manhoodn.
/ˈmanhʊd/, U.S. /ˈmænˌhʊd/ I. Senses relating to the state of being human, humanity.† 2. Humanity, humaneness. Obsolete.
1. † b. The dignity of man; reputation. Obsolete.
a. The state or condition of being human; human nature; spec. with reference to Jesus.
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the world > people > [noun] > quality or state of being human
mannishnesseOE
mannishlaikc1175
manhoodc1225
manheadc1230
manliheada1325
humanitya1425
human condition?1566
humanness1694
humanism1836
humanhood1847
human situation1878
humanitas1896
being-with1956
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) 985 Þe godcundnesse of godd, for mennesse of his monhad.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 12 Þe þridde article..belongeþ to þe zone ase to þe manhode, þet is to zigge ase þet he is man dyadlich.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) Matt. Prol. 2 Matheu duellith principali aboute the manhod of Crist.
c1511 1st Eng. Bk. Amer. (1885) Introd. 30/2 They say that in christo is alone the godhed without the manhod.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 155/2 All ye textes that seme to make him lesse, be nothynge to be vnderstanden of his godhedde, but of his manhode onely.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Euensong f. vii By takyng of the manhoode into God.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Euensong f. vii Equall to the father as touchyng his Godhead: and inferior to the father touchyng his manhoode.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 314 Therefore thy Humiliation shall exalt With thee thy Manhood also to this Throne; Here shalt thou sit incarnate. View more context for this quotation
1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent i. i. 7 Keep..A little Pity to distinguish Manhood, Lest other Men..should..judge you to be number'd with the Brutes.
1848 R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation (1852) xv. 440 That real manhood of Christ our Lord, which binds Him at this moment to collective humanity.
1865 J. R. Lowell Ode at Harvard Commem. ix Yea, Manhood hath a wider span And larger privilege of life than man.
1974 F. L. Cross & E. A. Livingstone Oxf. Dict. Christian Church (ed. 2) 72/2 The objects of Appollinarianism, the first great Christological heresy, were: (1) to assert the unity of Godhead and manhood in Christ, [etc.].
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > [noun] > one's reputation
manhooda1425
reputationc1550
repper1910
fanny1936
ass1948
butt1964
arse1970
a1425 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Linc. Inn) (1973) 1172 Ȝef y telle þis folk by fore, How þat þow ware gete and bore..Þen hastow lore þy manhod.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [noun] > humaneness
menska1250
manhead1340
humanityc1384
manlinessc1384
manhooda1425
mankind1605
humaneness1729
humanitarianism1850
a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 5 (MED) Nouȝt I mene þat þe souȝle schulde of quantite be gret, but gret of kunnynge, of goodnesse, & of manhod.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 231 So thou wolt succour me that I myght be fayre crystynde... Thou mayste for thy manhode have mede to thy soule.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 429 His wife was dedde..and..kynge Alexander hade beryede her regally..more for cause of manhode then for cause of eny luffe.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. iii. 126 Suche tendrenes had been shewen to two, or three [children], as the mothers loked for, and manhode..doth require.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxix. 27) Inasmuche as manhod willeth to succour the afflicted.
3. Homage; = manrent n. 1. Obsolete.
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society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > feudal homage or allegiance > [noun]
manredOE
manshipc1175
homagec1300
manheadc1325
servagec1325
servicec1325
manhood1340
servageryc1425
manrent1442
servitudec1500
trewage1592
homagy1610
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 19 (MED) He ys wel renay þet þet land þet he halt of his lhorde deþ in-to þe hond of his uyende, and deþ him manhode.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 19 (MED) He deþ manhode to þe dyeule and becomþ his þrel.
1531 Earl of Lennox et al. Contract 14 Feb. in W. Fraser Mem. Maxwells of Pollok (1863) I. 261 The said Schir James sall gyft to the said Erle his band of manhud in the best forme, for all the dayis of his lyf.
III. Senses relating to being an adult male.
4.
a. The adult state of man, as opposed to childhood.
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the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity > adulthood of man
manhooda1393
man-statec1400
man-agec1425
man's agec1443
state1553
virility1586
beard1591
father-age1596
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 794 (MED) This Elda triste in special Upon a knyht, whom fro childhode He hadde updrawe into manhode.
c1450 T. Wimbledon Serm. (Hatton) 2 He clepiþ men in diuerse ag[ys]..sume in chylhode..sume in state of vexing..summe in state of manhode..and summe in olde age.
c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 77 (MED) In his age of manhode, þe childe is bounde to reuerence fadir and modir.
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Cjv When riper yeares and manhoode made vs strong, Then we knew much, and more still would be showing.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 148 Was shee made thy guide, Superior, or but equal, that to her Thou did'st resigne thy Manhood . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 246 His starrie Helme unbuckl'd shew'd him prime In Manhood where Youth ended. View more context for this quotation
1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. §6 Methuselah, when he was nine hundred and sixty Years old,..was the same Person as when he was in his full Vigour of Manhood, or when he was an Infant, newly born.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 109 Children, as they grew to manhood, inherited the duty of revenging their fathers' deaths.
