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