wimmin

[ wim-in ]

plural noun

1. Eye Dialect. women (misspelled to convey a speaker's lack of education or an informal speech register):

   He won’t stoop to doing what he calls wimmin’s work.

2. women (used chiefly in feminist writing as an alternative spelling to avoid the suggestion of sexism perceived in the sequence m-e-n ):

   Wimmin’s rights are human rights.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wimmin¹

First recorded in 1710–15 wimmin fordef 1; 1975–80 wimmin fordef 2

Example Sentences

Yer kin 'most b'lieve a man inter bein' honest, an' I reckon it acts ther same on wimmin, though they be a leetle different.

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Wimmin are like flowers, a little dust ov squeezing makes them the more fragrant.

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The bosses ar surrounded bi a crowd ov men, wimmin, and children.

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I suppoze the reazon why wimmin are so fast talkers, is bekause tha dont hav tew stop tew spit on their hands.

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I've got other things to do besides squirin' a passel o' wimmin folk about, I hev.

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