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he-man

noun
/ˈhiː.mæn/

Etymology

From he- + man.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. prefixed as he-man — “he + man”

Definitions

  1. A strong or virile man.

    • What's the matter with his talking so polite? Hell's bells, Harry, no harm in being polite. There's some regular he-men that are just as polite as women, prett' near.
    • 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure A lotta draggy party-type people there...girls all decked out & guys with he-man cologne on.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for he-man. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA