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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A transgender person who was born male and has developed female secondary sex characteristics, such as enlarged breasts, from hormone therapy but has not undergone sex-change surgery.

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  • noun Alternative form of shemale.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Earlier colloquial English she-male, female : she + male (on the model of female).]

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