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See also: kiki, Kiki, and kīkī

ki-ki

Alternative form of kiki (“lesbian who is neither butch nor femme”)
- 1992, Julia Penelope, Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory, page 89:
  Ignored, however, in previous and current discussions of roles among Lesbians is the "ki-ki."
- 1996, Frontiers, page 48:
  We joked about reversal of expectations : 'Get a butch home and she turns over on her back.' But from all other reports, seriousness and the placing of implicit delimitations underlay the jokes. Lorde spoke of the stigma of being ki-ki (someone who changed her erotic role of butch or fem depending on her partner) in the Greenwich Village, New York, 1950s bar scene.

ki (“who”) +‎ ki (“who”)

ki-ki

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 {{also|kiki|Kiki|kīkī}}
+==English==
+===Noun===
+{{en-noun|?}}
+# {{altform|en|kiki||lesbian who is neither butch nor femme}}
+#* '''1992''', Julia Penelope, ''Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory'', page 89:
+#*: Ignored, however, in previous and current discussions of roles among Lesbians is the "'''ki-ki'''."
+#* '''1996''', ''Frontiers'', page 48:
+#*:  We joked about reversal of expectations : 'Get a butch home and she turns over on her back.' But from all other reports, seriousness and the placing of implicit delimitations underlay the jokes. Lorde spoke of the stigma of being '''ki-ki''' (someone who changed her erotic role of butch or fem depending on her partner) in the Greenwich Village, New York, 1950s bar scene.
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 ==Hungarian==