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womanchild

womanchild noun: an immature woman.

Noun

womanchild (plural womanchildren or womenchildren)

  1. An immature woman.
    • Where the Henley heroine comes across as an awkward, desperate, emotionally battered womanchild, the knockoff's simply dumb, needy, and infantile.1988 February 12, Anthony Adler, “Send in the Hicks”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of womanchild

pluralwomanchildren
pluralwomenchildren

Origin of womanchild

From woman + child.

Questions about womanchild

What does womanchild mean?
Womanchild means an immature woman.
What part of speech is womanchild?
Womanchild is a noun.
What is the plural of womanchild?
The plural of womanchild is womanchildren.

Words near womanchild in the dictionary

  1. womanbody
  2. womance
  3. womanced
  4. womancentric
  5. womances
  6. womanchild
  7. womanchildren
  8. womancing
  9. womandom
  10. womandrake
  11. womandrakes

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