ambisextrous
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Blend of ambidextrous and sex.
Adjective[edit]
ambisextrous (comparative more ambisextrous, superlative most ambisextrous)
- Epicene, androgynous: having both male and female, or masculine and feminine elements.
- 1920, Ezra Pound, “Genesis, or, The First Book in the Bible”, reprinted in Pavannes and Divagations, New Directions Publishing (1974), ISBN 978-0-8112-0575-7, page 171:
- One searches to see whether the author [of “He created them male and female”, Genesis 5:2] meant to say that man was at the start ambisextrous […]
- a. 1922, “Adolf Smith” (pseudonym), quoted in Dudley Ward Fay, “Adolf, a Modern Edipus”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, Volume IX Number 3 (July 1922), page 281:
- My signature with either hand is the same. I’m ambidextrous, ambisextrous. I’m intermediate sex.
- 1922, Richard Matthews Hallet, The Canyon of the Fools, Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 266:
- […] “it’s simply marvelous the way you can sink your woman soul and think a man’s thoughts […] You’re ambisextrous, do you know that?” […] I coined that word myself, […]
- 1920, Ezra Pound, “Genesis, or, The First Book in the Bible”, reprinted in Pavannes and Divagations, New Directions Publishing (1974), ISBN 978-0-8112-0575-7, page 171:
- (humorous, sometimes offensive, of a person) Bisexual.
- She is ambisextrous, so may have a sexual partner of either gender.
