transvestigator
/tɹænzˌvɛs.tɪˈɡeɪ.təɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who performs transvestigation; someone who routinely conducts or promotes informal investigations into whether a public figure is secretly transgender, generally by analyzing that person's appearance and anatomical structure.
Example Sentences
- "You gotta be kidding me. Transvestigators are wild. Here I am just tryna find some Anne Hathaway movies and I see this. [screenshot of a Google search in which the top "people also ask" result is "Was Anne Hathaway born a boy?"]"
- "No you can't always tell. Of the trans women I've known who told me they were trans I certainly couldn't "tell" when I met them. And the transvestigators just suspect every cis woman."
- "I've known cisgender women who were kicked out of restrooms by transvestigators. It's the most poorly developed of all the Bigotry Sciences right behind phrenology."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɹænzˌvɛs.tɪˈɡeɪ.təɹ/
- British English: /tɹænzˌvɛs.tɪˈɡeɪ.tə(ɹ)/