womanhandle

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womanhandle

  • /ˈwʊm.ənˌhæn.dəl/ UK, US

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Blend of woman + manhandle.

verb womanhandles · womanhandling · womanhandled · woman-handle

  1. humorous, rare, transitive To handle someone or something gently, or with very little effort (sometimes as opposed to manhandle). It seems humanly reasonable that the three of us can woman-handle a mere man of your elderly and insulting avoirdupois.
  2. humorous, rare, transitive To manhandle or treat roughly (when done by a woman). They womanhandled him down the hallway without any trouble at all. His feet, bumping him over the stone floor, were getting hurt. He had just decided it would be better to cooperate when, without any warning, they let him go. He fell face first […]

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"womanhandle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/womanhandle. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{womanhandle_2026,
  title = {womanhandle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/womanhandle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}