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womanish

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Adjective
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wom=an=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

womanisha. 
     Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate.  Macaulay.  [1913 Webster]
    "A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but audible, strong, and manlike."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

womanish, adj. usu. derog.
1 (of a man) effeminate, unmanly.
2 suitable to or characteristic of a woman.

Derivative
womanishly adv. womanishness n.

THESAURUS

womanish

breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, chicken, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, distaff, effeminate, female, feminine, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gentlewomanlike, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, gossamery, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, jerry, jerry-built, kittenish, ladylike, light, lightweight, little-girlish, maidenly, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, muliebrous, namby-pamby, old-womanish, papery, pasteboardy, petticoat, prissy, puny, shattery, sissified, sissy, sissyish, sleazy, slight, soft, tacky, unmanly, unsubstantial, wispy, womanlike, womanly

ROGET THESAURUS

womanish

Woman

N woman, she, her, female, petticoat, feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs, lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, Nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity &c, paternity, lesbian, dyke, female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic, Pron, she, her, hers, ', a perfect woman nobly planned, a lovely lady garmented in white, das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan, earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected, es de vidrio la mujer, she moves a goddess and she looks a queen, the beauty of a lovely woman is like music, varium et mutabile semper femina, woman is the lesser man.


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