Words similar to feminine
Example sentences for: feminine
How can you use “feminine” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Ha-ha, he-he , or hee-hee may be the closest spelled-out equivalents, with te-hee as a feminine version, dating back to the laugh that Chaucer assigned the reeve's wife in the Miller's Tale.
The French treasures are also somewhat mutilated, queue [XXII,1] is feminine not masculine: tirer le diable par la queue; appuyer sur le champignon means to step on the gas, le champignon being the slang term for accelerator; in vivre comme un coq en pâte there is no acute accent on the e; it is une [not un ] autre paire de manches that the French use for something that is entirely different.
SUSAN ['su:zn], feminine, Suzan, earlier Suzan, from French Susanne, Suzanne, from Late Latin Susanna, from Greek Sousanna, from Hebrew shūshannāh, `lily', see SUSANNA, SUSANNAH.
We thought we could ignore the error and it would go away, but readers keep reminding us of what might be called, because of its prominence, a typogiraffical error: in Murdering the Language [OBITER DICTA, XX,4,5], the grammatically proper form would have been Omar m'a tuée, (reflecting the feminine gender of the preceding m ') and not, as printed, tué .
Women have been shaping their bodies to suit shifting ideas of feminine beauty not only for centuries before modernity but ever since.