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单词 man-child
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man-childn.

Brit. /ˈmanˌtʃʌɪld/, U.S. /ˈmænˌtʃaɪld/
Forms: see man n.1 and child n. Plural Middle English man-chylder, Middle English man-chylderyn, Middle English man-chyldur, Middle English men-chyldre, Middle English men-chyldren, Middle English– men-children, 1500s men-chylderne; Scottish pre-1700 men-childer, pre-1700 men-children, pre-1700 men-childrene, pre-1700 men-childring, pre-1700 men-childryng.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: man n.1, child n.
Etymology: < man n.1 + child n.
A male child. Also: a man with childlike qualities.
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the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun]
knightc893
knapec1000
knaveOE
knape childc1175
knave-childa1225
groom?c1225
knight-bairnc1275
pagec1300
mana1382
swainc1386
knave-bairna1400
little mana1425
man-childa1438
boy1440
little boya1475
lad1535
boykin1540
tomboya1556
urchin1556
loonc1560
kinchin-co(ve)1567
big boy1572
dandiprat1582
pricket1582
boy child1584
callant1597
suck-egg1609
nacketc1618
custrel1668
hospital-boy1677
whelp1710
laddie1721
charity-boy1723
pam-child1760
chappie1822
bo1825
boyo1835
wagling1837
shirttail boy1840
boysie1846
umfaan1852
nipper1859
yob1859
fellow-my-lad?1860
laddo1870
chokra1875
shegetz1885
spalpeen1891
spadger1899
bug1900
boychick1921
sonny boy1928
sonny1939
okie1943
lightie1946
outjie1961
oke1970
a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 94 (MED) Sche had a lytel manchylde sowkyng on hir brest.
c1450 (a1375) Octavian (Calig.) (1979) 101 (MED) Vppon Florence..He gette and wan Two man chylderyn.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 7 To espye..yf his wife broght forth men children.
a1500 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Cambr.) 3640 Man chyldur [c1330 Auch. knaue children, a1500 Chetham men children] had sche two.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xvii. B Euery manchilde whan it is eight dayes olde, shalbe circumcyded [circūcyded in text].
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N6v Lucina came: a manchild forth I brought.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 72 Bring forth Men-Children onely: For thy vndaunted Mettle should compose Nothing but Males. View more context for this quotation
1660 in Trans. Dumfries & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Soc. 3rd Ser. 21 143 For ilk manchyld they sall abstract the said schoole.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 59 I denounce against all strait-Laceing, Squeezing for a Shape, till you mold my boy's head like a Sugar-loaf; and instead of a Man-child, make me the Father of a Crooked-billet.
1800 S. T. Coleridge Talleyrand to Lord Grenville in Morning Post & Gazetteer 10 Jan. 3/1 Were such lungs e'er assign'd to a man-child?
1877 W. Black Green Pastures (1878) iii. 23 I don't believe there is a man-child born in the town but you begin to wonder what the Government will do for him.
1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes iii. 43 No sound broke the deathlike stillness of the jungle mid-day save the piteous wailing of the tiny man-child.
1961 J. Carew Last Barbarian 63 She loved Peter as she had never loved Laura. He was a man-child and the one person in the world who depended on her completely.
1990 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 18 Nov. 4/1 It is not every day that a single 23-year-old soccer-playing Geordie, a man-child reckoned by former England manager Bobby Robson to be as daft as a brush, is invited by the PM to a party at her place.

Derivatives

manchildhood n. Obsolete rare
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the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] > boyhood
knighthoodc893
boyhood?1577
boyery1579
lad-age1606
manchildhooda1618
boyage1625
boyism1810
laddism1843
ladhood1883
a1618 J. Sylvester Hymn St. Lewis 85 When Heav'ns assign'd him to his Father's Throne; And to the hands of his Man-Childehood left The glorious Burthen of this Scepter's heft.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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