muxe

Noun

 * 1) In Zapotec cultures of Oaxaca, a male-assigned person who dresses and acts in a feminine manner, and may be regarded as a third gender.

Etymology 1
Back-formation from the plural, itself from the medieval , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) mullet
 * 2) * 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:
 * Iten a libra dos corvelos et mugees et robalos et robaliças et reos et vesugos et douradas [...] a quatro dineiros cada libra
 * Item, the pound of young pollacks and of mullets and of basses and of young basses and of sea trouts and of seabreams and of gilt-head breams [...], four diñeiros each pound

Alternative forms

 * ira' muxe

Noun

 * 1) male-bodied person who acts feminine and/or is homosexual