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mix'uga

mix'uga

Omaha-Ponca

Alternative forms

  • miⁿquga

Noun

mix'uga

  1. a male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman, sometimes taking men as partners
  2. a hermaphrodite (animal) or intersex (person) (in compounds)
    ʇe-miⁿquga — hermaphrodite buffalo

See also

References

  • A Study of Siouan Cults : Moon and Stars as Wakandas, in the Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-'90 (publishe 1894)