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UK
/mˈænɪʃ/
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ADJECTIVE
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resembling or imitative of or suggestive of a man rather than a woman
a mannish stride -
characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman
true mannish arrogance
How To Use mannish In A Sentence
- It starts off with mannish water - a soup made from goat tripe (intestine).
- Ranging from obese and untalented to anorexic and untalented to mannish and untalented, these actresses represent every image any man has ever thought of to keep himself from getting aroused.
- With her cropped hair and and her mannish clothes, she typifies the sort of feminist often feared by men.
- Inger, like Monique and Trudi, had close-cropped her hair into a mannish trim that emphasized the heavy bones of her skull. RUSHING TO PARADISE
- Mannish cropped trousers were paired with masculine grey flannel coats covered in subdued moiré swirls, perfect black capes lined in printed silk, and short coachman mantles edged in white mink.
- She was wearing a white suit -- long, loose mannish trousers and fitted jacket with a single button. THE CALLIGRAPHER
- For six years, they had worn the square, mannish fashions the desperate times required - and they had had enough.
- The watch bands can be utterly mannish and rugged or they can be fashioned from the finest metals and accented with jewels in the watch face. Think Progress » City Of San Francisco Moves To Join Growing Boycott Of Arizona Over New Anti-Immigration Law
- With her cropped hair and and her mannish clothes, she typifies the sort of feminist often feared by men.
- He may not always be ‘mannish’; in fact, he may be downright womanish (the sting of this repeated accusation in the Western is that it is usually true), but he will be doing what a man does.