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ˈmen-folk(s
[See man n.1]
1. The male sex; also dial. (see quot. 1886).
1802R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. 38 I've wonder'd sin I kent mysel, What keeps the men-fwok aw frae me. 1824Scott. St. Ronan's xxxviii, ‘Mr. Tyrrel’, she said, ‘this is nae sight for men folk—ye maun rise and gang to another room’. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Men folks, usually the male labourers on a farm. Males in general, as distinct from ‘women folks’. 1896Black Briseis xx, Some of us Gordons about Dee-side—I mean the men-folk of us—are said to be rather quick in the temper.
2. Human beings. rare.
1870Morris Earthly Par., Golden Apples (1890) 328/2 Slipping through the seas Ye never think, ye men-folk, how ye seem From down below through the green waters' gleam. |