pseudofeminine

comparative more pseudofeminine · superlative most pseudofeminine

1. feminine or apparently feminine in certain aspects, but not truly feminine

   As a result, nouns of this kind are likely to be interpreted and treated as feminine. Thus, Mifsud calls them pseudo-feminine collective Semitic nouns.

   2018, George Farrugia, Grammatical Gender in Maltese

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   Peter was not a "drag queen" as such, but ever since moving north from Hollywood had adopted several of their witty, pseudofeminine ways of speech […]

   2012, Bernard Duncan Mayes, Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest, page 158