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she-male

American  
[shee-mayl] / ˈʃiˌmeɪl /
Or shemale

noun

Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.
  1. a trans woman, especially one with a penis and with secondary sex characteristics such as breasts that are usually associated with the female body.


she-male British  

noun

  1. informal a male-to-female transsexual

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of she-male

First recorded in 1985–90

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Dark an' stormy may come de wedder; I jines dis he-male an' dis she-male togedder.

From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley

Let none, but Him dat makes de thunder, Put dis he-male an' dis she-male asunder.

From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley

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