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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