koekchuch

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Noun

koekchuch

  1. male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman

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References

  • Russian penetration of the north Pacific Ocean, 1700-1799 (1988, →ISBN: "Koekchuchami. A Kamchadal word for a male native wearing women’s clothing and performing women’s tasks; a male wife; transvestite."
  • Stephen O. Murray, Pacific Homosexualities (2002, →ISBN, page 161: The Kamchadal have one, two, or three wives, and besides these, some of them keep koekchuch who wear women's clothes, do women's work, and have nothing to do with men, in whose company they feel shy and not at their ease […]
  • Сергей Александрович Токарев (Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev), Этнография народов СССР: исторические основы быта и культуры (1958): коекчуч (ительм.), мужчина, уподобившийся женщине
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