women-hater

A form of woman-hater — One who hates women or the female sex.

Meanings

nounwomen-hater (plural women-haters)

plural women-haters

  1. alternativeAlternative form of woman-hater.

    But it is Call, the most committed women-hater of the original bunch, who will end his days on that porch, surrounded by women.

    1993 August 8, Mark Horowitz, “How the West Was Done: Streets of Laredo, by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster: $25; 589 pp.)”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC
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    As a spoken word, woman-hating is jarring. It grates on the ear like a smutty joke. Woman-hating swaggers and brags and swills beer from the can. It has a belly. It is a bit of a lout. Misogyny, by contrast, is all Harris tweed, leather patches at the elbow. […] Whereas a women-hater is a rough fellow, a misogynist is a nice guy, really. Even marriageable.

    1985 August 22, Maureen Mullarkey, “Hers”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015

    On this engaging 11-song disc, singer Pierre Bouvier rages heman women-hater lyrics about how love stinks and the need to rescue your individuality from the wreckage of a crashed romance.

    2004 October 24, Maxine Shen, “Plan of Attack – Simple Plan Boosts Second Album with New Technology”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2026

    And so, if you are a violent-minded women-hater, say, or a man so insecure about himself and his sex's position in the world that you cannot bear the slightest scintilla of an iota of a shadow of a speck of a threat to that position, you can go online and issue threats so vile that anyone who wants to write or talk about them is semi-silenced before he or she even begins, because they cannot be safely quoted in any other public context.

    2013 August 3, Lucy Mangan, “Lucy Mangan: net trolls and the currency of hate”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2013
Cite this entry
APA

women-hater. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/women-hater

MLA

“women-hater.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/women-hater. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “women-hater,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/women-hater.

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