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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A man concerned with personal appearance, such as personal grooming, fashion, and aesthetics in general; who may or may not be concerned with self-indulgence and money. (Usually urban, heterosexual, often affluent).
- n. A man who is seen, sociologically, as having attributes common to homosexuals, but is in fact heterosexual.
Etymologies
- Portmanteau of metropolitan and heterosexual. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The rise of men's fashion, and its corresponding lexicon, goes back to the birth of the term metrosexual in the 1990s.”
“The term metrosexual has been mentioned; indeed, your Mr Frog sounds like a member of just such a species.”
“Brit journalist Mark Simpson, father of the term metrosexual, calls Nightcharm. com the”
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“Coined in the mid '90s and popularised almost a decade later in relation to David Beckham, the term metrosexual is now firmly embedded in popular culture, redefining so-called masculine norms.”
“The same was true with the word "metrosexual," which has taken on a negative connotation for a large segment of the general male population.”
“And at the time, before the term metrosexual, we used to call them the black collar.”
The Huffington Post: Details Celebrates 10th Anniversary (PHOTOS)
“I'd been credited with popularizing the word metrosexual (and spent countless hours obsessing on the next big thing so my tombstone didn't say "commercialized metrosexual man"), and my annual trend predictions were being picked up around the globe.”
The Huffington Post: Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part I: My World Turned Upside Down
“I'd been credited with popularizing the word metrosexual and spent countless hours obsessing on the next big thing so my tombstone didn't say "commercialized metrosexual man", and my annual trend predictions were being picked up around the globe.”
The Huffington Post: Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part I: My World Turned Upside Down
“When the word metrosexual came about in the mid 90s, I thought for sure it was someone who sought to have sex in the subway.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘metrosexual’.
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sniglets
sniglets and neologisms | protologisms
random neologisms, compound words plus more
( randomness )bimp, darf, sketchy, blurfle, doork, elbonics, facon, fuffle, gibble, gyroped, hangle, passhole and 213 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words With Sex
Words that begin, end or have sex in them.
autosexing, bissextile day, desexualizing, intersexual, monosexual, pansexual, psychosexuality, sexagenarian, sexlessness, sexologies, sextant, sextette and 37 more...
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generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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gcherches's Words
serendipity, roadrunner, inner child, coagulant, esquire, vicissitude, idiot savant, mitigation, affirmation, affirmative, diatribe, affirmative action and 185 more...
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Quirkstyle
Fashion elegance, oddities, styles, and cool garments.
tatterdemalion, froufrou, gingham, argyle, corset, hoop skirt, pantaloons, bloomers, jaunty, seersucker, twill, ganguro and 126 more...
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polymorph's Words
pornerastic, yeaux, enantiadromia, synchronicity, transubstantiation, sensimilla, slough, scaphism, symbiosis, prolix, orgiastic, cryptogamic and 245 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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Recent additions
Relatively new coinages, or adaptations of previously existing words.
firewall, bioterrorism, bling-bling, bluetooth, bobo, game face, microdermabrasion, metrosexual, microarray, sex worker, stained-glass cei..., stalkerazzi and 99 more...
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_mark's keywords ™
words that describe me or that i am focusing on.
( personal list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/personas--2<...satirical, dark, enigmatic, androgyny, appreciative, opinionated, inquisitive, sensitive, nonchalant, acerbic, scientific, circumspective and 219 more...
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words of the years
bushlips, mother of all,, not!, information super..., cyber, morph, world-wide web, newt, mom, millennium bug, e-, y2k. and 12 more...
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n4oliver's Words
ubiquitous, heteroatom, metrosexual, chemistry, benzaldehyde, almond, wine, absurd, behoove, thong, existential, ambiguous and 24 more...
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Words
fickle, redeem, disclosure, fortnight, depict, convey, scribe, affluent, commuter, defection, churn, vouch and 77 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for metrosexual.
sionnach a clotheshorse wrapped around a dandy fused with a narcissist
(Paul McFedries) Nov 18, 2008
sonofgroucho Here are the aforementioned new glasses:
-- from Son of Groucho - (?)
What do you think? Feb 4, 2008
mollusque He just needs a manhug. Nov 4, 2007
reesetee Too bad, SoG. Think you'll get another new pair? ;-) Nov 4, 2007
sonofgroucho That is brilliant. I love the Uncyclopedia. A friend on Flickr says my new glasses make me look very metrosexual.
I was feeling quite smug about it until now! Nov 4, 2007
polymorph My personal favorite definition for metrosexual can be found over at uncyclopedia.org Apr 9, 2007