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Female vs Featherwood - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between female and featherwood

is that female is one of the female (feminine) sex or gender while featherwood is a white female inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.

As an adjective female

is belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XX chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).

female

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Adjective

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  • Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XX chromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).
  • * 1987 , Don't Shoot[,] Darling!: Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia , page 350:
    • A travelling shot of a harbour view near Sydney's White Bay moves into a domestic interior as a female voice says, 'There was nowhere else to live except alone.'
  • Belonging to the feminine (social) gender.
  • (grammar, less common than 'feminine') Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender.
  • * 2012 , Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems (ISBN 1926836693), page 43:
    • The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female , but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.
  • (figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting.

    • Synonyms

    * feminine * (figuratively) socket

    Coordinate terms

    * intersex * transgender * male * neuter

    Derived terms

    * female-assigned, cisfemale, transfemale

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.
  • # A human member of the feminine sex or gender.
  • # An animal of the sex that produces eggs.
  • # (botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

    • Synonyms

    * girl; see also * woman; see also

    See also

    * female genital mutilation * (Symbol for female) * (wikipedia) * sex, gender, gender identity

    References

    * 1000 English basic words

    featherwood

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A white female inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
  • * 1998 , Barbara A. Owen, "In the Mix": Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prision , page 155:
    • I have another roommate who is a white girl, she is a featherwood . So she got this thing in the mail from her pen pal that had peckerwood written in it. And this black girl wanted to look at her mail, which she had no business doing
  • * 2007 , Sandra Coleman, From Housewife and Mother to Convict , page 100:
    • "I don't know, Teri asked me if I was a featherwood' and I said no because I don't have wings "Girl do you know what a ' featherwood is?" Tai asked. "I thought it was a bird." "God you're so innocent." Dolores stated.
  • * 2010 , Kenneth E. Hartman, Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars , page 68:
    • I've been visiting a couple of featherwoods , all bad tattoos and twisted intentions. Seeing Anita for the first time without a half-inch-thick plate of shatterproof Plexiglas between us (the county jail allows only noncontact visits),

    Quotations

    * 1999 , in Cold new world: growing up in a harder country : *: Angela would tear herself away from the TV and finish opening the can, declaring herself “a skin bitch, a Featherwood .” Someone at the window would shout, “Check out this Fender!” And the others would rush to the window * 2007 , Gang investigations: a street cop's guide (edited by Derrick Watkins, Richard Ashby), page 115: *: Any white man in prison is referred to as a "peckerwood," which is similar to "honky"; a white female would be a "featherwood ." Be alert for "peckerwood" or " 100% wood" tattoos, and avoid classifying individuals as gang members based on these marks alone.

    See also

    * peckerwood, woodpile English ethnic slurs