mannish

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: man=nish

CIDE DICTIONARY

mannish, a. [Man + -ish: cf. AS. mennisc, menisc.].

•  Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

  "But yet it was a figure
  Most like to mannish creature."  [1913 Webster]
•  Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike, masculine.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

  "A woman impudent and mannish grown."  [1913 Webster]
•  Fond of men; -- said of a woman.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mannish, adj.
1 usu. derog. (of a woman) masculine in appearance or manner.
2 characteristic of a man.

Derivative

mannishly adv. mannishness n.

Etymology

OE mennisc f. (and assim. to) MAN

THESAURUS

mannish

AC-DC, amphierotic, andric, autoerotic, bisexed, bisexual, bull, butch, deviant, effeminate, gay, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, homoerotic, homosexual, hoyden, lesbian, male, manful, manlike, manly, mannified, masculine, perverted, queer, rompish, sapphic, tomboyish, transvestite, tribadistic, uneffeminate, unfeminine, viraginous