ambisextrous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of ambidextrous sex.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ambisextrous (comparative more ambisextrous, superlative most ambisextrous)
- (humorous, sometimes offensive, of a person) Bisexual.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bisexual
- 1928, Joseph Moncure March, The Wild Party (poem)[1], Pascal Covici, Inc., page 33:
- His hips were jaunty,
And his gestures too dextrous.
A versatile lad!
He was ambisextrous.
- 1978, Fabia Drake, Blind Fortune[2], Kimber, →ISBN, →OL, page 94:
- Ivor was ambisextrous and loved women physically, too.
- 2007 May 1, Keith Stern, “Tallulah Bankhead”, in Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgenders, Lulu, →ISBN, →OL:
- She had numerous heterosexual affairs but considered herself “ambisextrous.”
- Epicene; androgynous.
- 1968, John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, New York: Doubleday, →OL:
- “Yatakang?” said the purser of the express, an elegant young biv-type sporting ambisextrous shoulder-long bangs.
- 1984, Stanley Leonard Robbins with Ramzi S. Cotran and Vinay Kumar, Pathologic Basis of Disease[3], 3rd edition, W. B. Saunders, →ISBN, →OL, page 1154:
- The embryogenesis of such male-directed stromal cells remains a puzzle, and it can be only theorized that it represents masculine differentiation of the mesenchyme derived from the embryonic “ambisextrous” primitive gonads.
- Having both male and female, or masculine and feminine, elements.
- 1920, Ezra Pound, “Genesis, or, The First Book in the Bible”, reprinted in Pavannes and Divagations, New Directions Publishing (1974), →ISBN, page 171:
- One searches to see whether the author [of “He created them male and female”, Genesis 5:2] meant to say that man was at the start ambisextrous […]
- 1921 November 19, Richard Matthews Hallet, “The Canyon of the Fools”, in The Saturday Evening Post[4], volume 194, number 2, page 55:
- “So you think, wonderful woman; but you're so utterly unlike your sisters in that particular. You're ambisextrous, do you know that?”
- a. 1922, “Adolf Smith” (pseudonym), quoted in Dudley Ward Fay, “Adolf, a Modern Edipus”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, Volume IX Number 3 (July 1922), page 281:
- My signature with either hand is the same. I’m ambidextrous, ambisextrous. I’m intermediate sex.
- 1920, Ezra Pound, “Genesis, or, The First Book in the Bible”, reprinted in Pavannes and Divagations, New Directions Publishing (1974), →ISBN, page 171: