单词 | womanly |
释义 | womanlyadj. 1. Frequently depreciative. a. Of a man: resembling a woman in appearance or behaviour; effeminate. 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 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 200 Þet nis war & waker. ne nis naut Monlich. As is wimmonlich. c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 195 (MED) For grace of continuaunce in good lif is go þorȝ false reynynge of wommenliche men þat ben ouercome wiþ Heredias and hire douȝter, as Heroud was. a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) 3 Kings xiv. 24 Men maad wommanlich [a1382 Bodl. 959 wymmenysch; a1425 L.V. of wymmen condiciouns, L. effeminati] weren in the loond, and thei diden alle the abhomynaciouns of hethen men. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxv. f. 228v Nyce aray, and new fangled garmentis, welthy fare and ydelnes: make men to be womanly. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. at Mollis Mollis homo, a man effemynate, or womanly. 1611 G. Chapman May-day v. 74 See how womanly my Boy lookes Quintiliano. 1682 J. Norris tr. Hierocles Golden Verses 65 The impatient and womanly peevish man in the first place contributes to his own misery. 1830 G. P. R. James De L'Orme I. xvii. 325 Señor, are you a man? I would not, for very shame, have any one see you look so womanly. 1872 Med. Times & Gaz. 4 May 516/2 The whole agitation..has been raised and kept up by a few foolish, conceited, querulous women and womanly men for their own purposes. 1908 W. Salisbury Career of Journalist xxviii. 271 He was almost womanly, with his soft hands, white skin, and quiet ways. 1980 D. Silverman & B. Torode Material Word vii. 167 In accusing the male sexual combatant of being womanly, it questions the claim made by that sexuality to be unambiguously male, not female. 1994 Observer 2 Oct. 20/3 Beyond the fact that she was a mannish woman and he a womanly man, they seemed to have little in common except bisexuality. b. Characteristic of or befitting a woman as opposed to a man; feminine; womanish. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > characteristic of womanisha1393 womanlyc1400 feminec1425 femininec1425 she1531 wifish1535 female1566 ladylike1566 womenish1604 tender-hefteda1616 ladied1628 feminary1630 feminile1650 feminal1875 c1400 Prose Versions New Test.: 1 Pet. (Selwyn) (1904) iii. 7 Departynge to hem worschupe, as to a wommanlyche vessel þat is more febel þan ȝe beþ. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 106 .O. wommanlyche wyf. c1422 T. Hoccleve Tale of Jerelaus (Durh.) l. 466 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 156 A lady, the womanlyeste Of cheere. c1430 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1882) iv. l. 694 Þo wordis & þo womanliche þyngis Sche herde riȝt nouȝt þow sche þere were. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxvv Where was her womanly pitie? 1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 20v Lest that again she slide and fall by womanlie facilitie. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 19 She could scarcely containe hir selfe from embracing him, had not womanly shamefastnesse..stayed hir wisdome. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 23 Burning with a womanly spleen. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. iii. 5 in Wks. II Be womanly, Win; make an outcry to your mother, Win? 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Oct. (1965) I. 277 The womanly spirit of Contradiction that works in me. 1796 R. Bage Hermsprong III. xxvi. 228 But—no more of this womanly effusion. I am ashamed of my lingering pen. 1805 R. Southey Madoc i. xvii. 175 Womanly sobs were heard, and manly cheeks Were wet with silent tears. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §3. 368 Whatever womanly tenderness she [sc. Elizabeth] had, wrapt itself around Leicester. 1916 J. R. Towse Sixty Years of Theater xxiii. 361 Miss Rehan won her audience by a fine display of honest womanly indignation. 1959 Spectator 13 Nov. 667/3 Most of the time he camps it up for sniggers with manly gestures fading into womanly wriggles. 2000 Marie Claire (Johannesburg) Feb. 25/1 I began to alter my traditional Mao-suit clothes,..tapering the body for a womanly silhouette. 2. Of a girl: resembling an adult woman in appearance or behaviour, esp. with regard to sexuality. Also: characteristic of or befitting an adult woman as opposed to a girl. ΘΠ the world > people > person > adult > [adjective] > adult woman womanly?1507 woman-grown1786 wife-old1898 ?1507 C. Brandon et al. Iustes of Maye (de Worde) sig. A.viv In the worlde of her aege moost womanly. 1662 H. Foulis Hist. Wicked Plots ii. i. 74 The womanly girle, who at six years old was brought to bed of a son in Indostain. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 15. ⁋2 The Girl was very proud of the Womanly Employment of a Nurse. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 402 Young Persons under a womanly Age. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. xxxvi. 279 The girl begins to be womanly. