hoobuk
Chickasaw
Etymology
Compare Choctaw hobak (“eunuch; coward”).
Noun
hoobuk
- eunuch, infertile person; an insult; after European colonization and Christianization, the term came to be used also of gay or lesbian, transgender or transvestite people, for which reason some references erroneously give it as a word for what is sometimes termed "two-spirit"
References
- Swanton, Chickasaw Society and Religion