muxe

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English

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Noun

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muxe (plural muxes)

  1. In Zapotec cultures of Oaxaca, a male-assigned person who dresses and acts in a feminine manner, and may be regarded as a third gender.
    • 1985 August 10, Kate Raisz, “The Gay Mushes”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 5, page 10:
      At the back of the file, walking proudly, wearing a new pantsuit and a fresh in his hair, was a mushe. Though I was surprised to see him, no one else batted an eye. He was clearly just another part of the women's procession.

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Galician

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Etymology 1

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Back-formation from the plural muxes, itself from the medieval mugees, from mugel, from Latin mūgil.

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Noun

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muxe m (plural muxes)

  1. mullet
    • 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:
      Iten a libra dos corvelos et mugees et robalos et robaliças et reos et vesugos et douradas [...] a quatro dineiros cada libra
      Item, the pound of young pollacks and of mullets and of basses and of young basses and of sea trouts and of seabreams and of gilt-head breams [...], four diñeiros each pound
    Synonyms: cabezudo, limoso, taíña

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Etymology 2

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Verb

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muxe

  1. second-person singular imperative of muxir

Zapotec

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Alternative forms

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  • ira' muxe

Noun

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muxe

  1. male-bodied person who acts feminine and/or is homosexual

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References

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  • Larry P. Gross, James D. Woods, The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media →ISBN, 1999)