newhalf

English

Alternative forms

  • new half

Etymology

From Japanese ニューハーフ (nyūhāfu, “new half”), from ハーフ (hāfu, “half; person of mixed Japanese and other ancestry”), suggesting that trans women are a new kind of "half" (namely half-male and half-female). ニューハーフ is wasei eigo, from English.

Noun

newhalf (plural newhalfs or newhalves)

  1. (countable, slang) A trans woman.

See also

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