cisdude

cisdude

English

Etymology

cis- +‎ dude

Noun

cisdude (plural cisdudes)

1. (informal) A cisgender man.
   • 2015, Christina Cauterucci, "Swallow Your Pride", Washington City Paper, 5 June - 11 June 2015, page 14:

     The Pride parade in particular is heavily weighted toward cisdudes.

   • 2015, "queerandpresentdanger", quoted in Kelsey Schultz, "Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 55:

     I’m a 25-year-old fat, brown, queer cisdude.

   • 2017, Michelle, quoted in Megan Sharp, "Women in Punk Creating Queer Identity Spaces: Strategies of Resistance Revisited", thesis submitted the University of Newcastle, page 141:

     In Brighton, a lot of gigs are billed as ‘queer’, I think because we are known as a queer town or something? But like, you turn up and the bands are all cisdudes.

Synonyms

• cisboy (informal), cisguy (informal), cis man

Hypernyms

• cis person