Enby
adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Pronunciation spelling of NB (“a non-binary person; a person whose gender identity is not strictly female or male; one who is outside of the gender binary”). alt-of, informal, neologism, pronunciation-spelling
"i wish there was an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls / nb / enby / enbies"
- 1 Pronunciation spelling of NB (“non-binary; having or pertaining to a gender identity that is not strictly female or male, that is, outside of the gender binary”). alt-of, informal, neologism, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
"For non-binary-identified (or, to use my current favourite term, enby) people, this is magnified by the fact that while most of everyone except Germaine Greer and Donald Trump are prepared to recognise that trans people do exist these days, the enby population is still struggling up that hill with our glitter in the one hand and our neckties in the other."
Example
More examples"My friend, Alice, is an enby who feels neither like a male or female."
Etymology
The noun is a pronunciation spelling of NB, an initialism of non-binary. The word was coined by the Tumblr user “revolutionator” in 2013 as “an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls”: see the quotation. The adjective is derived from the noun.
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