English Dictionary: femininity | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Feminine \Fem"i*nine\, a. [L. femininus, fr. femina woman; prob. akin to L. fetus, or to Gr. qh^sqai to suck, qh^sai to suckle, Skr. dh[be] to suck; cf. AS. f[d6]mme woman, maid: cf. F. f[82]minin. See {Fetus}.] 1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace. --Macaulay. 2. Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate. Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine. --Milton. Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy. --Sir W. Raleigh. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Feminine \Fem"i*nine\, n. 1. A woman. [Obs. or Colloq.] They guide the feminines toward the palace. --Hakluyt. 2. (Gram.) Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix. There are but few true feminines in English. --Latham. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Feminine rhyme \Feminine rhyme\ (Pros.) See {Female rhyme}, under {Female}, a. Syn: See {Female}, a. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Femininely \Fem"i*nine*ly\, adv. In a feminine manner. --Byron. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Feminineness \Fem"i*nine*ness\, n. The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Femininity \Fem`i*nin"i*ty\, n. 1. The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness. 2. The female form. [Obs.] O serpent under femininitee. --Chaucer. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
funny money n. 1. Notional `dollar' units of computing time and/or storage handed to students at the beginning of a computer course; also called `play money' or `purple money' (in implicit opposition to real or `green' money). In New Zealand and Germany the odd usage `paper money' has been recorded; in Germany, the particularly amusing synonym `transfer ruble' commemmorates the funny money used for trade between COMECON countries back when the Soviet Bloc still existed. When your funny money ran out, your account froze and you needed to go to a professor to get more. Fortunately, the plunging cost of timesharing cycles has made this less common. The amounts allocated were almost invariably too small, even for the non-hackers who wanted to slide by with minimum work. In extreme cases, the practice led to small-scale black markets in bootlegged computer accounts. 2. By extension, phantom money or quantity tickets of any kind used as a resource-allocation hack within a system. Antonym: `real money'. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
funny money Notional units of computing time and/or storage handed to students at the beginning of a computer course; also called "play money" or "purple money" (in implicit opposition to real or "green" money). In New Zealand and Germany the odd usage "paper money" has been recorded; in Germany, the particularly amusing synonym "transfer ruble" commemorates the funny money used for trade between COMECON countries back when the Soviet Bloc still existed. When your funny money ran out, your account froze and you needed to go to a professor to get more. Fortunately, the plunging cost of {time-sharing} cycles has made this less common. The amounts allocated were almost invariably too small, even for the non-hackers who wanted to slide by with minimum work. In extreme cases, the practice led to small-scale black markets in bootlegged computer accounts. By extension, phantom money or quantity tickets of any kind used as a resource-allocation hack within a system. [{Jargon File}] |