mann.¹int.

Brit.

/man/, U.S.

/mæn/

Inflections: Plural men;

Forms: 1. Singular. a. Old English manna, Old English monn, Old English monna, Old English–Middle English mann, Old English–Middle English mon, Old English– man, Middle English mane, Middle English mone, Middle English monne, Middle English (2000s– English regional (Cornwall)) mahn, Middle English–1600s manne; also in sense 16 English regional (northern) and Scottish 1600s– mun, 1700s– mon, 1800s– min; Scottish pre-1700 mane, pre-1700 mann, pre-1700 manne, pre-1700 1700s– man, 1700s– maun; also Welsh English 1900s– mun. b. Genitive.

α. Old English–Middle English monnes, Old English–1600s mannes, Middle English manes, Middle English mannus, Middle English mones, Middle English monnis, Middle English monnys, Middle English–1500s manis, Middle English–1500s mannys, Middle English–1600s mannis, Middle English–1600s mans, 1600s– man's; Scottish pre-1700 mannis, pre-1700 mannys, 1700s– man's.

β. Uninflected (northern) Middle English man, Middle English mane, Middle English men (probably transmission error).

c. Dative. Old English mæn, Old English menne, Old English–early Middle English men, early Middle English menn, early Middle English monnen, Middle English manne, Middle English monne. 2. Plural. a. Old English–early Middle English mæn, Old English–Middle English menn, Old English– men, late Old English–early Middle English mænn, early Middle English mannen, early Middle English monne, Middle English man (probably transmission error), Middle English mannes, Middle English mennes (probably transmission error), Middle English meyn (probably transmission error), Middle English–1600s menne; Scottish pre-1700 mean, pre-1700 mene, pre-1700 menn, pre-1700 menne, pre-1700 1700s– men. b. Genitive.

α. Old English–early Middle English manna, Old English–early Middle English monna, early Middle English mannæ, early Middle English mannan, early Middle English mannen, early Middle English mannene, early Middle English mone, early Middle English monnæ, early Middle English monnan, early Middle English monnen, early Middle English monnene, Middle English manne, Middle English monne.

β. Middle English mannes (probably transmission error), Middle English menes, Middle English menys, Middle English–1500s mennes, Middle English–1500s mennis, Middle English–1500s mennys, Middle English–1700s mens, 1500s menis, 1700s– men's; Scottish pre-1700 meanis, pre-1700 menis, pre-1700 mennis, pre-1700 mennys, 1700s– men's.

γ. early Middle English mennen, Middle English menne, Middle English mennene.

δ. Uninflected (northern) Middle English men.

c. Dative.

α. Old English–early Middle English mannum, Old English–early Middle English monnum, early Middle English manna, early Middle English mannan, early Middle English mannen, early Middle English monen, early Middle English monnam, early Middle English monnan, early Middle English monnen, Middle English manne, Middle English mannes (probably transmission error), Middle English monne.

β. early Middle English mennen, Middle English menne.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian man, mon, Old Dutch man (plural man; Middle Dutch man (plural manne, man); Dutch man (plural mannen, rarely mans)), Old Saxon man (plural man; Middle Low German man (plural man, manne, men, menne, mans, mannes, mennes, mannen, mennen, manner, menner), Low German Mann (plural Manns, Männer)), Old High German man (plural man; Middle High German man (plural man), German Mann (plural Männer)), Old Icelandic maðr (stem mann-, plural menn; Icelandic maður), Faroese maður, Norwegian mann (plural menn, (Nynorsk) menner), Old Swedish maþer, mander, man (plural män; Swedish man (plural män)), Old Danish man, mand (Danish mand (plural mænd)), Gothic manna (genitive singular mans, plural mans, mannans); further etymology uncertain. The forms in the various Germanic languages belong to two different types of stem: one is a consonant-stem, giving Old English mann (genitive mannes, dative menn, plural menn, genitive manna, dative mannum; some of these Old English forms have been re-formed after the a-declension) and the other an n-stem, giving Old English manna, the only attested oblique form of which is mannan, found almost exclusively as accusative singular. Old English menn (plural and dative singular) has the umlaut which regularly arose from an original -i in the nominative plural and dative singular of Germanic consonant-stem nouns.In the Old English corpus as a whole the spelling with o appears to be somewhat under half as frequent as that with a . Many Northumbrian and Mercian texts normally have the o -spelling; it is common in early West Saxon texts, but the a -spelling heavily predominates in later texts. In Middle English, a spelling with o occurs mainly in texts from the west midland counties of England from Lancashire in the north to Gloucestershire in the south. J. Wright Eng. Dial. Gram. (1905) records /ɒ/ (or /ɔ/) as the vowel of this word in approximately the same area (with outliers to the north, east, and south). In sense 16 the regional forms min and mun , and mon outside the west midlands, appear to have developed under low stress. The pre-Germanic etymology of the word is problematic. Formerly, the -nn- of the Germanic consonant stem was held to have developed from an earlier -nw- , directly reflected in Sanskrit manu man (see Manu n.). However it is possible that the n -stem is the earlier formation, and that the form with double -nn- represents a later generalization of the double -nn- which originally occurred in those parts of the paradigm where the n of the suffix, subject to zero-grade of ablaut, immediately followed the n of the base. The earlier form with the single n of the base followed by the vowel + n of the suffix may explain the Gothic variant mana- used in compounds (e.g. mana-maurþrja murderer). This word and Sanskrit manu have been together referred by some to the Indo-European base of mind n.¹, on the basis that thought is a distinctive characteristic of human beings. A more recent theory suggests a derivation (with loss of an initial obstruent) from the Indo-European base of Lithuanian žmonės people and Old Prussian smunents man, which is a variant (with a different ablaut grade) of the Indo-European base of classical Latin homō man, Old English guma and its Germanic cognates (see gome n.¹), and Old Lithuanian žmuo ; but these Indo-European words are usually referred to the Indo-European base of classical Latin humus (see humus n.) and ancient Greek χθών (see chthonic adj.) meaning ‘earth’. In all the Germanic languages the word had the two senses ‘human being’ and ‘adult male human being’, though except in English it has been mainly replaced in the former sense by a derivative (German Mensch , Dutch mens , Swedish människa , Danish menneske person, human being: compare mannish n.). In Old English the words distinctive of sex were wer were n.¹ and wīf wife n., wǣpmann wapman n. and wīfmann woman n.; both the masculine terms became obsolete by the end of the 13th cent., leaving English with no means of distinguishing the two major senses. The genderless uses of man to mean ‘human being’ or ‘person’ are now often objected to on the grounds that they depreciate women, and are frequently replaced by human , human being , or person . There is a parallel between semantic developments in English represented by senses 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 and semantic developments in post-classical Latin homo and Old French hom (om , home , ome ). In classical Latin homō primarily meant ‘human being’ or ‘person’ (in contrast to vir ‘adult male human being’); it also had the sense ‘member of a military force, crew, or other body’, where the contextual reference was normally to a male. In post-classical Latin, homo developed the senses ‘adult male human being’, ‘armed retainer’, ‘servant, retainer’, and ‘vassal’ (8th cent. or before; all found in British sources by 12th cent.). The reflexes of classical Latin homō in the Romance languages have the dual senses ‘human being’ and ‘adult male human being’. Both senses are attested for Old French hom in the earliest sources (end of 10th cent.); the Old French word also has the senses ‘husband’ (11th cent.), ‘fighting man’ (12th cent.), and ‘vassal’ (12th cent.). S. Afr. use in senses 8a, 16b, and 16c is after Afrikaans man. Sense 24 is probably after Anglo-Norman home man, chess piece (13th cent. or earlier; compare post-classical Latin homo (14th cent. in a British source), and see chessmen n., etymological note). Sense 25 perhaps first arose in the compound man-of-war (see man-of-war n. 2a). Sense 27 appears to be sparsely attested before the 19th cent.: some Middle English surnames (one of which is cited in Middle Eng. Dict.) possibly derived from toponyms incorporating man in this sense are given in G. Kristensson Stud. Middle Eng. Topogr. Terms (1970) 35. The earliest attestations of toponyms of this kind are of Knock Old Man (1588) and Seavy Man (1652) (both in Westmorland). Some scholars consider the man element in these names to reflect the Old British base of Welsh maen , Cornish men ‘stone’, later reinterpreted as English man : place names apparently containing this element are found in Cumberland, Westmorland, Cheshire, Lancashire, Dorset (attested in the Domesday Book), and Cornwall (attested in late Old English charters). Sense 28 originally referred to the side of a penny which had the king's head, the ‘woman’ being the side with the figure of Britannia.

I. A human being (irrespective of sex or age).Man was considered until the 20th cent. to include women by implication, though referring primarily to males. It is now frequently understood to exclude women, and is therefore avoided by many people.

In some of the quotations in this section, it is difficult or impossible to tell whether man is intended to mean ‘person’ or ‘male human being’.

1. A human being.

†a. As a designation applied equally to particular individuals of either sex. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > [noun]

hadc900

lifesmaneOE

maneOE

world-maneOE

ghostOE

wyeOE

lifeOE

son of manOE

wightc1175

soulc1180

earthmanc1225

foodc1225

person?c1225

creaturec1300

bodyc1325

beera1382

poppetc1390

flippera1400

wat1399

corsec1400

mortal?a1425

deadly?c1450

hec1450

personagec1485

wretcha1500

human1509

mundane1509

member1525

worma1556

homo1561

piece of flesh1567

sconce1567

squirrel?1567

fellow creature1572

Adamite1581

bloat herringa1586

earthling1593

mother's child1594

stuff1598

a piece of flesh1600

wagtail1607

bosom1608

fragment1609

boots1623

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earthlies1651

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being1666

personal1678

personality1678

sooterkin1680

party1686

worldling1687

human being1694

water-wagtail1694

noddle1705

human subject1712

piece of work1713

somebody1724

terrestrial1726

anybody1733

individual1742

character1773

cuss1775

jig1781

thingy1787

bod1788

curse1790

his nabs1790

article1796

Earthite1814

critter1815

potato1815

personeityc1816

nibs1821

somebody1826

tellurian1828

case1832

tangata1840

prawn1845

nigger1848

nut1856

Snooks1860

mug1865

outfit1867

to deliver the goods1870

hairpin1879

baby1880

possum1894

hot tamale1895

babe1900

jobbie1902

virile1903

cup of tea1908

skin1914

pisser1918

number1919

job1927

apple1928

mush1936

face1944

jong1956

naked ape1965

oke1970

punter1975

eOE Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) iii. xxxviii. 332 Gif wife to swiþe offlowe sio monað gecynd, genim niwe horses tord, lege on hate gleda, læt reocan swiþe betweoh þa þeoh up under þæt hrægl, þæt se mon swæte swiþe.

OE Blickling Homilies 9 Heofonrices duru..belocen standeþ þurh þa ærestan men.

OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 206 Hwæt ða Agathes inwerdlice clypode mid astrehtum handum to þam hælende þus, Eala ðu min drihten þe me to menn gesceope.

OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 36 Hic et haec homo.., ægðer is man ge wer ge wif.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 639 Þæs dohter wæs gehaten Ercongota halifemne, & wundorlic man.

c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 138 He [sc. the Devil] þam ereste men Adam and Euam..forcostode and biswaac.

a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily De Initio Creaturae (Vesp. A.xxii) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 223 He com þa anedren hiwe toðam twam mannum, erest toðan wife.

a1400 (c1300) Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in J. Small Eng. Metrical Homilies (1862) 155 And yef thaie [sc. the husband and wife] riht riche men ware.

a1400 (c1300) Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in J. Small Eng. Metrical Homilies (1862) 156 Wit tua men [sc. Simeon and Anna], that him comly grette.

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxxvi. 481 The Lord had but one paire of men in paradise.

b. As a general or indefinite designation, esp. with determiners such as every, any, no, etc., and in plural, esp. with all, any, some, many, few, etc.: a person.Since the generalization of the sense ‘adult male human being’ this use has been apprehended as primarily denoting the male sex, though by implication referring also to women. The gradual development of the use of genderless synonyms body, person, one, and (for the plural) folk(s), people, greatly narrowed the currency of man in this sense, which by the 19th cent. was literary and proverbial rather than colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > [noun] > some person

maneOE

someonec1305

somewho1390

somebodya1400

quidam1579

who1654

monkey1815

eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter: Canticles & Hymns (1965) i Exiui obuiam alienigenae : ic uteode ongegn fremðes cynnes men.

OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xii. 19 Neque audiet aliquis in plateis uocem eius : ne geheres ænig mon [ West Saxon Gospels: Corpus Cambr. nan man] in worðum stefn his.

OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xvi. 13 Quem dicunt homines esse filium hominis : huelcne cueðas menn sie sunu monnes?

OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 232 Hwæt eom ic manna þæt ic mihte god forbeodan?

?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Pais he makede men & dær.

a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 127 (MED) Soð god..wes imacad to monne ilicnesse.

1241 ( Royal Charter: Henry I to Sheriffs & Thegns of London, Essex, Herts., & Middlesex in M. Gibbs Early Charters Cathedral St. Paul (1939) 20 On minan lande, & on ælces oðres mannes lande ofer eall þat bisceoperice.

c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 1246 (MED) An summe men kumed harm..Schal he..Hit wite me for ich hit wot?

c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) 2909 He makede on riche borh Þorh wise menne reade.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 4726 (MED) Mens [a1400 Gött. men, a1400 Trin. Cambr. mennes] bodis bolnud ware.

c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 11483 (MED) Bot gudes of oþer mens haue I no ryȝt to gyfe.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 131 (MED) For mennys hertis ben enstraunged from the obeisaunce of holy chirche for the straungenes of his mynisters.

1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 46 Men callis me Rauf Coilȝear.

1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 106 I regard not the body, the soule is the man.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 92 No Man can be said to be happy before Death.

1718 Free-thinker No. 75. 1 He who dissembles with, or betrays one Man, would betray every Man.

1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xxxvi. 185 No man is so good as not..to be liable to become dishonest.

1820 W. Scott Monastery III. xii. 338 Shafton.., men say, was a-kin to the Piercie on the wrong side of the blanket.

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous i. 5 Guess I've as good right here as the next man.

1955 Philos. Rev. 64 175 There is at least one natural right, the equal right of all men to be free.

1993 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. ii. 5/1 The playwright Robert Schenkkan, casting his sights lower, sees a country born of greed and deceit and single-mindedly devoted to the notion that all men are fleeceable.

c. to become (also be, be made, † be worth) man: (used chiefly of Christ's incarnation) to have or assume human nature. as man: (used of Christ) in respect of his human nature.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [verb (intransitive)] > become incarnate

to become (also be, be made, be worth) manOE

to take flesh and blooda1340

to be manned1577

OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 162) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 256 He..wæs man geworden þa ða he sylf wolde for ure alysednysse.

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 199 (MED) He bi-com man for us.

c1200 Serm. in Eng. & Germanic Stud. (1961) 7 61 God wold mon bicumen al for ure sake.

J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (York Min.) (1901) 26 (MED) Iesu crist..toke flesh and blode and bicome man.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. 493 (MED) Þi sone..bicam man of a mayde.

1483 ( Pilgrimage of Soul ii. xlii. 48 Thou man bycome thy selfe, for mannes nede.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Euensong f. vii Our Lorde Jesus Christe the sonne of God, is God and man. God of the substaunce of the father, begotten before the worldes: and man of the substaunce of his mother, borne in the worlde... For as the reasonable soule and fleshe is one man: So God and man is one Christe.

1574 J. Whitgift Serm. before Queene sig. B2^v Whether the Pope be God or man, or a meane betwixt both?

1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 19 We altogether dissent..from the Germaine Vbiquitaries..saying that Christ as man, is not onely in heauen, but in earth too at this instant.

1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 11 Those men which held..that, Christ..was man in appearance onely.

1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. ii. lvii. 30 It was for the soules sake that God became man.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 273 God was never made man, my Harry. God cannot be debased.

1866 J. H. Newman Let. to Pusey 36 He..became man, that by what way the disobedience arising from the serpent had its beginning, by that way also it might have an undoing.

1898 A. G. Mortimer Catholic Faith & Pract. ii. vii. 186 The theologians..have taught that our Lord as Man had three kinds of knowledge.

1994 30 Days in Church & in World No. 10. 15/1 Christianity is always the annunciation of God become man.

d. half man, half beast, etc.: half human, half another animal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [adjective] > of human hybrids

half man, half beasteOE

anguipede1878

eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. ix. 28 Ealle þa æðelestan bearn þara Atheniensa hi genoman, & sealdon þæm Minotauro to etanne, þæt wæs healf mon, healf leo.

OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 52 Onocentaurus, healf man and healf assa.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 667 Hit [sc. the mermaid] is half mon & half fisc [c1300 Otho Elf his wi[m]man elf fis].

a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 406 He hauen told of ðis mere ðat ðus uniemete, Half man & half fis, sum ðing tokneð bi ðis.

c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 57 Poetis seide be ficcion that he was half man & half bull.

a1665 J. Quarles tr. J. Cats Self-conflict (1680) 96 Half I am Beast, half Man; half black, half white; Deform'd and comely and half wrong, half right.

1808 R. Cumberland & J. B. Burges Exodiad v. 272 How debas'd and vile Those natures are, who can devise a form, Half man, half beast, modell'd of stone or brass, The work of their own hands, and call it god.

1906 H. D. Rawnsley Love Triumphant in Sonnet Chron. 22 He, the welcoming friend of great and least, Fell smitten by a man, half man half beast.

1951 Times 6 Dec. 5/7 He describes it [sc. a yeti] as half man half beast, about five feet six inches tall.

†e. Used indefinitely without article: any person (in later use chiefly in negative or proverbial phrases). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > state of being non-specific > unspecified thing(s) > anyone

anyOE

any man aliveOE

anybodyc1300

manc1384

any only ——c1475

person?a1789

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) John vii. 46 Neuere man spak so, as this spekith.

c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 1377 Out of a hille a stone without mans hande was kytte.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 226 Fredome mays man to haiff liking, Fredome all solace to man giffis.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 710/1 He deserveth it as lytell as ever dyd man.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 41 They haue shambles of mans-flesh as wee haue of beeues and muttons.

1684 J. Dryden Epil. Princess of Cleves in Misc. Poems 297 Never was Man worse thought on for high-flying.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. iv. 48 I never fear'd man, since I could write man.

1851 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 4) iii. 60 I was courteous, every phrase well-oil'd, As man's could be.

f. man or beast: a human being or any other kind of animal; frequently in negative phrases, as no use to man or beast.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > [noun]

neteneOE

wightc888

deerc950

beastc1225

jument1382

creaturea1387

animala1398

bestialc1400

bullifanta1528

bovya1549

animant1599

man or beast1600

breather1609

fellow creature1726

fig-fauns1750

critter1815

fellow1816

demon1821

skelm1827

1600 R. Cawdrey Treasurie Similies 750 The East wind is accounted neither good for man nor beast.

1790 J. Fisher Poems Var. Subj. 104 Lucken hands, she ne'er had nane To man or beast.

1878 Spirit of Times 19 Jan. 680/1 (advt.) Whether for use on man or beast, Merchant's Gargling Oil will be found an invaluable Liniment and worthy of use by every resident in the land.

1995 C. Bateman Divorcing Jack xxv. 217 So what I have is a tape with a couple of drunks talking on it. Of no good to man nor beast.

2. Also Man. In abstract or generic sense. Now only without article.

a. The human race or species; mankind, humankind (personified as an individual); (Zoology) the human race viewed as a genus ( Homo) or species ( H. sapiens) of animal.In Old English frequently with the definite article. The English use of the word as a quasi-proper name, without article, differs from the practice of a number of modern European languages (cf. French l'homme, German der Mensch), and from the usage of English itself with regard to other generic names of animals (see quot. 1898).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > [noun]

maneOE

worldOE

all fleshc1000

mankinOE

earthOE

little worldc1175

man's kinda1200

mankinda1225

worldrichec1275

slimec1315

kindc1325

world1340

sectc1400

humanityc1450

microcosma1475

peoplea1500

the human kindred?1533

race1553

homo1561

humankind1561

universality1561

deadly?1590

mortality1598

rational1601

vicegerent1601

small world1604

flesh and blooda1616

mannity1621

human race1623

universea1645

nations1667

public1699

the species1711

Adamhood1828

Jock Tamson's bairns1832

folx1833

Bimana1839

human1841

peeps1847

menfolk1870

manfolk1876

amniota1879

peoplekind1956

personkind1972

eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) viii. 5 Quid est homo quod memor, es eius : hwet is mon [OE Ælfred tr. Psalms (Paris), se mann] ðæt gemyndig ðu sie his.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxi. 349 He cwæð bodiað eallum gesceafte, ac mid þam naman is se mann ana getacnod.

OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) ii. 27 Restedæg wæs geworht for þa men, næs se man for ðam restedæge.

a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 59 (MED) Hit wes for mon alle þinge he makede.

c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 540 Ure Louerd..þat makedest man, Þe ihc þonki.

c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 185 (MED) And he mate þe walles an hundreþ & foure & fourty cubites by þe mesure of Man & of Aungel.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 552 (MED) Man es clepid þe lesse werld.

a1450 York Plays (1885) 174 (MED) Kynde of man is freele.

a1500 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) 2980 (MED) His sone he shal here sende a-doun To die for manis saluacioun.

1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 2 Mans weakenes and miserie is so great, that [etc.].

1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus viii. 90 This Centre is enuironed with a Circle, called Iris, of many colours in Man onely.

1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 41 Man was made at first with a concreate Similitude to God.

1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 2 The only Science of Mankind is Man.

1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 507/2 In the Systema Naturæ, Man (Homo) is ranked as a distinct genus of the Primates.

1859 J. R. Lowell Villa Franca 14 Men are weak, but Man is strong.

1898 Guide Galleries Mammalia Dept. Zool. Brit. Mus. (ed. 6) 11 Man, Apes, and Monkeys constitute the suborder Anthropoidea.

1935 Times 11 Feb. 14/2 Man as a personality is destined to be a free citizen in a free world, not an ant in some human termitary.

1994 Daily Tel. 12 Sept. 19/1 But man is a problem solving animal and his ingenuity is endless.

b. Chiefly Physical Anthropology. With modifying word, often the name of the place where the first remains were found: a particular prehistoric type of human being or member of the genus Homo; a particular fossil hominid.Cro-Magnon, Java, Neanderthal, Peking, Rhodesian Man, etc.: see the first element. Cf. also Piltdown man.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > protohuman > [noun]

anthropolite1778

Neanderthal man1861

caveman1862

man1863

prehistoric man1863

Pithecanthropus1873

Java man1895

Homo erectus1904

Heidelberg1909

Eoanthropus1912

dawn man1913

Neanderthaler1913

Piltdown man1913

Aurignacian1915

Neanderthalian1920

Rhodesian man1921

Boskopoid1926

Peking man1926

Sinanthropus1927

Piltdown1931

Predmostian1931

Minnesota Man1932

Neanderthaloid1934

Steinheim1935

Gigantopithecus1936

Africanthropus1938

Paranthropus1938

Piltdowner1941

Meganthropus1942

Telanthropus1949

Saldanha Man1953

pithecanthropine1955

Nutcracker Man1959

Homo habilis1964

iceman1972

1863 T. H. Huxley Evid. Man's Place Nature iii. 142 The posterior lobe of the brain of the Neanderthal man must have been as much flattened as I suspected it to be.

1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Hunters & Artists 60 The great frontal torus or overgrown brow-ridges of Neanderthal Man.

1937 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 68 51 Javanthropus appears to be more primitive than the European Neandertal man and has quite a resemblance to the Rhodesian Man.

1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins x. 169/2 The bone of the Swanscombe skull is thinner than that of Peking Man but thicker than in modern man's.

1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) ii. iv. 58/2 The fossil hominid with the largest back teeth (Paranthropus boisei, nicknamed ‘Nutcracker Man’) has the smallest incisors and canines.

c. With modifying word: a type of human being living at a particular time or in a particular place or habitat, as modern man, urban man, etc. Now also used humorously to typify a particular class of people.

ΚΠ

1909 G. K. Chesterton Orthodoxy i. 14 A life such as western man at any rate always seems to have desired.

1916 G. Elliot Smith Primitive Man 18 Thus the new spirit of man and modern man himself are revealed in the Upper Palaeolithic period.

1964 D. F. Gray Immunol. x. 95 Active immunization against a number of the epidemic and endemic diseases to which urban man is prone.

1974 Times 31 Dec. 12/4 Selsdon man went wrong because it appeared to make the Conservative Party into a set of decimalized economic liberals.

1992 Economist 24 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/1 Would Basildon Man, for instance, have voted Conservative today—as he did in April to the consternation of the Labour Party?

3. With modifying word.

a. Chiefly Theology. A particular aspect of a person's identity or nature; the inner (spiritual), outer (material), etc., part of a human being.inner man: see inner adj. 3a. inward man: see inward adj. 2. old man: see old man n. new man: see new man n.¹ 1a. outer man: see outer n.² 5. outward man: see outward adj. 3b. utter man: see utter adj. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

OE Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti (Laud) 175 Se innera man, þæt is seo sawl.

OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (1969) x. 104 Hoc est perfectum et rationabile ieiunium, quando noster homo exterior ieiunat, interior orat : þæt ys fullfremed & gesceadwislic fæsten þænne ure mann uttra fæst se inra gebitt.

lOE tr. Alcuin De Virtutibus et Vitiis (Vesp.) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 94 Se lichame byð gefeded mid flæsclicen meten, swa eac se innre mann, þæt is seo sawle, byð gefedd mid þan godcundan spæcen.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) 1 Pet. iii. 4 The hid man of herte [1535 Coverdale y^e inwarde-man of y^e hert].

a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) Rom. vii. 15 (MED) For þat þat I wyrke aftyr þe outer man, I undyrstande not after þe inner man.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. iv. 16 Though oure vttward man perisshe, yet the inwarde man is renewed daye by daye.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiv. 245 In y^e inward man there are (as ye would say) three men; the liuing, the sensitiue, and the reasonable.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 162/2 The lower man is our enquickned body.

1673 J. Caryl Nature & Princ. Love 46 Sin did impure his whole inner Man.

1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revel. (1852) ii. 65 I may put into the registers of my belief, all that comes home to me through the senses of the outer man.

