wimmin

wimmin
wimmin
a phonetic spelling of women, is recorded in facetious contexts from the early part of the 20c. It was adopted by feminists in the 1980s because it dispensed with the element -men, and has achieved a limited currency in contexts where female status is being underlined or highlighted in some (often ironic) way:

• Why are these (ignorant) gay men (and sadly sometimes wimmin) stereotyping gayness? —Pink Paper, 1990

• Anyone, Roisin. That includes adolescent boys, wimmin, transgender hang gliders, and people of all ethnic, religious, social, political backgrounds and persuasions —Sunday Business Post, IrishE 2004 [OEC].

See also womyn.

Modern English usage. 2014.

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  • wimmin — plural noun non standard spelling of ‘women’ adopted by some feminists to avoid the word ending men …   English new terms dictionary

  • wimmin — wim•min [[t]ˈwɪm ɪn[/t]] n. pl. Eye Dialect. cvs dial. women (sometimes also used as a feminist spelling to avoid the sequence m e n) • Etymology: 1910–15 …   From formal English to slang

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