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单词 androgynously
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androgynouslyadv.

Brit. /anˈdrɒdʒᵻnəsli/, U.S. /ænˈdrɑdʒənəsli/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: androgynous adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < androgynous adj. + -ly suffix2.
In a manner that is neither clearly male nor clearly female, or that mixes characteristics or attributes typically associated with one or other sex distinctly.Chiefly used with reference to a person's appearance or clothing.
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1877 R. Brown Great Dionysiak Myth I. 243 The womanish youths illustrate the god as Dimorphos the Two-formed and Thelymorphos the Androgynously-effeminate.
1933 D. Thomas Coll. Lett. (1987) 32 The best advice in the world to a poetess is—Be a poet! Think of Mrs Browning and Emily Brontë. One wrote in quite a competent, female manner, the other androgynously.
1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 Oct. c25/3 The film's principal focus is a lean, pouty, androgynously beautiful woman.
2010 N.Y. Mag. 18 Jan. 30/1 As a female rock-and-roll star, she was..an anti-feminist feminist icon who dressed androgynously.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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