Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gynie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gy-nie
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Diminutive of gynaecologist.

noun

Diminutive of gynaecology.

Example Sentences

"2006, Sally Miall, Night and Day, New Media Foundry, UK, page 26, Anyway, I told her, the gynie woman, how I absolutely adore Charles and I do want his children. And Celia, she said he should come for tests! Can you believe it?"
"2009, Sherie Posesorski, Shadow Boxing, Coteau Books, Canada, page 183, I had never been on this side of the floor. The fertility clinic was at the far right of the floor, and the gynies seeing women without fertility problems on the far left, with the labs in the middle."
"“When I came, well I am trained as a gynie [gynecologist], and I came to provide services to my gynie patients,” she said, fighting the fatigue weighing down her eyelids."

Etymology

From gynaecologist or gynaecology + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ie

Inflected Forms

gynies (plural)

Questions

What does gynie mean?: Diminutive of gynaecologist.
Where does gynie come from?: From gynaecologist or gynaecology + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

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