| 单词 | woman-man |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoman-man woman-man n. an effeminate man; a man who has qualities, undertakes tasks, etc., traditionally associated with women (cf. to make a woman of at Phrases 3b(c)); (also) a woman with masculine qualities; cf. man-woman n.In quot. 1567: (with reference to Aristophanes's speech in Plato's Symposium) any of the androgynous double beings from which human beings are descended, having been split in half by the gods as a punishment for hubris. Compare androgyne n. ΘΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > effeminate man badlingeOE milksopc1390 cockneyc1405 malkina1425 molla1425 weakling1526 tenderling1541 softling1543 niceling1549 woman-man1567 cocknel1570 effeminate1583 androgyne1587 meacock1590 mammaday1593 hermaphrodite1594 midwife1596 nimfadoro1600 night-sneaker1611 mock-mana1625 nan1670 she-man1675 petit maître1711 old woman1717 master-miss1754 Miss Molly1754 molly1785 squaw1805 mollycoddle1823 Miss Nancy1824 mollycot1826 molly mop1829 poof1833 Margery?c1855 ladyboy1857 girl1862 Mary Ann1868 sissy1879 milk1881 pretty-boy1881 nancy1888 poofter1889 Nancy Dawson1890 softie1895 puff1902 pussy1904 Lizzie1905 nance1910 quean1910 maricon1921 pie-face1922 bitch1923 Jessie1923 lily1923 tapette1923 pansy1926 nancy boy1927 nelly1931 femme1932 ponce1932 queerie1933 palone1934 queenie1935 girlie-man1940 swish1941 puss1942 wonk1945 mother1947 candy-ass1953 twink1953 cream puff1958 pronk1959 swishy1959 limp wrist1960 pansy-ass1963 weeny1963 poofteroo1966 mo1968 shim1973 twinkie1977 woofter1977 cake boy1992 hermaphrodite- 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxix. f. 350 For so much as vertue ought to be the bande of that indissoluble amitie, which maketh the vnion of the two seuered bodies of that woman man, which Plato describeth, & causeth man to trauell for his whole accomplishment in yt true pursute of chast loue. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 12 May one hope..In Woman-Men a manly Constancie? 1620 Bp. J. King Serm. 26 Mar. 50 Quid androgynus? (saith Tully) what is a man-woman, woman-man? 1621 J. Taylor Superbiæ Flagellum C 6 The Woman-man, Man-woman, chuse you whether, The Female-male, Male-female, both, yet neither. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Twelfth Bk. Metamorphoses in Fables 443 O Shame, a Nation conquer'd by a Man! A Woman-Man; yet more a Man is He, Than all our Race. 1835 P. Gaskill Old Bachelors I. xiv. 251 Is it more disgusting to see a virago—a woman-man, or a poor degenerate wretch, a man-woman—a fellow that does nothing but simper. 1878 W. Black Macleod of Dare xl, in Good Words 19 723/2 A poor creature—a woman-man—a thing of affectation, with his paint-box and his velvet coat, and his furniture. 1922 Munsey's Mag. Sept. 696/1 It was not permissible for him to help her carry another load, for he would have been deemed a woman man, and most witheringly scorned by the gentle object of the attention. 1970 H. Slochower Mythopoesis 81 The deliverer [sc. Hercules] must engage in his ‘Twelve Labors’ and serve as woman-man to Omphale. 1994 T. Zeldin Intimate Hist. Humanity (1998) vii. 111 My life as a woman-man has failed. I have been taken for a ride. 2001 L. Erdrich Last Rep. on Miracles at Little No Horse viii. 153 One was a powerful bull-chested hunter with legs that bulged with fabulous muscles, and the other was an ikwe-inini, a woman-man called a winkte by the Bwaanag. < as lemmas |
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