femalia
/ˌfiːˈmeɪli.ə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The female genitalia.
noun
Anything pertaining to females or femaleness.
Example Sentences
- "so he started playing the water over my legs and then directly on my . . . femalia, and I held my lips open so that he could see my inner wishbone"
- "femalia"
- "Perhaps because the editors are women, there tends to be less comparable detailing of female anatomy. Presumably there's no taboo against it after so many years of feminist celebration of the flower-petal beauties of femalia, the paintings of Judy Chicago et al."
- "One thousand women saw photos of the femalia of fifteen workshop participants, up close and personal"
- "Yes sir! Here it is! The dope on the latest epidemic of femalia (or femania or what you will) that has swept this section of the building"
- "And the very next page of ‘Femalia’ offered her a more practical answer. Food fads, swore the copy, this time built around a broad sporting the narrowest of bras, didn’t help any. What you needed was a spot reducer, guaranteed to milk you clean of all your unwanted fat."
Etymology
Principal sense (female genitalia) introduced in the novel Vox by Nicholson Baker (1992); popularized as the title of the book Femalia, edited by Joani Blank (1993). Likely coined by Baker as a portmanteau of female and genitalia. Rare uses in other senses attested before 1992. The most general sense (anything pertaining to females or femaleness) may be derived by analogy to regalia; this sense, and this analogy, may also influence all the other, more specific senses.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌfiːˈmeɪli.ə/