapsarian Adam, incorporating both sexes in one androgynous body.

b. Astrology. Of a planet: having both masculine and feminine characteristics attributed to it. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [adjective] > planet > androgynous

androgynous1652

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 86 Planets masculine, feminine, androgynous.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Androgyne The Astrologers also give the Appellation Androgynus to such of the Planets as are sometimes hot, and sometimes cold.

1819 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (new ed.) (at cited word) Mercury is reckoned androgynous, being hot and dry when near the Sun, cold and moist when near the moon.

1994 J. R. Lewis Astrol. Encycl. 20 Mercury was the only planet in premodern astrology that was said to be neutral or androgynous. In contemporary astrology, Uranus has also come to be regarded as an androgynous planet.

c. Botany. Formerly: †(of a flower) hermaphroditic or bisexual; gynandrous (obsolete); (also) †having male and female flowers or cones on the same individual plant; monoecious (obsolete). Now: having the male (pollen-producing) and female (ovule-producing) reproductive parts borne in different parts of an inflorescence, esp. a spike, spikelet, or strobilus (cone).

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > characterized by parts or form > characterized by sex of flowers

malea1398

masculinea1550

androgynous1739

polygamous1757

monoecious1761

polygamious1761

monoicous1822

monoclinous1828

monoecian1828

trigamous1842

hermaphrodite1854

triœcious1860

monoecious1861

synœcious1863

synoicous1863

autoicous1875

andro-diœcious1877

andromonœcious1877

gynodioecious1877

gynomonoecious1877

monoicous1877

autoecious1896

monoclinian1900

1739 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature (ed. 2) iii. 46 The certain Mark by which we may discover the Androgynous Flowers, is the ranging of the Stamina about the Pistillum, whose Base or Body becomes a Fruit.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xxi. 64 Androgynous, Male and Female, such as upon the same Root bear both male and female Flowers.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. xvii. iv. The florets of composite flowers, though formed on the type of an androgynous flower, are sometimes male, sometimes female, and sometimes neuter.

1881 G. Bentham in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 18 366 Spikelets..collected in androgynous heads.

1930 A. B. Rendle Classif. Flowering Plants (ed. 2) I. iii. 101 The same plant [sc. Picea excelsa] bore androgynous cones in which the stamens usually occupied the base and the ovule-bearing scales the upper part.

2007 Kew Bull. 62 293/2 Spikes sessile, elliptic or ovate, 3.8–5 mm long, androgynous, upper section male, lower female.

3. Not determined or guided by conventional expectations about the preferences and abilities of either gender; in which traditional gender roles have been eliminated or disregarded.

ΚΠ

1968 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 23 Aug. t8/3 A professor of anthropology and sociology at the City University of New York sees our society being dominated by an ambiguously androgynous or neuter concept of sex-role, to the detriment of individual identity.

1973 Phi Delta Kappan 55 109/3 Typically, they resort to mere ‘role reversal’—the boys pass out cookies and the girls play doctor—without exploring what truly androgynous roles for people would be.

1975 G. G. Yates What Women Want v. 181 One possibility for androgynous marriage is to divide the domestic tasks fifty-fifty and to divide the breadwinning fifty-fifty.

1993 B. Strong & C. DeVault Essent. Marriage & Family Experience ii. 46 There is a considerable body of evidence suggesting that androgynous gender roles help us have more flexible and fulfilling relationships and lives.

