单词 | mantee |
释义 | manteen. U.S. slang. Now archaic and rare. A lesbian having a masculine manner; a butch (butch n. and adj.).Quot. 1935 suggests that the word may originally have had wider application (perhaps similar to minty n.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > female > whose appearance, behaviour, or identity is regarded as traditionally masculine bulldagger1906 bull dyke1931 mantee1937 butch1947 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 75/1 Mantee, a sexual pervert.] 1937 B. Dai Opium Addiction in Chicago vi. 167 Patient usually takes the active rôle in her relation with women—what is called ‘Mantee’ in the lingo of homosexuals. 1941 G. Legman in G. W. Henry Sex Variants II. 1171 Mantee, a female homosexual with very masculine characteristics. The etymology is obscure, although a French origin of an older form, mintée, seems probable. The very virile stride of such Lesbians is termed a mantee walk. 1983 L. R. N. Ashley in Maledicta 1982 6 133 Here are some obsolete or nearly obsolete terms [used by lesbians] which careless lexicographers continue to list as current..from the Forties..mantee..mantee voice (deep bass), mantee walk (swagger). 1991 L. Faderman Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers iv. 106 Much of the argot described butch/femme roles in women's relationships such as ‘jockey’, ‘mantee’, ‘daddy’..—all referring to butches. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1937 |
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