womanish
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womanish
- /ˈwʊmənɪʃ/ UK
Where it comes from
From Middle English wommanyssh. Equivalent to woman + -ish. The verb is from the adjective.
adjective more womanish · most womanish · womannish
- Characteristic of a woman; effeminate, feminine. […] Romans novv / Haue Thevves, and Limbes, like to their Anceſtors; / But vvoe the vvhile, our Fathers mindes are dead, / And vve are gouern'd vvith our Mothers ſpirits, / Our yoake, and ſufferance, ſhevv vs VVomaniſh.
- Carried out by or pertaining to a woman. And gan recomfort her in her rude vvyſe, / VVith vvomaniſh compaſſion of her plaint, / VViping the teares from her ſuffuſed eyes, […]
verb womanishes · womanishing · womanished · womannish
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To make womanish.
Then the Lord Gaspar: “I believe music,” quoth he, “together with many other vanities, is meet for women, and peradventure for some also that have the likeness of men, but not for them that be men indeed, who ought not with such delicacies to womanish their minds and bring themselves in that sort to
Similar: effeminate, femalize, femininize, feminize, woman, womanize
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adj characteristic of a woman
| Español | afeminado |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 여자 같은 yeoja gateun |
| हिन्दी | स्त्रैण straiṇ |
| Ελληνικά | γυναικείος gynaikeíos |
| Русский | ба́бий bábij, женоподо́бный ženopodóbnyj |
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