2014 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 19 Oct. 3 p It isn't necessarily a call to create an androgynous workforce.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	androgynous
释义	androgynousadj. Brit. /anˈdrɒdʒᵻnəs/, U.S. /ænˈdrɑdʒənəs/ Forms: 1600s androginous, 1600s– androgynous, 1700s androgynus, 1800s– androgenous. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin androgynus , -ous suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin androgynus androgyne n. + -ous suffix.In form androgenous probably partly by association with formations in -genous comb. form. 1. a. Originally (chiefly depreciative): designating a man who is effeminate or who has a feminine appearance; (later also) designating a masculine or unfeminine woman. Now more commonly in positive or neutral use: neither clearly male nor clearly female, esp. in appearance; combining elements of masculinity and femininity; of indeterminate sex.The positive or neutral use develops from the mid 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > androgynous androgynous1628 androgyne1958 the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > effeminate man womanisha1393 womanlike1440 feminatea1533 effeminate1549 womanlike1565 cockney1573 feminine1614 androgynous1628 muliebrious1652 petit maître1729 Miss Nancyish1855 gynaecomorphous1865 gynandrous1878 girly-girly1882 nancified1901 wimbly-wambly1929 tapette1930 queeny1936 female1940 poofed-up1964 pansy-ass1976 wussy1977 effete1981 1628 W. Prynne Vnlouelinesse of Louelockes 49 Clemens condemnes all such for androginous and effeminate persons, who Curle, and Crispe their Haire like women. 1800 J. Dallaway Anecd. Arts Eng. ii. vi. 302 An effeminate or androgenous figure of Ampelus. 1821 S. T. Coleridge in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 254 Milliners, tailors, and the androgynous correlations of both,..now yclept dandies. 1887 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 344/2 We found one of those useful androgynous personages known as courier-maids. 1922 W. V. Kelley Open Fire 72 Protestantism has no use for the androgynous feminine male; it wants the bone, and brawn, and sinew of manliness. 1966 Ebony Apr. 138/2 Great new boy-girl look has an androgynous appeal that is accentuated to the ultimate in these leather levi pants. 1993 Guardian 1 July ii. 5/5 The androgynous planes of her face. 2005 Rip & Burn Mar. 44/3 The modelishly rake-thin Sergio..looks every inch the modern-day heartbreaker: equal parts thuggish Faces wideboy and androgynous pretty-boy. b. Of clothing, a hairstyle, etc.: that makes a man look feminine or a woman masculine; that gives the wearer an appearance that is neither clearly male nor clearly female. rare before late 20th cent. ΚΠ 1842 G. H. Lewes in Monthly Mag. June 578 ‘Shocking’ the respectability of some immaculate Englishwoman, by appearing in an androgynous costume—and..a cigar in her mouth! 1895 Cosmopolitan July 265/1 She went riding on a bay horse in an androgynous costume—half jockey and half Roman matron. 1966 Illustr. London News 26 Feb. 24/3 British girls oscillate between the androgynous styles of the King's Road boutiques and the camp femininity of Portobello Road hand-me-downs. 1991 G. Burn Alma Cogan (1992) vi. 115 Starting from his feet we had: suede cowboy boots, pressed jeans,..tumbling long blond androgynous hair. 2017 Mail Online (Nexis) 15 July (TV & Showbiz section) The 33-year-old star oozed cool as she broke away from the tennis event's flurry of feminine frocks in favour of an androgynous trouser suit. 2. a. Having physical characteristics of both sexes, (typically) having both male and female sexual organs; hermaphroditic.In biological contexts hermaphroditic is now the usual term. In mythological and religious contexts, androgynous remains widely used; cf. androgyne n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > having characteristics of both sexes bisexed1605 hermaphroditical1605 epicene1607 hermaphrodite1607 hermaphroditic1631 promiscuousa1637 androgynal1646 masculo-feminine1646 androgynous1651 ambosexous1656 hermaphroditish1764 androgyne1765 bisexual1793 hermaphrodital1823 heautandrous1837 amphigonic1876 intersexual1916 intersex1920 intersexed1921 harumphroditic1924 man-womanly1929 ambosexual1931 bi-gendered1976 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋69 Nature..contenteth herself with that which is androgynous and promiscuous. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Androgyne Many of the Rabbins are of opinion, that Adam was created Androgynous. 1748 London Mag. Dec. 562/2 I believe this insect to be androgynous, having always found the signs of a male in such spiders as lay eggs. 1828 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlii. 167 To suppose these insects are truly androgynous, as strictly uniting both sexes in one. 1877 R. Brown Great Dionysiak Myth I. 360 The androgynous Hindû Ardanari-Iswara, a figure male on the right side and female on the left, presents the same idea. 1935 H. A. Curtiss & F. H. Curtiss Inner Radiance xxviii. 