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单词 womanizing
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womanizingn.

Brit. /ˈwʊmənʌɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwʊməˌnaɪzɪŋ/
Forms: 1700s– womanizing, 1800s– womanising.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: womanize v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < womanize v. + -ing suffix1.
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.
a. The action of being assiduously attentive to women. Obsolete. rare.
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.
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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.

Brit. /ˈwʊmənʌɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwʊməˌnaɪzɪŋ/
Forms: 1600s 1800s– womanizing, 1900s– womanising.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: womanize v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < womanize v. + -ing suffix2.
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.
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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).
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