1882 A. W. Ward Dickens iv. 86 One likes to think of him in these years of vigorous manhood.
1931 P. S. Buck Good Earth xxiii. 230 The eldest son had grown tall and graceful with young manhood.
1988 A. N. Wilson Tolstoy iv. 88 The period when Tolstoy was coming to manhood, in the early 1850s.
b. The state or condition of being a man rather than a woman.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > state or condition of
manshipc1350
manhooda1616
manness1921
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. iv. 193 Pis. [To Imogen, about to disguise herself] To some shade, And fit you to your Manhood . View more context for this quotation
1869 J. S. Mill Subject. Women iv. 183 Many worthy and devoted women..having brought up a family blamelessly to manhood and womanhood..are deserted by the sole occupation for which they have fitted themselves.
1903 J. London Call of Wild v. 141 Shorn of its glamour and romance, Arctic travel became to them a reality too harsh for their manhood and womanhood.
1964 J. Rule Desert of Heart iv. 96 He was subservient rather than protective. Every gesture was an apology for his manhood.
1991 Times 13 Apr. (Sat. Review) 10/4 The academic feminists..think their nerdy bookworm husbands are the ideal model of human manhood.
c. figurative.
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1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 138 The three ages of France: her child-hood, till Pepin: her man-hood, till Capet; her old age, till now.
1680 J. Oldham in Earl of Rochester et al. Poems 118 Before it [sc. the World] had arriv'd at sense, Or reach'd the Manhood, and discretion of Debauchery.
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §34. 123 Is it a disposition befitting spiritual manhood? Is it not characteristically childish?
1871 B. P. Patrick Let. 3 Mar. in W. A. Patrick & B. P. Patrick Lett. from Two Brothers (1988) 72 During the precious hours of youth.., I was destroying my mental manhood by association with an ignorant herd of people who never had a thought above a race pony.
d. spec. The sexual potency of a man; virility; (by extension) the male genitals; the penis.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual potency or vigour
ability?1473
Lusty Juventus1582
virility1598
mettle1612
manhood1640
potency1739
potence1875
lead in one's pencil1941
the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis
weapona1000
tarsec1000
pintleOE
cock?c1335
pillicock?c1335
yard1379
arrowa1382
looma1400
vergea1400
instrumentc1405
fidcocka1475
privya1500
virile member (or yard)?1541
prickc1555
tool1563
pillock1568
penis1578
codpiece1584
needle1592
bauble1593
dildo1597
nag1598
virility1598
ferret1599
rubigo?a1600
Jack1604
mentula1605
virge1608
prependent1610
flute1611
other thing1628
engine1634
manhood1640
cod1650
quillity1653
rammer1653
runnion1655
pego1663
sex1664
propagator1670
membrum virile1672
nervea1680
whore-pipe1684
Roger1689
pudding1693
handle?1731
machine1749
shaft1772
jock1790
poker1811
dickyc1815
Johnny?1833
organ1833
intromittent apparatus1836
root1846
Johnson1863
Peter1870
John Henry1874
dickc1890
dingusc1890
John Thomasc1890
old fellowc1890
Aaron's rod1891
dingle-dangle1893
middle leg1896
mole1896
pisser1896
micky1898
baby-maker1902
old man1902
pecker1902
pizzle1902
willy1905
ding-dong1906
mickey1909
pencil1916
dingbatc1920
plonkerc1920
Johna1922
whangera1922
knob1922
tube1922
ding1926
pee-pee1927
prong1927
pud1927
hose1928
whang1928
dong1930
putz1934
porkc1935
wiener1935
weenie1939
length1949
tadger1949
winkle1951
dinger1953
winky1954
dork1961
virilia1962
rig1964
wee-wee1964
Percy1965
meat tool1966
chopper1967
schlong1967
swipe1967
chode1968
trouser snake1968
ding-a-ling1969
dipstick1970
tonk1970
noonies1972
salami1977
monkey1978
langer1983
wanker1987
1640 H. Glapthorne Hollander I. v. i. sig. I.4 You have excellent salves and unguents sir... Have you never a one that will eat off the wen of manhood, make all whole before that will eunuchise a man, I would faine be a Hermaphrodite, or a woman to escape this match.
1689 Upon King's Voy. to Chatham in Coll. Poems on Affairs of State 19 I wish this sad Accident don't spoil the young Prince, Take off all his Manhood and make him a Wench.
1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xxviii. 325 They make themselves merry, when they are met o'er their Claret, interposing now and then, either extraordinary Commendations of their Husbands Manhood, or some witty Reflections on their slender Qualifications.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 168 On my first stirring, which was not till past ten o'clock, I was oblig'd to endure one more trial of his manhood.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. i. 69 To manhood roused, he spurns the amorous flute.
1967 T. W. Blackburn Good Day to Die xix. 145 I have but one living son... If I do not speak the truth, let the white man's pox strike him and his manhood rot in his clout.
