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Mannish
Mannish meaning
Resembling or characteristic of a man, masculine. | Resembling or characteristic of a grown man (as opposed to a boy); mature, adult. | Impertinent; assertive.
Example sentences (5)
Sure, they looked great in a mannish jacket, but in other clothes?
Usually you have your curried goat and mannish water and that won't happen this Christmas," he said.
Jamaican cuisine like jerk meats, stewed peas, curried goat, oxtail, ackee and codfish, and even mannish water also resisted foreign influence, and has grown in global popularity.
The Peoples of Middle-earth, p. 63. In The Lost Road and Other Writings it is implied that the Númenóreans spoke Quenya, and that Sauron, hating all things Elvish, taught the Númenóreans the old Mannish tongue they themselves had forgotten.
This added a depth of historical development to the Mannish languages.