man-woman

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Noun

man-woman (plural man-women)

  1. A masculine woman.
    • 2016, Christina Scharff, Repudiating Feminism: Young Women in a Neoliberal World, page 81:
      According to Louisa, the lesbians she met were "these hardcore women who either look like men, or, yeah, they all looked like men, I think, or these man-women, I don't know how I should describe that".
  2. A hybrid of man and woman; hermaphrodite.
    • 2011, R. James Tasker, Restoring Cultural Foundations, page 178:
      Gordon MacDonald postulates that the way God created Eve, "leads me to think that the original Adam, a kind of man-woman, is now two: a man and a woman."

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