1975 I. McEwan First Love, Last Rites (1976) 21 My blood pounding, my manhood proudly stirring.
1991 Sun 28 Feb. 19/2 [The] topless kissogram girl..went on sick leave suffering from shock—after a naked miner coshed her with his manhood.
5. Manliness, courage, valour; (esp.) these qualities collectively, perceived as pre-eminently belonging to or characterizing a man. Now archaic.
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the mind > emotion > courage > manliness > [noun]
manshipc1275
manheadc1300
virtuec1330
manhooda1393
manliheadc1425
manful-hardinessc1450
manlinessc1450
manfulnessc1460
virtuosity1543
man1602
manlikeness1742
ruggedness1845
balls1958
the world > people > person > man > [noun] > qualities of
manheadc1300
manhooda1393
manlinessc1450
manlihood1583
maleness1663
mannishness1882
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 1964 He was man..Of wit, of manhod, and of strength.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. iii. 172 Ȝet I may, as I miȝte auance þe wiþ ȝeftis, And maynteyne þi manhod more þan þou knowist.
c1450 (c1390) G. Chaucer Complaint of Venus 4 Remembraunce Upon the manhod and the worthynesse,..Of him whos I am al, while I may dure.
c1450 (?a1405) J. Lydgate Complaint Black Knight (Fairf.) 333 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 396 Not-withstondyng his manhode and his myght; Love vnto him did ful grete vnright.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 500/2 Whan he is well whyttelled, he wyll crake goodly of his manhode.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 72/1 in Chron. I The Britains aswel with constant manhood, as skilful practise,..auoided & beat from them the arrowes and darts.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 412 Follow my voice: weele try no manhood here. View more context for this quotation
1600 P. Holland tr. Florus Breviaries xxv, in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 544 That province had beene quite lost, but for the singular manhood and industrie of L. Martius a knight of Rome.
1618 S. Rowlands Night-raven (1620) 29 Tom of his manhood boasts That he like butter-flies esteemes all Ghoasts.
1758 J. Macpherson Highlander vi. 72 Her beauty he, his manhood she admires; Both moved along, and fed their silent fires.
1829 T. Hood Dream Eugene Aram in Gem 1 113 There was a manhood in his look, That murder could not kill!
1853 J. G. Whittier Hero 75 Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.
1898 ‘M. Twain’ in Cosmopolitan Aug. 432/2 They really hadn't manhood enough.
1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror 89 Jettisoning in one mad craving for self-preservation all thoughts of manhood and chivalry, he sprang from Flick's side, leaped into the cab, hissed in the driver's ear, and was off.
1973 N. Monsarrat Kappillan of Malta 57 All must be faced, with acceptance, with bravery, with the manhood which a priest, above all others, should be able to summon up intact.
1991 M. Atwood Wilderness Tips 197 There was the innocent, fusty vocabulary that had once inspired him: Manhood with a capital M, courage, honor.
6. Men collectively; the adult male members of a population, nation, or the like.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > man > [noun] > men collectively
wapman-kinc1175
manc1300
menkinda1470
mankind1526
manhood1588
mens-kind1592
the sterner (alsobetter, rougher, stronger) sex1608
lords of creation1649
menfolk1749
masculinity1860
1588 Ld. Burghley Copie Let. to B. Mendoza 27 The Lord Strange the Earls sonne, and all the manhood of Lancashire and Cheshire would goe ouer the Seas and fetch the Earle home.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 15 The whole manhood of Greece fought the battell of Salamis.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 115 There followed a multitude of all sorts and degrees, picked and chosen out of the manhood of the nations adjoyning.
1640 J. Yorke Battels in Union of Honour 1 In the Rere-guard was the Duke himselfe, with his whole manhoode of Normans.
1869 T. Hughes Alfred the Great xii. 139 The whole manhood of the kingdom might have been..turned upon this work.
1931 W. S. Churchill World Crisis V. xxi. 323 Out of 425,000 men comprising the entire manhood of the country,..over 100,000 had been killed or wounded.
Compounds
manhood suffrage n. now chiefly historical that form of popular election in which the right to vote is granted to all male citizens of sufficient age not disqualified by crime, insanity, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > of adult males
manhood suffrage1855
1855 ‘P. Papineau’ (title) Homesteads for the people, and manhood suffrage, in a series of four letters.
1859 B. Disraeli in Hansard Commons 31 Mar. 1245 Why, Sir, I have no apprehension myself that if you had manhood suffrage tomorrow the honest, brave, and good-natured people of England would resort to pillage, incendiarism, and massacre.
1864 Q. Rev. 116 262 If Mr Gladstone is generally supposed to have taken up the battle-cry of manhood suffrage, he has only himself to thank for it.
1930 M. D. Kennedy Changing Fabric of Japan vii. 121 In 1923, meetings in favour of Manhood Suffrage were broken up by gangs of soshi.
1980 J. Lowerson Short Hist. Sussex (BNC) 113 The Duke [of Richmond] presided over a county meeting in Lewes in January 1780, which prepared a petition for ‘Public Oeconomy’. He even went so far as to demand universal manhood suffrage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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