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man-woman

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man-woman noun: a masculine woman.

Noun

man-woman (plural man-women)

  1. A masculine woman.
    • According to Louisa, the lesbians she met were "these hardcore women who either look like men, or, yeah, they all looked like men, I think, or these man-women, I don't know how I should describe that".2016, Christina Scharff, Repudiating Feminism: Young Women in a Neoliberal World, page 81
  2. A hybrid of man and woman; hermaphrodite.
    • Gordon MacDonald postulates that the way God created Eve, "leads me to think that the original Adam, a kind of man-woman, is now two: a man and a woman."2011, R. James Tasker, Restoring Cultural Foundations, page 178

Forms of man-woman

pluralman-women

Questions about man-woman

What does man-woman mean?
Man-woman means a masculine woman.
What part of speech is man-woman?
Man-woman is a noun.
What is the plural of man-woman?
The plural of man-woman is man-women.

Words near man-woman in the dictionary

  1. man-whore
  2. man-whores
  3. man-witch
  4. man-wolf
  5. man-wolves
  6. man-woman
  7. man-women
  8. man-year
  9. man-years
  10. man.
  11. mana

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