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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--eonism This week's theme: eponyms. eonism (EE-uh-niz-uhm) noun Adoption of female clothing and manners by a male. [After Chevalier d'Éon (1728-1810), a spy and soldier who lived the second half of his life as a woman.] -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "Major Fosdick has converted a not uncommon introversion into eonism." Robert K. Morris; The Novels of Anthony Powell; University of Pittsburgh Press; 1968. X-Bonus When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked for forgiveness. -Emo Philips, comedian (1956- )

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