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womanese

womanese noun: women's way of speaking.

Noun

womanese (uncountable)

  1. (humorous) Women's way of speaking.
    • We agree with Mr. Stengel that it is because the Ladies' Home Journal understands women — and talks to them in womanese — that more women buy and read the Journal than any other magazine on earth.1957, Advertising Agency Magazine, volume 50, numbers 14-26, page 1
    • He'd known ahead of time that walking into the house with three Sinclair women would be a test of his sanity, because they all talked at the same time, not just in double questions but in womanese.2002, Jennifer Greene, The Woman Most Likely To—, page 155

Origin of womanese

From woman + -ese.

Questions about womanese

What does womanese mean?
Womanese means women's way of speaking.
What part of speech is womanese?
Womanese is a noun.

Words near womanese in the dictionary

  1. womandom
  2. womandrake
  3. womandrakes
  4. womaned
  5. womaned up
  6. womanese
  7. womanface
  8. womanflesh
  9. womanfolk
  10. womanfriend
  11. womanfriends

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