mannish
/ˈmæn.ɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a man, masculine.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a grown man (as opposed to a boy); mature, adult.
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loathed than an effeminate man In time of action."
- "She detested the look of herself in large goggles, detested being forced to tie on her hat, detested the heavy, mannish coat of rough tweed that Sir Philip insisted she must wear when motoring."
- "And let us, Polydore, though now our voices Have got the mannish crack, sing him to the ground,"
- "And so, with an air of mannish superiority, he seems rather to pity the bashful girl, than to apprehend that he shall not succeed."
- "[…] Aunt Lucy found out about it and woke me up the next morning with a switch in her hand. . . . But I got all mannish that morning, Joyce. I said, “Aunt Lucy, you ain’t gonna whip me no more. I’se a man now—and you ain’t gonna whip me.”"
- "It’s things like these that remind me that for all his mannish ways, he’s still just a little tyke after all."
Etymology
From Middle English mannish, mannisshe, mannysh, from earlier mennish (“human”), from Old English mennisċ (“human, natural, humane”), from Proto-West Germanic *mannisk, from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz (“human”). By surface analysis, man + -ish. Doublet of mennish, mense, and mensch.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mannish, mennisċ, *mannisk, *manniskaz
Usage
Inflected Forms
more mannish (comparative)
most mannish (superlative)