2023年12月3日 · The second interviewee in that video (well, third, but the first two are in a group together) definitely does pronounce women with a vowel that is a lot closer to [ʊ] than to [ɪ]. The main difference between the two vowels is roundedness, and the preceding [w] is heavily rounded, so it’s a fairly straightforward case of phonetic assimilation.

2011年4月13日 · I suspect because the phrase was only needed for women and widower is a much later literary invention. Widow had a lot of legal implications for property, titles and so on. If the survivor of a marriage was a woman things got complicated before women had many rights.

A bathroom for males is routinely called "the men's room" while the equivalent for women is usually called "the ladies' room", not "the women's room". If you call a 40-year-old man a "boy", he is likely to take that as a put-down. But it is common to refer to women of any age as "girls". Some women find the term demeaning, but most do not.

In the American South, it’s quite common for women to address total strangers, as honey, sugar, baby, etc. (On TV, black men do too, but I haven’t observed this first-hand. It might be fiction.) It’s a tricky thing because you’re taking a very familiar attitude.

For one thing, it's not too derogatory if women themselves use it about themselves. Think of the country music group The Dixie Chicks, who, according to Wikipedia, "took their band name from the song "Dixie Chicken" by Lowell George of Little Feat. Presumably they would have refused to convert chicken to chick if they

By 1876 Tootsie was in use as a pet name for girls or women, and by 1891 Toots was. UPDATE (January 12, 2017) An Elephind newspaper database search turns up an early instance where "tootsie" appears as part of a baby talk description of an …

Slag was recorded meaning a cowardly or treacherous or villainous man first in the late 18th century; Grose's entry proves it was in common use in 1785. Slag meaning a female prostitute seems to have first developed much later - around the 1950s - and its more general application to loose girls or women is later still, 1960s probably at soonest.

2024年7月3日 · So a male equivalent would be an older man seeking younger women. While we have a term for women, it seemed to me that it was historically assumed that older men sought out younger women. In other words, men who pursued women, "womanizers" "philanderers" etc. were also going after younger women so a separate term was not required.

2020年6月16日 · While the term can be used in this way, it is also used very frequently by women of all ages to describe an evening when they simply go out to dinner or have drinks with a group of female friends. Collins defines girls' night out as "an evening spent outside of the home by a group of women". Based on my experience as a native English speaker ...

2012年2月25日 · The antonym would probably be someone who likes women. That would be a philogynist (from phileô, "to like"), but I don't think that word exists. There is also a philanderer, a man who likes to court women a little too much. This word is a bit strange, since ander-comes from anêr, "man".