wommon
English
Noun
wommon
- Obsolete spelling of woman
Etymology 2
Respelling to avoid the presence of man in the word.
Noun
wommon (plural womyn)
- (rare) Feminist spelling of woman
- 1989, Nett Hart, Spirited Lesbians: Lesbian Desire as Social Action (page 20)
- This communion occurs wommon to wommon, wommon to tree, sea to wommon and is not essentially sexual […]
- 2002, Marsha Houston, Olga Idriss Davis, Centering Ourselves (page 138)
- You just think that because we're Black womyn, maybe that would be enough to at least start with, but sometimes it isn't. Sometimes, just being a Black wommon isn't enough.
- 1989, Nett Hart, Spirited Lesbians: Lesbian Desire as Social Action (page 20)
Middle English
Noun
wommon (plural wommen)
- Alternative form of womman
References
- “womman (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 April 2018.