cavemanny
cavemanny adjective: resembling or characteristic of a caveman.
Adjective
cavemanny (comparative more cavemanny, superlative most cavemanny)
- Resembling or characteristic of a caveman.
- It doesn’t seem reasonable that they should have thus comported themselves when they believed the lady was a poor, addle-pated, inferior, little creature, who wasn’t allowed to be educated, was understood to have no political significance, was weak and yielding and gratefully ready to throw herself...1923 October 8, Alma Whitaker, “The Last Word: Nice Old-Fashioned Men”, in Los Angeles Times, volume XLII, part II, page 20
- Kenneth Preuss returned home from a hunting trip with a ten-day beard last Sunday, very cave-mannny, but it will take more than that to subdue Edith’s literary exaltation these days.1929 August 18, Alma Whitaker, “Sugar and Spice”, in Los Angeles Times, volume XLVIII, part III, page 23
- Synonyms:
- cavemanly, cavemannish, cavemanlike
Examples of cavemanny in a sentence
- Without them, we’d still be running around all furry and cavemanny.2007 August 18, “Now sweat? Not even”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, page D1:
- I’d just read a news story about how women are getting more and more beautiful while men remain as pathetically cavemanny as ever.2011, Stuart Jeffries, “Don’t stray from that towpath”, in James Randerson, Peter Walker, editors, Cycle Babble: Bloggers on Biking...
- I get the impression that there were a lot of volcanoes in those olden times, although I might be thinking all the way back to cavemanny times.2015, Jim Benton, Live Each Day to the Dumbest (Dear Dumb Diary: Year Two), Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:
- He was beginning to sound a little cavemanny and it made her stomach tickle.2018, E.M. Gayle, Gabe’s Reckoning (Purgatory Masters Book 5), Gypsy Ink Books, →ISBN:
Synonyms of cavemanny
Forms of cavemanny
| comparative | more cavemanny |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cavemanny |
Origin of cavemanny
From caveman + -y.
Questions about cavemanny
- What does cavemanny mean?
- Cavemanny means resembling or characteristic of a caveman.
- How do you use cavemanny in a sentence?
- Without them, we’d still be running around all furry and cavemanny.
- What part of speech is cavemanny?
- Cavemanny is an adjective.
Words near cavemanny in the dictionary
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