cross-dresser

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɹɒsˌdɹɛ.sə/    美 /ˈkɹɔsˌdɹɛ.sɚ/|/ˌkɹɔsˈdɹɛ.sɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who wears clothing which society considers appropriate only for members of the opposite sex.
    — For the buildings John uses plastic sheeting employed in the window banners of a particular ladies' clothing chain. [...] I asked John if the sales assistants in those shops thought he was odd, walking in and asking for bits of plastic. 'What you've got to remember,' he said, 'is that they get a lot of cross-dressers going in there, so I'm not that weird in comparison.'

词形变化

cross-dressers plural crossdresser alternative xdresser alternative

词源

Etymology tree
English cross-dress
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English cross-dresser
From cross-dress + -er.
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