mannish

英 ['mænɪʃ] 美 ['mænɪʃ]

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※ 提供单词"mannish"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

mannish 女子男性化的

来自man,男人，-ish,形容词后缀。即像个男人的，后用于形容女子男性化的。比较virago.

mannish (adj.): Old English mennisc "human, human-like, natural," from Proto-Germanic *manniska- (cognates: Old Saxon mannisc, Old High German mennisc, Gothic mannisks), from *manna- (see man (n.)). In some cases a new formation from man (n.) + -ish.

Sense of "masculine" is from late 14c.; in reference to women seen as masculine, from late 14c. Of adult males (opposed to childish) from 1520s. Related: Mannishly; mannishness. The Proto-Germanic adjective became, in some languages, a noun meaning "human" (such as German Mensch), and in Old English mannish also was used as a noun "mankind, folk, race, people."

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1. She shook hands in a mannish way, her grip dry and firm.: 她像个男人似的握了手，坚实而又有力。

3. " Now, don't forget about that,'said one of the mannish women.: “ 喂, 别忘记那件事, "那两个像男人的女人中的一个说.

4. The girls usually got rough and mannish after they went to herding.: 到野外去放牧的姑娘通常都变得粗里粗气,象个男子汉.