sistergirl
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Sister, girlfriend (as a familiar term of address between women).
noun
A member of a traditional gender role in Australian Aboriginal cultures, resembling trans women.
Example Sentences
- ""We are all so proud of you, sistergirl! Couldn't you tell at graduation?""
- "Dianne, where would I be without my sistergirl support group?"
- "[…] But older sistergirls do feel a real strong sense, a real responsibility, to look after the little sistergirls because they know they've got a hard time ahead."
- "Importantly, while Brown does not paint an idealised image of the inclusion of sistergirls within Indigenous cultures, she nonetheless emphasises the negative effects of colonisation upon sistergirls, […]"
- "Senator McCarthy's plea to 'stay strong' resonates because all too often sistergirls and brotherboys suffer, not only from verbal harassment and ostracism, but also violence and sexual abuse."