man-woman

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word man-woman. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word man-woman, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say man-woman in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word man-woman you have here. The definition of the word man-woman will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofman-woman, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Pronunciation

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."

See also

References