1888 H. P. Blavatsky Secret Doctr. (ed. 2) I. 639 Our more intimate astral, or inner man.

1997 Sunday Times 26 Oct. (Sport section) 8/2 Your inner man is interested in something more profound..than salary.

b. humorous. The inner (outer, etc.) part of a person's body. Now rare except in inner man at inner adj. 3, outer man n. at outer adj. and n.² Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > [noun]

lichamc888

bodyeOE

earthOE

lichOE

bone houseOE

dustc1000

fleshOE

utter mana1050

bonesOE

bodiȝlichc1175

bouka1225

bellyc1275

slimec1315

corpsec1325

vesselc1360

tabernaclec1374

carrion1377

corsec1386

personc1390

claya1400

carcass1406

lump of claya1425

sensuality?a1425

corpusc1440

God's imagea1450

bulka1475

natural body1526

outward man1526

quarrons1567

blood bulk1570

skinfula1592

flesh-rind1593

clod1595

anatomy1597

veil1598

microcosm1601

machine1604

outwall1608

lay part1609

machina1612

cabinet1614

automaton1644

case1655

mud wall1662

structure1671

soul case1683

incarnation1745

personality1748

personage1785

man1830

embodiment1850

flesh-stuff1855

corporeity1865

chassis1930

soma1958

1830 Amer. Monthly Mag. (Boston) May 124 If he could go on dressing..but alas!.. He could not expose, even to a poet, the humble arrangements by which his outer man was held together.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xli. 170 Gabriel's lower man was clothed in military gear.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xiii. 121 Gravely attired, as to his upper man, in black; and as to his legs, in pepper and salt colour.

1954 J. Corbett Temple Tiger 110 After fortifying the inner man I returned with Sham Singh and three men borrowed from the fishing party.

II. An adult male human being, and senses principally based on this.

4. An adult male human being.

a. Contrasted with a woman. †man and woman: (used in apposition to a preceding noun) male and female (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [noun]

churla800

werec900

rinkeOE

wapmanc950

heOE

wyeOE

gomeOE

ledeOE

seggeOE

shalkOE

manOE

carmanlOE

mother bairnc1225

hemea1250

mother sona1250

hind1297

buck1303

mister mana1325

piecec1325

groomc1330

man of mouldc1330

hathela1350

sire1362

malea1382

fellowa1393

guestc1394

sergeant?a1400

tailarda1400

tulka1400

harlotc1405

mother's sona1470

frekea1475

her1488

masculinea1500

gentlemana1513

horse?a1513

mutton?a1513

merchant1549

child1551

dick1553

sorrya1555

knavea1556

dandiprat1556

cove1567

rat1571

manling1573

bird1575

stone-horse1580

loona1586

shaver1592

slave1592

copemate1593

tit1594

dog1597

hima1599

prick1598

dingle-dangle1605

jade1608

dildoa1616

Roger1631

Johnny1648

boy1651

cod1653

cully1676

son of a bitch1697

cull1698

feller1699

chap1704

buff1708

son of a gun1708

buffer1749

codger1750

Mr1753

he-man1758

fella1778

gilla1790

gloak1795

joker1811

gory1819

covey1821

chappie1822

Charley1825

hombre1832

brother-man1839

rooster1840

blokie1841

hoss1843

Joe1846

guy1847

plug1848

chal1851

rye1851

omee1859

bloke1861

guffin1862

gadgie1865

mug1865

kerel1873

stiff1882

snoozer1884

geezer1885

josser1886

dude1895

gazabo1896

jasper1896

prairie dog1897

sport1897

crow-eater1899

papa1903

gink1906

stud1909

scout1912

head1913

beezer1914

jeff1917

pisser1918

bimbo1919

bozo1920

gee1921

mush1936

rye mush1936

basher1942

okie1943

mugger1945

cat1946

ou1949

tess1952

oke1970

bra1974

muzhik1993

OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 28 He..sæde hyre gewislice hwæt heo man ne wæs.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2389 Ȝho wass hanndfesst an god mann Þatt iosæp wass ȝehatenn.

c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 37 (MED) Hwer se we eauer iseoð mon oðer wummon eani god biginnen.

c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 628 Bi here breste he kneu anon Þat on was maide & þat oþer a mon.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 421 (MED) O, Elflede myȝti, O mayde mennene [v.r. mennes; L. virorum] drede!

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiv. 264 (MED) As a mayde for mannes loue her moder forsaketh.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 4966 Alle men sal ryse þan þat ever had life, Man and woman, mayden and wyfe.

c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 14996 (MED) And þou wott I wroght neuer swylke wrang to murther noþer man ne wyfe.

c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 347 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 200 Mariage..to cople man & vemene.

a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 42 Sen ȝe war menis wyffis.

1546 in J. Bulloch Pynours (1887) 63 Euery pynour baytht man and voman.

1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 10^v A woman sitteth crowned in parliament amongest the middest of men.

1603 Philotus lxxxi. sig. D Ȝour douchter..Ane mannis claithis hes on hir tane.

1671 Lady M. Bertie in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 23 The Dutchesse..was very fine in..a short mans coat very richly laced.

1729 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 191 Every man took the woman he liked best to dance country-dances.

1773 H. Chapone Lett. Improvem. Mind I. 111 Women are more fearful than men.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 235 Destroyers of men, and debauchers of women.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. i. 1 All the folk, free and unfree, man and woman, out on the streets.

1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. i. 6 Men (the jury of householders empanelled to deliver verdicts upon the ways of women).

1949 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite i. 8 You will generally find women loosen up less lavishly than men.

1991 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 17 421 All the Indians here, men and women and children, are busily ploughing the hillsides.

b. Without explicit contrast in terms of sex or age.The man is occasionally used for he or him, usually with a slight implication of depreciation, sympathy, or other feeling.Also in expressions (colloquial, now rare) like ‘the late man’, ‘the present man’, etc., referring to the former or present holder of an office or position.

ΚΠ

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1124 Þet wæron on þa litle hwile ealles feower & feowerti manne, & six men spilde of here ægon & of here stanes.

c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 173 Sanctus Petrus..iseah..þæt wuldor þare tweȝræ monnæ Moyses and Helias.

a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 31 (MED) Bluðeliche þe mon wile gan to scrifte and segge þe preoste þet he haueð ireaueð and istolen.

c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 302 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 115 Þe guode Man seint thomas.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 4828 (MED) We ar all a man [v.rr. an monnes, a manes, oon monnes] barn-teme.

c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 114 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 10 To theophill sanct paule askyt þane, quhy þat he þat wrechit mane held swa in presone.

a1500 Terms Assoc. in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1962) 13 233 (MED) A oste of men.

1523–4 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 71 The man that come with James Broun.

a1599 R. Rollock Sel. Wks. (1849) I. 446 Be the hand of the man Christ.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 47 This is reason put into Verse, and worthy the consideration of a wise man .

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xv. 464 There is no question the Man [sc. Cromwell] was in great agony, and in his own mind did heartily desire to be King.

1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. iii. 87 The man in gibbets who hung by the road.

1837 O. A. Brownson in H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 347 With the discerning it has already become more honourable to call one simply a man than a gentleman.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists vi. 314 [He] was hand and glove with some of the best men in town.

1853 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey (new ed.) ii. xvi. 84 If the forty country gentlemen who follow..our friend Sir Berdmore..were to declare their opposition to any particular tax, the present men would be beaten.

1879 G. Meredith Egoist I. xiii. 233 Sir Willoughby was flattered and satisfied... A steady look of hers had of late perplexed the man, and he was comforted by [etc.].

1937 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 13 Aug. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 70 What a mug she was to marry the man.

1993 V. Headley Excess vii. 53 Charlie, though he was one of the top men in the trade, didn't do crack at all.

c. With special reference to age: a male person who has reached adulthood (spec. the age of majority); a male person who shows maturity. man and boy adv. through or during both boyhood and adulthood; throughout life from youth. †to write man, to be entitled by age to call oneself a man (obsolete). †to man: to man's estate, to adult age (obsolete). to separate (also sort out, etc.) the men from the boys (colloquial): to distinguish (through a test or challenge of some kind) which members of a group are skilled or expert in something, or which are mature, fearless, etc. (sometimes used of both sexes).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adult man

manc1175

the world > people > person > child > boy > [adverb] > from boyhood

man and boy1545

the world > people > person > adult > distinguish adults [verb]

to separate (also sort out, etc.) the men from the boys1951

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8055 Son summ icc wass waxenn mann Þa flæh i childess cosstess.

a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Lamb.) 117 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 167 Al þet ech Mon haueð idon soððen he com to monne.

c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 76 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 108 (MED) Suyþe gret prece of gurles and Men comen hire al-a-boute.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 1967 He began to clepe and calle, As he which come was to manne.

c1440 (a1400) Sir Eglamour (Thornton) (1965) 1317 ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘God forȝelde the! Þou hase hym broghte to man [c1440 Calig. made hym a manne]’.

a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 1343 (MED) He was growe to mannys age.

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 48 In shoting both man & boye is in one opinion, that [etc.].

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 158 I haue been Sexten heere man and boy thirty yeeres.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 199 I must tell thee sirrah, I write Man: to which title age cannot bring thee.

1654 O. Cromwell in Whitelocke's Mem. (1853) IV. 170 They thought it more noble to die by the hand of a man than of a stripling.

1712 J. Addison When all thy Mercies (hymn) in Spectator No. 453 vi Thine Arm unseen convey'd me safe And led me up to Man.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. iv. 48 I never fear'd man, since I could write man.

1798 R. Southey Eng. Eclogues i, in Poet. Wks. (1838) III. 3 I've lived here, man and boy, In this same parish, well nigh the full age Of man.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxiv. 248 An elderly gentleman in top-boots, who had been..a peace-officer, man and boy, for half a century.

1889 P. A. Bruce Plantation Negro 153 The man of ripe years has all the mental floridness of a boy.

1951 J. Jones From Here to Eternity li. 776 That was where they told the men from the boys.

1962 J. Braine Life at Top ii. 39 Every day one was tested, the men were separated from the boys.

1967 Listener 16 Feb. 239/1 It is always quite a pleasure to see some really professional jazz players and hear their sounds and one of the best examples is Jazz Goes to College..which certainly sorts out the men from the boys.

1991 D. Cohen Circle of Life ii. 66 They reenact one of humanity's oldest and most vital passages, the transformation from boy into man.

2000 F. Forsyth in Spectator 5 Aug. 25/3 Someone who had worked man and boy for what Gaitskell once called ‘the party I love’.

d. In abstract or generic sense, without article: the male human being. Cf. sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [noun] > men collectively

wapman-kinc1175

manc1300

menkinda1470

mankind1526

manhood1588

mens-kind1592

the sterner (alsobetter, rougher, stronger) sex1608

lords of creation1649

menfolk1749

masculinity1860

c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 699 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 319 (MED) Þo made he þe kuynde..bi-twene Man and womman.

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 6797 (MED) Man & woman vrn so dere.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) xxxvi. 191 (MED) Man be-hettith woman loue when he Set the Ring on hir fynger.

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 893/2 Man is head of the woman, hee ought to be more aduised & wise.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 109 Were man But Constant, he were perfect.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 111 Man is enemie to virginitie.

a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 300 As the Woman was the Glory of man, so were their Off-springs the Glory of both.

1748–58 M. Mendez Sqr. Dames i. i. xxvii Man throws the wimble bait, and greedy woman bites.

1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman ii. 49 Man, from the remotest antiquity, found it convenient to exert his strength to subjugate his companion.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 156 Woman is not undevelopt man But diverse.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 318 As for the men, well of course they would marry any lady of any tribe, if she had a pretty face,..that's just man's way.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female ix. 190 Man, the heir of tradition, provides for women and children.

1991 S. Keen Fire in Belly v. xiii. 203 This assumed superiority of women is evident in the image of woman as peacemaker and man as warmonger.

†e. A male (used contextually to refer to a child). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun]

knightc893

knapec1000

knaveOE

knape childc1175

knave-childa1225

groom?c1225

knight-bairnc1275

pagec1300

mana1382

swainc1386

knave-bairna1400

little mana1425

man-childa1438

boy1440

little boya1475

lad1535

boykin1540

tomboya1556

urchin1556

loonc1560

kinchin-co(ve)1567

big boy1572

dandiprat1582

pricket1582

boy child1584

callant1597

suck-egg1609

nacketc1618

custrel1668

hospital-boy1677

whelp1710

laddie1721

charity-boy1723

pam-child1760

chappie1822

bo1825

boyo1835

wagling1837

shirttail boy1840

boysie1846

umfaan1852

nipper1859

yob1859

fellow-my-lad?1860

laddo1870

chokra1875

shegetz1885

spalpeen1891

spadger1899

bug1900

boychick1921

sonny boy1928

sonny1939

okie1943

lightie1946

outjie1961

oke1970

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Par. xxxi. 16 Þat feiþfulli þei dele to þer breþern parties to þe lasse & to þe more, out takyn þe men [a1425 L.V. malis; L. maribus] fro þre ȝeer.

?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 106 (MED) To wetyn ȝif a woman be with chylde, and whethyr it is a man or woman.

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 155 Their Priests sacrificed ten children of three yeares of age,..fiue of these children were menne, and the other fiue wemen.

1651 Burnett Family Papers in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Education..to be given them gratis..unpaying anything therfor to the masteris of the man's school or to the mistresses of the woman's school.

f. to be one's own man: see own adj. 1c.

g. The personal character or intrinsic qualities of a man, as distinguished from his achievements, abilities or learning, rank or wealth, etc.; a man in his human (as distinguished from his professional, etc.) capacity or character.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] > person in respect of character

personagec1485

man1674

1674 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer i. i I weigh the man, not his Title.

1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 30 Nor in the Critick let the Man be lost.

1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 13 A Father's Heart Is tender, tho' the Man's is made of Stone.

1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling 209 I cannot throw off the man so much, as to rejoice at our conquests in India.

1812 Antigallican Monitor 17 May 558/3 The high estimation they entertained of the merits of that illustrious person, both as a Minister and a man.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 94 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man, robs him of his strength, wit, and versatility, to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty.

a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 174 We feel that the man must have been greater than his works.

1920 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 24 Nov. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 13 Since first I went to sea, I'm twice the man I used to be... It's the uniform That takes the girls by storm.

1986 E. Ullah tr. B. K. Bhattacharya in Panorama 2 Even today he could not find a means of livelihood nor could he establish himself as a man.

5. Usually with possessive indicating the person's superior or leader.

a. A subject, adherent, or follower (of a person), spec. a member of a body of supporters. Chiefly in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > adherent

followerOE

manOE

soldier1340

suerc1384

suitora1398

adherent1426

clienta1464

aggregator1541

sectator?1541

suppost1547

ensuer1550

adherer1561

sectary1590

symbolizer1607

acolyte1623

sectarian1819

tailer1838

OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) i. xx. §2. 302 And eac ah hlaforda gehwylc þæs formycle þearfe, þæt he his men rihtlice healde.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1100 He wæs swiðe strang & reðe ofer his land & his mænn, & wið ealle his neahheburas.

?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Willelm de R[om]are..& te æorl..fuhten suythe on Candel masse dæi agenes heore lauerd, & namen him, for his men him suyken & flugæn.

a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 141 (MED) Gif þu woldest at te [k]inge ani þing beseken..ðu scoldest ane speken to-foren alle hise mannen.

c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 215 (MED) Herodes..was michel anud, and alle hise men.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 209 (MED) So manly he rides..so ferforþ fram his men..þat of horn ne of hound ne miȝt he here sowne.

c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 41 (MED) Ponthus had his menne sworne to hym..that they shuld not dycouer hym to noo body.

1599 George a Greene sig. F1 Were ye as good as Robin Hood, and his three mery men, Ile driue you backe the same way that ye came.

1604 Bp. W. Barlow Summe Conf. at Hampton Court in Phenix (1721) I. 179 Conformitans hang down their heads, and the Bishop's Men curse the Puritans.

1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 13 He canton'd out the Country to his Men.

1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 27 The name by which they chuse to distinguish themselves, is that of King's men, or the King's friends.

1821 G. F. Lyon Narr. Trav. N. Afr. ii. 74 Some one of Mukni's men cries out ‘The Fattha!’ (or first chapter of the Koran), every one joining in that prayer.

1886 Dict. National Biogr. IX. 293/1 She and the king went a-maying to Shooter's Hill in 1515, and met in the woods Robin Hood and his merry men dressed in green.

1921 E. R. G. R. Evans South with Scott xvii. 243 Captain Amundsen..told me he himself could never have manhauled as Scott's men did.

1966 Listener 29 Sept. 445/1 Stalin would speak disparagingly of Mao's men as being ‘not real communists’.

1991 Newsweek 20 May 20/3 The vice-president's men hoped for a public backlash against the Quayle-bashers in the press.

b. spec. A vassal, a liegeman; a feudal tenant. Also figurative (in Middle English poetry): a lover (cf. sense 8b). Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > vassal

manlOE

subjectc1350

liegemana1375

liege1377

feudary1387

servant?a1400

vassala1400

feedmanc1460

sidesman1462

feeman1517

feudatary1586

feudatory1765

leud1812

geneat1861

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1072 Se cyng Melcolm..griðede wið þone cyng Willelm..& his man wæs.

a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 33 Gif þu me dest woh and wit beon anes lauerdes men.

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 2254 (MED) O knes ful fayre he him sette..And bi-cam is man Rith þare.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 10430 (MED) Þe king made ek is chartre to þe court of rome To bicome þe popes man & homage him do.

a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 72 Ledy, ha mercy of þy mon!

c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 78 (MED) Guillomer, þe Kyng of Scotland..ȝelde him to þe Kyng Arthure and bicome his man.

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) i. 434 For myn estat roial I here resigne Into hire hond, and with ful humble chere Bicome hir man, as to my lady dere.

c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 12566 (MED) Þe prince so turnes hym home in hy; full mery ware his men ylkon.

c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 10 (MED) Sacke ys pleys and amendys of mysdoynges of your men in your courte.

?a1500 (a1471) Brut (Lyell) in J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. (1856) 44 The Erl Douglas of Scotland cam in to Englond, & was swore to the king for to be his trew manne.

c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) lxiii Quhen sall ȝowr merci rew vpon ȝowr man, Quhois seruice is ȝit vncouth vnto ȝow?

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlv. 150 To become my man, and to do me homage.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem f. 42^v Homage suld be made in this maner, that is, the maker therof, sall become his over-lords man [etc.].

c1670 T. Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1840) 93 The Tenant shall hold his Hands together between the Hands of his Landlord, and shall say thus; I become your Man from this day forth.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 129 By taking service in William's army he had become the man of the Duke of the Normans.

1972 L. J. Downer Leges Henrici Primi 179 Every lord..shall so support his man everywhere that he shall suffer no injury as a result of his protection.

1998 N. Malcolm Kosovo iv. 67 Probišić..was one of Branković's own vassals... Leaving aside the story about his [sc. Branković's] man Dragoslav Probišić.., we can still note [etc.].

6. A fighting man, a man-at-arms, a soldier; a member of a force fighting under the command of a specified person; (now) esp. a soldier, sailor, or airman as distinguished from an officer. Chiefly in plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun]

wyec900

rinkeOE

earlOE

manlOE

champion?c1225

warrer?c1225

drightmanc1275

here-dringc1275

here-gumec1275

here-kempec1275

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battlerc1300

fighterc1300

battle-wrighta1400

man-of-war1449

frekec1475

war-manc1485

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Mars1565

warfarer1591

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Mavortian1598

brave1601

fire-eater1792

war-wolf1810

war-hound1812

war-dog1846

toa1860

Mavors1868

fightist1877

ninja1964

simba1964

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > common soldier > [noun]

soldiera1300

sergeantc1300

private soldier1566

common soldier1569

private man1651

man1690

(private) centinel1710

single sentinel1721

private1775

single soldier1816

troop1832

ranksman1845

dog soldier1852

ranker1890

other rank1904

mucko1917

squaddie1933

craftsman1942

peon1957

grunt1969

troopie1972

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1069 Eadgar æðeling, & fela hund manna mid heom..ferdon to Eofer wic..& ofslogon fela hund manna.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Ezek. xxxv. 8 In thi litil hillis and in thi valeis..men slayn in swerd shuln falle doun.

1449 Rolls of Parl. V. 147/2 That every xxxti men furnysshe a man horsed and armed in bryganders.

a1500 (?a1450) Merlin 244 Ther were..moo than a thousande me [sic; Fr. hommes] slayn.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xviii. 29 In the I can discomfit an hoost of men.

c1600 C. Wriothesley Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 57 The King sent the duke of Norfolke, with an armie of menn.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 111 Foure thousand men would have made a shrewd adventure to have taken his Indies from him.

1690 London Gaz. No. 2596/3 Another of our Parties have cut off a Rappery Colonel, with 50 of his Men.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea III. i. 7 Leonidas..defended the streight of Thermopilæ with 4,000 men.

1805 C. Collingwood Let. 24 Oct. in Daily Chron. (1905) 10 July 3/4 This Great day has not been without a considerable suffering on our part in loss of Officers and Men.

1878 Ld. Tennyson Revenge 10 I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore.

1880 J. T. Wheeler Short Hist. India 604 The English had lost more than 2,400 officers and men.

1909 Daily Chron. 15 June 5/5 Rations for three days, ammunition, field bandages, and identity discs were issued to the men.

1941 H. G. Wells You can't be too Careful v. iii. 249 When confronted by a pincer-like movement, a soldier and a gentleman abandons his men and material and bolts home.

1990 C. Allen Savage Wars of Peace (1991) p. xvii A mutual respect between the men he commanded and himself..helped to unite officers, NCOs and men into one extended hierarchical family.

a. A male personal attendant; a manservant, a valet.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > valet

manc1175

valet1567

varlet of the chamber1567

point-trusser1594

valect1610

valet-de-chambre1646

Andrew1700

gentleman's gentleman1704

bearer1727

sirdar-bearer1782

sardar1816

tiring-man1856

Jeeves1952

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5199 Wiþþ himm wass an oþerr mann Hiss mann forr himm to þeowwtenn.

a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 38 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 16 Faret summe of myne men ant facchet hire to me.

c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 393 (MED) Þou..art a garsoun & art mi man, & man schalt be.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1512 (MED) And uche mon for his mayster machches alone.

c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 12783 (MED) He and his man with outyn mo went all þer enmys euyn amang.

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. vj^v The mayster to his man makyth his Roys.

a1500 (?a1400) Tale King Edward & Shepherd 148 (MED) Þei do but gode, þe Kyngus men..Thai take geese, capons, and henne.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 142 To serve and leif in beggartie To man and maistir is baith schame.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 151 A Gentleman and his Man shall spend as much, as if he were accompanied with another Gentleman and his Man.

1639 J. Endecott Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 136 One Samuel Eale, a man of Mr. Nathan Rogers, which Nele hath caryed with him.

?1684 in Roxburghe Ballads (1897) VIII. 453 Come saddle my horse and call up my man.

a1745 J. Swift My Lady's Lament. in Wks. (1765) VIII. ii. 184 Find out..Who's master, who's man.

1791 C. Smith Celestina IV. 117 There was no possibility of his man giving Willoughby notice.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 218 I am the upper boots..; the other man's my man, as..does odd jobs.

1870 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) vi. 209 Another functionary of a country parish is usually called the minister's man.

1925 P. G. Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves vi. 145 Biffy's man came in with the nose-bags and we sat down to lunch.

1990 F. Kanga Trying to Grow xvi. 158 I realised that the man behind him was his man, his personal servant.

b. gen. A workman, an employee. Frequently in opposition to master (master n.¹ 2a).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > [noun]

man1381

workera1382

labourerc1400

piner1497

pair of hands1598

operator1611

operatist1651

operative1809

operant1831

ouvrier1845

scissorbill1910

rehire1927

society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] > in relation to employer or capitalist

man1381

workman1704

worker1848

1381 Rolls of Parl. III. 113/1 Johannes Pope, Taverners-man.

1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 66 (MED) Also, þe same day a dawber and his man, xiiij d.

c1480 (a1400) St. Matthias 127 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 225 Iudas þane be-come his mane, & mad his dwelling vith hym þane.

1526 Hundred Mery Tales (1866) 146 Here is nother mayster nor man.

1623 King James VI & I in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 127 He is a happy man that serves a good Master.

1681 Heraclitus Ridens 7 June 2/2 Well trim tram, like Master like man.

a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. iv. vii. 311 The way-beaten couple, master and man, sat them down.

1812 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. J. Hodgson (1857) I. 97 Two shifts or sets of men were constantly employed.

1872 T. Brassey Work & Wages i. 6 The masters had found it necessary..to reduce the rate of wages; but the men..refused to accept the reduction.

1955 Times 3 Aug. 8/7 A shortage of labour caused a lightning strike of about 200 men at the Albert and William Wright docks at Hull to-day.

1982 R. Carr Spain 1808–1975 (1993) (BNC) 54 The failure of democratic radicalism to develop a doctrine of class conflict was a reflection of this situation: master and man wanted the same relief from conscription and food taxes.

a. A husband. Now chiefly English regional (northern), Scottish, and South African, except in man and wife. Cf. goodman n. 5.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband

churla800

lordeOE

werec893

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mana1325

masterc1325

sovereign1390

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husbandman?a1439

goodman?1507

baron1595

spouse1604

husband of one's bosom1611

old man1673

hubby1682

sposo1741

hub1809

master-man1825

pot and pan1900

mister1931

DH1993

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > married people > married couple

couple1393

pairc1400

married couplea1625

happy couple1631

man and wife1749

Ozzie and Harriet1974

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 452 Bigamie is unkinde ðing, On engleis tale twie-wifing. For ai was rigt and kire bi-forn, On man, on wif, til he was boren.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. iii. 6 Sche toke of the fruyt of it & ete, and ȝaue to here man [a1425 L.V. to hir hosebonde; L. viro suo].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 23335 (MED) O þaim þai sal noght reu a dele..Þe wijf hir man [a1400 Trin. Cambr. þe husbonde] or man his wijf.

c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) i. 1084 (MED) Oon is concord betwene brethren to be hadde, And loue among neighbours, as God badde, Loue also betwene man and wyffe in-same.

