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transvestite
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Word definitions for transvestite in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person with a strong desire to dress in clothing of the opposite sex," 1922, from German Transvestit (1910), coined from Latin trans- "across" (see trans- ) + vestire "to dress, to clothe" (see wear (v.)). As an adjective from 1925. Transvestism is first ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. receiving sexual gratification from wearing clothing of the opposite sex [syn: transvestic , transvestite(a) ] n. someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex [syn: cross-dresser ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who sometimes wears clothes traditionally worn by and associated with the opposite sex; typically a male who cross-dresses occasionally by habit or compulsion.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And every so often a transvestite would swagger past, some more obvious than others. ▪ Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including ...
Usage examples of transvestite.
Transvestites and Transvestism in order to broaden the understanding of this form of personality expression, not only among those interested in it, but by friends and relatives who may find themselves indirectly involved.
I sat in on a session one day while dressed as her transvestite assistant.
He told me he once had an experience with a transvestite prostitute in Singapore during his days in the Navy that he found terribly exciting, but that he could never bring himself to repeat the experience until he was much older.
One day I was in the bookstore and this really good-looking transvestite came in to look at the books.
I could just see the headlines: Transvestite found dead in Sherman Oaks hotel room.
Ryabin was waiting to be called across the street to testify in the strangulation murder of a transvestite prostitute, a young Puerto Rican who called himself Monique when he worked the area around Fifteenth and Collins.
The transvestite had complained about the noise and we watched from the area steps as the police took an axe to the boards that were nailed over the front door and entered it.
Our beloved transvestite stockbroker and owner of WPNX, Tristan Griffith, was wearing a Dolly wig, a double string of pearls, a silk flapper dress, and blue and white pumps while hosing down his enormous sheepdog, Beowulf, with a cannister of Canine Flea Demise attached to the nozzle of an ordinary garden hose.
Place around the time that the eatery went up in flames, taking its transvestite owner with it.
The only hijra who permitted them to come inside his cage was a fussy middle-aged transvestite who sat before a mirror in growing disappointment with his wig.
Rahul brandished a high-mindedness that insulted the transvestite prostitutes.
And when he was bored, Vinod would cruise past the transvestite brothels on Falkland Road and Grant Road.
The transvestite prostitutes easily beat away the street prostitutes and their pimps, and not even the pickpockets could escape with the heavy suitcase, which the hijras opened for themselves.
Dr Daruwalla, who was also beginning to understand why the enraged transvestite prostitutes had failed to make much of a dent in the flesh or the indomitable will of Martin Mills.
If Dhar looked different to Vinod, the dwarf assumed this was the result of being beaten by transvestite whores.