wimmin

[ wim-in ]

plural noun

1. Eye Dialect. women (misspelled to convey a speaker's lack of education or an informal speech register):

   He won’t stoop to doing what he calls wimmin’s work.

2. women (used chiefly in feminist writing as an alternative spelling to avoid the suggestion of sexism perceived in the sequence m-e-n ):

   Wimmin’s rights are human rights.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wimmin¹

First recorded in 1710–15 wimmin fordef 1; 1975–80 wimmin fordef 2

Example Sentences

“Wimmin’s Comix Collective took the path that many women’s or political collectives do over the years and became a hotbed of bickering and power plays,” Ms. Noomin told a conference in 2003.

From New York Times

All across the country, in “wimmin’s” groups like BWHC; at conferences and in books and position papers, two factions have been arguing a pivotal issue facing the second-wave women’s movement: How should feminists have sex?

From Washington Post

Evaristo’s dedication sets the tone: “For the sisters & the sistas & the sistahs & the sistren & the women & the womxn & the wimmin & the womyn & our brethren & our bredrin & our brothers & our bruvs & our men & our mandem & the LGBTQI+ members of the human family.”

From New York Times

She eventually lures Dominique away to a “wimmin’s commune” called Spirit Moon, a place vaguely reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s “Paradise.”

From Washington Post

I imagine similar kinetics occurred circa 1889 in dentists’ chairs in Tombstone, Arizona, out around back near the brothels and blacksmith shop, where screaming was drowned out by the clang of iron and gunfights over wimmin.

From Washington Post