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 188 God send euerie Priest ane wyfe, And euerie Nunne ane man.

1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore iv. sig. G3 Bee not amaz'd; nor blush young louely Bride, I come not to defraud you of your man.

1652 Ripley's Epist. Edward IV in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 116 Our Man, our Wife.

1724 A. Ramsay This is no my ain House iii To make me still a prudent spouse And let my man command ay.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. xii. 68 In less than a Month the Captain and his Lady were Man and Wife.

1829 C. Rose Four Years S. Afr. 263 The wife broke out, ‘You lament a brother, and you a child, but I have lost my man.’

1842 Ld. Tennyson Dora in Poems (new ed.) II. 41 He..often thought ‘I'll make them man and wife’.

1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums 108 Nor would Nancey take it kindly if I called her man names.

1920 R. Y. Stormberg Mrs Pieter de Bruyn 72 The country lady strolls in to buy a hat,..tells them to put it down to her ‘man's’ account.

1962 Buchan Observer 24 July 2 Nippet words an' soor ill-naiter Gart her man an' bairns behave!

1996 Daily Mirror 12 June 12/3 I'm not saying our relationship is a bed of roses, but we are getting on with it, like any man and wife.

2014 S. Blackhall in Lallans 85 29 Trudy Harrison..met her man in Naples, on a summer holiday.

b. A lover, a suitor. Cf. sense 5b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > male lover

servantc1405

specialc1425

servitorc1450

love-lad1586

young man1589

inamorato1592

swainc1592

gentleman friend1667

enamorado1677

spark1707

beau?1720

Johnny1726

man friend1736

feller1842

novio1843

soupirant1849

fella1874

man1874

fellow1878

square-pusher1890

stud1895

papa1896

lover mana1905

boyfriend1906

daddy1912

lover-boy1925

sheikh1925

sweetback1929

sweet man1942

older man1951

boyf1990

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. i. 10 Go and marry your man—go on!

1899 W. Besant Orange Girl ii. xiv. 295 You've put my man in prison—the properest man in St. Giles's.

1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues vii. 79 A doctor had told her once..she should..take a natural interest in some other man. But she wouldn't. He was her man.

1992 More 28 Oct. 92 Since I started seeing my new boyfriend, my girlfriend has been giving me the cold shoulder... She seems to hate it when I want to see my man alone.

a. A person (usually an adult male) regarded in terms of the qualities of courage, strength, or responsibility, etc., traditionally associated with adult males. Also (in extended use): †manliness, courage (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [noun] > virile man

manc1330

real man1872

he-man1885

man's mana1896

virilist1910

cocksman1916

macho1943

Marlboro Man1957

macho man1959

man1963

the mind > emotion > courage > manliness > [noun]

manshipc1275

manheadc1300

virtuec1330

manhooda1393

manliheadc1425

manful-hardinessc1450

manlinessc1450

manfulnessc1460

virtuosity1543

man1602

manlikeness1742

ruggedness1845

balls1958

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem 2782 (MED) Tristrem, as aman Fast he gan to fiȝt.

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iii. 205 (MED) Meede makeþ him beo bilouet and for a Mon I-holden.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xiii. 930 (MED) And vppon him proveth that ȝe men ben!

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. sig. F^v A Man, a man, a kingdome for a man.

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. C Heape vp thy powers, double all thy man.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 221 Hauing more man then wit about me.

1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 193 Worth makes the Man, and want of it the Fellow.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxix. 286 Be a man Jack, and have no more of this puling.

1900 J. Morley Cromwell v. vii. 453 Of that pettish egotism which regards a step taken on advice as a humiliation, he [sc. Cromwell] had not a trace; he was a man.

1990 New Age Oct. 42/1 For generations men have been toughened up and shut down. Be a man; don't get emotional; that's for women.

(a) man of men n. an exceptional or powerful man. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person

gemc1275

blooma1300

excellence1447

mirrorc1450

man of mena1470

treasure?1545

paragon1548

shining light1563

Apollo's swan?1592

man of wax1597

rara avis1607

Titan1611

choice spirita1616

excellency1725

inestimable1728

inimitable1751

cock of the walk1781

surpasser1805

shiner1810

swell1816

trump1819

tip-topper1822

star1829

beauty1832

soarer1895

trumph1895

pansy1899

Renaissance man1906

exemplum virtutis1914

museum piece1920

superman1925

flyer1930

pistol1935

all-star1949

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 41 Nero that was a myghty man of men.

1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iii. iii That man of men.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. v. 71 I will giue thee bloody teeth, If thou with Cæsar Parago nagaine [sic]: My man of men .

1624 P. Massinger Bond-man i. iii. sig. B3 Corinth..hath vouchsafed to lend vs Her man of men Timoleon to defend Our Country.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 122 This man of men, attested Son of God.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. iii. 47 Wilt thou suffer this guest of guests, this man of men..to fall into the meshes of thy nephew?

1887 R. Browning C. Avison in Parleyings xvi Pym, the man of men!

(b) a man among men n. a person regarded as epitomizing manhood or humankind; (esp. as a term of praise) one who is the equal of or an example to all others; an active, well-rounded member of society.

ΚΠ

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Boke M. Aurelius (1559) sig. Mmii f. 134 In good sothe there is no man among men, no humain among the humains, but he is as a brute beast, and wilde among wyld beastes.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 283 Thou therefore whom thou only canst redeeme, Thir Nature also to thy Nature joyne; And be thy self Man among men on Earth, Made flesh. ]

1875 J. R. Lowell in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 358 He is at least a man among men, and not a humbug among humbugs.

1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 28 Because I was all but your brother in blood, I promise that when I am a man among men I will not betray ye to men as ye have betrayed me.

1926 D. H. Lawrence David xiii. 99 He is no man among men any more. Evil possesses him.

1983 J. Jones Dostoevsky vi. 216 ‘The truth of God and the law of nature’..compel Raskolnikov first to be exiled from the humanity he has outraged, and then to confess and accept the public consequences of confession as the only way to become a man among men again.

1988 M. Charney Hamlet's Fictions iii. ix. 130 To be a man among men is the ultimate superlative.

c. like a man: courageously, resolutely. Frequently in to take it (or something) like a man.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > courage > [adverb]

like a manc1475

courageously1477

lion-like1610

c1475 Mankind 226 (MED) The temptacyon of þe flesch ȝe must resyst lyke a man.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Fortiter Fortiter ferre aliquid, To take a thynge paciently and lyke a man.

1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxviii. 3 Gird vp nowe thy loines like a man .

1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1838) I. i. v. §2. 394/1 The boys endured their punishment like men and Christians.

a1811 R. Cumberland tr. Aristophanes Clouds in T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Comedies (1822) II. 84 Tuck yourself up, and buff it like a man.

1846 Emancipator (Boston) 4 Feb. 162/7 The editor of the Visiter [sic] takes it like a man.

1921 H. Willsie Enchanted Canyon i. i. 12 Don't want to be helped out... I'll take my punishment like a man.

1990 M. Dibdin Vendetta (1991) 249 Are you going to come out and die like a man, or do you want to play hide-and-seek?

2008 Times 18 June (Times2 section) 3/2 Take it like a man, and mind that you don't break a nail.

d. to play the man: to act in a manly fashion. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [verb (intransitive)]

to play the man1548

the world > people > person > man > [verb (transitive)]

to play the man1548

man1605

uneffeminate1631

manify1799

virilify1849

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Mark in Paraphr. New Test. i. 12–15 Thou haste here behaued thyselfe valiauntly, and played the manne a while.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 319 The Lord Wilbewill also did play the man within.

1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah xi. 388 How their sire played the man in the time of the great troubles.

e. to make a man of: to make (a person) mature, fearless, resilient, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > encourage or embolden [verb (transitive)]

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raise1533

accourage1534

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to hearten on1555

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bebrave1576

to put in heart1579

to hearten up1580

embolden1583

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inspiritc1610

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mana1625

valiant1628

flush1633

firm1639

buoy1645

embrave1648

reinhearten1652

reanimate1655

reinspirit1660

to give mettle to1689

warm1697

to lift (up) a person's spirits1711

reman1715

to make a man of1722

respirit1725

elate1726

to cocker up1762

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1722 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack 197 I once told you, I would make a Man of you.

1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. v. 71 Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seemed to have made a man of him.

1981 S. Rushdie Midnight's Children 338 The idiot child, they put him in the Army to make a man of him!

10.

a. A personal (or personified) being, esp. God, the Devil, or Death.In early use frequently used as the complement of a sentence (now rare).the Man Upstairs: see upstairs adv. and n. 2f.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > personification of

manc1510

genius1600

c1510 Gest Robyn Hode iv. 959 in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 68 For god is holde a ryghtwys man.

?1550 R. Weaver Lusty Iuventus sig. C.ii He wyl say that God is a good man.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. v. 35 Well, God's a good man .

1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. C3 Your the last man I thought on, saue the diuell.

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Intermean i. 60 in Wks. II Expectation. But was the Diuell a proper man, Gossip? Mirth. As fine a gentleman, of his inches, as euer I saw trusted to the Stage.

1727 A. Pope Mem. of P. P. in J. Swift et al. Misc. II. 284 Do all we can, Death is a Man, That never spareth none.

1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness in Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) There's a man aboon'll mak ye all care some day, if you don't care noo.

1891 H. Johnston Kilmallie II. 90 The yite has a drop o' the bad man's bluid in it.

1943 M. McLaverty White Mare & Other Stories 75 The Man above is tired of listening to us... When it does rain we want sunshine and when we have sun we want rain.

1988 G. Lees Meet me at Jim & Andy's xiii. 263 Mingus was dressed all in black, including a cape and a leather hat. ‘I thought The Man had come for me!’

†b. As part of an oath: ‘God’. Obsolete.Substituted for God in certain plays printed in the 17th cent., to escape the penalties against profane language on the stage.

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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun] > euphemisms for stronger oaths > for 'God'

man1602

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster i. i. sig. A3^v Hart a' man .

a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub ii. ii. 27 in Wks. (1640) III For the passion of man, hold.

a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub ii. ii. 58 in Wks. (1640) III Breath of man !

11. Sport.

a. A male member of a sports team; spec. a member of a cricket team.

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society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > team or group > member of

man1744

team man1763

team player1882

teamer1924

MVP1940

1705 Postman 24 July This is to give Notice that a Match of Cricket will be plaid between eleven Gentleman of..Kent and those of Chatham, for 11 Guineas a Man.]

1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket iii. Argt. 17 Kent, in the Second Innings is very near losing, the two last Men being in.

1816 W. Lambert Instr. & Rules Cricket 42 Long Stop. This man..should be one who is not afraid of the Ball, when bowled swift, and who can throw in well.

1909 R. H. Barber Double Play xvii. 208 The fourth man up chose a ball to his liking and sliced it down the first-base line.

1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 340 Power-play (ice hockey), launched when a team has an extra man or is trailing in the final minutes, all players rushing into the opponent's zone, and putting on the pressure.

1987 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 27 Jan. 7 Cricket (as explained to a foreign visitor). You have two sides: one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out [etc.].

1998 BBC Match of Day Mag. Apr. 84/2 What struck me was how good their defenders were at man-marking: they have the ability to focus solely on the man rather than the ball.

b. man-for-man: = man to man adj. 3.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [adjective] > formation

man to man1922

man-for-man1923

wishbone1972

1923 J. W. Wilce Football ix. 163 Man-for-man defense in football is very much the same as the guarding of a man in basket-ball.

1937 F. C. Allen Better Basketball xviii. 291 It is to be noticed in charting these penetrating offensive plays against a zone defense that the setup of the offense is identical with that used in penetrating the man-for-man defense.

1979 K. Jones & P. Welton Football Skills & Tactics 72/3 Five or six-a-side games, conditioned for man-for-man marking, are the final stage in developing your technique.

1981 J. Lehane Basketball Fund. v. 186 Constant drilling on making the transition from offense to defense is a requirement for effective full-court man-for-man pressure.

c. man-on-man: = man to man adv.

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1963 Maclean's 14 Dec. 21/1 ‘He's always at the outer edge of the rulebook anyway,’ says Eric Nesberenko of the Chicago Black Hawks, who has played frequently against Howe man-on-man.

1992 When Saturday Comes Apr. 8/1 Leave him man-on-man with the very best and he'd struggle at times.

†12. slang. An undergraduate, as contrasted with a graduate; a pupil at a British public school, contrasted with a master. Cf. sense 15f. Obsolete.In quot. 1885: a female undergraduate.

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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > undergraduate

magistrand1628

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man1803

undergrad1827

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grad1958

1803 Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 89 At Cambridge, and, eke, at Oxford, every stripling is accounted a Man from the moment of his putting on the gown and cap.

1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Man (Cambridge), any undergraduate from fifteen to thirty. As a man of Emanuel—a young member of Emanuel.

1874 Lays Mod. Oxf. 43 Every bulldog when he spies a Man without a gown, Promptly chases him and tries a- Main to run him down.

1885 A. Edwardes Girton Girl III. xiii. 230 I may go up to Girton as a bye-term man in January.

1897 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 103/1 [At Winchester College] When a master wishes a ‘man’ to taste the sweets of a flogging he tells him to order his name to.

13. Scottish. Christian Church. [So called to distinguish them from the clergy.] In plural. With the. In northern parishes of the Church of Scotland: a group of devout and ascetic laymen acting as spiritual leaders, who expounded a highly strict doctrine of religious observance. Now historical. the day of the Men: a day, usually the Friday prior to the half-yearly Communion service, when preaching was customarily carried out by the Men; also the Men's day.

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1835 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. xi. 188 It is still customary in the north of Scotland for the elders to address the people..on their experiences of the truth of religion. The day dedicated to this purpose is termed the day of the men.

1845 A. Beith Highland Tour (1874) 241 I could gather that the Men..were not satisfied that so much time was devoted to discussion and deliberation, and that so little, comparatively, was given to holy services.

1868 A. Auld Ministers & Men in Far North 142 The ‘Men’ were so styled..‘not because they were not women, but because they were not ministers.’

1881 Chron. Stratheden ii. 57 On this day those called ‘The Men’ have the field very much to themselves. They do the greater part of the speaking, and Friday is popularly known as ‘the Men's’ day.

1881 A. M. Stoddart J. S. Blackie (1896) 356 ‘The Men’ wield grim influence, narrowing, depressing, and yet not without dignity and even sacredness.

1916 W. L. Mathieson Church Reform Scotl. 1797–1843 341 In the northern Highlands..almost every parish had its group of leaders whose pretensions to superior sanctity were indicated by long hair, a long cloak and a cotton handkerchief worn in place of a cap and who, in order to distinguish them from the clergy, were known as ‘the Men’.

1960 G. B. Burnet Holy Communion 302 The Men's Day is largely kept in Lewis, Skye, Harris, and Wester Ross, generally with two services, though the Men are gone.

1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Sept. 1084/4 The ‘men’, the lay preachers like Donald Munro of Skye or John Morrison of Harris, were the forgers of a new secular as well as a religious ideology among the crofting population.

III. With qualification denoting a particular kind of man.These phrases and compounds are used chiefly of men only, but are occasionally used gen. to include both sexes, esp. in the names of posts or professions which were established before the entry of women into such occupations.

14. With postmodifying of-phrase denoting a place or institution: an inhabitant or native of the place specified; a person associated with the specified institution.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > [noun]

maneOE

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resiant1405

inhabitor1413

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abider1440

citizenc1450

inhabitant1462

resident1463

denizen1474

inhabitator?a1475

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consistorian1599

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resider1632

residenter1644

habitator1646

endwellera1649

incolary1652

incolist1657

insetter1712

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eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 895 Þa men of Lundenbyrig.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 187 (MED) Men of france..sone me sucþ amende.

c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 157 Whon kene men of hir court comen til hir cri.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/2 Man of Turkey, Turc.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges viii. 15 The men of Sucoth.

a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ffff4^v/1 Men of Britain, Like boading Owls, creep into tods of Ivie.

1798 W. S. Landor Gebir ii. 42 Ye men of Gades.

1837 S. Smith Let. to Singleton in Wks. (1859) II. 289 Men of Lincoln have left to Lincoln Cathedral, and men of Hereford, to Hereford.

1934 E. Blunden Choice or Chance 53 Ye men of England, hear the clarion. If Inferior nations biff you, them rebiff.

1988 B. Desai Memory of Elephants 297 The men of Watsonburg rotated shifts voluntarily for fire duty.

15. As the second element of a compound. [As a second element -man approaches the status of a terminal combining form, being reduced in normal pronunciation to

/mən/ in both singular and plural in a large number of words; a few words of which it is the second element (leman n., woman n., and yeoman n.) are no longer felt to be compounds owing to obscuration of the first element (additionally, leman has the regular plural lemans ). Despite this, -man as a terminal element has continued to be regarded as a specific use of the noun. In many compounds, the full pronunciation

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/man/

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/mæn/

is the only one, or has been restored, or is an acceptable alternative. Some shorter compounds formerly written and pronounced as one word (e.g. deadman n.) have been reanalysed as two; with others, the option of writing man as a separate word is available (e.g. jazzman n.), while longer ones are normally written as two (or more) words (e.g. medicine man n.). The wide range of compounds in which it is employed, including many that are casually created, likewise argues against assigning -man the status of terminal combining form. The first element, if it is a noun, in many such compounds ends in -s : in the oldest formations (e.g. doomsman n., kinsman n., landsman n.¹, redesman n., steersman n., townsman n.), which are sometimes written as two words in the earliest sources (e.g. rædes menn ), this is evidently the genitive inflection. In early Middle English, variants in -sman of older compounds in -man are found (e.g. lodesman n.), evidence for the analogical spread of this type of formation, which continued into early modern English (compare beadsman n., herdsman n.). In Middle English and modern English the formation with -s- preceding -man has been very productive; the -s- in some formations is definitely genitival in origin (e.g. bridesman n., groomsman n.) while in others it certainly or arguably represents the plural inflection (e.g. Downsman n., locksman n.³, woodsman n.). In the majority it is perhaps best viewed as an arbitrary connective element.]

a. Modified by an adjective, as handy-, reading, sick man, etc.: see the first element. Occurring spec. with adjective indicating the nationality, birthplace, residence, creed, etc., to which a person belongs: see christenman n., Englishman n., Frenchman n., Northman n., etc. See also best man n., deadman n., freeman n., little man n., new man n.¹, old man n., red man n.

b. With prefixed noun: a person who is connected with a specified place, building, profession, business, society, etc., as assembly-, Banbury, Inns of Court, Paul's man, railway man, etc.: see the first element. See also barman n., bondsman n., borough-man n., clergyman n., churchman n., countryman n., exciseman n., harvestman n., journeyman n., landsman n.¹, linesman n., portman n.¹, postman n.¹, salesman n., seaman n., waterman n., world-man n., etc.

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c. With prefixed noun: a trader in or manufacturer of the specified product, as ale-man, lead-man, rag-and-bone man: see the first element. See also coalman n., iceman n., milkman n., oilman n., porkman n., timberman n., etc.

d. With prefixed noun: a person who uses or is skilled in the use of a specified implement, craft, etc., as canoe-man, lathe-man: see the first element. See also axeman n., brakesman n., hammerman n., penman n.¹, swordsman n., etc.

e. With prefixed noun: a person who is a specialist or expert in a specified subject; a supporter or adherent of a specified person; a person who favours a specified activity, object, or product.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > expert, specialist, authority

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professional1846

beggar1859

specializer1868

passed master1882

buff1903

man1921

sharpshooter1942

sharpie1949

watcher1966

meister1975

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > of some specific thing or person

sectarian1819

man1958

1527 W. Tyndale Parable Wicked Mammon in Wks. (1573) 88 A Duns man would make xx. distinctions.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1657 (1955) III. 196 Desperat Zealots, cald the fift Monarchy-men.

1833 C. F. Hoffman Let. 26 Dec. in Winter in West (1835) I. 211 The most devout temperance man could see no harm in that!

1843 Christian Lady's Mag. 20 211 The opinions of Oxford-tract men..upon the divine efficacy of Sacraments.

1921 T. S. Eliot Let. 26 Oct. in Waste Land Drafts (1971) p. xxii I have wondered whether he is quite the best man for me as he is known as a nerve man and I want rather a specialist in psychological troubles.

1958 Listener 25 Sept. 449/2 I am therefore wholeheartedly a Galbraith man... Professor Galbraith is the first writer to attempt a systematic economic analysis of such a society.

1969 Listener 24 July 102/1 I had been the Daily Telegraph's main German man for some time.

1974 P. Lovesey Invitation to Dynamite Party ii. 25 ‘Is it the hard stuff that you've taken a fancy to?’ ‘Not me, Sarge. I never was a whisky man.’

f. With prefixed noun denoting a school, college, or university: a man who is or has been a member of the institution specified.

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society > education > member of university > [noun]

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supposit1532

man1573

academic1581

catercap1588

black gown1616

square cap1642

academical1656

academician1665

gownsman1665

sleeve1752

Academe1861

society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > former pupil or student

man1573

alumnus1800

alumna1843

alum1877

society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > former pupil

alumnus1800

alumna1843

old boy1857

man1866

old girl1875

1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 54 He is a Pembrook Hal man, ergo a good schollar.

1580 E. Spenser & G. Harvey (title) Three proper, and wittie, familiar Letters passed between two Vniuersitie men.

1687 C. Aldworth in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) 42 Dr. Haddon was a Cambr. man.

1709 M. Prior Epil. to Phaedra (ed. 2) 3 An Oxford man, extremely read in Greek.

1796 in C. Whibley In Cap & Gown (1889) 88 Ye Johnishe men, that have no other care, Save onelie [etc.].

1866 John Bull 24 Mar. 202/1 All old Westminster men..will regret to hear [etc.].

1876 Sun (N.Y.) 20 Nov. 3/1 A Harvard man redelivers the ball by a fine ‘punt’ kick.

1918 W. Faulkner Let. in Thinking of Home (1992) 63 The English are trying to get officers now... I can enlist as a second year Yale man.

1979 H. Hood Reservoir Ravine iii. 47 The Right Honourable, the Earl Balfour, KG, PC, was a Cambridge man, as it happens.

g. colloquial. With prefixed noun: a man defined in terms of which part of a woman's body he tends to find most attractive or arousing, as ass man, breast man, leg man, tit man, etc.

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1944 M. Heimer World ends at Hoboken 43 Before I forget, incidentally, let me get it down that I am more of a leg man than a chest man.

1946 L. W. Dearborn in C. R. Adams & J. S. Fisher Psycho-physiol. Bases Family Life: Proc. (Inst. Marriage & Home Adjustm.) 27 Another man spoke up and said, ‘Oh, you are a breast man; I am a hip and thigh man’.

1960 R. Barber Night they raided Minsky's viii. 290 Maybe everyone else ain't such a big tit man as you.

1979 N.Y. Mag. 25 June 41/3 Hell, we can't even change a breast man into a leg man, let alone hurdle the heterosexual-homosexual divide.

2004 A. Sohn My Old Man 81 Are you an ass man, a pussy man, a tit man, or a leg man?

IV. Vocative uses.

16. As vocative or as int., introducing a remark or parenthetically.

a. Used to address a person (usually a man, but sometimes a woman or child) emphatically to indicate contempt, impatience, exhortation, etc. Now somewhat archaic.

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OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) xxii. 369 Geþence nu ðu, man, & ongyt gif ðu sylf þe nelt alysan þa hwile þe ðu miht.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxvi. 238 Þu mann wylt habban god, þu wilt habban hælu þines lichaman.

a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 31 (MED) God mon, nim þu nuðe of þin aȝen ehte.

a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 1598 Allass, Man, whuch is þin heorte hardour þan eny ston?

c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 315 (MED) Mon, bi þe muche god..Vndur a Cyne..I hir se.

c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 14447 (MED) Man, knaw þi selfe ryȝt sone! els wyll yt not be wele.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 661/2 Plucke up thy herte, man, for Goddes sake.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iii. 41 Tut, man.

1714 R. A. Hunter Monoropolis Ded. p. i What's the matter Man? Have ye got the Gripes?

1767 I. Bickerstaff Love in City 35 Zouns he will not bite you, Man.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. iv. 198 Hah! what—what's all this! Here, read it, read it, man.

1890 W. Besant Demoniac vi. 69 Why, man, with such a vice as yours, you would love your life too well.

1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career ii. 11 Here,..with splendid roads, mail thrice weekly, and a railway platform only eight miles away, why, man, my fortune is made!

1992 P. Ling Flood Water (1993) (BNC) 14 Pull yourself together, man! How could it come out, after all this time?

b. English regional (northern), Scottish, Irish English, Welsh English, and South African colloquial. Also, esp. in 20th cent., in Caribbean English and among African Americans. Used to address a person (in many varieties of English, irrespective of sex) parenthetically without emphasis to indicate familiarity, amicability, or equality between the speaker and the person addressed. Now sometimes with loss of vocative force.

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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > as form of address

cousinc1330

neighboura1500

man?a1513

a chara1829

digger1915

boet1920

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 108 ‘Fow wo’, quod scho, ‘Quhair will ȝe, man?’

1589 Hay any Work 1 Heere be non but frends man.

1675 P. Bellon Mock Duellist ii. ii. 30 Fear it not, man; I'll be in this as secret as thy self.

1691 Braggadocio iii. i. 35 A scouring Bottle of Pontack will scour it again, Mun.

1715 J. Vanbrugh tr. F. C. Dancourt Country House ii. 23 Char. [to Mariane] You see I can keep a secret—I am no girl mun.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. xiv. 268 I have seen you often at Fair; why, we have dealt before now mun, I warrant you.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer v. 93 Why that's it, mon.

1780 S. Lee Chapter of Accidents ii. ii. 26 But the best fun is to come, mun!

1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 55 I'll do it, min.

1892 J. Barlow Bog-land 25 Hullo, Connor!..is it you, man?

1933 Metronome Aug. 23 Trum's greeting was in the Negro dialect he usually employed: ‘Man! How is you?’

1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock i. 21 The Jamaican stood up and stretched himself. ‘Glad you woke me, man,’ he said.

1961 ‘B. Wells’ Day Earth caught Fire ix. 145 ‘Cut that out, man,’ the beatnik said.

