Non-standard spelling of ‘women’ adopted by some feminists to avoid the word ending -men.
〈非规范〉同WOMEN （女权运动者为避免使用 -men 结尾的 women而造的词）
Example sentencesExamples
Sitting in her living room surrounded by all those ‘wimmin-loving wimmin,’ as we said back then, I knew I'd come home.
But this compromise between the desire to just toss those wimmin on stage buck-naked and the conservative needs of the Oscar broadcast is just depressing.
The forms womyn and wimmin are seen as more detached from man, the origin of woman being wifman, meaning ‘female human being’ but easily interpretable as ‘wife of a man’.
Things have changed, we know, and wimmin are now womyn and core imagery is out, but we had our fears…
Becoming self-sufficient is frequently the goal of wimmin on lesbian land, because of the economic and emotional challenges we face in so many jobs, especially in depressed rural areas.
Definition of wimmin in US English:
wimmin
plural nounˈwimin
Nonstandard spelling of “women” adopted by some feminists to avoid the word ending -men.
〈非规范〉同WOMEN （女权运动者为避免使用 -men 结尾的 women而造的词）
Example sentencesExamples
Becoming self-sufficient is frequently the goal of wimmin on lesbian land, because of the economic and emotional challenges we face in so many jobs, especially in depressed rural areas.
The forms womyn and wimmin are seen as more detached from man, the origin of woman being wifman, meaning ‘female human being’ but easily interpretable as ‘wife of a man’.
Things have changed, we know, and wimmin are now womyn and core imagery is out, but we had our fears…
Sitting in her living room surrounded by all those ‘wimmin-loving wimmin,’ as we said back then, I knew I'd come home.
But this compromise between the desire to just toss those wimmin on stage buck-naked and the conservative needs of the Oscar broadcast is just depressing.