Mannish

Definitions: Mannish

Mannish

Adjective

1. Resembling or imitative of or suggestive of a man rather than a woman; "a mannish stride".

2. Characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman; "true mannish arrogance".

Date "mannish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Mannish \Man"nish\, adjective. [Man -ish: compare to Anglo-Saxon mennisc, menisc.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Title
Music	Mannish Boy [IMPORT] (reference) XXXtra Mannish [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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"Mannish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "Mannish" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	93.33%	14	93,893
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

Expression using "mannish": mannish woman. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "mannish": mannish-acting.
	Ending with "mannish": old-mannish.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "mannish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		prej burri, burrështe. (various references)

Arabic		‏كالرجل, ‏مسترجلة (masculine), ‏لائق برجل. (various references)

Farsi		مردنما, مردصفت , مردانه (Male, Manly, Masculine, Virile), دارای رفتارمردانه . (various references)

Finnish		miesmäinen (manly, masculine). (various references)

French		masculin (male, manly, mas., masc., masculine), hommasse. (various references)

German		männisch. (various references)

Greek		ανδρικόσ (manful, manly, masculine, virile), ανδροειδήσ. (various references)

Hungarian		férfias (ballsy, manful, manlike, manly, masculine, virile). (various references)

Italian		poco femminile (unfeminine). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�勝り (spirited, strong-minded), マトリックス力学 (enthusiasm, enthusiast, madeleine, mademoiselle, madonna, Madras, Madras check, Madrid, madrigal, mania, maniac, manicure, manierisme, manifesto, Manila, manipulate, manipulation, manipulator, Manitoba, manners, mannish look, manual, manual manipulator, manufacture, manuscript, matrix dynamics, minutia, muddler, mutton, sailor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おと�"まさり (spirited, strong-minded), マニッシュ . (various references)

Manx		firryn (he, masculine, virile), feroil (manful, manly, virile). (various references)

Pig Latin		annishmay

Portuguese		masculinizado, tripulação (air staff, crew, hands, ship). (various references)

Romanian		de bãrbat (manful, manlike, manly, masculine), cu apucãturi de bãrbat, bãrbãtesc (brave, male, manful, manlike, manly, man's, masculine, resolute, virile). (various references)

Russian		свойственный мужчине, мужеподобная (masculine). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		muškobanjast, muški (male, manful, manfully, manly, masculine, virile). (various references)

Spanish		varonil (male, manlike, manly, masculine, unfeminine, viril), hombruno (masculine). (various references)

Swedish		karlaktig (manly). (various references)

Turkish		erkeksi (mannishly, masculine, tomboyish, virile), erkekçe (manfully, manlike, manly, virile), erkek gibi (bull, hoydenish, manlike, mannishly, masculine, tomboyish). (various references)

Ukranian		чоловікоподібний (amazonian), властивий чоловікові. (various references)

Vietnamese		giống đ� n ông. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mannish": mannishly, mannishness, mannishnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mannish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fannich, fannish, haneish, hanish, Macnissi, Mandich, manich, manish, Mannesi, Mannis, mannys, Manush, Manushi, Mennis, mennish, Minnich, Minnih, Minnoch, Muinish, ninish. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "mannish" (pronounced 'Man"nish'): Clannish, Degarnish, Disfurnish, Disgarnish, Dunnish, Fennish, Japannish, Nunnish, refurnish, Sonnish, Thinnish, Tonnish, Underfurnish, Unfurnish, Vernish, Wannish. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-h-i-m-n-n-s"
	-1 letter: nanism.
	-2 letters: amins, mains, minas.
	-3 letters: aims, ains, amin, amis, anis, hams, hins, hisn, inns, main, mans, mash, mina, nans, nims, sain, sham, shim, shin, sima, sinh.
	-4 letters: aim, ain, ais, ami, ani, ash, ham, has, him, hin, his, inn, ins, ism, man, mas, mis, nah, nam, nan, nim, sha, sim, sin.
	-5 letters: ah, ai, am, an, as, ha, hi, hm, in, is, ma, mi, na, sh, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-h-i-m-n-n-s"
	+2 letters: hominians, mannishly.
	+3 letters: banishment, humanising, mischannel, penmanship.
	+4 letters: admonishing, anachronism, banishments, champignons, garnishment, handmaidens, harmonising, hemocyanins, infrahumans, inharmonies, inhumanness, inhumations, manchineels, mannishness, mischannels, mishandling, penmanships.
	+5 letters: admonishment, anachronisms, antihumanism, antirrhinums, arsphenamine, astonishment, asynchronism, blandishment, brinkmanship, chrominances, enchainments, garnishments, hamstringing, inharmonious, inhumanities, languishment, machinations, marathonings, mechanicians, methanations, methenamines, mischanneled, ninnyhammers, nonchemicals, nymphomanias, womanishness.
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