1976 R. Bulter Shaela 58 Min A'm vexed ta hear yun.

1988 M. Orson in Fair Lady (Cape Town) 16 Mar. 128 Oh man Lisa, your nails are digging into my arm again man.

1993 V. Headley Excess xiv. 180 We have to talk some business. You been dissin' me, mon.

2001 N. Griffiths Sheepshagger 142 ‘Ianto, just fuckin ignore him, mun... He's just tryin-a wind yew up, mun.’ ‘Go on then, Ianto mun, fuckin prove it.’

c. As int. colloquial (formerly chiefly among African Americans and South African). Used to express surprise, delight, disbelief, amazement, etc. (frequently in oh man!), or to give force to the statement which it introduces. man alive!: see alive adj. Phrases 4. Cf. boy int., and brother n. 4c.

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1823 J. Neal Errata I. i. 37 Man!—Man!—I had a heart like a well—into it, every living creature might have dipped.

1850 Spirit of Times 19 Jan. 566/3 Man! I tell you, I begin to feel mad then!

1896 H. A. Bryden Tales S. Afr. i. 29 ‘Man!’ he said, ‘if I had not been shamed into following you, I would never have come across that place.’

1934 Z. N. Hurston Jonah's Gourd Vine xx. 240 Man he kin cold preach! Preached over in Goldsborough las' night and strowed fire all over de place.

1960 C. Hooper Brief Authority 76 Man, Padre, they will like it there, where they can grow things and live as in the reserve.

1969 A. Ginsberg Coll. Poems (1984) 535 Man, I'm really stoned out of my skull.

1990 C. L. Vincent Police Officer iv. vii. 121 Man, oh man, nobody is going to turn me into a social worker!

V. Idiomatic uses. Sometimes referring to male persons only, but frequently used without regard for gender.

17. In various syntactic collocations.

a. a man (used quasi-pronominally): anyone, someone, one (but frequently with implied reference to the male sex only). Cf. man pron., men pron., me pron.² †a man's self, a man's own: oneself, one's own.

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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > any man

a manc1225

anything in trousers1858

c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 51 (MED) Ha..schal lihte se lahe into a monnes þeowdom.

c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 1533 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 150 Ðwane a man is In mest soruwe and teone, þanne is ore louerdes grace next.

c1390 Form of Confession (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 344 (MED) Whuche are a Monnes fyue wittes? Heering, Seoing, Smellyng, Tastyng, and Touching.

a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 40 (MED) Meeknes..is not ellis bot a trewe knowyng & felyng of a mans self as he is.

1477–8 Bk. of Curtesye (Caxton) (1882) l. 283 Who that vsith a mannes tale to breke Letteth vncurteysly alle the audyence.

?c1500 Digby Plays 19 Her, virgynes, as many as a man wyll, shall holde tapers in ther handes.

1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 10 Enuie..is best extinguished by declaring a mans selfe in his ends, rather to seeke merite then fame.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 39 Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellowes.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 306 To Praise a Mans selfe, cannot be Decent..: But to Praise a Mans Office or Profession, he may doe it with Good Grace.

1637 P. Heylyn Briefe Answer Burton 53 A man would think that you had said enough against your soueraigne.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 14 A Man would expect..to find some considerable Antiquities.

1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. vi. p. xliii A man may be weak all his life long, without experiencing any disease.

1842 Ld. Tennyson You ask me Why 8 The land, where..A man may speak the thing he will.

1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 426/1 By turning an arrow and pressing a button, a man may in half a minute order a cocktail, towels, [etc.].

1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society v. 135 A man can acquire wealth by working in the White economy as a wage labourer.

1990 A. Duff Once were Warriors vi. 53 What happens when a man can really handle himself: people wanna buy a man a beer.

b. as one man [after post-classical Latin quasi vir unus (Vulgate), rendering Hebrew kĕ'īš 'eḥād (e.g. Judges 20:1, Ezra 3:2); compare post-classical Latin quasi unius hominis (Judges 20:8), quasi unus (Ezra 2:64; rendering Hebrew kĕ'eḥād)] : unanimously, with one accord, all together.

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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > in/into one place, company, or mass [phrase] > together or in a body > specifically of people or animals

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in (also on, upon, etc.) a routa1387

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in sorta1400

on a sorta1550

at one1591

in the (or a) quilla1616

in uniform1623

in hand1883

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) 1 Esdras ii. 64 Al þe multitude as oon man [a1425 L.V. (margin) o man; that is, of o purpos and wille, to bilde the temple].

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges xx. 8 So all the people gat them vp as one man.

1611 Bible (King James) Judges xx. 1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the Congregation was gathered together as one man .

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. Introd. 5/2 Inspiring them, as one Man, to secede into a Wilderness.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §64. 63 They went altogether as one Man.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 160 We rose up as one man, against a paltry stamp-tax.

1872 London Figaro 14 Dec. (Farmer) There is no good to be got out of gassing about rallying around standards, uniting as one man to resist, etc.

1911 J. London Strength of Strong in Hampton's Mag. Mar. 311/1 Of the ten Meat-Eaters, each man had the strength of ten, for the ten had fought as one man. They had added their strength together.

1993 J. Neale Laughter of Heroes (BNC) 72 The crowd rise to their feet as one man. Keith goes for the goal line.

c. every (also each) man for himself: look out for your own interests before those of anyone else; (also) designating a situation in which each person is preoccupied with his or her own safety or advancement.

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c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1182 At the kynges court my brother Ech man for hymself.

c1530 A. Barclay Egloges i. sig. Eij^v Eche man for hym selfe, and the frende for all.

1562 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tounge (new ed.) ii. ix, in Wks. sig. k4 Every man for him selfe, and god for us all.

1615 T. Adams White Deuill (ed. 4) 83 That by-word, Euery man for himselfe, and God for vs all, is vncharitable, vngodly; and impugneth directly the end of euery good calling, and honest kind of life.

1729 J. Gay Polly ii. xii. 50 Every man for himself, say I. There is no being even with mankind, without that universal maxim.

1798 J. O'Keeffe Tantara-rara i. ii. 358 Oh, very well, gentlemen, I'll throw up the hand, and ev'ry man for himself. (a loud knocking) There's the young Lord—plague on your mutinying—to your posts—fly!

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. xxix. 90 ‘Forward! Forward!’ were the cries, on every side of our hero. ‘Forward! forward! every man for himself!’

1880 in F. B. Hough Thousand Islands of River St. Lawrence 85 Acting upon the maxim of ‘every man for himself’, the crowd dispersed.

1916 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 21 607 A world literally of every-man-for-himself would be a world of disinherited men.

1922 H. Walpole Cathedral i. i. 14 They had been troublous times. It had been every man for himself.

1967 G. Baxt Swing Low Sweet Harriet viii. 86 In times of disaster, kiddo, it's every man for himself.

1991 Newsweek 23 Dec. 32/1 ‘The '80s were about every man for himself,’ says Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.

1997 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 91/2 An every-man-for-himself attitude among the staff..poses a serious hazard.

d. man for man: with each person of one side in a contest, etc., matched, paired, or compared with one of the other side.

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a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xliv. 215 (MED) Owt of this tour scholen Comen..Man for Man with hem to fyhte.

a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 1944 Sen he haid oblist king for king..and onlie man for man.

1592 Let. 29 Jan. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. IV. 104 When two or more ships do joyne in consortship together, then whatsoever is gotten in that consortship is to be devidid tonne for tonne, and man for man.

1708 London Gaz. No. 4482/2 That the Prisoners taken on either side be exchanged Man for Man.

1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 11 Man for man the Fuzzy knocked us 'oller.

2014 Triple Crowned (Bay Area News Group) 90/2 We understand that we might not be man for man, you know, the favorites... Our strength is who we are as a team.

e. man by man: each person in turn or in series.

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a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 77 (MED) And eueriche schal occupie þre foot of space in lengþe of þe raunge, man by man.

1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 23 Ther Screvener..wrytyng ower namys man by man.

1611 Bible (King James) Josh. vii. 14 The housholdes which the Lord shall take, shal come man by man .

1713 J. Addison Cato i. iii I've sounded my Numidians, man by man, And find 'em ripe for a revolt.

1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 176 And the greedy spear upswallowing Man by man, its gory food.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 549/1 The Macedonian army were suffered to pass man by man through his chamber to bid him farewell.

f. between man and man: between or among individuals; between or among the various societies of the human race.

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1537 Cardinal R. Pole Let. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. lxxxiv. 219 He would be content..to disturb al commerce between..man and man.

1615 W. Bedwell Arabian Trudgman in tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ sig. N4^v, at Talby These..are authorized to draw writings betweene man and man.

a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 651 He doth..correct those actions, that unlink the mutual assistance between Man and Man.

1784 E. Allen Reason vi. §2. 212 The same is the case between man and man, or with mankind in general.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. x. 168 The balance of justice, between man and man.

1892 S. R. Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. 21 Justice was done between man and man.

1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After iv. 90 How far, we may ask, is the continued strife between man and man necessary for the further development of the race?

1989 P. Tristram Living Space in Fact & Fiction (BNC) 51 It..has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest.

g. a man or a mouse (also man or mouse): (originally) †a successful person or a failure (obsolete); (in later use) a courageous person or a coward.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > there is much success [phrase] > succeed or fail

sink or swima1538

a man or a mouse1541

1541 Schole House of Women sig. B.iii Feare not she sayeth, vnto her spouse A man or a mouse, whyther be ye.

a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr^v/2 Your Father has committed you to my charge, and I will make a man, or a mouse on you.

1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn xx The game is made. Red, thirty-two. Now for it, Grog, man or a mouse, my boy. Mouse it is!

1938 Time 30 May 48/3 Are we mice or men?

1975 L. Deighton Yesterday's Spy xxii. 169 She gave a mocking laugh. ‘What are you?.. A man or a mouse?’

1996 C. Bateman Of Wee Sweetie Mice & Men xxxi. 242 ‘Who's game?’ ‘It'll be fuckin' freezin',’ said McClean. ‘So. Are ye a man or a mouse?’

†h. to make (a person) a man: to ensure the prosperity or success of. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > cause to prosper or flourish [verb (transitive)] > ensure prosperity or success of

make1460

to be the making ofa1500

to make a man for ever1584

to make (a person) a man1584

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xv. xvii. 425 Applie it, & thou shalt be made a man for euer.

1624 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 251 [To] set him upon his legs, and make him a man for ever.

1671 J. Tillotson Serm. I. 227 What poor man could not cheerfully carry a great burthen of Gold..thereby to be made a man for ever.

i. to the last man: without exception (= to a man at sense 17j); until every person is dead, or until only one person remains alive.

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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. vii. 495 They bound themselves by a sacred law and oth to fight it out to the last man.

1677 W. Hubbard Narrative (1865) i. 161 [He] said they would fight it out to the last Man.

1837 T. De Quincey Revolt of Tartars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 102/1 One entire tribe of the Khan's dependents..had perished to the last man.

1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee v. 68 The peoples of the earth shall famish and die, to the last man!

1936 Times 30 Nov. 5/4 A pack who shoved to the last man and quick-heeled from the tight and loose.

1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness ii. ix. 205 300 local allies were massacred to the last man by the Latookas after an unsuccessful attempt at ambush.

j. to a man: without exception; including every person.

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1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 224 They might haue had the killing of all his army to a man.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 444. ¶1 The ordinary Quack-Doctors..are to a Man Impostors.

1764 Ann. Reg. 1763 159 The soldiers,..immediately after roll calling,..assembled to a man.

1838 E. Flagg Far West I. 20 The former dwellers in Kentucky..were exterminated to a man.

1894 S. Baring-Gould Deserts S. France II. 228 He cut them down almost to a man.

1958 M. L. King Stride toward Freedom iv. 64 At the words ‘All in favor of the motion stand’, every person to a man stood up.

1990 Gay Times Dec. 11/1 To a man, they went on about how George was ‘unique’.

k. per man: for each person.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [phrase] > individually or separately > per person

headOE

per capita1621

per mana1687

per capita1834

per caput1856

per caput1911

a skull1922

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) 49 About 72,000l, at the medium of 3l per Man, would Salariate the whole number of twenty four thousand.

1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 48 With no farther ammunition than ten rounds per man more.

1904 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Sept. 39/1 Terms as usual, 4s. per man per week, the cook to find his own slushy.

1979 R. S. Peffer Watermen 118 The eelers' income dropped to less than $150 per man per week.

l. to be man enough: to have sufficient strength, courage, resolution, etc. (for a task, opponent, etc.). Chiefly with infinitive. Also in extended use.

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the mind > emotion > courage > manliness > behave manfully [verb (intransitive)]

to be man enough1799

to play up?1888

to cowboy up1973

to grow a pair1987

to man up1996

1641 T. Killigrew Claracilla v. sig. F8 I finde I have not man enough to meete with her Without trembling.]

1799 J. Boaden Aurelio & Miranda ii. i. 27 I am not man enough. Tell him.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. vi. 99 May the foul fiend fly off with me, if I am not man enough for a dozen of them.

1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray II. vii. 138 He was not man enough to stand up and face this new enemy unless he were backed by his old friends.

1904 J. London Sea-wolf xxxv. 328 He deserves to die..and God forgive me, I am not man enough to be his executioner.

1953 J. Wain Hurry on Down ix. 202 You aren't man enough to scrape up a miserable seventy-five pounds without all this whining.

1986 Pract. Gardening Mar. 13/3 That lot is no lightweight! But the special staging is more than man enough for the job.

18. With the. Also with capital initial.

a. Chiefly in predicative use: the man referred to previously; the man most suitable for some office, task, etc.; the kind of man qualified or likely to do something; †figurative (humorous): something which is precisely what is wanted or required (obsolete). the man for me: the man whom I would choose to employ or support, the man whom I endorse.the man for my money: see money n. Phrases 1a(b).

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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > that which is suitable or appropriate > the appropriate person

man1535

old who1594

my man1611

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xii. 7 Thou art euen the man.

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 12^v When Easter comes, who knowes not than, that Ueale and Bakon, is the man.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 123 Ouiddius Naso was the man .

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 108 You coulde neuer doe him so ill well, vnlesse you were the very man .

1678 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 49 The House met to-day and are violent upon chussing a new Speaker and Sir Sawyer is lyke to be the man.

1783 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband v. iii. 46 Let me see,—Well made, a good air, you are the man for a dancer.

1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) v. i. 4 The very man fitted by nature to retrieve the desperate fortunes of her beloved province.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 549 Lauzun was in every respect the man for the present emergency.

1897 H. G. Wells Invisible Man ix. 74 Here..is an outcast like myself. This is the man for me.

1963 Times 20 May 4/7 Tambling was the man for the quick break and almost stole two more goals near the end.

1991 N.Y. Times 13 Nov. b7/1 If there was a situation that needed to be sized up, then Magic Johnson was the man for the job.

b. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). A person in authority; spec. a prison warder or governor; a policeman; an employer, a boss.

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society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority

mastereOE

herOE

lordOE

overmana1325

overling1340

seignior1393

prelatea1475

oversman1505

signor1583

hogen mogen1639

boss-cocky1898

man1918

trump1937

authority figure1948

Great White Father1960

1918 G. M. Battey 70,000 Miles in Submarine Destroyer (1919) 302 Any body in authority is ‘the man’.

1928 R. Fisher Walls of Jericho 306 The man, designation of abstract authority. He who trespasses where a sign forbids is asked: ‘Say, biggy, can't you read the man's sign?’

1933 Amer. Speech 8 iii. 29/2 Unuther goddam word out o' you-all, an' Ah'll send ev'ry goddam one of ye up t' the Man.

1936 W. Cumming in D. G. McLean Hist. Fordyce Acad. 127 He asked leave from the ‘man’, Mr. Innes; he put his request so politely..that the dominie always granted the request.

1962 Amer. Speech 37 270 Man, a policeman. A word used by teen-age drivers. ‘When I heard the siren, I knew it was the Man.’

1974 R. Thomas Porkchoppers xi. 98 They'll be on my back for telling them something that they don't think the man needs to know.

1995 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 2 July e4/2 It was a vicarious way of powerless people being able to stick it to the Man.

c. Chiefly among African Americans: a white person, esp. regarded as an oppressor; white people collectively.

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society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority > white person over black

White Father1806

man1931

1931 L. Hughes & Z. N. Hurston Mule Bone (1991) 142 Dis railroad belongs to de man—I kin walk it good as you, cain't I?

1963 N.Y. Times 18 May 12/2 A well-educated Negro said today: ‘The demonstrations, I think, suggested to “The Man” that tokenism won't make it and that he has to come to grips with the problem right now.’ ‘The Man’, in Negro parlance, is the white man.

1972 Guardian 12 Aug. 9 Rus is not Uncle Tomming it around Harlem with ‘the Man’. He has brought a foreign visitor.

1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 1548/2 The majority of southern blacks spent much of their lives ‘workin' for the man’ (a catch-all phrase for whites).

d. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). A drug dealer.

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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs

drug dealer1800

drug peddler1889

swing man1903

drug pusher1904

drug trafficker1912

dope-merchant1921

junker1922

dope-pedlar1923

junkie1923

pedlar1929

pusher1929

dope-seller1930

dope-runner1933

connection1934

dope-smuggler1937

tea man1938

man1942

dealer1951

score1951

passer1956

candy man1965

narcotraficante1980

clocker1989

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §510/3 Narcotic trafficker,..hop merchant..,man,..peddler.

1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie ix. 87 When I first hit New Orleans, the main pusher—or ‘the Man’, as they say there—was a character called Yellow.

1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie Gloss. 14 ‘The Man’, junk seller. ‘The Man’ is a New Orleans expression, and can also refer to a Narcotics Agent.

1967 L. Reed in Between Thought & Expression (1993) 4 I'm waiting for my man Twenty-six dollars in my hand Up to Lexington 1-2-5 Feeling sick and dirty more dead than alive.

1973 Black World Nov. 92/2 Their writing mainly concerns the street life—the pimp, the junky, the forces of drug addiction, exploitation at the hands of ‘the man’.

1995 Independent 27 Apr. 22/7 I burnt my finger on a roach while I was waiting for the man to come across with my skunk.

e. U.S. slang (chiefly among African Americans). A man who is highly respected or accomplished, esp. in a particular field. Also in you're the man (usually in form you da man), used to express commendation or approval.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > admiration > [noun] > admired person

wonder-man1883

bonzer1897

man1952

badman1954

motherfucker1958

motor scooter1960

1952 G. Mandel Flee Angry Strangers 33 I'm diggin a lot of Armstrong, 'cause he's the man.

1981 Time 12 Oct. 10 I got a pair of $600 lizard shoes and I got silk shirts. I'm the Man, boy. I changes my clothes 15 times a day.

1999 Boston Globe 24 Sept. c5 Wild, wild applause. Teenagers are screaming and everyone is yelling, ‘You da man!’

19. Modified by a number or quantifier, forming a phrase used attributively or as an adjective, as four-man, eight-man, etc.: comprising the number of people specified; suitable for or requiring the number of people specified. See also multiman adj., one-man adj., three-man adj., and two-man adj. at two adj., n., and adv. Compounds 1a.

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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > rower or oarsman > crew of 4- or 8-oared boat > one of

eight-man1600

seven1870

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 229 If I do, fillip me with a three man beetle.

1842 Congress. Globe 27th Congress 2 Sess. App. 812/3 Those whose clamors are so unceasing against what they are pleased to call the ‘one-man power’.

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 47 A Faroese ‘Eight-man boat’, fully equipped for the grind or chase of the..Bottle-nose Whale.

1902 Daily Chron. 16 July 9/1 A couple of four-man teams.

1966 Melody Maker 7 May 4 Pollwinner Tubby Hayes heads a five-man British contingent.

1990 Pilot Oct. 44/1 The emergency equipment consisted of a five-man dinghy, [etc.].

20. With possessive.

a. my man n. (also your man, etc.) the person who can fulfil one's requirements; the person whom one is seeking out or pursuing. See also sense 7a.

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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > that which is suitable or appropriate > the appropriate person

man1535

old who1594

my man1611

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings xx. 20 And they slew euery one his man [Hebrews ‘a man his man’] .

1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 23 If Hector be to fight with any Greeke, He knows his Man.

1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 19 A horse has various methods of getting rid of his man.

1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 53 For gallygaskins Slowshears is your man; But coats must claim another artisan.

1830 Chron. in Ann. Reg. (1831) 165/1 He..did not fire for some seconds, until he had fairly covered his man.

1837 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 144 ‘Nine pund’ says he, ‘and I'm your man’.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. i. 5 And who don't agree, let him choose his weapons, and I'm his man.

1864 M. Lemon Loved at Last II. 228 Mr. Rasper entered the room... Cecil knew his man,—he merely bowed to him.

1887 R. Buchanan Heir of Linne i Oil my voice, and I'm your man.

1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories 73 Whoever you are if it's war you want, I'm your man.

b. Originally among African Americans. my man n. a male person regarded with great respect or admiration; a person's very close male friend. Frequently as a form of address (sometimes without connotation of close friendship, as a merely familiar form of address between two males (cf. my adj. 2a)). See main man n. at main adj.² Compounds 2.

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1945 L. Armstrong & F. Robbins in Jazz Record Dec. 8/2 Fred: He was your idol, huh?... Louis: Yeah, he was my man.

1952 E. Brown Trespass iii. 30 Crazy? My man, you know who you talking to?

1973 E. K. Ellington Music is my Mistress 251 ‘Francis, you know Al Hibbler.’ ‘Why, that's my man.’

1987 J. Estes Field of Innocence 129 Jackson, my man! What it is! What it is!

1997 Village Voice (N.Y.) 18 Mar. 42/3 ‘Yo, somebody just got wet,’ announced my man Sean as we pulled away in a swift 180.

c. our man in —— n. one's representative or envoy in a specified place.Sometimes with allusion to Graham Greene's novel Our Man in Havana (1958).

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society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > representative > one's representative in a specified place

our man in ——1958

1958 ‘A. Bridge’ Portuguese Escape iii. 44 One of the real stars is pro-West, and arranged with our man in Hungary to bring him along.

1963 L. Deighton Horse under Water vi. 33 ‘Welcome to Gibraltar,’ said Joe MacIntosh, our man in Iberia.

1990 S. Morgan Homeboy iii. 29 They're raiding you tomorrow night. Luckily our man in Muni Court informed me.

21. man jack n. the average or common person (cf. Jack n.² 2a); also †man John, †man Jonathan. Chiefly in every man jack n. (also †every Jack man) every single person. any man jack n. any person at all.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > each and every one thing

each oneOE

everya1250

still and boldc1300

all and somea1350

one and all (also all and one)a1400

all and sundry1428

all the sort of1535

every or each several?a1562

first and last1582

each and singular1668

all and singular1669

every man jack1807

1807 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1947) VIII. 601 May I never weigh anchor again—If I don't upset every Man-Jack of you.

1818 G. Daniel Doctor Bolus i. 5 O 'twill be Dickey with ev'ry man Jack of us!

1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) II. xxiii. 33 Every man Jonathan of them sets off again full gallop.

1838 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 141 I knocked down 16 geese and sacked ‘every man John’ of them.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxix. 163 ‘You don't mean to say their old wearers are all dead?’.. ‘Every one of 'em... Every man Jack!’

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. vi. vi. 214 My missus says that not a man John of them is to be seen.

1849 Blackwood's Mag. 697 At length the men were all embarked—the sick, the wounded, every man John of them.

1891 Eng. Illustr. Mag. No. 88. 306 Bail up, throw up your hands now, or I'll shoot every man jack of you.

1970 S. Selvon Plains of Caroni v. 77 But nowadays manjack and his brother brushed shoulders with the whites.

1995 E. Toman Dancing in Limbo iii. 76 Before any man jack of you is let loose you will know this job inside out.

22. [Compare French le nommé in legal use.] Prefixed to a name (as the man ——, or, usually with hostile or contemptuous emphasis, that man ——): the man known by or bearing the name specified; the man previously referred to by the name specified.

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1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. iv. 109 Know'st thou not..that I have followed the man Cromwell as close as the bulldog follows his master.

1864 M. Lemon Loved at Last III. 190 If that should be the man Kiddy, do not admit him.

1922 E. von Arnim Enchanted April (1989) 247 The muddle that man Droitwich made in his department in the war was a national scandal.

1946 Negro Digest Aug. 48/1 Compared to the man Bilbo, 63-year-old John Rankin is strictly penny ante.

1977 C. Thomas Firefox (1978) p. x Our information comes principally from the man Baranovich, who has been responsible for the electronics.

23. the man in the street: see street n. and adj. Phrases 5; hence in extended use, as the man in the (also a) parlour (pub, bus, etc.). the man on the Clapham omnibus: see Clapham n.

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people

Jackc1390

fellowa1400

commonerc1400

populara1525

plebeianc1550

ungentle1562

Tom Tiler1582

roturier1586

vulgarity1646

little man1707

pleb1795

man of the people1799

the man in the street1831

snob1831

man1860

oickman1925

1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Wks. (1906) II. 321 What pious men in the parlour will vote for what reprobates at the polls!

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 393 He has, au fond, the man-in-a-pub's moral mistrust of art.

1958 Listener 4 Dec. 920/2 Take, for instance, the terms in which the ordinary man-in-the-bus expresses his agreement with somebody else's opinion.

1990 R. Bly Iron John vii. 198 The contemporary man in the Kmart or the church basement or the lawyer's office has no Iron John from whom he can receive a four-legged horse.

VI. Extended uses.

24. One of the pieces used in certain board games, esp. in chess, draughts, and backgammon. Also figurative. Cf. chessmen n., tableman n., and meinie n. 3.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > [noun] > piece

manc1460

tableman1480

piece1562

counter1600

game piece1880

onesie1888

tile1923

gamesman1931

meeple2000

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1821 (MED) Comyth nere! Ye shul se..How he shall be matid with what man me list.

a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) xxi. 71 The first man, þat goth afore, hath not but oo poynt, but whenne he goth aside, he takith anoþer... The secund, scil. alphyn, renneth iij. poyntes both vpward and douneward.

1562 tr. Damiano da Odemira Pleasaunt Playe of Cheasts sig. Aij As if thei had the cheste-bourde and men in their handes.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Dame,..a man at Tables, or Draughts.

