Is bathing suit a feminine or masculine word?

Answer 1

Gender is not a characteristic of English nouns. There are no words that are technically masculine or feminine in English, in a grammatical sense. There are words that name things used always or more often by women, and other words that are conterparts for men. But gender of nouns, in languages that use gender, is not strictly about men and women. it is about how different groups of words are handled with regard to affixes that attach to them, and how they might interact with other words in a sentence. Since English is virtually free of inflection, noun gender is meaningless.