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man enough

man enough adjective: sufficiently courageous.

Adjective

man enough (not comparable)

  1. sufficiently courageous
    • Are you man enough to look death in the face; or shall I run the risk of the hounds raising an outcry, and go in myself?1854, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie: A Tale; in Three Volumes, page 245
    • But the troll seldom came out in the open air, and the mountain was well closed, so the youngster was not man enough to get inside.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 101

Questions about man enough

What does man enough mean?
Man enough means sufficiently courageous.
What part of speech is man enough?
Man enough is an adjective.

Words near man enough in the dictionary

  1. man day
  2. man days
  3. man down
  4. man engine
  5. man engines
  6. man enough
  7. man fern
  8. man ferns
  9. man flu
  10. man Friday
  11. man Fridays

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