单词 | womanizing |
释义 | womanizingn. 1. The action of becoming or making more womanly or feminine; an instance of this. ΘΠ the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [noun] > being or becoming effeminate effeminating1555 effemination?1562 womanizing1775 womanization1906 devirilization1920 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Womanizing, the act of softening down to the qualities of a woman. 1896 Hawaiian Gaz. 4 Feb. 7/2 The womanizing of society is one pronounced tendency of civilization. 1902 L. A. Sherman What is Shakespeare? (1912) iv. 176 Prominent among new phases, achieved after the scene where we parted with the lovers, are the full womanising of Juliet, [etc.]. 1993 J. D. Caputo Against Ethics iii. 56 It is a soft, effete version of a real philosophy of affirmation, a womanizing of a more manly version of the philosophy of forces. 2. ΚΠ 1842 E. D. H. E. Napier Excursions Shores Mediterranean I. xxxiii. 346 But now a word or two about ‘Los Barrios’, to which, after ‘womanizing’ at Algesiras, we proceeded on our trusty steeds. b. Casual sexual or romantic encounters with women; the pursuit of this; philandering. Π 1854 J. Shew Hydropathic Family Physician iv. 259 In such cases, patients are generally so lecherous, and so given to womanizing, that if we get them partly cured, they set at once to work again in their old habits. 1868 tr. Martial Index Expurgatorius 89 You must give up sodomising and womanising. 1919 I. Zangwill Jinny the Carrier vi. 204 Its ministers have been silenced or ejected in numbers almost unparalleled; some indeed merely for tippling, dicing, carding, and womanizing. 1965 P. Wylie They Both were Naked ii. vi. 322 He'd never had the opportunity before, to acknowledge a familial aspect of his loving, his wenching and womanizing. 2002 National Trust Mag. Summer 38/3 The Earl had been notorious in his day for his womanising. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). womanizingadj. 1. Feminine, womanish. Also: that makes feminine or womanly. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [adjective] womanly?c1225 ferbleta1300 effeminatea1393 nicea1393 softc1450 manlessa1529 unmanly1534 cockney1573 effeminated1580 unmanlikea1586 milky1602 enervate1603 womanizing1615 emasculate1622 womanized1624 softly1643 womanlish1647 unmasculine1649 emollid1656 ladylike1656 enervated1660 emasculated1701 petticoated1708 tea-faced1728 effeminized1789 invirile1870 epicene1881 sissyish1889 sissified1898 devirilized1901 cockless1902 camp1909 pansy1929 campy1932 queenly1933 poncy1937 pansyish1941 swishy1941 moffie1954 poofy1956 femme1963 poofed-up1964 minty1965 ponced-up1970 lavender1979 the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [adjective] > making effeminate womanizing1615 unmanning1625 effeminating1630 effeminizing1807 1615 P. Gordon Penardo & Laissa xvii. sig. Qiiiv Thow whoes hairt from dreidfull warre Could not be thrald to womanizing loue. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. i. xi. 27 There are some womanizing, or womanish men. a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 167 Gorgeous rayments, womanizing toyes. 1888 L. Parr Loyalty George xxx. 243 Gradually there came over her a change—a softening, womanizing change. 1900 E. A. Orpen Jay-hawkers viii. 83 The softening, womanizing influence came over her soul. 2. That engages in casual sexual or romantic encounters with women; philandering. Π 1920 Menorah Jrnl. 6 178 The slangy society of gambling and womanizing officers. 1952 Times 10 Sept. 6/4 A frustrated, but deadly, landlady and her blatantly womanizing lodger. 1988 W. Hamilton Lap of Luxury i. iii. 14 A womanizing, coke-driven painter who had the effrontery to actually charge Marcy a million dollars for divorcing her. 2001 Sun 27 Jan. (TV Mag.) 53/3 Bawdy comedy about a womanising holiday rep. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1775adj.1615 |
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