1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 55 Like a skilful Chest-player, by little and little he draws out his men.

1735 J. Bertin Noble Game of Chess p. vi Never croud your game by too many men in one place.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 121 On asking for a back-gammon-board, having one brought in—in ruins the men half lost, and the dice quite.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iv. 27 The huffing of Miss Bella and the loss of three of her men at a swoop.

1907 S. S. Blackburne Terms & Themes Chess Probl. 87 Sacrificing, offering a White man to be captured. If a man or men already en prise be left so, this may be called a ‘passive sacrifice’.

1960 H. Lee To kill Mockingbird (1963) ii. xv. 149 Bam, bam, bam, and the checker-board was swept clean of my men.

1992 Economist 3 Oct. 50/3 Mr Kravchuk, who prides himself on his chess-playing prowess, did not give up his man easily.

25. With modifying word: a ship, esp. a sailing ship. See also East Indiaman n., Indiaman n., man-of-war n. 2a, merchantman n. 2. Now rare (historical).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun]

shipc725

beamOE

boardOE

bargea1300

steera1300

vessela1300

treea1382

loomc1400

man1473

ark1477

bottom1490

keela1547

riverboat1565

craft1578

pine1592

class1596

flood-bickerer1599

pitchboard1599

stern-bearer1599

wooden horse1599

wooden isle1603

water treader?1615

water house1616

watercraft1618

machine1637

prore1642

lightman1666

embarkation1690

bark1756

prowa1771

Mudian1813

bastiment1823

hooker1823

nymph1876

M.F.V.1948

1473 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 588 A fewe Frenshemen be whyrlyng on the coostys so þat ther dare no fyshers go owght.

1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 125 The Christopher being the headmost & the weathermost man, went roome with the Admirall.

1665 Oxf. Gaz. No. 3/4 They chased a Barbadoes and a Jamaica man into Limrick.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tant,..Mast of a Ship or Man.

1778 H. Walpole Last Jrnls. (1859) II. 284 The Brest fleet was sailed, twenty-eight men-of-the-line.

1788 J. May Jrnl. 7 May (1873) (modernized text) 33 In order to put them on board the Kentucky-man.

1889 Daily News 21 Oct. 6/5 The vessel..proved to be a Frenchman.

26. An image or portrait of a man; something bearing a resemblance to a human figure. man of straw, straw man: see straw n.¹ 2e, Compounds 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > three-dimensional representation > [noun] > model of a human

woman1509

manikin1535

malkinc1565

man1600

kirn-baby1777

maid1794

knack1813

snowman1827

moggie1896

1600 in J. Arnold Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (1988) 275/2 Item one rounde gowne of heare colored raized mosseworke enbrodered allover with leaves pomegranets and men.

a1635 ‘T. Randolph’ in Ann. Dubrensia (1636) sig. C3 They looke like yonder man of wood that stands To bound the limits of the Parish lands.

1811 L. Aikin Juvenile Corr. 86 We have all been joining to build up a man of snow in our garden.

1906 E. V. Lucas Wanderer in London 170 One of the old weather-cottages, with a little man and a little woman to swing in and out and foretell rain and shine.

1994 R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures viii. 142 A ‘foosball’ game, one of those table games where you knock a ball back and forth by rotating levers with little men attached to them.

27. In Cumbria: a cairn marking a summit or prominent point of a mountain (now chiefly in local names for particular mountain or rock features, as Low Man, High Man). More generally: a prominent mass of rock forming part of a mountain.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > boundary mark > stone > pyramid of stones

cairn1770

man1800

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > crag > [noun]

stonec825

knara1250

scar13..

craga1375

nipc1400

knag1552

knee1590

jag1831

man1897

1800 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads II. 163 And there they built up without mortar or lime A Man on the peak of the crag.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe iii. 163 A stone man or cairn.

1897 O. G. Jones Rock-climbing 68 They reached the Low Man, as the nearly horizontal crest of the first huge buttress is called.

1897 O. G. Jones Rock-climbing 243 Then to the right comes the actual Pillar Rock, the ‘High Man’.

1897 O. G. Jones Rock-climbing 243 The Low Man, the immense buttress that from below hides the true summit altogether.

1964 D. K. Findlay Northern Affair 98 Over the elephant rocks and under the lee of the stone man.

†28. colloquial. The obverse of a coin (used in the context of tossing a coin). Cf. woman n. 12. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > obverse or reverse of coin

pilea1393

cross and pile1584

reverse1605

averse1655

ranverse1656

obverse1658

heads1675

tail1684

endorse1688

woman1785

mazard1802

man1828

mick1918

1828 ‘J. Bee’ Living Picture London 241 The person calling for ‘man’ or ‘woman’.

1858 Househ. Words 4 Dec. 1/2 Up goes the dollar... ‘Heads or tails? Man or woman?’

29. coarse slang. the (little) man in the boat: the clitoris.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > clitoris

clitoris1615

clitty1873

the little man in the boat1896

button1898

clit1958

1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 278/1 The little man in the boat (venery), the clitoris.

1959 Encounter 12 May 21 [Prostitute speaking] The man in the boat's my mascot. As a matter of fact it's every woman's mascot.

1975 F. Exley Pages from Cold Island vi. 88 Up in the cowshed..we'd known forever about..the ‘man in the boat’ and that a man bent on giving a woman pleasure must approach this cute little bugger with a certain worldly..enthusiasm.

1984 W. J. Caunitz One Police Plaza 96 Please observe the glans clitoris resembles a man standing in a boat. Hence..the nickname, the man in the boat.

30. U.S. slang. [Shortened < iron man n. 6a.] A dollar.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a dollar

skin1834

rock1837

buck1856

scad1856

simoleon1881

plunk1885

clam1886

slug1887

bone1889

plunker1890

ace1900

sinker1900

Oxford1902

caser1907

iron man1907

man1910

berry1918

fish1920

smacker1920

Oxford scholar1937

loonie1987

1910 T. A. Dorgan in N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 3 May 18/2 Ah—here's the salary with three extra men for that night I worked.

1921 H. C. Witwer Leather Pushers vii. 174 I'll go to the cleaners for sixty thousand men if Kid Roberts don't dash home in front.

1967 P. Thomas Down these Mean Streets xii. 106 Here's half a man.

Phrases

Man enters into an almost unlimited number of phraseological collocations in which it is connected by a preposition with another noun, usually denoting quality, character, occupation, or profession. For man of business, man of the cloth, man of clouts, man of colour, man of fashion, man of figure, man of (his) hands, man of the house, man of mark, man of means, man of the moment, man of motley, man of numbers, man of parts, man of quality, man of religion, man of service, man of sin, man of sorrows, man of straw, man in the street, man about town, man of the town, man of wax, man of the wood(s), man of one's word, man of few or many words, man of worship, see the second nouns. See also ladies' man n. at lady n. Compounds 3b; world's man at world n. 4a; man of law n., man of the world n., etc.

P1. With man.

† man of after-wits n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. bbb3 The People of this Countrey were..said to be also the Inventors of Augury... And yet for the most part men of after-wits.

† man of antipathies n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1838 Ann. Reg. 1837 i. Hist. Europe 412/1 William the 4th was not a man of antipathies.

† man of chaff n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > coward(s)

coward?a1289

hen-hearta1450

staniel?a1500

pigeon?1571

cow1581

quake-breech1584

cow-baby1594

custard1598

chicken heart1602

nidget1605

hen?1613

faintling1614

white-liver1614

chickena1616

quake-buttocka1627

skitterbrooka1652

dunghill1761

cow-heart1768

shy-cock1768

fugie1777

slag1788

man of chaff1799

fainter1826

possum1833

cowardy, cowardy, custard1836

sheep1840

white feather1857

funk1859

funkstick1860

lily-liver1860

faint-heart1870

willy boy1895

blert1905

squib1908

fraid cat (also fraidy cat)c1910–23

manso1912

feartie1923

yellowbelly1927

chicken liver1930

boneless wonder1931

scaredy-cat1933

sook1933

pantywaist1935

punk1939

ringtail1941

chickenshit1945

candy-ass1953

pansy-ass1963

unbrave1981

bottler1994

1799 W. Wordsworth Poet's Epit. 14 Or art thou one of gallant pride, A Soldier and no man of chaff?

man of character n.

ΚΠ

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Incog, for Incognito, a Man of Character or Quality concealed or in disguise.

1991 N. Sands Palace Centurions (BNC) 59 A man of character, he was always able to give one-hundred per cent effort.

† man of charge n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 9 All great Captaines, Chieftaines, and men of charge.

† man of dignity n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 165 Destroyede..senatoures, consuls, pretories, and edelynes, men of dignyte.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 27170 (MED) Þou agh to min Quat man he es..Man of office or dignite.

man of distinction n.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male

gallant1388

wamfler15..

rutter1506

younkera1522

fine gentleman1575

cavalier1589

whisker1595

jinglespur1604

bravery1616

brisk1621

chevalier1630

man about town1647

man of mode1676

man of distinction1699

sprag1707

sparky1756

blood1763

swell1786

Corinthian1819

galliard1828

mondain1833

toff1851

flâneur1854

Johnny1883

silver-tail1898

knut1911

lounge lizard1918

old buster1919

Hooray Henry1959

1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 40 It is..much more pleasing to see..a dead Friend, or Relation, or..a Man of Distinction, Painted as he was.

1954 ‘P. Quentin’ Wife of Ronald Sheldon xix. 167 He'd never been so innocent, so the man of distinction.

1971 D. Lees Rainbow Conspiracy vii. 111 He had a nervous apprehensive look that contrasted strangely with his man-of-distinction appearance.

man of feeling n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] > sensitive person

sensitive plant1665

man of feeling1771

sensitive1807

soul1814

sensitivist1839

tender-heart1904

1771 H. Mackenzie (title) The Man of Feeling.

1991 H. Blamires Hist. Lit. Crit. (BNC) 237 There is a curious air of modernity about his willingness to theorise directly from self, as poet and man of feeling.

† man of glee n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1799 W. Wordsworth Fountain 20 The dear old Man,..The grey-haired man of glee.

† man of healing n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1847 G. P. R. James Convict II. 195 As soon as the man of healing was gone,..he sprang up in his bed, hurried on his clothes [etc.].

man of honour n.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > honourableness > [noun] > point of honour > man concerned with honour

man of honoura1470

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 578 He hath wonne wyth his hondys thirty knyghtes that were men of grete honoure.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 99. ¶10 If every one that fought a Duel were to stand in the Pillory it would quickly lessen the Number of these imaginary Men of Honour.

1993 Economist 7 Aug. 32/3 Neither Gladstone nor Disraeli could have survived as men of honour in the age of tabloidism.

man of mould n.

ΚΠ

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiii. 241 ‘Rouse up thy soul to say what thou wilt do for thy liberty.’ ‘What a man of mould may,’ answered Athelstane, ‘providing it be what a man of manhood ought.’

1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. i. 26 Though one at least of his contributors, W. Hunnis, was a man of mould.

† man of nothing to do n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 252 Like a Man of nothing to do.

† man of office n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 27170 (MED) Þou agh to min Quat man he es..Man of office or dignite.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xiii. 274 ‘You must remove nothing here,’ said the man of office, ‘or you will be liable for all consequences.’

1856 C. Reade It is never too Late II. v. 103 His heart broke..its tapen bonds, and the man of office came quickly to the man of God.

man of peace n.

ΚΠ

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cxx. 7 I am for peace. [Margin] Or, a man of peace.

1993 N.Y. Times 13 Apr. a21/3 The Dalai Lama is coming to Washington at the end of April. It is time to send a different message to this man of peace.

† man of practice n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. v. 214 This..almost stupid Man of Practice, pitted against some light adroit Man of Theory.

† man of preferment n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1698 Money Masters all Things 131 The ugly and crippled were the only Men of Preferment.

man of property n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > man of property

livelihood mana1450

livinga1450

man of livinga1556

man of property1765

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. ii. 115 The commons consist of all such men of property in the kingdom as have no seat in the house of lords.

1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. iv. 18 If the intermediate tenant is..a man of property, the same argument is applicable to his reletting to another intermediate man.

a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. iii. 52 You misled me by the term gentleman. I thought you were speaking of some man of property .

1919 J. Galsworthy Let. 25 Nov. in H. V. Marrot Life & Lett. J. Galsworthy (1935) iv. i. 485 I have just finished a sequel to The Man of Property, and, in accordance with the scheme I broached to you..have still one story and a third novel in further sequel to write, to make the whole of The Forsyte Saga.

1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 103 Now I was a man of property, the joint owner of a large house in North Oxford.

man of rank n.

ΚΠ

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. s.v Honour The title of a man of rank.

1993 W. James Other Side of Heaven (BNC) 138 Even slaves were part of an organised meritocracy, and birth alone was insufficient to assure any man of rank or position.

man of sense n.

ΚΠ

a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) i. 33 One would think, that a man of sense should grutch to lend his ears..to such putid stuff.

1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn I. xiv. 111 But Mr. Ratler is a man of sense, Lady Laura, and is not to be despised.

1993 P. Marshall Amer. Princess (BNC) And how could Dr Neil, who was such a man of sense, tolerate such a…nodcock?

man of talents n. (also man of talent)

ΚΠ

1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. II. 259 The duke of Buckingham, a man of talents and power.

c1807 H. C. Robinson Let. 7 June in Diary (1869) I. xi. 236 A man of talent, but a political despairer, an ex-jacobin.

1978 J. Ramsden Age of Balfour & Baldwin (BNC) 65 Long was supported by the bulk of the English county members but by few of the party's men of talent.

man of theory n.

ΚΠ

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. v. 214 This..almost stupid Man of Practice, pitted against some light adroit Man of Theory.

1950 E. H. Carr Bolshevik Revol. I. ii. 38 The Mensheviks..were primarily men of theory; in Bolshevik terminology they were raisonneurs.

† man of title n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. ii. 46 A sin your man of title Is seldom guiltie of.

1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Of Happy Life i. 3 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) The Man of Title, as well as the Clouted Shooe.

† man of weight n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1747 Frauds & Abuses Coal-Dealers (ed. 3) 5 In all popular Assemblies, it has been found necessary to place some Man of Weight and Dignity in the Chair.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 153 If any man of weight..would..explain the state of things.

man of wisdom n.

ΚΠ

1611 Bible (King James) Micah vi. 9 The Lords voice cryeth vnto the citie, and the man of wisedome shall see thy Name.

1988 B. Stewart Charlemagne (BNC) 41 He summoned scholars and men of wisdom from all over the known world.

man of years n.

ΚΠ

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 46 The Man of Wisdom is the Man of Years.

1903 Daily Chron. 16 Apr. 5/1 Every second young man, and every third man of years, was wearing a cap.

P2.

man about the house n. humorous a husband or male companion who carries out domestic duties, household repairs, etc., for a woman.

ΚΠ

1961 J. Dawson Ha-ha iii. 59 ‘A blockage’, and how she wished there were a man about the house.

1973–6 (title of UK television series) A man about the house.

1975 D. Bloodworth Clients of Omega xvii. 157 I don't want a man about the house... A woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman could be just the thing.

1992 Face Oct. 48 Eric (‘the man about the house who keeps the place vibesy’).

man for all seasons n. see season n. 13c; so in (sometimes humorous) ad hoc phrases modelled on this.

ΚΠ

1973 Listener 29 Nov. 745/1 He [sc. John Kennedy] was a man for all seasons, a man for all people.

1975 Times 3 May 14/2 As many-sided as a diamond, Mr Trinder has proved himself a man for all occasions.

1983 N.Y. Times 16 Mar. 132/1 ‘I will be the Commissioner for good times for people, plants and animals,’ Mr. Stein said, ‘I will be a man for all species.’

1990 Newsweek 12 Mar. 89/1 He became ‘a man for all times’, a rare example of the strengths—and limits—of moral statecraft.

man from Mars n. a hypothetical observer of human behaviour and society whose perspective would be entirely detached and objective; (attributive) designating such a detached perspective or attitude.

ΚΠ

1948 V. Massey On being Canadian i. 11 If ‘the man from Mars’..could see us, what would he think of our future as a community?

1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) i. 1 A completely man-from-Mars attitude toward any language.

1975 Business Week 22 Dec. 56/1 Two years ago, the proverbial man from Mars might have sniffed the stench of Watergate and predicted that the U.S. would undergo a period of almost puritanical political reform.

1989 Atlantic Aug. 23/1 Ely took a man-from-Mars look at Japanese trading practices.

1994 Guardian 29 Oct. 26/1 Does anybody, incidentally, think that the world is a poorer place because the unsubstantiated allegations against Mr Smith were substantiated? A man from Mars, innocently reading HMG statements over the last couple of days, might be forgiven for concluding otherwise.

man from the ministry n. see ministry n. 5d.

man in black n. †(a) a clergyman (obsolete); (b) (see men in black n. at Phrases 3a).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun]

God's maneOE

priestOE

clerkc1050

secularc1290

vicary1303

minister1340

divinec1380

man of Godc1384

kirkmana1400

man of the churchc1400

cockc1405

Ecclesiastc1405

spiritual1441

ministrator1450

abbé1530

reverend1547

churchman1549

tippet-captain?1550

tippet knight1551

tippet man1551

public minister1564

reading minister1572

clergyman1577

clerk1577

padre1584

minstrel1586

spiritual1600

cleric1623

cassock1628

Levite1640

gownsman1641

teaching elder1642

ecclesiastic1651

religionist1651

crape1682

crape-gown-man1682

man in black1692

soul driver1699

secularist1716

autem jet1737

liturge1737

officiant1740

snub-devil1785

soul doctor1785

officiator1801

umfundisi1825

crape-man1826

clerical1837

God-man1842

Pfarrer1844

liturgist1848

white-choker1851

rook1859

shovel hat1859

sky pilot1865

ecclesiastical1883

joss-pidgin-man1886

josser1887

sin-shiftera1912

sin-buster1931

parch1944

1692 Gentleman's Jrnl. May 5 The Man in black makes but one of two in less than half an Hour.

man in motion n. see motion n. Phrases 3c.

man in possession Law = possession man n. at possession n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt > trustee or receiver

trustee1708

receiver1768

receiptor1819

possession man1851

man in possession1876

1876 Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 3/5 Mr. James Albery has constructed an original three-act comic drama called ‘The man in possession’.

1897 Daily News 10 Dec. 3/2 (heading) The ‘Man in Possession’.

† man-in-the-cars n. U.S. Obsolete rare an ordinary or typical person (= the man in the street at street n. and adj. Phrases 5).

ΚΠ

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxvi. 7 That representative of public opinion whom Americans call ‘the man in the cars’.

man-in-the-loop n. Engineering a human operator who directly controls some variable element in a closed-loop feedback control system; (frequently attributive) designating a closed-loop system in which a human response forms part of the control loop.

ΚΠ

1962 H. C. Ratz & G. H. M. Thomas in IRE Trans. on Human Factors in Electronics II. iii. 36/1 Studies have been made of the performance of the human operator as an element in feedback control systems. The transfer function of his motor response is important to the stability of systems in which he is an integral part of the control loop.]

1965 B. T. Bachofer in Jrnl. Spacecraft & Rockets 2 1003/2 (title) Man-in-the-loop space station navigational and control simulation.

1976 Jrnl. Sound & Vibration 43 727 (title) The influence of vibration and control gain of the performance of man-in-the-loop continuous control systems.

1991 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst. June 24/2 The ability of the man-in-the-loop to take advantage of opportunities such as these will continue to be unequalled for the forseeable [sic] future.

† man in the oak n. Obsolete a spirit or ghost supposed to inhabit an oak tree.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > nature-spirit > inhabiting woods or trees

man in the oak1584

wood-spirit1845

green man1907

tree-people1954

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft vii. xv. 153 Robin good fellowe, the spoorne, the mare, the man in the oke.

a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) i. ii. 299 Dwarffes, Imps, the Spoorne, the Mare, the Man i'th Oake: the Hell-wayne, the Fire-Drake, the Puckle.

man in the pew n. [after the man in the street at street n. and adj. Phrases 5] (a member of) a Christian church congregation, esp. as distinguished from theologians or clergy; also man (or woman) in the pew.

ΚΠ

1904 J. Dawson Man in Pew 3 Never a Sabbath passes but the man in the pew is slogged by the man in the pulpit.

1977 Evening Post (Nottingham) 27 Jan. 7/2 The survey..aims to find out how the ‘man-in-the-pew’ has reacted to changes in the Church and in society over the past ten years.

1991 Managem. Today Mar. 74/1 Donations from the man or woman in the pew form the Church of England's other big source of income.

man of action n. a man whose life is characterized by physical activity or deeds rather than by thoughts and ideas.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > one who acts or does > as opposed to theoretical

man of action1598

practic1599

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xi. iii. 143 Bardanes, who being a man of action..in two daies inuaded three thousand stadia.

1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxiv. 193 Dr. John could think, and think well, but he was rather a man of action than of thought.

1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness i. iv. 103 Stanley a man of action, an energetic voluntarist who believed in making things happen.

man-of-all-work n. (also man of all jobs) [humorously after maid-of-all-work n. at maid n.¹ 3b] a servant or employee who does all kinds of work.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > factotum

both-hands1631

man Fridaya1809

factotum1824

man-of-all-work1830

bottle washer1835

bumboy1907

1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 278 Mrs. Villars's man-of-all-work, Joseph.

1896 F. J. Furnivall Eng. Conquest Ireland p. vii But illness prevented him; and so I (as the Society's man-of-all-work) had to take the book up.

1938 S. Beckett Murphy iv. 54 Neary..boarded the first train for Dublin, accompanied by his âme damnée and man-of-all work, Cooper.

1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing xx. 22 Hermann, the man of all jobs, a former member of the Party's paramilitary organisation in Saxony.

† man of Belial n. [after post-classical Latin vir Belial (Vulgate), rendering Hebrew 'īš habbĕlīyyaʿal (e.g. 2 Samuel 16:7, 20:1)] Obsolete an evil man; a murderer.

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c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 2379 Semey [= Shimei] callid Dauid ‘man of Belial’ and ‘manquhellere’.

1822 W. Scott Monastery III. ix. 226 A scoffer, a debauched person, and, in brief, a man of Belial.

man of blood n. [after post-classical Latin vir sanguinus (Vulgate), rendering Hebrew 'īš haddāmīm (e.g. 2 Samuel 16:7, 16:8), 'īš dāmīm (e.g. Psalm 5:7); in the King James Bible (1611) usually translated bloody man, but several marginal readings (e.g. at 2 Samuel 16:7) give man of blood] a murderer or a man responsible for someone's death; a man who uses violence.

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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > guilt > guilty person > [noun] > bloodshed

man of bloodsa1425

man of blooda1500

society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [noun] > guilt of bloodshed > person

man of blooda1500

a1500 Legend of Cross in Medium Ævum (1965) 34 219 (MED) But for that he was a man of bloode, God wold nat suffre hym to parforme his hous.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 125 The secret'st man of Blood .

1659 W. Allen Faithful Memorial Meeting of Officers of Army 1648 5 That it was our duty..to call Charles Stuart, that man of bloud, to an account, for that bloud he had shed..in these poor Nations.

1811 C. Lamb in Reflector 1 428 Eye-scaring portraits of the man of blood.

1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness ii. vi. 146 There were..the men of blood such as Carl Peters who itched for the use of force.

† man of bloods n. [after post-classical Latin vir sanguinus (see man of blood n. at Phrases 2o)] Obsolete = man of blood n. at Phrases 2o.

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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > guilt > guilty person > [noun] > bloodshed

man of bloodsa1425

man of blooda1500

a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) 2 Kings xvi. 7 Go out, go out, thou man of bloodis.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) v. 7 Man of blodes & swikel wlath sall lord.

† man of cabinets n. Obsolete rare an antiquarian.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > object from the past or antique > one who is interested in

antiquary1566

antiquarian1595

philarchaist1652

man of cabinets1699

antiquitarian1720

antiquist1789

palaeophilist1822

palaeologist1828

archaista1861

palaeologian1894

1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 58 The Vulgar Name, by which those Men of Cabinets distinguish them is..Des Lampes.

† man of death n. [after post-classical Latin vir mortis (Vulgate), rendering Hebrew 'īš māweṯ] Obsolete a man who deserves to be put to death.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] > worthy of hanging

wickhals?a1400

crack-rope?a1500

stretch-hemp1532

man of death1535

slip-string1546

waghalter1546

hang-rope1570

rope-ripe1570

crack-halter1573

hempstring1573

wag-string1578

stretch-halter1583

gallows1598

halter-sack1598

wag-with1611

roper1615

gallows-climber1668

hang-string1675

gallows-face1725

gallows-bird1785

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal > worthy of hanging

wickhals?a1400

crack-rope?a1500

widdieneck?a1500

widdiefu?a1513

thevis neka1525

stretch-hemp1532

man of death1535

slip-string1546

waghalter1546

ropeful1567

gallows-clapper1570

hang-rope1570

rope-ripe1570

crack-halter1573

hempstring1573

wag-string1578

stretch-halter1583

gallows1598

halter-sack1598

wag-with1611

crack-hempa1616

roper1615

halter-sick1617

gallows-climber1668

hang-string1675

hempy1718

gallows-face1725

gallows-bird1785

hang-gallows1785

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings ii. 26 Thou art a man of deeth.

1642 Ess. of King in Bacon's Wks. (1858) VI. 596 Not to suffer a man of death to live.

man of destiny n. a man looked upon as an instrument of destiny; spec. Napoleon I.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > others

micklea1300

personagec1485

Triton1589

Jovian1598

gallimaufry1600

lords of creation1649

man of destiny1827

mugwump1828

man of the moment1837

history-maker1848

1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon IX. Concl. 329 The great plans which the Man of Destiny had been called upon earth to perform.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 5/1 His man-of-destiny characteristics made him an interesting study to the newspaper correspondents.

1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah iv. ii. 178 Napoleon (impressively). I am the Man of Destiny.

