ambisextrous
English
Etymology
Blend of ambidextrous + sex.
Adjective
ambisextrous (comparative more ambisextrous, superlative most ambisextrous)
- (humorous, sometimes offensive, of a person) Bisexual.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bisexual
- 1978, Drake, Fabia, Blind Fortune, Kimber, →ISBN, OL 4289377M, page 94:
- Ivor was ambisextrous and loved women physically, too.
- 2003 July 6, Gormley, Gerard, If This Is Insanity, Count Me In, iUniverse, →ISBN, OL 10707250M, page 143:
- “One of those what?” “You know, ambisextrous.” “Let's just say Faith loves beauty, whatever its form.”
- 2007 May 1, Stern, Keith, “Tallulah Bankhead”, in Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgenders, Lulu, →ISBN, OL 11916511M:
- She had numerous heterosexual affairs but considered herself “ambisextrous.”
- Epicene, androgynous.
- 1968, Brunner, John, Stand on Zanzibar, New York: Doubleday, OL 24280464M:
- “Yatakang?” said the purser of the express, an elegant young biv-type sporting ambisextrous shoulder-long bangs.
- 1984, Robbins, Stanley Leonard; Ramzi S. Cotran, Vinay Kumar, Pathologic Basis of Disease, Third edition, W. B. Saunders, →ISBN, OL 3177899M, page 1154:
- The embryogenesis of such male-directed stromal cells remains a puzzle, and it can be only theorized that it represents masculine differentiation of the mesenchyme derived from the embryonic “ambisextrous” primitive gonads.
- 2003 May 22, Gill, Denis; Niall O'Brien, Paediatric Clinical Examinations Made Easy, Churchill Livingstone, →ISBN, OL 10259342M:
- Throughout the text the terms ‘he’, ‘him’, ‘his’, should be taken to be ‘ambisextrous’ and to refer to ‘him’ and ‘her’.
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- Having both male and female, or masculine and feminine elements.
- 1920, Ezra Pound, “Genesis, or, The First Book in the Bible”, reprinted in Pavannes and Divagations, New Directions Publishing (1974), →ISBN, page 171:
- One searches to see whether the author [of “He created them male and female”, Genesis 5:2] meant to say that man was at the start ambisextrous […]
- 1921 November 19, Richard Matthews Hallet, “The Canyon of the Fools”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 194, number 2, page 55:
- “So you think, wonderful woman; but you're so utterly unlike your sisters in that particular. You're ambisextrous, do you know that?”
- a. 1922, “Adolf Smith” (pseudonym), quoted in Dudley Ward Fay, “Adolf, a Modern Edipus”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, Volume IX Number 3 (July 1922), page 281:
- My signature with either hand is the same. I’m ambidextrous, ambisextrous. I’m intermediate sex.
- 1920, Ezra Pound, “Genesis, or, The First Book in the Bible”, reprinted in Pavannes and Divagations, New Directions Publishing (1974), →ISBN, page 171: