male-gazey
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Presenting women in a way which implicitly assumes the viewer or reader is a heterosexual man.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "For most of the movie, I’m torn between wanting to make a list of every overtly male-gazey shot, wanting to leave the theater to go get chicken tenders and wanting to take body shots off of Vanessa Hudgens."
- "I “liked” the U of C Compliments page on Facebook. While its content tends to lean towards male-gazey compliments about foxy women at the gym, I still think it’s kind of sweet that people take the time and effort to say something kind anonymously with no incentive."
- "[…] Fudakowski reserves his greatest enthusiasm for exoticising, male-gazey images of Zhu in the altogether, or wearing one of the captain's crisp white shirts just so off the shoulder."
Etymology
From male gaze + -y.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
male-gazier (comparative)
male-gaziest (superlative)