transvest

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verb

To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.

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cross-dress
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Meanings

verbtransvest (third-person singular simple present transvests, present participle transvesting, simple past and past participle transvested)

present singular third person transvests · participle present transvesting · participle past transvested · past transvested

  1. formaluncommonTo wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.

    […] both their gender role and their gender status must have been so distinctively androgynous that they probably did not transvest.

    2010, Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures

    Synonyms: cross-dress

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.

Similar
cross-dress
Also see
cross-dress

Origin

Back-formation from transvestite.

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Cite this entry
APA

transvest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transvest

MLA

“transvest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transvest. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transvest,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transvest.

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