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xv. 148 A very little girl..wearing a womanly sort of bonnet much too large for her. 1887 ‘S. Tytler’ Logie Town I. i. 3 Lizzie was a womanly girl for her years, since life..was more quickly lived then, and girls were women at nineteen. 1919 N.Y. Times 9 Feb. 10 (advt.) To a Miss of fourteen summers, the little girl styles are odious. And the womanly styles are worse. 1953 School Rev. 61 329/2 It is the age when pretty little girls grow big and ungainly, before they round out and become womanly. 1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 65 The baked earth scent of girls in summer was cut by another scent that was womanly, grown-up, profound, [etc.]. 3. Of or belonging to a woman or women; used or done by women. ΘΠ the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > relating to wifelyeOE womanisha1393 femalea1398 wivenc1400 feminine1490 womanly1562 gynaecian1640 muliebral1651 feminal1739 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Use Sicke Men f. 76v, in Bulwarke of Defence Then Ariadne rente from her, her womanly apparell, making a weffe thereof upon the ende of a pole. 1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 34 Why tell you me, that the putting of womanlie raiment vpon men, hath not stirred any such beastlie thought in any of you. 1613 G. Chapman Reuenge Bussy D'Ambois iii. i. sig. E4 She shall attend you Sister, and with these Womanly practises emply your spirit. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. xliv. 272 I can't say I love Men Attendants in these womanly Offices. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 146 Many types of manly and womanly beauty. 1876 Bulwer-Lytton's Pausanias (ed. 2) i. iv. 69 Cleonice..had enjoyed those advantages of womanly education wholly unknown at that time to the freeborn ladies of Greece. 1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night xxii. 453 The Nazi doctrine that woman's place in the State should be confined to the ‘womanly’ occupations of Kinder, Kirche, Kuche. 1992 L. Gordon Shared Lives ii. 24 ‘My hair was lovely..but it was always a bit thin.’ Granny's voice took on the confidential note for womanly matters. 1999 L. Rennison Angus, Thongs & Full-frontal Snogging 158 Lindsay didn't have any hair on her womanly parts! Compounds womanly woman n. a woman who behaves in a manner traditionally regarded as appropriate for her sex; a feminine woman; (also in later use) a woman having a full figure and large breasts. Π 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxlviii So precious perle, as a womanly woman in her kynde. 1794 J. Walters Eng.-Welsh Dict. A womanly woman, gwraig a golwg gwraig iddi neu arni. 1872 (title) Woman's rights and the wife at home. By a womanly woman. 1958 M. Kennedy Outlaws on Parnassus xii. 196 Telemachus..upbraids his mother for not behaving like a womanly woman. 1980 Daily Tel. 1 Dec. 15 (advt.) Pure silk luxury for the womanly woman 42in. plus. 2000 S. A. Glenn Female Spectacle i. 11 She evinced the ‘civilized’ femininity expected of respectable or ‘womanly’ women. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). womanlyadv. In a womanly manner; like a woman. ΘΠ the world > people > person > woman > [adverb] womanlyc1325 womanlikec1450 womanishly1556 woman-waysa1568 femalely1796 womanfully1819 femininely1821 women-wise1913 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 9391 (MED) Wat he aþ Manliche bigonne, he it aþ bileued Wommanliche, as vor defaute of wit in his heued. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 3529 Sche so wommanly Demened hir, and so prudently, Þat sche avoyded..suspecioun. 1476 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) II. 7 Where as ye, ffull womanly and lyke a loffer, remembre me with manyffolde recomendacion in dyversse maners. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 54 To euery man in speciall speke I sum wordis, So wisly and so womanly quhill warmys ther hertis. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3994 Cassandra..was a Clene Maydon,..Womonly wroght. 1575 G. Gascoigne Lullabie of Louer in Hundred Flowers 4 And lullaby can I sing to, As womanly as can the best. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (iii. 2) 578 For how womanly haue many behaued themselues. 1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 138 For, in a Night-Gown, womanly arraid, I took him for some Ladies Chamber-maid. 1723 Briton No. 7 (1724) 28 You..then very Womanly expect a Consideration, for the Trouble we put you to in Swearing. 1844 E. B. Barrett Poems I. 163 Oh, womanly, she prayed in tent, When none beside did wake! 1892 J. Fothergill Orioles' Daughter v. 75 That she had done womanly did not occur to her, though it struck Signor Orioles strongly. 1977 W. M. Spackman Armful of Warm Girl 34 She was as womanly sweet as she was sexually delicious. 2004 T. E. Barlow Question of Women in Chinese Feminism ii. 45 Learning to behave virtuously, and acting womanly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.?c1225adv.c1325 |
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