1990 B. Turner And Policeman Smiled (1991) (BNC) 76 Here spoke the man of destiny whose singleness of purpose overrode all other considerations.

man of God n. [after post-classical Latin homo Dei (e.g. Deuteronomy 33:1), vir Dei (e.g. Judges 13:6) (Vulgate), rendering Hebrew 'īš 'ĕlōhīm, 'īš hā'ĕlōhīm] a man devoted to the service of God, esp. a saint or an ecclesiastic.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun]

God's maneOE

priestOE

clerkc1050

secularc1290

vicary1303

minister1340

divinec1380

man of Godc1384

kirkmana1400

man of the churchc1400

cockc1405

Ecclesiastc1405

spiritual1441

ministrator1450

abbé1530

reverend1547

churchman1549

tippet-captain?1550

tippet knight1551

tippet man1551

public minister1564

reading minister1572

clergyman1577

clerk1577

padre1584

minstrel1586

spiritual1600

cleric1623

cassock1628

Levite1640

gownsman1641

teaching elder1642

ecclesiastic1651

religionist1651

crape1682

crape-gown-man1682

man in black1692

soul driver1699

secularist1716

autem jet1737

liturge1737

officiant1740

snub-devil1785

soul doctor1785

officiator1801

umfundisi1825

crape-man1826

clerical1837

God-man1842

Pfarrer1844

liturgist1848

white-choker1851

rook1859

shovel hat1859

sky pilot1865

ecclesiastical1883

joss-pidgin-man1886

josser1887

sin-shiftera1912

sin-buster1931

parch1944

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Tim. iii. 17 [16] That the man of God be perfyt, lerud to al good werk.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall v. 81 The man of God lives longer without a Tomb then any by one.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xiii. 30 The wondrous life Of the meek man of God [sc. St Francis].

1992 M. Medved Hollywood vs. Amer. ii. iv. 57 Ultimately, the pastor's guilty secret is exposed; this mendacious man of God..fathered her illegitimate son.

man of his hands n. [compare of (one's) hand (also hands) at hand n. Phrases 1g(a)] now archaic a man of valour, skill, or practical ability.

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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. iii. 130 Mony thousand douchty men of handis.]

?1545 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture sig. B.iii A man of his handes with hastynesse shulde not be defyled.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 23 He is as tall a man of his hands, as any is betweene this and his head.

1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. E2 He loved Sword and Buckler men, and such as our Fathers were wont to call, men of their hands.

1702 D. Jones Hist. France I. vii. iii. 269 King Edward was much astonished to find a Prince, who was not a Man of his Hands, thus to dare to denounce War against him.

1824 Port Folio Feb. 129 Your good trowler of his pottle loves to meet with men of their hands.

1886 F. Pollock Oxf. Lect. iv. 108 Learning to be a man of your hands with another weapon or two besides.

1925 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 16/1 John L. Sullivan, mighty man of his hands.

2007 H. Turtledove Beyond Gap 62 Count Hamnet here is an excellent man of his hands.

man of Kent n. a male inhabitant of Kent in England, spec. one who lives to the east of the River Medway, as contrasted with the ‘Kentish men’ (Kentish adj.) who live to the west of the Medway.

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1641 A. Brome Canterbury Tale sig. A4 Not for Pope Ioane, but for the man of Kent, Gay Copes, Hare Sarkes, Holy Bread, and Crosses.

1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. at Kent All the inhabitants of Kent east of the river, Medway, are called Men of Kent,..the rest of the inhabitants of the county are stiled Kentish-men.

1861 ‘C. Bede’ New Rector x. 104 The ‘Men of Kent’, you know, were never conquered!

1983 New Scientist (BNC) 31 Mar. Lord Bute's administration drove hitherto placid Devonians, Men of Kent and Kentish men into a frenzy by introducing a ‘cider tax’.

man of letters n. [compare French homme de lettres] a man of learning, a scholar; a professional writer, esp. one having a variety of literary or intellectual interests.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary man

scholarc1600

man of letters1645

literator1710

literarian1740

literary gent1773

literary1801

littérateur1806

1645 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 146 There were likewise the effigies of the most illustrious men of letters.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 200. ⁋2 Men of Letters know too much to make good Husbands.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xiv. 138 It was sufficient to shew me that he was a man of letters.

1811 W. Scott Misc. Prose Wks. (1870) IV. 191 Lord Minto, himself a man of letters, a poet and a native of Teviotdale.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 131 A man of letters whose life was tormented by censors of the press.

1937 D. Thomas Let. 30 Oct. (1987) 262 I've been receiving strange requests from magazines... Do you think this means, at last, that I'm a man of letters?

1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) iii. 80 Imitation taught Renaissance painters, sculptors, architects, and men of letters how to reanimate ancient models and yet also improve on them.

2009 L. McMurtry Literary Life v. 30 As I was writing this memoir word came that John Updike died—a great man of letters is gone.

x. man of ransom (see ransom n. 4a).

† man of Rome n. Obsolete the Pope.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun]

popeeOE

apostoilec1275

vicary1303

vicar1340

bridge maker1341

Antichristc1370

vicar generalc1386

Holy Fatherc1400

servant of the servants of Godc1405

His Holy Fatherhood?a1425

universal bishopc1475

holiness1502

harlot1535

papa1555

Apostolic seat1560

vicegerent1572

man of Rome1581

pontiff1583

bullman1588

apostolicship1599

Pontifex Maximus1610

infallibleship1613

sanctity1633

popeship1641

decretaliarch1656

blessedness1670

Holy seata1674

infallibilityship1679

pontifexa1680

holyshipc1680

unholiness1682

His Infallibility1834

Pape1927

1581 J. Walker in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iv. sig. Ziij^v He..hath..fled to the man of Rome.

1624 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 47 Bvll is an Instrument so called, graunted by the man of Rome.

man of the church n. an ecclesiastic; = churchman n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun]

God's maneOE

priestOE

clerkc1050

secularc1290

vicary1303

minister1340

divinec1380

man of Godc1384

kirkmana1400

man of the churchc1400

cockc1405

Ecclesiastc1405

spiritual1441

ministrator1450

abbé1530

reverend1547

churchman1549

tippet-captain?1550

tippet knight1551

tippet man1551

public minister1564

reading minister1572

clergyman1577

clerk1577

padre1584

minstrel1586

spiritual1600

cleric1623

cassock1628

Levite1640

gownsman1641

teaching elder1642

ecclesiastic1651

religionist1651

crape1682

crape-gown-man1682

man in black1692

soul driver1699

secularist1716

autem jet1737

liturge1737

officiant1740

snub-devil1785

soul doctor1785

officiator1801

umfundisi1825

crape-man1826

clerical1837

God-man1842

Pfarrer1844

liturgist1848

white-choker1851

rook1859

shovel hat1859

sky pilot1865

ecclesiastical1883

joss-pidgin-man1886

josser1887

sin-shiftera1912

sin-buster1931

parch1944

c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 494 Men of þo Chirche schulden not ride on so stronge horsys.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 318/1 Man of the churche, ecclesiastique.

1991 D. Mowat New Yorkers (BNC) 41 But there was another person who was staying in the same house—the Reverend Arthur Lyle. Yes, Lynn, a man of the church!

aa.

man of the cloth n. see cloth n.

ab.

man of the earth n. U.S. the wild potato vine, Ipomoea pandurata.

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1819 Catal. Plants N.Y. 25 Convolulus..panduratus..Man of the earth.

1847 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 442 Wild Potato. Man-of-the-earth.

1947 Dispensatory U.S.A. (ed. 24) 593/2 The I. pandurata (L.) Meyer (commonly known as the wild-potato vine, man-of-the-earth or wild potato) is a native climber with a large perennial root sometimes two or three feet in length.

1958 M. Fernald & A. Kinsey Edible Wild Plants iii. 326 The tremendous, yam-like root of Man-of-the-Earth is reported by several writers on Indian foods to be used by the Indians [etc.].

1976 H. Bruce How to grow Wildflowers 288 Man-of-the-Earth..is a true morning glory, related closely to those of our gardens.

ac.

man of the house n. the male head of a household; also in extended use.

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society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > head of household

houselordOE

husbandOE

lordOE

goodmanc1275

husbandmanc1330

master1536

man of the house1539

housemaster1593

major-domo1649

house head1864

old baas1882

1539 Bible (Great) Judges xix. f. xxi The men..set the house round about, and thrust at the dore, and spake to the man of the house, the olde man.

1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. vii. 340 The man of the house..was one of the Gend'arme of the King's own Troop.

1789 J. Gough Hist. People called Quakers II. xii. 114 There were none present in the house at that time, but the man of the house, his wife and servant maid.

1850 N.Y. Daily Tribune 1 June 1/3 Some of the young men boarding in the house offered to contribute $12 to send him to the Hospital, but the man of the house told them it would cost $25.

1905 J. A. LeRoy Philippine Life in Town & Country iii. 81 Not a purchase was made..without the final and effective intervention of the quiet mistress of the place. She was ‘the man of the house’.

2006 Sight & Sound Sept. 46/1 When their successful businessman father, Jim, is diagnosed with a terminal disease, he readies young Jack to become the man of the house.

ad.

† man of the long coat n. Obsolete a member of the legal profession; cf. long robe n.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun]

lawyer1377

man of lawc1405

practiserc1450

jurist1481

lawman1535

practitioner1576

man of the long coat1579

(a gentleman) toward the law1592

gownsman1627

law-driver1640

long-robe man1654

green bag1699

flycatcher1708

homme d'affaires1717

jet1728

law-solicitor1738

shark1806

blue bag1817

law-person1819

law-gentleman1837

maître1883

lip1929

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin i. 58 Certeyne men of the longe coate, (so are called in Fraunce lawyers, doctors, and men of iustice).

ae.

man of the match n. a player named or regarded as the outstanding performer in a team sports match (esp. in Association Football and Cricket).

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1924 Times 13 Oct. 5/4 Cambridge were particularly well served..by P. S. Douty, who..gave a highly finished all-round display... Altogether he was unquestionably the man of the match.

1963 Playfair Cricket Monthly Jan. 7/1 There will..be awards..on the basis of meritorious individual performances. The Gillette awards will be made to the ‘man (or men) of the match’.

1976 A. Nickolds & S. Hey ‘Foul’ Bk. Football i. 51/2 Gordon Taylor..at one stage won three consecutive ‘man of the match’ awards.

1993 Times 2 Aug. 19 (caption) Hockley..is run out for 24 by a direct throw from Chamberlain..who was later made man of the match [in the women's World Cup].

af.

man of the people n. a man who comes from or identifies himself with the common people; a working-class man.

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people

Jackc1390

fellowa1400

commonerc1400

populara1525

plebeianc1550

ungentle1562

Tom Tiler1582

roturier1586

vulgarity1646

little man1707

pleb1795

man of the people1799

the man in the street1831

snob1831

man1860

oickman1925

1799 Hull Advertiser 2 Mar. 4/4 The Man of the People..at a rope~maker's shop.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. ii. 36 Mrs. Pryor..wondered how her daughter could be so much at ease with a ‘man of the people’... She felt as if a great gulf lay between her caste and his.

1883 H. James En Province in Atlantic Monthly Oct. 468/1 A man of the people,..extremely intelligent,..yet remaining essentially of the people.

1973 ‘P. Malloch’ Kickback vii. 47 He was a man of the people. He'd been born in the Gorbals and had left school at fourteen.

ag.

man of this world n. a man who is from earth rather than from heaven, a human being; one who is concerned more with his current life than the hereafter, a worldly or sinful man; cf. man of the world n.

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?c1430 (?1383) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 309 Men of þis world dreden more þe popis leed.

?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. Fij The wyse menne of this worlde, the verye reprobates from God, all drye without the true faythe, dranke vp this fylthye water.

1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xiv. §2. 248 The men of this world, those Brutigenists, or Terrigenists..Earth-bred wormes.

1704 W. Congreve Let. 14 Oct. (1964) 32 I find you are resolved to be a man of this world, which I am sorry for, because it will deprive me of you.

1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote II. v. x. 45 Mrs. Rivers had furnished out a plain, but elegant, supper, and Wildgoose, being happy in the company and friendly conversation of an old acquaintance, forgot a little his usual austerity, and seemed to enjoy himself like a man of this world.

1851 Ladies' Repository 11 ii. 75/2 Death calls upon the man of this world to strip and die, and this world can take away what it gave; but the world did not give the good man his happiness—it came from God; and the world can not take it away, and death can not take it away.

1928 N.E.D. at World-man A man of this world, a human being.

ah.

† man with the beard n. Obsolete rare a drinking mug on which a bearded man is represented.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > other specific shapes

gripe's egg1391

gripe-shell15..

Priapus1613

man with the beard1631

delphin1638

belly-cup1673

spout cup1702

leaf cup1716

image mug1788

rhyton1820

toby1841

Sussex pig1846

bell-cupa1849

biberon1853

moustache cup1863

trembleuse cup1869

steeple-cup1909

thistle cup1947

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iv. iv. 62 in Wks. II Hee has wrashled so long with the bottle, heere, that the man with the beard, hash almosht streeke vp hish heelsh.

ai. man who has sex with men: see men who have sex with men n. at Phrases 3f.

P3. With men.

men in black n. U.S. dark-clothed men of unknown identity or origin, who supposedly visit those who have seen a UFO or reported an alien encounter, in order to prevent them publicizing their experience.

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1956 G. Barker They knew too much about Flying Saucers 166 What, if anything, linked the South Pole with the three men in black and the solution to the saucer mystery?

1963 A. K. Bender Flying Saucers & Three Men xvii. 151 In November, 1953, the Bridgeport Sunday Herald printed a story about the IFSB closing and a visit from three men in black.

1986 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 1 June (Books section) 5 Young readers will feel for Scott as his life becomes disrupted and confused. However this confusion merely adds to the excitement of the story, as beings from other planets, visions of the future, and strange men in black come into play.

1998 Daily Mail (Nexis) 16 Feb. 50 CIA ‘dirty trick’ tactics included surveillance of UFO groups to make them look silly—the origin of the Men in Black legend.

men in blue n. colloquial policemen.

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1890 J. S. Farmer Slang I. 253/2 The police more recently have been known collectively as blues, men in blue, [etc.].

1975 High Times Dec. 10/3 Here in Juneau, the men in blue have used illegal search and seizure, entrapment, perjury and are especially fond of falsifying evidence.

men in suits n. somewhat derogatory (a collective term for) executive, managerial, or bureaucratic figures whose conventional formal dress is perceived as variously suggestive of conservative attitudes, a lack of individuality, or (esp. in political contexts) the anonymous exercise of power; also men in dark (also grey) suits; cf. suit n. 24c.

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1955 S. Wilson (title) The man in the gray flannel suit.]

1978 Economist 29 July 95 Publishers have hands it is a terrible thing to fall into—or so it seems to writers, ever in battle to drive a pristine vision past men in suits muttering about costs and paper and the libellous passage in Chapter XXII.

1978 New Scientist 21 Sept. 873/2 Men in dark suits and homburg hats will be commissioning think tanks to strategize.

1983 N.Y. Times iv. 3/1 Mr. Nakasone also has proved a contrast to his predecessors, most of whom were hard-to-remember men in gray suits and moods.

1990 K. J. Yeovil Krokodil Tears 135 Manolo had always known there were men in suits behind the Surf Nazis, but he'd never carried the vendetta to them.

1990 Sunday Tel. 25 Nov. 23 Margaret Thatcher was brought down by a brief, tacit alliance of ‘men in grey suits’ and Thatcher loyalists.

1992 Daily Mirror 8 Sept. 6/1 The men in dark suits put in charge of the changes don't like their new-look health service.

1994 Francophile Mag. Autumn 54/1 The magic kingdom [sc. Euro Disneyland] is struggling to satisfy the men in grey suits, the financiers who were only too happy to pour millions of pounds into the venture, but are now getting nervous.

men in white coats n. (a) medical or laboratory staff, esp. doctors (cf. whitecoat n. 1c); (b) psychiatrists or psychiatric workers, usually (with humorous exaggeration) referred to in order to imply a person's supposedly imbalanced or deluded state of mind.

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1961 W. Fennell Dexter gets Point 135 I think I'd better phone the man in the white coat.]

1967 L. Andrews Hosp. Circles ii. 33 He did not wake when the usual procession of night sisters and men in white coats came in and out.

1968 D. Helwig in Sat. Night Mar. 37/3 They're going to put you in jail, do you know that? Or they're going to send the men in white coats for you.

1992 A. McConnell Quantum Leap v. 76 Around the perimeter of the next room men in white coats moved back and forth, exchanging worried comments.

1994 Guardian 21 Nov. i. 20/5 Sir Richard Body..the target of a famous Major aside about men in white coats, and a man with little to lose.

† men of foot n. Obsolete foot soldiers, infantry; cf. sense foot n. 4b, footman n. 1.

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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 2812 (MED) Þo be-gan þe slauȝter on ouþer side Of men of fote & of hem þat ride.

a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 6969 (MED) Þe kyng þen bitaughtym four þousand Of men of armes wel seruand, & þre þousand men of fote.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 245 Men of armes, and .ix. thousand Archers, besyde men of foote.

1634 Hist. Present Warres Germany iii. 46 In all 1500 men of foot.

1638 Invasions of Germanie §27. sig. C6 The Imperiall Generall Tilly..slew, and tooke prisoners some 4000. men of Foot.

men who have sex with men n. men (including those who do not identify themselves as homosexual, bisexual, etc.) who engage in sexual activity with other men; also occasionally in singular, as man who has sex with men; abbreviated MSM (see MSM n. at M n. Initialisms 1).Typically used in public health contexts to avoid excluding men who identify themselves as heterosexual.

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1988 N.Y. Amsterdam News 30 Apr. 44 (advt.) The NYC Department of Health is requesting..applicants..who have the ability to communicate with the following populations: men who have sex with men [etc.]

1990 Sexual Behaviour & Risks HIV Infection: Proc. Internat. Workshop 98 Most men who have sex with men do not identify themselves as homo- or bisexuals.

1999 Out Apr. (advt.) 157 Participants will receive HIV testing and counseling. Requirements: A man who has sex with men [etc.]

2008 N.Y. Mag. 16 June 58/2 HIV infection is once again on the rise among young men—specifically, MSMs, as they're now known in the public-health jargon, for men who have sex with men.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive and appositive.In plural, frequently with men-.

† man-angel n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo xi, in Wks. (1721) III. 315 A new extemporaneous Race Of those Man-Angels peopled the whole place.

man-beast n.

ΚΠ

1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice iv. sig. H2^v Some strangely-shap'd man-beast.

1648 Hunting of Fox 38 That Man-beast, the Major of London.

1991 D. Kingsbury in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars IV xiv. 109 The man-beasts he had seen were very badly organized into slavehood.

† man cattle n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1814 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 346 His holiness made his entrance yesterday, drawn by men cattle.

man-devil n.

ΚΠ

c1600 Timon (1980) i. iv. 15 His nam'es Philargurus a man-devill.

1616 T. Dekker Villanies Lanthorne & Candle-light (new ed.) xiii. sig. K^v This Homo-Damon (Man-Diuell) when hee is once Anthropophagized, and longs for humane flesh, no furie is so cruell.

2003 home.earthlink.net 23 July (O.E.D. Archive) Do you lose money on your job, because the unconverted man-devils hate seeing Jesus in you?

man-dinner n.

ΚΠ

1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village V. 88 An odious man-dinner at the Clarendon.

man-dog n.

ΚΠ

1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 May 304/2 The Man-dog came from Russia, and was for a long time exhibited in Paris.

1887 G. Meredith Ballads & Poems 19 The man-dog for his mistress thinks, Not less her faithful dog.

† man-excellence n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. iv. 120 In such a Frame, as is indeed wonderfully commodious to support that Man-Excellence of Thought and Reason.

man-eye n.

ΚΠ

1932 W. Faulkner Light in August i. 23 She traverses the ranked battery of maneyes and enters the store.

man-famine n.

ΚΠ

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxvi. 94 I..found a husband before the present man-famine began.

man fiend n.

ΚΠ

1639 J. Ford Ladies Triall iii. sig. E4^v There is no valour In tugging with a man fiend.

1888 News of World 7 Oct. 1/5 The man fiend cautiously arose, not without marks of the deed about him, and wended his way to Aldgate.

man-flesh n.

ΚΠ

1652 H. L'Estrange Americans No Iewes 47 Their bodies brake out into foul ulces, and thence is called the Neopolitan disease, and Sandys conceives that man-flesh eating breeds it the more among the Americans.

1812 Sporting Mag. 39 17 Crib having been known to be the best bit of manflesh nature ever cast in her mould.

1923 R. Graves Whipperginny 25 And frozen music dulls their need Of drink and man-flesh greed.

man-fly n.

ΚΠ

1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village V. 81 The sedan-chair—a much more dignified conveyance..than any of the race of flies, whether horse-fly or man-fly.

man-life n.

ΚΠ

1918 D. H. Lawrence New Poems 43 The man-life north-imprisoned, shut in the hum of the purpled steel.

man-mark n.

ΚΠ

1888 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 105 Squadroned masks and manmarks treadmire toil there.

1974 D. Stuart Prince of my Country i. 5 Silent old man with the manmarks on his chest, deepset eyes, strong jaw white with a few weeks of beard, fine hands, and no words.

man-miracle n.

ΚΠ

1646 M. Lluelyn (title) Men-miracles. With other poemes.

1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 34 Sure of the blade that served the great man-miracle [sc. Napoleon].

man-monster n.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. ii. 12 My man-Monster hath drown'd his tongue in sacke.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 125 Thair cam to Abirdene ane Italian man monster.

1991 Football Action '91 40/3 Leading the charge is man-monster Steve Emtman, a 6–4, 285 pounder junior tackle.

man-nature n.

ΚΠ

1895 How to get Married 107 Her knowledge of man-nature.

1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Feb. 135/1 So with the garden, it is a metaphor, where an ideal of man-nature is represented.

† man-plague n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1617 W. Drummond Forth Feasting sig. B^v Which haue no Law to their ambitious Will, But (Man-plagues) borne are humane Blood to spill.

† man satyr n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1778 J. Woodforde Diary 8 Dec. (1924) I. 240 The two Priests and myself went to the Castle Hill in the afternoon to see the Man Satire which was nothing more than a large Monkey. I gave there 0. 0. 6. It did not answer our Expectations at all.

1780 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 196/2 A large fierce animal which Mr. Atkins affirmed to be a centaur..it proved to be a Man satyr.

man seed n.

ΚΠ

1934 D. Thomas in Criterion Oct. 27 The growing bones, the rumour of manseed Within the hallowed gland.

1978 A. K. Armah Healers iii. i. 85 At least four times she welcomed manseed in her womb and gave it space to grow into new life.

man-service n.

ΚΠ

1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxiv. 552 Every male between the ages of seventeen and sixty-five in Jersey,..is bound to render man-service to the crown.

man-sex n.

ΚΠ

c1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 82 Breathing bloom of a chastity in mansex fine.

man-shape n. chiefly poetic

ΚΠ

1877 W. Morris Sigurd Volsung ii. 104 But Loki took his man-shape, and laughed aloud and cried.

1911 F. F. Ayer Bell & Wing 881 To crowd out of him, next to nil, His man-shape of magic will.

1992 C. Wilkins Wolf's Eye 33 Across the bay lay the Sleeping Giant... Neil had been six before he could recognize the man-shape in the rock.

man-smell n.

ΚΠ

1905 J. London White Fang iii. i. 124 Then he smelled the strange fabric, saturated with the man-smell.

1989 S. Tapscott Another Body ii. 23 Unused to the December air and the strange hands and the mansmell I carried.

man-soul n.

ΚΠ

a1450 Desert of Relig. (BL Add.) 477 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1911) 126 66 Þar is nathyng man-saule may greve, Bot if þis tre graunt þaim leve.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 4 For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that builded Mansoul, that the Walls could never be broken down.

1845 J. H. Carleton Prairie Logbks. 30 May (1983) 201 The reasoning Essense [sic] of the Man-soul—I like that phrase: there's marrow and fatness in it—the Man-soul—the Intellect without death.

1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty iv. 1391 From this dilemma..Man-soul made glad escape in the worship of Christ.

† man-sphinx n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel vii. 442 Large colossi and very long men-sphinxes.

b. Appositive, passing into adj.: ‘male’. Occasionally with names of animals. See also man-child n., manservant n., man-midwife n.In plural, frequently with men.

† man actor adv. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. v. vi. 215 Men-Actors in womens attire, are not..so bad..as women Stage-players.

1786 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 225 To the play I went... The men actors at this period do not shine in London.

† man-bairn n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 8 The manbarnes following of him sall be heyires.

man Cingalese n.

ΚΠ

1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 141 We had a dispute which were men Cingalese and which women.

man-cook n.

ΚΠ

1662 S. Pepys Diary 26 Mar. (1970) III. 53 We had a man-cook to dress dinner to-day, and sent for Jane to help us.

1734 G. Berkeley Let. to Prior 30 Apr. in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley (1871) vi. 227 A man-cook would be a great convenience to us.

1897 Private Life of Queen iv. 33 The army of white-capped and aproned men-cooks.

man dancer n.

ΚΠ

1746 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 147 The principal man-dancer.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 517 What's our studfee?... You fee men dancers on the Riviera, I read.

† man-fellow n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 233 Do you, Beck, help Pamela to 'tend us; we will have no Men-fellows.

† man-fighter n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Joel iii. 9 Alle Men-fiȝters [a1425 L.V. men werriours; L. viri bellatores], cum to and stey up.

man friend n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > male lover

servantc1405

specialc1425

servitorc1450

love-lad1586

young man1589

inamorato1592

swainc1592

gentleman friend1667

enamorado1677

spark1707

beau?1720

Johnny1726

man friend1736

feller1842

novio1843

soupirant1849

fella1874

man1874

fellow1878

square-pusher1890

stud1895

papa1896

lover mana1905

boyfriend1906

daddy1912

lover-boy1925

sheikh1925

sweetback1929

sweet man1942

older man1951

boyf1990

1736 Ld. Hervey Mem. (1952) 182 The King's letter to the Queen about this affair was an extraordinary one, asking her, as he would have done a man-friend, what she thought of all this business.

1893 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Apr. 39/1 There is no impropriety in a man friend writing to you without having asked your permission.

1994 Amer. Spectator Mar. 48/2 Snooping neighbors noticed that she entertained men friends.

† man lover n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/2 Man lover, amant.

