mannishness

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Definition of mannishness

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity.
    “1903, Mabel Atkinson, Review of Lily Braun, Die Frauenfrage: ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche Seite in American Journal of Sociology, 1 March, 1903, p. 703, She thinks also that when once the first ardor of revolution, with its inevitable tendency to mannishness, has passed by, women who work need lose none of their proper grace and charm—a view which is certainly borne out by facts.”
    “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.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity.
    “1903, Mabel Atkinson, Review of Lily Braun, Die Frauenfrage: ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche Seite in American Journal of Sociology, 1 March, 1903, p. 703, She thinks also that when once the first ardor of revolution, with its inevitable tendency to mannishness, has passed by, women who work need lose none of their proper grace and charm—a view which is certainly borne out by facts.”
    “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. (Caribbean, uncountable)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.’”

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Etymology

From mannish + -ness.

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