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Manx, a. and n.|mæŋks|
Forms: 6 maniske, 7 manques, 7–9 manks, 9 mankes, manx.
[Metathetic a. ON. *mansk-r (whence directly the 16th c. form maniske), f. Man- (nom. Mǫn:—*Manu, a. OIrish Manu), the Isle of Man.]
A. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to the Isle of Man, its inhabitants, language, etc.
1572Act 14 Eliz. c. 5 §34 Yf any suche Maniske or Iryshe Vacabounde or Beggar ben alredy or shall at any tyme hereafter be set on Land in any parte of England or of Wales. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 67 Scaliger never heard of the Manks language, spoken by ours of the Ile of Man. 1765Ann. Reg. 61 Books of devotion in the Manks tongue. 1860All Year Round No. 68. 420, I believe a Manx sermon is now seldom heard.
b. Manx cat: a tailless variety of the domestic cat, indigenous to the Isle of Man. Manx codlin: a kind of apple. Manx penny: a coin stamped with the device of three legs arranged in a form suggestive of a Catherine wheel. Manx puffin or Manx shearwater = Puffinus anglorum.
1678Ray's Willughby's Ornith. Index, Puffin 325. Manks Puffin 333. 1818in Trans. Horticult. Soc. (1826) III. 320 Manx Codlin. 1835Jenyns Man. Brit. Vertebr. 285 Procellaria Anglorum, Temm. (Manks Shearwater). 1859Wood Nat. Hist. I. 202 The Manx Cat..possessing hardly a vestige of a tail. a1881Carlyle in Harper's Mag. (1883) Nov. 877/1 [He] hadn't the heart to..watch a woman..making a Manx penny of herself.
B. n.
1. (As pl.) The people of the Isle of Man.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 233/1 The Manks or Manings [are] a people that inhabit the Isle of Man. 1809Acc. Isle of Man 74 The Manks pay a decent and feeling regard to the memory of their deceased friends. 1899J. MacTaggart Mackinnon & Bards 68 The Englishman, the Welsh, the Manx, The artless Irishman, the Scot.
2. The Celtic language spoken in the Isle of Man. (Now extinct).
1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 106 The Language of Ireland is like that of the North of Scotland, in many things like the Welch and Manques. 1702W. Sacheverell Acc. Isle of Man 8 In the Northern part of the Island they speak a deeper Manks, as they call it, than in the South. 1835Cregeen Manks Dict. Pref., The Manks is now seldom spoken or written in its original purity. 1859W. Gill Kelly's Manks Gram. Introd. 9 In the schools throughout the Island the Manx has ceased to be taught. 1970B. M. H. Strang Hist. Eng. ix. 402 One IE language (Manx) has become extinct since the Second World War.
3. A Manx cat.
1889Daily News 23 Oct. 7/1 A solitary couple of Manxes [at a cat-show].
Hence ˈManxman, ˈManxwoman, a native of the Isle of Man.
1702W. Sacheverell Acc. Isle of Man 113 Michael, a Manksman, a Person of great Merit and Exemplary Life. 1823Scott Peveril v, Born a Mankesman—bred and nursed in the island. 1894Hall Caine (title) The Manxman. 1904in N.E.D. 1974J. Mann Sticking Place viii. 132 I'm a Manxwoman. |