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woman-handle

woman-handle is the alternative spelling of womanhandle.

Meaning of womanhandle

Verb

womanhandle (third-person singular simple present womanhandles, present participle womanhandling, simple past and past participle womanhandled)

  1. (humorous, rare, transitive) To handle someone or something gently, or with very little effort (sometimes as opposed to manhandle).
    • It seems humanly reasonable that the three of us can woman-handle a mere man of your elderly and insulting avoirdupois.1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House
  2. (humorous, rare, transitive) To manhandle or treat roughly (when done by a woman).
    • They womanhandled him down the hallway without any trouble at all. His feet, bumping him over the stone floor, were getting hurt. He had just decided it would be better to cooperate when, without any warning, they let him go. He fell face first […]2006, Hugh Cook, The Wordsmiths and the Warguild, page 121

Forms of woman-handle

third-person singular presentwoman-handles
present participlewoman-handling
past participlewoman-handled
pastwoman-handled

Questions about woman-handle

What is woman-handle the alternative spelling of?
Woman-handle is the alternative spelling of womanhandle.

Words near woman-handle in the dictionary

  1. woman-child
  2. woman-children
  3. woman-day
  4. woman-days
  5. woman-fashion
  6. woman-handle
  7. woman-handled
  8. woman-handles
  9. woman-handling
  10. woman-hater
  11. woman-hour

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