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The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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- 1903, Mabel Atkinson, Review of Lily Braun, Die Frauenfrage: ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche Seite in American Journal of Sociology, 1 March, 1903, p. 703, She thinks also that when once the first ardor of revolution, with its inevitable tendency to mannishness, has passed by, women who work need lose none of their proper grace and charm—a view which is certainly borne out by facts.
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Impertinence; precociousness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Caribbean, uncountable
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Etymology tree English mannish Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English mannishness From mannish + -ness.
