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wimmin

(ˈwɪmɪn)
n
(Sociology) a common intentional literary spelling of 'women' adopted by feminists to avoid the use of the word 'men' at the end
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

wim•min

(ˈwɪm ɪn)

n.pl. Eye Dialect.
women (sometimes also used as a feminist spelling to avoid the sequence m-e-n).
[1910–15]
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Meantime, us wimmin have our own day, when some of us get to shout the F word from the rooftops, wave placards in the streets and wear hats knitted into vaginas.
They welcome back Rendition regular Jon Pleased Wimmin and local hero Scott Ferguson, aka Robot 84, who has been releasing on labels like Nervous, Secret Life, and more, plus excellent vinyl only edits since decanting to London.
It's to City Hall that Time Flies will return this weekend, celebrating its birthday with sets from house legends Jon Pleased Wimmin and Allister Whitehead.
And it's to City Hall that Time Flies will return this weekend, celebrating its 24th birthday with sets from house legends Jon Pleased Wimmin and Allister Whitehead.
In 1970, Robbins produced the very first all-woman comic book, "It Ain't me, Babe." In 1972 she was one of the founding mothers of "Wimmin's Comix," the longest-lasting women's anthology comic book.
In 1989, this controversy was not about transgender wimmin, it was about S&M and how it could be expressed on the land.
And weirdly because I was married to Diane Parish (Denise) in it I used to get a lot of black women coming up to me and saying, 'You like black wimmin is it?' and I'd say, 'Yes I do.'
(for both) ALABAMA 3: The WIMMIN. from Womble Volume 2 AWAYA from the festive madness comes the latest from self-styled "sweet country acid house" merchants Alabama 3, which offers up a different style of madness entirely.
ALABAMA 3: The WIMMIN. from Womble Volume 2 AWAY A from the festive madness comes thelatest from self-styled "sweet country acid house" merchants Alabama 3, which offers up a different style of madness entirely.
Just "wimmin" who were offended that he described two squabbling footballers as "fighting like a couple of girls".
Maybe a few remarks about "bloody feminists", "them wimmin's libbers", then nothing.