wimmin
Americanplural noun
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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.
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women (used chiefly in feminist writing as an alternative spelling to avoid the suggestion of sexism perceived in the sequencem-e-n ).
Wimmin’s rights are human rights.
Etymology
Origin of wimmin
First recorded in 1710–15 wimmin for def. 1; 1975–80 wimmin for def. 2
Example Sentences
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They keep on coming, these women and wimmin.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2010
But Outcault was enjoying himself and his Yellow Kid was shouting: "I wish dat dese lovely wimmin wud leave me alone."
From Time Magazine Archive
His minions include a creatively frustrated egghead, a hot-tempered muscleman, a pair of winsome young lovers and all manner of ax-swinging loggers and their "wimmin."
From Time Magazine Archive
It makes brutes of men, demons of wimmin and vagrants of children.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
De wimmin folks had a big time quiltin's wid somebody aplayin' on ol' gourds wid horse hair strings, called old gourd, horse hair dance.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
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