feministy

English

Etymology

From feminist +‎ -y.

Adjective

feministy (comparative more feministy, superlative most feministy)

1. (colloquial) Like a feminist, or like stereotypical feminist beliefs.
   • 2003, Annabel Giles, Crossing the Paradise Line, p. 74:

     Tessa knew she was supposed to feel robbed of her womanhood or something feministy like that, but actually she quite liked it.

   • 2013, Vanessa Furse Jackson, The Revolving Year:

     “I am independent,” she said. “But not feministy in that way.”

   • 2018, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian, 15 February:

     And what if you know that it’s shallow to fall for media narratives about women fighting with one another […] and you want to be all feminist-y and everything, yet at the same time Carrie versus Samantha is the only news story you actually care about?