different between gynie vs gynaecologist

English

Etymology

From gynaecologist or gynaecology +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

gynie (plural gynies)

1. Diminutive of gynaecologist
   • 2006, Sally Miall, Night and Day, New Media Foundry, UK, page 26,

     Anyway, I told her, the gynie woman, how I absolutely adore Charles and I do want his children. And Celia, she said he should come for tests! Can you believe it?

   • 2009, Sherie Posesorski, Shadow Boxing, Coteau Books, Canada, page 183,

     I had never been on this side of the floor. The fertility clinic was at the far right of the floor, and the gynies seeing women without fertility problems on the far left, with the labs in the middle.

2. Diminutive of gynaecology
   • 2011, Pardis Mahdavi, Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai, Stanford University Press, page 173,

     “When I came, well I am trained as a gynie [gynecologist], and I came to provide services to my gynie patients,” she said, fighting the fatigue weighing down her eyelids.

Anagrams

• eying

English

Alternative forms

• gynecologist (US), (Canada (common))

Noun

gynaecologist (plural gynaecologists)

1. (British spelling, Canadian spelling, dated in US) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.
   • 1950, Moya Woodside, Sterilization in North Carolina: A Sociological and Psychological Study, University of North Carolina Press, page 56,

     In the last analysis, the fate of each individual woman rests in the hands of the gynaecologist.

   • 1972, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Volume 12, page 194,

     During the past 5 years considerable interest has been shown by gynaecologists in the technique of laparoscopy (Steptoe, 1967; Cohen, 1970).

   • 1995 October 31, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 2287,

     Mr Shikuku: […] Was there any gynaecologist among those doctors?

     Mr. Angatia: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there was a gynaecologist and also a midwife.

   • 2009, India Today, Volume 34, Issues 36-43, page 592,

     With one of the highest birth rates across the world (22.69 births per thousand), one can be sure that no gynaecologist will be without work in India.

Synonyms

• gynie (diminutive)

Related terms

• gynaecology

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