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mannishness

noun

Etymology

From mannish + -ness.

  1. inherited from *manniskaz✻ — “human”
  2. inherited from *mannisk✻
  3. inherited from mennisċ — “human, natural, humane”
  4. inherited from mannish
  5. suffixed as mannishness — “mannish + ness”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being mannish

    The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity.

    • I hate women in stiff collars and shirts and ties and mannishness like that […]
    • There was a certain thickness to her movement and appearance, a rough mannishness, despite the large breasts which she tried to flatten beneath a harness-like bra, stolen from an older sister's dresser.

  2. Impertinence

    Impertinence; precociousness.

    • Chinta came straight up to him and said, with the mannishness she put on when Mrs Tulsi was away, ‘Brother-in-law, I want you to know that until you came to this house there were no crab-catchers here.’

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mannishness. 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