man child

noun

Etymology

From Middle English manchylde, man-chylde (“a male child”), equivalent to man + child.

  1. inherited from manchylde

Definitions

  1. An adult male who is childish or immature.

    • In the end, Brown said he just couldn't stand another day of trying to run a team with two sets of rules — one for 11 players and the other for the man-child superstar.
  2. A young male human

    A young male human; a boy.

    • Bring forth Men-Children onely: / For thy vndaunted Mettle ſhould compoſe / Nothing but Males.
    • Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
    • "She is dead," he announced, very gravely and simply. The hunchback shivered. Captain Runacles neither spoke nor stirred in his chair. "A man-child was born at two o'clock. He is alive: his mother died two hours later."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for man child. 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