† man mackerel n. [see mackerel n.²] Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) i. i. 4 The man makare [l] and marchant off madens-ffleshe.

man-nurse n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > other types

man-nurse1530

probationer nurse1584

parish nurse1716

day nurse1759

school nurse1836

Gamp1846

hospital nurse1848

pupil nurse1861

male nurse1874

district nurse1883

relief nurse1884

casualty nurse1885

bayman1888

maid nurse1895

charge-nurse1896

ward nurse1899

health visitor1901

practice nurse1912

community nurse1922

scrub nurse1927

theatre nurse1934

para-nurse1942

nurse practitioner1967

rehab nurse1977

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/2 Man nourse, novrricier.

1885 W. D. Howells Indian Summer (1886) xxi. 358 One of these was the man-nurse, who had evidently taken care of him throughout.

man-peasant n.

ΚΠ

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 172 Men-peasants from jungle villages dancing and running with sweat and laughing.

† man-practitioner n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1752 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. 55 The lives of many women and children were saved by the skill of the man-practitioner.

† man-saint n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

a1698 F. Sheppard Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. Misc. Wks. (1704) 217 Both among the Men-Saints and Women-Saints.

† man-scold n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. H3^v (stage direct.) Enter women and man-scold.

man seal n.

ΚΠ

1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 59 And when the first September gales have slaked their rutting-wrath, The great man-seal haul back to the sea.

1901 Munsey's Mag. (U.S.) 25 355/2 Frequently a man seal will swim out to a lady seal [etc.].

† man singer n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1611 Bible (King James) Eccles. ii. 8 Men singers and women singers.

man-witch n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > sorcerer or magician > [noun]

wielerOE

jugglera1100

wielea1350

magicianc1375

sorcerc1400

warlockc1400

mage?a1425

sorcerer1526

witch-mana1538

wizarda1557

wise man1562

cunning man1594

man-witch1601

wonder-master1603

sorcerist1624

talisman1646

ob1659

fascinator1677

varlet1701

Magian1716

brujo1758

mediciner1845

bomoh1851

pellar1865

trollman1865

baloi1871

magic-man1905

Wiccan1971

1601 tr. Strange Rep. Sixe Notorious Witches B ii The other fiue men-Witches, had also sixe stripes apeece.

a1622 H. Ainsworth Annotat. Five Bks. Moses, Bk. Psalmes & Song of Songs (1627) 88 He speaketh of the woman,..but implieth also the man-witch, or sorcerer.

1886 E. Marshall Tower on Cliff v. 68 If ever there was a man-witch, it's Sir Thomas Cooke.

c. Objective. Cf. Compounds 4b.

(a)

† man-container n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. i. 185 This Mansion-Globe, this Man-Container.

man-destroyer n.

ΚΠ

1647 Foure Deliberate Queries 6 It issueth from the old Serpent the Dragon, the man-destroyer, the old lyer, the deluder of the world.

1824 J. Symmons tr. Æschylus Agamemnon 137 Nor turn thy wrath 'gainst Helen, that she was a man-destroyer.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. viii. 135 The Man-destroyer [sc. Mars].

† man-fisher n. Obsolete rare

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun] > one who evangelizes

fisherc1000

man-fisherc1300

vangelista1330

evangelizer1382

evangelyc1384

evangelist1535

men-fishera1557

seminary1583

evangel1593

Philip1613

evangelica1617

evangelizationer1825

c1300 St. Andrew (Harl.) 6 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S.-Eng. Legendary (1956) 543 ‘Come,’ he seide, ‘after me & ich wole ȝou make Manfischers’.

man-maker n.

ΚΠ

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cclxviii, in Poems (1878) III. 204 In his want Pittied, perhaps by Maiestie, who now Was a Man-Maker.

1994 T. C. Boyle Without Hero (1995) 9 In the evening, it's the big stuff, the man-maker, old Simba himself.

† man-marrer n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow i. 82 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 284 And a man merrour An evill wyffis mirrour.

man-moulder n.

ΚΠ

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists i. ii. 22 How the dangerous Man-moulder wou'd proceed; and what wou'd be the Event of his Tampering.

1943 C. S. Lewis Abolition of Man iii. 30 The man-moulders of the new age will be armed with the powers of an omnicompetent state.

† man-murderer n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

?a1425 (?c1350) Northern Passion (Rawl.) 1380 (MED) Þai had in presone ane Barabas þat man mortherer and traytur was.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 169 (MED) The Iues..Sauyd baraban, the thefe and a man murderere.

† man-murther n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

OE Poenitentiale Theodori & Capitula d'Acheriana (Laud) in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws & Instit. of Eng. (1840) II. 154 Þa wif þe doð awegaworpenessa heora bearna..syn hy geteald to manmyrðrum.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 23112 (MED) Þe first raw..sal be of wrecchis..man mirþeres & theuis fals.

man-picker n.

ΚΠ

1939 W. B. Yeats Last Poems 17 Man-picker Niamh leant and sighed By Oisin on the grass.

† man-planter n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1713 Guardian No. 155 8 Sept. 2/1 She conversed with her Husband, or Man-planter, in broad Day-light.

man-pleaser n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer

papelard1340

placeboc1395

fawnerc1440

pickthank1460

adulator?a1475

earwigc1475

curry-favel1515

men-pleaser1526

gnatho1533

upcreeperc1540

claw-back1549

curry-favourer1563

man-pleaser1564

claw-poll1569

please-man1570

sycophant1575

curry-favour1577

capper1587

insinuator1598

clawera1603

scrape-shoe1607

suck-fist1611

courtiera1616

foot lickera1616

fleerera1627

wriggler1631

fawn1635

limberham1689

toad-eater1742

tuft-hunter1755

arse-kisser1766

sleeve-creeper1809

lick-spit1822

lickspittle1825

shoe-licker1826

toady1826

toad1831

toader1842

bootlicker1846

bootlick1849

favour-currier1855

lubricator1872

bum-sucker1877

handshaker1884

suck1900

mbongo1911

sucker-up1911

apple-polisher1918

snurge1933

ass-licker1939

brown-nose1939

brown-noser1942

arse-licker1951

ass-kisser1951

greaser1959

suck-hole1966

suck-up1970

bumboy1984

fly-

1564 Briefe Exam. sig. ****^v This is very sore judgement, to condemne all your brethren for manpleasers.

1644 W. Walwyn Compassionate Samaritane 50 A Synod..who have so lately most notoriously discovered themselves to be men-pleasers and temporisers.

1728 J. Swift Short View State Ireland 15 A Man-pleaser at the Expence of all Honour, Conscience and Truth.

1992 New Musical Express (BNC) 12 Sept. 33 Sack Kylie—she is but a cipher, a simpering, unthreatening man-pleaser.

man-stealer n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > kidnapper or abductor > [noun]

man-thiefeOE

men-stealer1526

man-stealer1582

spirit1611

plagiary1613

spiriter1665

kidnapper1678

silver-cooper1796

abductor1809

body snatcher1852

shanghaier1917

snatcher1932

1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Tim. i. 10 To man-stealers, to liers, to periured persons.

1993 J. Neil Waters of Eden (BNC) To hear you talk, anyone would think I was some kind of wanton, a man-stealer.

man-subduer n.

ΚΠ

1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. 272 Woman, as the man-subduer.

man-tamer n.

ΚΠ

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table (1883) 198 If the Houyhnhnms..send a man-tamer to Rareyfy me.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 504 Master! Mistress! Mantamer!

† man-thief n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > kidnapper or abductor > [noun]

man-thiefeOE

men-stealer1526

man-stealer1582

spirit1611

plagiary1613

spiriter1665

kidnapper1678

silver-cooper1796

abductor1809

body snatcher1852

shanghaier1917

snatcher1932

eOE Laws of Ælfred (Corpus Cambr. 173) ix. §2. 54 Manig witu maran ðonne oþru; nu sint eal gelic buton manðeofe: cxx scill.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Filching-cove, a Man-thief.

1863 E. Dicey Six Months in Federal States II. 254 This nation..has for two generations been the accomplice of man-thieves.

man-tracker n.

ΚΠ

1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) i. 32 Nip and Tuck go back to Georgia..with a big reputation as man-trackers.

man-trapper n.

ΚΠ

1815 Zeluca III. 167 I hope I shall not be marked out as a man-trapper for my friend as well as myself.

1906 G. Ade In Pastures New (1907) 271 Cleopatra, the man trapper.

(b)

man-abhorring adj.

ΚΠ

1846 C. G. Prowett tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound 33 The bands Of man-abhorring Amazons.

man-baiting n.

ΚΠ

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 135 To see this man-baiting, all people of all kindes flock'd together.

2003 web.ukonline.co.uk 23 July (O.E.D. Archive) ‘Perfect Plan 9T6’ is a creepy Hazel O'Connor-ish (honest!) new-wave bit of man-baiting.

man-carrying adj.

ΚΠ

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xx. 486 The whole population took to flight, and tried to hide themselves from the man-carrying-pig, as they christened the horse.

1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 142/1 Cody became actively interested in kite flying, and patented a man-carrying kite system in 1901.

man-catching n.

ΚΠ

1681 Heraclitus Ridens 23 Aug. 2/1 This was a way of Man-catching which our Friend Hick ne'r thought on.

1814 T. Carlyle Let. 1 July in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) I. 17 Gentry..who after educating their daughters, bring them into the mighty field of Man-catching.

man-compelling adj.

ΚΠ

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxix. 137 A harassing mistrust of her man-compelling power.

man-degrading adj.

ΚΠ

1788 W. Cowper Negro's Compl. 46 Our sufferings, since ye brought us To the man-degrading mart.

1958 E. Fuller Man in Mod. Fiction Pref. p. xvii The canon of critical values which elevates the man-degrading books to claims of literary-artistic eminence.

man-destroying adj.

ΚΠ

1647 A. Wilbee Secunda Pars 14 O how long shall these Harpeys, these House Tyrants, these Men-destroying Gaolers, be suffered thus to transgresse the Lawes of the Land.

1743 R. Blair Grave 13 Th' oppressive, sturdy, Man-destroying Villains!

1955 S. Spender Coll. Poems 1928–53 194 Man-made man-destroying ills.

man-devouring n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1650 T. Thorowgood Iewes in Amer. 17 ᾺνΘρωποϕαγία Americanorum, the Man-devouring that is in America.

1653 Ad Populum sig. A2 That Man-devouring Lunsford were he put Under an Arme of theirs, would only strut Like a young Mandrake.

1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton i. 15 A mighty man-devouring ogre.

1990 ‘A. Cross’ Players come Again (1992) x. 210 You will be seen as an unfeminine, man-devouring, balls-crushing, lesbian, strident, shrill women's libber.

man-fearing n.

ΚΠ

1881 T. E. Bridgett Hist. Holy Eucharist II. 297 Free from man-fearing and man-pleasing.

man-lifting adj.

ΚΠ

1846 Pract. Mechanic June 235/1 The man-lifting engine erected at United Mines, Gwennap..for lowering and raising the miners.

1992 R. Moulton & P. Lloyd Kites (BNC) 143 Flexifoils have a wide repertoire, from individual and team ballet performances to sprint flying through a speed trap, man-lifting power-kiting, [etc.].

man-loving adj.

ΚΠ

1895 W. James in Internat. Jrnl. Ethics Oct. 8 The old warm notion of a man-loving Deity.

1989 E. K. Sedgwick in S. Atlantic Q. 88 59 Gender-separatist models would thus place the woman-loving woman and the man-loving man each at the ‘natural’ defining center of their own gender.

† man-maiming n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1809 Sporting Mag. 33 63 The royal and martial games of cock-fighting, bull-baiting, and man-maiming.

man-making adj. and n.

ΚΠ

1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd iii. sig. H2^v Gold, gold, man-making gold.

1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 25 Some say that Man-making was no treason.

1902 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 30 All the man-making pastimes of Eton boys.

1972 D. Stuart Ilbarana 10 We were few in the Land, only the strongest survived, but always I looked forward to my manmaking.

† man-mimicking adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus xiv. 46 in A. Pope Wks. II The glaring Cat-a-mountain..and the Man-mimicking Manteger.

† man-pleasing n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun]

fawninga1350

adulationc1400

papelardya1425

papelardrya1500

captation1523

clawing1548

insinuation1553

curry-favour1581

man-pleasing1588

courting1607

men-pleasing1615

supparasitation1620

sycophantizing1640

assiduity1641

ingratiating1642

licking1648

man-pleasance1656

sycophancy1657

fawnery1661

sycophantrya1677

nutting1789

tuft-hunting1789

cultivation1793

huggery1804

ingratiation1815

sycophantism1821

lickspittling1839

toadyship1839

toadyism1840

bootlicking1849

toadying1863

arse-licking1912

lickspittle1914

apple-polishing1926

pot-licking1929

brown-nosing1934

ass-kissing1936

arse-kissing1937

ass-licking1946

sucking-up1946

bum-sucking1949

love bomb1975

love-bombing1976

1588 G. Withers View Marginal Notes Popish Test. 221 God grant that you at length may cast away your desire of contending, and man pleasing, and seeke the truth in sinceritie.

1646 J. Caryl Present Duty 16 The servants of Christ know very well that the concernements are of man-pleasing.

1671 R. Baxter Difference between Power of Magistrates & Church-pastors i. 16 No man-pleasing, no worldly honour to invite them.

† man-selling adj. and n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1853 C. Dickens in Househ. Words 31 Dec. 409/1 Murderous, man-selling despots.

1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxxvii. 110 This is what you call your Crown; it can shake hands with man-selling.

man-stealing n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > [noun]

rape1436

abreption1550

man-stealing1577

plagium1577

raptc1614

abduction1632

man-stealth1663

plagiary1673

kidnapping1682

enlevement1769

plagiat1809

body-snatching1840

kidnappery1890

snatching1931

shanghaiing1985

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. vii. sig. Kk.ii/2 The offence called Plagium, y^t is to saye, manstealing.

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 42 What more ungodly sacriledge or manstealing can there be then to purloyn from godly Ministers the first born of their fervent prayers and faithfull preachings.

1907 N.E.D. at Plagium Kidnapping, man-stealing.

1993 Spy (N.Y.) Aug. 14/1 Paramount's major spin job was transforming Sharon Stone's image from..man-stealing slut to mere garden-variety home wrecker.

man-stopping adj.

ΚΠ

1898 G. W. Steevens With Kitchener to Khartum xxxiii. 285 The officer assailed put a man-stopping revolver bullet into him, but it did not stop him.

1973 Guardian 17 Mar. 13/2 Both guns increase the ‘man-stopping’ effectiveness of police marksmen.

man-supporting adj.

ΚΠ

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvi. 343 It had a bad look, this man-supporting August ice.

man-tracking adj.

ΚΠ

1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) i. 17 They is man-tracking bloodhounds from Georgia.

(c)

(i)

† man-idolatry n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. ii. iii. iv Nor forc'd conceit, nor man-idolatry.

† man-pleasance n. Obsolete rare

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun]

fawninga1350

adulationc1400

papelardya1425

papelardrya1500

captation1523

clawing1548

insinuation1553

curry-favour1581

man-pleasing1588

courting1607

men-pleasing1615

supparasitation1620

sycophantizing1640

assiduity1641

ingratiating1642

licking1648

man-pleasance1656

sycophancy1657

fawnery1661

sycophantrya1677

nutting1789

tuft-hunting1789

cultivation1793

huggery1804

ingratiation1815

sycophantism1821

lickspittling1839

toadyship1839

toadyism1840

bootlicking1849

toadying1863

arse-licking1912

lickspittle1914

apple-polishing1926

pot-licking1929

brown-nosing1934

ass-kissing1936

arse-kissing1937

ass-licking1946

sucking-up1946

bum-sucking1949

love bomb1975

love-bombing1976

1656 J. Trapp Comm. Gal. i. 10 Dastardliness and man-pleasance.

† man-stealth n. Obsolete rare

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > [noun]

rape1436

abreption1550

man-stealing1577

plagium1577

raptc1614

abduction1632

man-stealth1663

plagiary1673

kidnapping1682

enlevement1769

plagiat1809

body-snatching1840

kidnappery1890

snatching1931

shanghaiing1985

1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. Ccc3^v Are you not affraid he should accuse you of Man-stealth, and summon you before the Areopagus?

(ii)

man-shy adj.

ΚΠ

1803 S. T. Coleridge Let. 13 Mar. (1956) II. 939 I am quite menschenscheu, as the Germans say—i.e. man-shy.

1931 F. D. Davison (title) Man-shy.

1955 V. Palmer Let Birds Fly 103 Birds that had never become man-shy.

d. Instrumental. See also man-made adj. and n.

man-caused adj.

ΚΠ

1916 O. Lodge Raymond Revised iii. vii. 323 The very fact that we lament so sincerely this dire and man-caused fate.

1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. a4/3 Other fires were raging..in Wyoming, including one believed to be man-caused.

1992 S. S. Hall Mapping Next Millenium (1993) v. 114 Scientists invoke an incriminating word to describe this jump: anthropogenic, or ‘man-caused’.

man-created adj.

ΚΠ

1850 J. G. Saxe Poems 113 Mitres and thrones are man-created things.

man-devised adj.

ΚΠ

1574 tr. Life 70. Archbishopp Canterbury To Rdr. sig. Fij^v This Church off Englande allowinge no mandeuised order off regular ministerie.

1960 R. W. Marks Dymaxion World Buckminster Fuller 40/1 Fuller became alert to the fact that there was a regularity of patterning linking the behavior of man-devised structures, such as bridges, buildings, frames, trusses, [etc.].

man-enslaved adj.

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1876 Bulwer-Lytton's Pausanias (ed. 2) i. ii. 51 In the city one is the god-born, the other the man-enslaved.

man-filled adj.

ΚΠ

1909 E. Pound Personae 30 A bustling man-filled place.

man-girdled adj.

ΚΠ

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 115 Almost our maids were better at their homes, Than thus man-girdled here.

man-gripped adj.

ΚΠ

1921 D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia vi. 215 How old the real Italy is, how man-gripped, and how withered.

man-managed adj.

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1909 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 14 756 Man-managed industry, though it is an improvement on warfare, is still destructive of life.

1915 H. Keller in N.Y. Call 17 Oct. ii. 5/3 The man-managed State so conducts its schools that the ideals of women are warped to hideous shapes.

1958 New Biol. 26 33 In man-managed grasslands, cohabitation of at least two..species [of buttercup] is the general rule.

1977 J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants xvi. 496 The time is ripe for bringing the..techniques of plant pathology from its traditional area of concern with crops and man-managed vegetation to the exploration of natural vegetation.

man-measured adj.

ΚΠ

1943 D. Gascoyne Poems 1937–42 v. 60 In the pure ray shed by the loss Of all man-measured value.

man-named adj.

ΚΠ

1850 E. B. Browning Poet's Vow (new ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 262 Stars—revealed to man, And man-named.

man-propelled adj.

ΚΠ

1937 Sunday Times 10 Jan. 27/5 All man-propelled or horse-drawn traffic would automatically be relegated to the service roads.

1963 ‘Han Suyin’ Four Faces 54 A samlo, the three-wheeled vehicle, man-propelled, in use in Cambodia.

man-taught adj.

ΚΠ

1884 J. Tait Mind in Matter 206 St. Paul obtained his knowledge either from the field notes of St. Matthew, or from his Greek gospel, which had been recently published. By not considering himself man-taught he evinced his faith in the inspiration of that gospel.

e. Parasynthetic, similative, originative, or predicative.

(a)

man-bodied adj.

ΚΠ

1880 S. Lanier Sunrise 19 Sweet burly-bark'd, man-bodied Tree.

man-born adj.

ΚΠ

1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 219 All theosophic lore Of man-born, or angelic mind.

† man-breasted adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 238 And strong man-breasted things stood from the sea.

man-centred adj.

ΚΠ

1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music ii. 54 A proud, man-centred existence, in which the emphasis was on personal happiness.

1990 H. P. Chapman Rembrandt's Self-portraits 4 A fundamental shift away from a God-centered world-view and toward a man-centered one took hold in the Renaissance.

man-faced adj.

ΚΠ

1877 G. MacDonald Marquis of Lossie II. x. 116 There's mair poetry in auld man-faced Miss Horn nor in a dizzen like them.

1989 R. Waterfield tr. Empedocles in Before Eureka vii. 80 Creatures were often born with faces and chests on both sides; man-faced bulls rose up.

man-grown adj. now Irish English (northern)

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > adult > [adjective] > adult man

manly1579

virile1603

man-growna1641

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvii. 320 Not being a babe or a yoong childe, but being come to yeeres of discretion and a mangrowen.]

a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 168 His owne sonnes now man-growne.

1888 Western Galaxy Mar. 115/1 I remember well that the innocent toad did not live in Mona's Isle until I was man grown, nor then until imported from Scotland.

1907 J. London Road vii. 173 A gay-cat is a new-comer on The Road who is man-grown, or, at least, youth-grown.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 216/1 Man-big,..of a boy man-grown, grown up.

man-headed adj.

ΚΠ

1855 J. Gott Let. 20 Feb. (1918) 81 Rows of sphinxes man-headed and god-headed.

1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats v. 98 The hero of this poem..is a man sailing through faerie seas haunted by man-headed birds.

man-high adj.

ΚΠ

1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 164 Part of the Battlement being Breast high..the other part Man-high, to secure Men from the shot of their enemies.

1837 H. W. Longfellow Frithiof's Homestead 4 Man-high was waving the rye-field.

1993 J. Pournelle & S. M. Stirling Prince of Sparta 56 Smooth man-high shapes, with nothing on the exterior but a console, screen and the ingress and egress ports.

† man-minded adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1823 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (2000) V. 293 The Greyhound compared with the man-minded Pudel.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak xiii, in Poems (new ed.) II. 67 When his [sc. King Henry VIII's] man-minded offset rose To chase the deer at five.

man-shaped adj.

ΚΠ

1801 S. T. Coleridge Let. 31 Oct. (1956) II. 772 Old Symes—i.e. a Man-shaped animal capable of ‘a deep malignant Rage’.

1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xvii. 196 The man-shaped silhouette used on rifle ranges.

man-smelling adj.

ΚΠ

1914 Harper's Weekly 16 May 20/1 A summer-stifled, man-smelling city street.

man-stale adj.

ΚΠ

1932 W. Faulkner Light in August ii. 44 The house unpainted, small..mansmelling, manstale.

man-tall adj.

ΚΠ

1938 S. Spender Trial of Judge i. 15 Electric advertisements In city squares—those man-tall golden letters.

1990 Village Voice (N.Y.) 11 Sept. 33/1 Countryside waist-high in tangled green, marked with..man-tall, cipherous anthills.

† man-turned adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses i. 6 In a throne, he plac'd The man-turnd Goddesse.

man-visaged adj.

ΚΠ

1920 R. Graves Country Sentiment 39 Sing then of ringstraked manticor, Man-visaged tiger.

(b)

man-fashion adv.

ΚΠ

1874 Congress. Rec. 1 Apr. 2682/2 [If Senator Morton] is entirely confident that his opinions are sound, why so timid?.. Why not walk up to this man-fashion?

1912 T. Dreiser Financier xxiv. 290 He was counting practically, and man-fashion, on her love for her children.

C2.

man-ape n. now chiefly historical a primate with both human and ape-like characteristics; esp. a fossil hominid of the genus Australopithecus; cf. apeman n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape)

babiona1529

jackanapes1528

Johnanapes1633

man-monkey1651

ape1699

pygmy1699

Simia1719

great ape1771

anthropoid1861

pithecoid1874

man-ape1878

pongid1949

pithecine1962

1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 44 The myriads of years which have elapsed since the man-apes began to stand upright.

1925 Nature 7 Feb. 195 (title) Australopithecus africanus: the man-ape of South Africa.

1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins ix. 135/2 Dart and a colleague, Dr. Robert Broorn, continued their work on the South African ‘man-apes’.

1991 P. Matthiessen Afr. Silences i. 49 In fact, agrogwe—which the Africans regard as a small man-ape—have been reported from many forest regions all across tropical Africa.

man bag n. a man's handbag or shoulder bag, esp. one of a style more usually carried by women.

ΚΠ

1968 Newark (Ohio) Advocate & Amer. Tribune 24 Apr. 10/1 (caption) The manbag is a natural progression in the men's wear revolution that started a short time ago with turtlenecks.

1996 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 2 Aug. 32 s A third guy who wasn't carrying a man bag. But he was wearing open-toed sandals with socks.

2004 Independent 18 Nov. (Review section) 15/1 Last weekend, one Sunday supplement was full of the damn things—men, in case you didn't know—and they were all carrying man bags.

† man-bane n. [after the names of poisonous plants such as henbane: see bane n.¹ 2b] depreciative Obsolete tobacco.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun]

petun1568

tobacco1588

Indian herbc1600

weed1600

Indian weed1602

man-bane1614

smokec1616

fogusc1625

Indian drug1630

sot-weed1698

noxious weed1773

baccy1792

backer1823

bacca1824

tobaccy1835

nicotia1868

nicotina1876

snout1885

Magaliesberg1895

tickler1904

burn1964

1614 J. Taylor Nipping of Abuses sig. D1 A foule contagious, stinking Manbane weede.

?1617 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 102 Th' Heat and Drought of th' Herb American Being intensiue (fitter call'd Man-Bane).

man-bites-dog adj. [see quot. 1918] originally and chiefly U.S. (of a news story or event) arousing interest because of its bizarre or unexpected nature.

ΚΠ

1918 F. M. O'Brien Story of Sun x. 241 John Bogart, a city editor of the Sun..once said to a young reporter: ‘When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.’

1933 Time 8 May 52/3 Man Bites Dog..is an inferior newspaper play.]

1943 Sun (Baltimore) 22 Sept. 12/1 He was expelled, so the news accounts say, from a UAW local in 1938. Since then, he claims, the company has transferred, fired, rehired and refired him... That may seem to some to have a distinct man-bites-dog flavor.

1974 S. Marcus Minding Store iv. 74 We provoked a tremendous amount of talk... We had created a ‘man bites dog’ story overnight.

1987 New Eng. Monthly June 10/2 To any one who..heeded..the defense case.., any other result would have been man-bites-dog.

man-body n. chiefly Scottish and Irish English a man, a male person.

ΚΠ

1825 A. Crawford Tales of my Grandmother II. 254 Is it because we have no manbody to take our part, that he should dare to act such an unmanly part?

