Blondes: female. Blonds: male.
Gendered noun forms are what English gets for "follow[ing] other languages down dark alleys, beating them unconscious, and rifl[ing] through their pockets for loose vocabulary."
Having gone to Wikipedia to look, now I know a chalazion is not either an ancient sort of Greek chariot nor a similarly antique article of Greek clothing. It's a bump!
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