Name
The term gynoid was used by Gwyneth Jones in her 1985 novel Divine Endurance to describe a robot slave character in a futuristic China, that is judged by her beauty.
The tongue-in-cheek portmanteau fembot (female robot) was used in the Austin Powers films, a cultural play on the fembots originating in the TV series The Bionic Woman. Robotess is the oldest gender-specific term, originating in 1921 from the same source as robot.
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Famous quotes containing the word name:
“Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)