ambisextrous

== English == === Etymology === Blend of ambidextrous +‎ sex. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˌæm.biˈsɛk.stɹəs/ (US) IPA(key): /ˌæm.bɪˈsɛk.stɹəs/ Rhymes: -ɛkstɹəs Hyphenation: am‧bi‧sex‧trous === Adjective === ambisextrous (comparative more ambisextrous, superlative most ambisextrous) (humorous, sometimes offensive, of a person) Bisexual. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bisexual Epicene; androgynous. Having both male and female, or masculine and feminine, elements. 1920, Ezra Pound, “Genesis, or, The First Book in the Bible”, reprinted in Pavannes and Divagations, New Directions Publishing (1974), →ISBN, page 171: One searches to see whether the author [of “He created them male and female”, Genesis 5:2] meant to say that man was at the start ambisextrous […] a. 1922, “Adolf Smith” (pseudonym), quoted in Dudley Ward Fay, “Adolf, a Modern Edipus”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, Volume IX Number 3 (July 1922), page 281: My signature with either hand is the same. I’m ambidextrous, ambisextrous. I’m intermediate sex.