English
herstrionics
Wordplay: blend of her + histrionics, as though the first syllable in histrionics were his, the male determiner.
A blend of her + histrionics
Proto-Indo-European *ḱís ‘this’
Proto-Germanic *hiz ‘this’
Proto-Germanic *hezōi ‘dative singular feminine of *hiz’
Old English hire ‘her’
Middle English here
English her
The story
Wordplay: blend of her + histrionics, as though the first syllable in histrionics were his, the male determiner.
Today it means
noun The histrionic behaviour of a woman.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / herstrionics