newhalf
English
Alternative forms
- new half
Etymology
Calque of Japanese ニューハーフ (nyūhāfu, “new half”), from ハーフ (hāfu, “half; person of mixed Japanese and other ancestry”), suggesting that trans women are a new kind of "half" (namely half-male and half-female). ニューハーフ is wasei eigo, from English.
Noun
newhalf (plural newhalfs or newhalves)
- (countable, slang) A trans woman.
See also
- cross-dresser
- futanari
- ladyboy
- shemale