mannish

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
mannish
    adj 1: resembling or imitative of or suggestive of a man rather
           than a woman; "a mannish stride"
    2: characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman; "true
       mannish arrogance"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mannish \Man"nish\, a. [Man + -ish: cf. AS. mennisc, menisc.]
   1. Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.
      --Chaucer.
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            But yet it was a figure
            Most like to mannish creature.        --Gower.
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   2. Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man,
      manlike, masculine. --Chaucer.
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            A woman impudent and mannish grown.   --Shak.
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   3. Fond of men; -- said of a woman. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Man"nish*ly},adv. -- {Man"nish*ness},
      n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "mannish":
      AC-DC, amphierotic, andric, autoerotic, bisexed, bisexual, bull,
      butch, deviant, effeminate, gay, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly,
      homoerotic, homosexual, hoyden, lesbian, male, manful, manlike,
      manly, mannified, masculine, perverted, queer, rompish, sapphic,
      tomboyish, transvestite, tribadistic, uneffeminate, unfeminine,
      viraginous

    

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