253 Male and female..in an androgynous body, in which the two reproduced by fission—as the amoeba does today. 2004 C. Scott Endangered & Threatened Animals Florida & their Habitats xiv. 282/1 The Stock Island tree snail is androgynous, having characteristics of both sexes, however, it is not capable of self-fertilization. 2004 Eng. Hist. Rev. 119 1232 The re-creation of the prelapsarian Adam, incorporating both sexes in one androgynous body. b. Astrology. Of a planet: having both masculine and feminine characteristics attributed to it. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [adjective] > planet > androgynous androgynous1652 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 86 Planets masculine, feminine, androgynous. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Androgyne The Astrologers also give the Appellation Androgynus to such of the Planets as are sometimes hot, and sometimes cold. 1819 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (new ed.) (at cited word) Mercury is reckoned androgynous, being hot and dry when near the Sun, cold and moist when near the moon. 1994 J. R. Lewis Astrol. Encycl. 20 Mercury was the only planet in premodern astrology that was said to be neutral or androgynous. In contemporary astrology, Uranus has also come to be regarded as an androgynous planet. c. Botany. Formerly: †(of a flower) hermaphroditic or bisexual; gynandrous (obsolete); (also) †having male and female flowers or cones on the same individual plant; monoecious (obsolete). Now: having the male (pollen-producing) and female (ovule-producing) reproductive parts borne in different parts of an inflorescence, esp. a spike, spikelet, or strobilus (cone). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > characterized by parts or form > characterized by sex of flowers malea1398 masculinea1550 androgynous1739 polygamous1757 monoecious1761 polygamious1761 monoicous1822 monoclinous1828 monoecian1828 trigamous1842 hermaphrodite1854 triœcious1860 monoecious1861 synœcious1863 synoicous1863 autoicous1875 andro-diœcious1877 andromonœcious1877 gynodioecious1877 gynomonoecious1877 monoicous1877 autoecious1896 monoclinian1900 1739 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature (ed. 2) iii. 46 The certain Mark by which we may discover the Androgynous Flowers, is the ranging of the Stamina about the Pistillum, whose Base or Body becomes a Fruit. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xxi. 64 Androgynous, Male and Female, such as upon the same Root bear both male and female Flowers. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. xvii. iv. The florets of composite flowers, though formed on the type of an androgynous flower, are sometimes male, sometimes female, and sometimes neuter. 1881 G. Bentham in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 18 366 Spikelets..collected in androgynous heads. 1930 A. B. Rendle Classif. Flowering Plants (ed. 2) I. iii. 101 The same plant [sc. Picea excelsa] bore androgynous cones in which the stamens usually occupied the base and the ovule-bearing scales the upper part. 2007 Kew Bull. 62 293/2 Spikes sessile, elliptic or ovate, 3.8–5 mm long, androgynous, upper section male, lower female. 3. Not determined or guided by conventional expectations about the preferences and abilities of either gender; in which traditional gender roles have been eliminated or disregarded. ΚΠ 1968 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 23 Aug. t8/3 A professor of anthropology and sociology at the City University of New York sees our society being dominated by an ambiguously androgynous or neuter concept of sex-role, to the detriment of individual identity. 1973 Phi Delta Kappan 55 109/3 Typically, they resort to mere ‘role reversal’—the boys pass out cookies and the girls play doctor—without exploring what truly androgynous roles for people would be. 1975 G. G. Yates What Women Want v. 181 One possibility for androgynous marriage is to divide the domestic tasks fifty-fifty and to divide the breadwinning fifty-fifty. 1993 B. Strong & C. DeVault Essent. Marriage & Family Experience ii. 46 There is a considerable body of evidence suggesting that androgynous gender roles help us have more flexible and fulfilling relationships and lives. 2014 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 19 Oct. 3 p It isn't necessarily a call to create an androgynous workforce. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmas androgynous Categories » Forming adjectives, < modern Latin -gyn-us ( < Greek -γυνος adj. termination, < γυν-ή woman, female) + -ous suffix; used as = ‘having…female organs or pistils’, as in monogynous having one pistil, tetragynous having four pistils, etc., androgynous having stamens and pistils on the same flower or same plant. (Cf. -androus comb. form.) extracted from -gynouscomb. form < adj.1628 as lemmas
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