newhalf

English

Alternative forms

• new half

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese ニューハーフ (nyūhāfu, “new half”), from ハーフ (hāfu, “half; person of mixed Japanese and other ancestry”), suggesting that trans women are a new kind of "half" (namely half-male and half-female). ニューハーフ is wasei eigo, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English.

Noun

newhalf (plural newhalfs or newhalves)

1. (countable, slang) A trans woman.

See also

• futanari
• ladyboy
• shemale