hoobuk

Chickasaw

Etymology

Compare Choctaw hobak (“eunuch; coward”).

Noun

hoobuk

  1. eunuch, infertile person; an insult; after European colonization and Christianization, the term came to be used also of gay or lesbian, transgender or transvestite people, for which reason some references erroneously give it as a word for what is sometimes termed "two-spirit"

References
  • Swanton, Chickasaw Society and Religion
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