manscape
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A landscape that has been shaped by the human race.
verb
To trim or shave a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.
Example Sentences
- "I soon turned to contemplate the more animated manscape at my feet. Seeing a crowd of beggars standing together in dejected attitudes, I cast a handful of cash into the air, in such wise that the coins would fall plump among them, and then dropped behind the parapet of the pagoda."
- "The crowd melts, but melts only to flow again next morning into the same gigantic mould of passion. The men are different, but the manscape is the same."
- "It is to be hoped that their [the Meridian Gay Theatre's] next effort — the New York premiere of Something More, a "manscape" of gay life in the past 10 years — will match the previous success of Stray Dog Story and Street Theater."
- "At last the manscape gags itself, and a queer, worn, torn, cracked, corncrake voice begins to vibrate in the vast bowl."
- "And the manscape is our realm, our spatial destiny where we must act and respond, where for our lifetime we must be who we will be."
- "In 114 pages, he deals with slavery and its effect on the manscape of what he describes as "the most English of the West Indian islands, but at the same time the nearest as the slaves fly, to Africa.""
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man English man English landscapebf. English -scape English manscape From man + -scape.