transvest

English

Etymology

Back-formation from transvestite.

Verb

transvest (third-person singular simple present transvests, present participle transvesting, simple past and past participle transvested)

1. (uncommon, formal) To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.
   • 2010, Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures:

     […] both their gender role and their gender status must have been so distinctively androgynous that they probably did not transvest.

Usage notes

This term is rare and formal; the casual cross-dress is much more common.

Synonyms

• cross-dress

Related terms

• transvestism
• transvestist
• transvestite

Translations

cross-dress — see cross-dress