英语词汇“womanish”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

womanish

/ˈwʊmənɪʃ

adjective derogatory

1Suitable for or characteristic of a woman: he confused introspection with womanish indecision...

‘Believe it or not, I was once your age,’ a portly store manager chimed as he passed our womanish giggle-fest.
People would assume you were womanish or weak or something, and they would try to cow you down, and to abuse you.
In Storr's catalogue essay, we hear precursors of such comments across 18 centuries from writers who condemned decadent foreign influences, womanish decoration and blatant artificiality.

1.1(Of a man) effeminate; unmanly: Burden thought him a weak womanish fool...

Cesario, of course, looks like a very womanish man, since he is actually a woman.
In early vase-painting, Greek men are depicted ‘black-figure’, symbolic of their darker skin, while women (and womanish men) are shown pale and white.
‘And different gender folks too,’ shouts one womanish looking man in a cutoff shirt.

Synonyms

effeminate, effete, unmanly, unmasculine, girlish, namby-pamby

informal sissy, girly, camp, limp-wristed, queeny

rare epicene, emasculate

Derivatives

womanishly

/ˈwʊmənɪʃ(ə)li/ adverb ...

While more female physicians are turning up, most are either too mannishly tough or too womanishly sweet.
The chaste man need not be squeamish or prudish or lacking in animal vitality; nor need he be womanishly pious or a slave of puritanical conventions.
Men in polyester trousers, sharply creased, cut to bag out womanishly at the thighs and hemmed too short, exposing a centimetre of sock.

womanishness

/ˈwʊmənɪʃnəs/ noun ...

It is some native cowardice or womanishness which has rendered me subject to the flame of filial grief.
No proto-feminist, she insisted that her influence on the age exposed the lacklustre womanishness of the clergy; only in dire necessity, would God have resorted to her.
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

单词	womanish
释义	womanish /ˈwʊmənɪʃ / adjective derogatory 1Suitable for or characteristic of a woman: he confused introspection with womanish indecision... ‘Believe it or not, I was once your age,’ a portly store manager chimed as he passed our womanish giggle-fest. People would assume you were womanish or weak or something, and they would try to cow you down, and to abuse you. In Storr's catalogue essay, we hear precursors of such comments across 18 centuries from writers who condemned decadent foreign influences, womanish decoration and blatant artificiality. 1.1(Of a man) effeminate; unmanly: Burden thought him a weak womanish fool... Cesario, of course, looks like a very womanish man, since he is actually a woman. In early vase-painting, Greek men are depicted ‘black-figure’, symbolic of their darker skin, while women (and womanish men) are shown pale and white. ‘And different gender folks too,’ shouts one womanish looking man in a cutoff shirt. Synonyms effeminate, effete, unmanly, unmasculine, girlish, namby-pamby informal sissy, girly, camp, limp-wristed, queeny rare epicene, emasculate Derivatives womanishly /ˈwʊmənɪʃ(ə)li/ adverb ... While more female physicians are turning up, most are either too mannishly tough or too womanishly sweet. The chaste man need not be squeamish or prudish or lacking in animal vitality; nor need he be womanishly pious or a slave of puritanical conventions. Men in polyester trousers, sharply creased, cut to bag out womanishly at the thighs and hemmed too short, exposing a centimetre of sock. womanishness /ˈwʊmənɪʃnəs/ noun ... It is some native cowardice or womanishness which has rendered me subject to the flame of filial grief. No proto-feminist, she insisted that her influence on the age exposed the lacklustre womanishness of the clergy; only in dire necessity, would God have resorted to her. You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
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