1882 Lett. ‘Norah’ x. 52 Here's the crature of a widow from the mountain with four small children, and no man body to help her with the place.

1903 S. Macmanus Red Poocher i. 18 I was tempted to slip aff over to me mother's country to help her..for she was..without a manbody nixt or near her wee place.

1929 Scots Mag. May 148 Here wis some man buddy comin' speirin' efter some o' them.

1933 J. Gray Lowrie 55 As he opened his kot..didna I noteece at ‘he’ wis waerin a green flooered slug, an' wisna a man body ava.

1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. at Man-buddie I don't think thir's a man-buddy aboot the hoose at aal.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 216/1 Man-body, a man.

man boobs n. colloquial = man breasts n.

ΚΠ

1991 soc.motss (Usenet Newsgroup) 3 Jan. (title of posting) Like man boobs eh?

1999 Vancouver Sun 30 Apr. a15/4 He proceeded to clasp one of my ‘man boobs’..and encourage the others in his group to come over and ‘cop a feel’.

2006 Teen Now Spring 11/2 My body could be a bit thinner. I'm not keen on my belly or my man-boobs.

† man-bound adj. Nautical Obsolete rare unable to leave port because of a shortage of crew.

ΚΠ

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 466/1 Man-bound, detained in port in consequence of being short of complement.

man-boy n. a youth; an immature man.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun]

frumberdlingc1000

young manOE

childc1225

hind1297

pagec1300

youtha1325

fawnc1369

swainc1386

stripling1398

boy1440

springaldc1450

jovencel1490

younkera1522

speara1529

gorrel1530

lad1535

hobbledehoy1540

cockerel1547

waga1556

spring1559

loonc1560

hensure1568

youngster1577

imp1578

pigsney1581

cocklinga1586

demy1589

muchacho1591

shaver1592

snipper-snappera1593

callant1597

spaught1598

stubble boy1598

ghillie1603

codling1612

cuba1616

skippera1616

man-boy1637

sprig1646

callow1651

halflang1660

stubbed boy1683

gossoon1684

gilpie1718

stirraha1722

young lion1792

halfling1794

pubescent1795

young man1810

sixteener1824

señorito1843

tad1845

boysie1846

shaveling1854

ephebe1880

boychick1921

lightie1946

young blood1967

studmuffin1986

1637 T. Brian Pisse-prophet iv. 28 His Hubber de hoy which is his man-boy, or halfe a man and halfe a boy.

1768 W. Donaldson Life Sir Bartholomew Sapskull II. 213 I had dealings with men-boys.

1992 T. Pow In Palace of Serpents (BNC) 49 A thick mop of black hair over a man-boy's smooth olive complexion.

man breasts n. colloquial unusually prominent breasts on a man (likened to those of a woman), typically consisting of pectoral fat but sometimes caused by hormonal factors.

ΚΠ

1993 Re: Tuan & Breasts: Flame-war in alt.sex-stories.d (Usenet newsgroup) 22 July You are nothing but an imposter, a disgusting worm tweaking the tiny nipples of your man breasts.

1997 Face June 204/2 My stomach is too big. I appear to be growing man-breasts.

2006 Express (Nexis) 22 July 12 Our summer dress sense is appalling... Horrendous man breasts and beer guts decorate every pavement.

† man-broker n. Obsolete rare an agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc.; = crimp n.² 3.

ΚΠ

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 466 Man-broker, synonymous with crimp.

man-car n. U.S. Mining a type of elevator car used in certain mines (see quot. 1890).

ΚΠ

1890 Cent. Dict. Man-car, a kind of car used for transporting miners up and down the steeply inclined shafts of some mines on Lake Superior.

1960 Man. Climax Molybdenum Co. 48 Man-train, mantrip, man-cars, specially built cars to carry men to and from mine workings.

† man-case n. Obsolete a body.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 93 He had an handsome man-case.

† man-catch v. Obsolete rare (transitive) to trap (a man).

ΚΠ

1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist Introd. sig. B Bespatter them, Trepan them, Teague them, Taffee them, and Man-catch them.

man-catcher n. (a) a person who catches or traps men; (b) North American slang, an employment agent or agency; spec. one enlisting vagrants to work on ships, etc.; cf. crimp n.² 3; (c) an instrument used for catching men (esp. in New Guinea; see quot. 1898).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > others

artificera1553

man-catcher1649

stormer1655

sallier1685

pressmana1694

camp colour-man1753

sharpshooter1802

train soldier1833

escalader1849

adviser1854

outflanker1854

observer1870

spiker1884

mopper-up1917

slushy1919

wire-cutter1922

televisionary1925

flash-spotter1930

spotter1931

parashooter1940

parashot1940

bunker buster1944

sound-ranger1978

yomper1982

technical1992

1649 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 46. sig. Mmm2v The honest House of Commons bestow daily Wages out of other mens Purses, on these men-catchers that (besides Whoreing and Tippling) betray those upright Consciences that cannot by cry out against their Treasons.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. App. 63/1 Captain..fell into the Hands of these desperate [Indian] Man-Catchers.

1851 Rep. Sel. Comm. Passengers' Act 409 in Parl. Papers XIX. 451 Everything seems as if it were done on purpose to favour the runners and man-catchers; the people are actually driven from the ship with sticks into the hands of those people.

1898 Dublin Rev. July 170 Another instrument of capture is the ‘man-catcher’, a flexible rattan fastened at one end in a loop, into which a sharp spike protrudes. As it is slipped over the foe, a sudden jerk is given to it, which causes the latter to impale the base of the skull.

1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route x. 112 In good times, when jobs are plenty,..the man catchers and labor sharks are out on the streets pulling them in.

1972 T. Coleman Passage to Amer. v. 67 Runners, otherwise called crimps, touts, and man-catchers.

1989 Dragon Nov. 19/2 Man catchers are clumsy to carry, so are used only when a specific criminal is sought.

† man-catching n. Obsolete rare the action or practice of trapping men.

ΚΠ

1681 E. Hickeringill (title) The Horrid Sin of Man-catching: a Sermon on Jer. v. 25, 26.

man cave n. colloquial a room or other space (typically a shed or garage) used by a man to pursue his own hobbies and recreational activities.Usually with the connotation of escaping or excluding the rest of his family.

ΚΠ

1992 Toronto Star 21 Mar. e1/5 With his cave of solitude secured against wife intrusion by cold floors, musty smells and a few strategic cobwebs, he will stay down there for hours nestled in very manly magazines and open boxes of tools. Let's call the basement, man cave.

1998 Video Card Advice in alt.games.jedi-knight (Usenet newsgroup) 7 Aug. I should have my new computer next weekend, and I plan to enter my ‘man-cave’ for about 72 hours straight to try all my games on the new system.

2016 Northern Echo 9 Sept. He is already planning a redevelopment of the ‘man cave’ in his home that houses all his framed medals as well as a full-size pool table and big-screen TV.

man coverage n. U.S. Sport = man defence n.

ΚΠ

1979 Washington Post 18 Nov. d1/4 We blitzed and tried man coverage and they still beat us.

1993 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. viii. 1/4 When you're running down the sideline in man coverage against an All-Pro receiver like Michael Irvin and the safeties are up and there is no one in the middle, there isn't much team play in that.

† man-crab n. Irish English Obsolete a swimming crab whose carapace has markings roughly resembling a human face.

ΚΠ

1750 C. Smith Antient & Present State Cork I. ii. i. 139 A species of crabs, called man-crabs, from the resemblance of a human face on the back of them.

1772 J. Rutty Ess. Nat. Hist. Dublin I. 375 Cancer latipes Rondeletti, a small shell-fish about the bigness of a wall-nut, which has something like the delineation of a human face upon it, whence it has been sometimes called the Man-Crab.

man-crazy adj. = man-mad adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > for men

man-wood1579

man-keen1683

man-mad1904

man-crazy1923

nympho1935

man-hungry1951

man-starved1961

1923 G. Atherton Black Oxen xlii. 262 The young women would say, in their nasty slang, that I was probably man-crazy.

1996 E. Danticat Krik? Krak! 11 He called me selfish, and he asked if I hadn't seen or heard what was happening to man-crazy whores like me.

man crush n. colloquial an intense liking or admiration felt by one man for another (in a non-romantic or non-sexual context); (also) a man who is the object of such feelings; cf. girl crush n. at girl n. Compounds 5.

ΚΠ

1998 BG in alt.music.judas-priest (Usenet newsgroup) 20 Sept. I'm getting a serious man crush on you.

2004 M. St. Amant Committed (2005) xxiv. 189 Some of the..guys have developed unholy man-crushes on their players.

2011 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 16 Aug. 69 He never swears in front of women and his man crush is Johnny Depp.

† man-dealer n. Obsolete rare a slave-dealer.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in slaves

knave-seller1552

mango1602

Guinea merchant1719

slave-merchant1746

Guinea-man1756

Guinea trader1756

soul driver1774

Negro-dealer1799

slave-trader1813

nigger jockey1838

Negro-hunter1839

slaver1842

fleshmonger1845

man-dealer1860

blackbirder1876

1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxxvii. 110 The Transatlantic man-dealer.

man defence n. [shortened < man-to-man defence: see man to man adj. 3] U.S. Sport a defensive strategy in a team ball game in which each player is responsible for marking one member of the opposing side.

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1979 Washington Post 16 Feb. c5/2 We'll use both zone and ‘man’ defense. Duke is not a one-man team. You have to stop them all.

1991 Inside Sports Aug. 70/3 In just two years Fuller has restored the familiar swagger to Texas' man defense, bolstered the pass rush, and returned the secondary to its old glory.

† man-dream n. [ < man n.¹ + dream n.¹] Obsolete human joy; loud mirth.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [noun]

dreamOE

man-dreamOE

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [noun]

mirthOE

gladdingc1000

man-dreamOE

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jubilance1864

jubilancy1894

OE Beowulf 1264 He [sc. Cain] þa fag gewat, morþre gemearcod mandream fleon, westen warode.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11949 Þa aras þe mon-drem [c1300 Otho mannes drem] þat þe uolde dunede a-ȝen.

man-engine n. a lift for carrying miners up or down a shaft consisting of a pair of reciprocating vertical rods with opposite motions and platforms fixed to them at intervals, the end points of the motion occurring when the platforms on the two rods are in line, so that by stepping back and forth between the rods a person may maintain a continuous ascent or descent.

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1865 Morning Star 7 Jan. In a few mines the man-engine, which hoists and lowers the men, has been introduced.

1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) iv. i. 372 You can't ride the man-engine to the bottom of the mine, boy, you're too small. You'd miss your footing and fall down the shaft.

1992 Mod. Painters Spring 54/2 One day at Levant Mine..there was an accident and some 200 men were lost as they were climbing on the Man-Engine to the surface.

† man-entered adj. Obsolete rare initiated into manhood.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. ii. 99 His Pupill age Man-entred thus.

† man-fish n. Obsolete a merman; (Heraldry) a representation of a merman.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > monsters

dragonc1330

griffina1400

yalec1425

mermaid1445

manticorec1470

cockatrice1513

mermaiden1538

opinicus1546

lituit1562

Pegasus1562

equicerve1572

harpy1572

lyciske1572

verme1572

wyver1599

merman1601

lion-dragon1610

lion-poisson1610

wyvern1610

Sagittarius1619

sagittary1632

man-fish1653

sea lion1661

satyral1724

man-tiger1780

sea-dog1780

Welsh dragon1799

camelopardel1830

satyr1845

serpivolant1866

sea monkey1909

1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) 444 Scaliger writes, that one of those Sea-men, or men-fishes was seen by Hierom Lord of Noricum, which laid hold on the Cable of his Ship.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 360/1 A Mere-man, or a Man-marine, or a Man-fish..by others termed a Triton.

1892 C. R. B. Barrett Essex Highways 139 The catching..of a man-fish, or sea-monster, in the reign of Henry II.

man flu n. depreciative colloquial a cold or similar minor ailment as experienced or reported by a man prone to exaggerate the severity of the symptoms.

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1999 Hosp. Stay Nightmare in misc.health.diabetes (Usenet newsgroup) 26 Jan. The ER doc came in and said it was just a ‘Man Flu’.

2003 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 13 Jan. This is the viral category [of cold] or as a friend calls it ‘Man flu’! What a truly wonderful and spot-on description. Man Flu, applicable only to those who do not suffer well.

2017 Sunday Times (Nexis) 26 Nov. 3 There is no disease more debilitating and exhausting than ‘man flu’, the illness better known to women as a ‘minor cold’.

† man-fungus n. Obsolete rare = earth-star n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > earth-star

earth-star1828

man-fungus1866

geaster1887

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 716/1 Man fungus.

man-hair n. a man's pubic hair.

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the world > life > the body > hair > pubic hair > [noun]

pubes1569

garden1732

fud1771

pubic hair1836

moss1847

rug1893

maidenhair1908

pussy hairc1910

bush1922

man-hair1928

thatch1933

chuff1967

pube1967

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xv. 265 That's where to put forget-me-nots, in the man-hair, or the maiden-hair.

† man-huckster n. Obsolete the manager of a male brothel.Apparently an isolated use.

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a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey v. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dd/2 Be so and no more, you man-huckster.

man hug n. a friendly embrace between two men, often accompanied by a handshake, a clap on the back, etc.Compare earlier man-to-man hug (see quots. 1975, 1988, and cf. man to man adj. 2).

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1975 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 17 Aug. 23/1 (heading) Man-to-man hug no slur on masculinity.

1988 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 July 27/3 The corporate man-to-man hug has long been considered acceptable between old friends... There's a thump-on-the-back hug greeting. It indicates a long history of give and take.]

1998 alt.tv.highlander 26 May (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 4 Sept. 2019) The..man-hug was clipped [from the show], but I saw it.

2005 Philadelpha Nov. 132/1 His eye contact with the valet quickly leads to one of those brief but forceful man-hugs that guys enjoy, more like a collision than an embrace.

2012 @primawesome 27 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 4 Sept. 2019) You grab my hand and pat my back with your other hand. Our junk stays far from touching. Man hug. Don't you ever try to regular hug me, bro.

man-hungry adj. having a strong desire (esp. sexual) for a man or men.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > for men

man-wood1579

man-keen1683

man-mad1904

man-crazy1923

nympho1935

man-hungry1951

man-starved1961

1951 J. Cornish Provincials 220 Douglas fell..to a girl described by Bunty as twenty-eight and strictly man-hungry.

1993 Q. Wilder One Shining Summer (BNC) He saw her looking at him through binoculars, something he wouldn't have put past a man-hungry shark like Sandra.

man-in-space n. originally U.S. an astronaut.

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society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > astronaut or traveller in space

space flyer1911

astronaut1928

rocket man1931

spaceman1932

spacefarer1936

cosmonaut1959

man-in-space1959

taikonaut1998

1959 Daily Tel. 21 Nov. 1/2 Capsule recovery is a crisis point in our man-in-space programme.

1962 Amer. Speech 37 43 Before April 12, 1961, the concept expressed by cosmonaut..was rendered..by such terms as..man-in-space.

1975 I. Asimov Eyes on Universe (1976) xiii. 255 For the first six years of the man-in-space program, there had been no deaths.

man-keeper n. Scottish and Irish English (northern) (a) a newt; (b) the viviparous lizard, Lacerta vivipara (rare).

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1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 392 He was fond of drinking filthy fluids, and his belly gave birth to some asks and man-keepers.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Man-keeper, a designation given to the newt..by the inhabitants of Dumfr. and Roxb., because they believe that it waits on the adder to warn man of his danger.

1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 66 It is said that mankeepers will creep down the throat of a person who falls asleep near any water where they are.

1907 Trans. Dumfries & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Soc. 79 Lizard (Lacerta vivipara), called newts, asks, and mankeepers in the country.

† man-leech n. Obsolete rare a prostitute.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute

meretrixOE

whoreOE

soiled dovea1250

common womanc1330

putec1384

bordel womanc1405

putaina1425

brothelc1450

harlot?a1475

public womanc1510

naughty pack?1529

draba1533

cat1535

strange woman1535

stew1552

causey-paikera1555

putanie?1566

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traffic1591

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mermaid1595

medlar1597

occupant1598

Paphian1598

Winchester goose1598

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hell-moth1602

aunt1604

moll1604

prostitution1605

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miss1606

night-worm1606

bat1607

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night-shadea1625

waistcoateera1625

night trader1630

coolera1632

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painted ladya1637

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mob?1650

lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651

lady of pleasure1652

trugmullion1654

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girlc1662

high-flyer1663

fireship1665

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small girl1671

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marmalade-madam1674

town miss1675

town woman1675

lady of the night1677

mawks1677

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Whetstone whore1684

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nocturnal1693

hack1699

strum1699

fille de joie1705

market-dame1706

screw1725

girl of (the) town1733

Cytherean1751

street girl1764

monnisher1765

lady of easy virtue1766

woman (also lady) of the town1766

kennel-nymph1771

chicken1782

stargazer1785

loose fish1809

receiver general1811

Cyprian1819

mollya1822

dolly-mop1834

hooker1845

charver1846

tail1846

horse-breaker1861

professional1862

flagger1865

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cocotte1867

queen's woman1871

common prostitute1875

joro1884

geisha1887

horizontal1888

flossy1893

moth1896

girl of the pavement1900

pross1902

prossie1902

pusher1902

split-arse mechanic1903

broad1914

shawl1922

bum1923

quiff1923

hustler1924

lady of the evening1924

prostie1926

working girl1928

prostisciutto1930

maggie1932

brass1934

brass nail1934

mud kicker1934

scupper1935

model1936

poule de luxe1937

pro1937

chromo1941

Tom1941

pan-pan1949

twopenny upright1958

scrubber1959

slack1959

yum-yum girl1960

Suzie Wong1962

mattress1964

jamette1965

ho1966

sex worker1971

pavement princess1976

parlour girl1979

crack whore1990

1687 C. Sedley Bellamira iv. i Thou punk, thou cockatrice, thou man-leech, that suck'st their marrow and their money.

† man-litter n. Obsolete rare a sedan chair.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > carrying-chair > sedan chair

bearing-chair1352

seat1588

sedge1615

chair1634

man-litter1640

sedan1640

chair-volant1667

street-chaira1712

sedan chair1750

stick chair1800

tonjonc1804

jampan1828

1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden ii. ii A couple of lusty able bodied men..carry mee in a Man-litter into the great bed at Ware.

man-load n. a load such as one man can carry.

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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > amount that can be carried on the back

backload1725

man-load1878

man-pack1925

1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. xiv. 376 Suna commanded his Katekiro to make up 300 man-loads of hoes and old iron.

man-machine n. and adj. (a) n. a man who acts mechanically, an automaton; (usually in plural men-machines); (b) n. = man-engine n.; (c) adj. (frequently spelt with an en dash) designating a relationship or communication between a man and a machine.

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the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [noun] > unintentional or involuntary quality > automatic or mechanical quality > person acting with

machina1612

machine1676

golem1732

man-machine1749

robot1923

droid1980

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > [adjective] > relationship between man and machine

man-machine1951

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 192 Now the man-machine, strongly work'd upon by the sensual passion, felt so manfully his advantages and superiority.

1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 279 Where they descend by the man-machines their journey is easy both down and up.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 22 Nov. 12/1 Nowadays the Kaiser's men-machines take the best part of the pavement from anyone whom they may safely elbow off.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 18/1 There is a wide range of mental states engendered in the same man–machine relationship.

1979 F. Jameson Fables of Aggression ii. 36 Man-machine responding to dead environment, automata in specular reaction to each other.

1991 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 550/3 (caption) The ‘man-machine interface’ needs to be the main focus of attempts to reduce flight crew error.

man-mad adj. having a strong desire for or preoccupation with men.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > for men

man-wood1579

man-keen1683

man-mad1904

man-crazy1923

nympho1935

man-hungry1951

man-starved1961

1904 N.E.D. at Man Man-wood a., Man-mad.

1928 R. Macaulay Keeping up Appearances vii. 62 If a woman went on that way about men you'd call her man-mad.

1990 Daily Star 20 Mar. 7 Man-mad Dolores told men friends she didn't love her husband, and branded him a mummy's boy.

man-manage v. (a) intransitive to manage people, usually employees or (in later use) members of a sports team, esp. sensitively; to engage in man-management; (b) transitive to manage (people) in this way.

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1970 Times 9 Jan. 26/2 The man appointed will be expected to be self motivating, have a strong personality, the ability to man manage and work within a well defined time programme.

1990 Daily Tel. 25 Jan. (Appointments) p. vii (advt.) You'll need..the ability to build from scratch, man-manage and motivate a strong, thoroughly professional team of engineering staff and technicians.

1999 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 30 Aug. In this day and age there are a number of managers, or perhaps coaches is a better word, who didn't learn the trade or how to man-manage players.

man-management n. the management of people, usually employees or (in later use) members of a sports team.

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society > occupation and work > business affairs > management methods or systems > [noun] > organizing people into working unit

ganging1843

man-management1921

1921 J. Calder et al. Course in Mod. Production Methods VI. viii. 115 It may seem at first sight in reading this incident that some of the more human qualities of man-management were lacking; but the best test of a method is its results, and in this case the results were certainly successful.

1971 Mod. Law Rev. 34 vi. 680 The principle of an employer's responsibility for the results of ‘teamwork by his team’ goes to the centre of all thinking upon the techniques of organisation of groups and ‘man-management’ in large organisations.

2011 FourFourTwo Oct. 51/1 The manager's greatest skill is in man-management, but even he's been tested by his star who trains when he chooses.

man-mark v. Sport (originally and chiefly Association Football) (transitive) (of a defender) to mark (a particular opposing attacker) closely; also intransitive.

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1990 Times 17 Nov. 27/5 [He] could achieve that by having Paul Gascoigne man-marked.

1991 Independent (Nexis) 12 Nov. 32 Roxburgh promised to start three of his five strikers.., and said no one would be man-marking.

man-marker n. Sport (originally and chiefly Association Football) a defender whose role is to mark a particular opposing attacker closely; cf. man to man adj. 3.

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1984 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 12 Nov. d1 He's the best man-to-man marker in the league.]

1989 USA Today 25 Aug. (Sports section) 6 c/3 We used him as a man marker... But he can also play deep or wide.

1990 Sunday Express 21 Oct. 40/1 In Bergomi and Ferri, they have typically ruthless man-markers.

man-marking n. Sport (originally and chiefly Association Football) the system assigning individual defenders to mark particular opposing attackers throughout a game; the practice of playing in such a system; cf. man to man adj. 3.

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1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 June (Final ed.) d1 So did Rob Rensenbrink, who almost always seem to do well against Italian defenses, the man-to-man marking.]

1992 Guardian 6 Apr. 20/5 He was the undoing of a Leeds side whose Garboesque defence appeared to abandon man-marking.

1999 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 28 Sept. Wenger is not planning any special man-marking assignments to snuff out the Rivaldo threat.

man-meat n. (a) human flesh; (b) the male genitals.

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1962 W. Stegner Wolf Willow iii. ii. 148 ‘What's a windigo?’ ‘What the Crees used to call an Injun that made use of man-meat.’

1971 B. Malamud Tenants 207 The sweaty youths, holding long spears, leaped and yelped as they danced, their man-meat swinging like grapes in bunches in their loincloths.

1990 M. Angelou I shall not be Moved 14 That skimpy piece of man-meat called Coleridge.

† man-mender n. Obsolete a surgeon.

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun]

chirurgeon1297

surgeonc1330

surgera1400

surgeonrer1483

surgeoner1526

chirurge1535

scarifier1566

scissor man1593

operator1598

man-mendera1625

men-mendera1625

flesh-tailor1633

nim-gimmer1699

sawbones1837

lint-scraper1860

knife-man1961

a1625 J. Fletcher Chances iii. ii. 12/1 in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbb2^v Good man mender, Stop me up with Parsley, like stuft Beefe, And let me walke abroad.

1708 Brit. Apollo 18–20 Feb. Man-menders then had noble pay—Which we call surgeons to this day.

† man-mercer n. Obsolete rare a person who deals in men's clothes.

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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns

mercerc1230

clothier1362

draper1362

woolman1390

yarn-chopper1429

line-draper1436

Welsh drapera1525

telerc1540

purple-seller1547

linen-draper1549

staplera1552

silkman1553

woollen-draper1554

wool-driver1555

woolster1577

linener1616

woolner1619

linen-man1631

ragman1649

rag merchant1665

slop-seller1665

bodice-seller1672

piece-broker1697

wool-stapler1709

cloth-man1723

Manchester-man1755

fleece-merchanta1774

rag dealer1777

man's mercer1789

keelman1821

man-mercer1837

cotton-broker1849

slopper1854

shoddyite1865

costumier1886

cotton-man1906

1837 M. R. Mitford Country Stories (1850) 99 What business had he in a great shop? a man-mercer's they call it.

† man-merchandise n. Obsolete rare slave-dealing.

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society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in slaves

slave-trade1734

man-trade1760

man-merchandise1788

slave-dealing1835

slaving1862

1788 W. Cowper Let. 16 Feb. (1982) III. 103 It being impossible to alledge an argument in behalf of Man-merchandize that can deserve a hearing.

† man-miln n. Scottish Obsolete a hand-mill for grinding.

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1566 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 173 Ane mann-miln for making of poulder, with thre mortaris.

1580 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 302 Ane man myln with all hir ganging geir.

† man-minister n. Obsolete rare a chaplain.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > chaplain > [noun]

chaplaina1100

padre1584

chapel-manc1650

capellanea1661

man-minister1715

sky pilot1865

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 52 Richard Paice..was at first but a Mann-minister to Thomas Langton Bishop of Winchester.

man-monkey n. †(a) an ape (obsolete); (b) (derogatory) an apelike person; (c) = man-ape n.

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babiona1529

jackanapes1528

Johnanapes1633

man-monkey1651

ape1699

pygmy1699

Simia1719

great ape1771

anthropoid1861

pithecoid1874

man-ape1878

pongid1949

pithecine1962

1651 T. Vaughan Second Wash 84 Thou hast indeed two strange Creatures, and I must insert them here for posteritie, thy animated bellowes, and thy man-monkie.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. vii. i. 13 Why you won't pretend you did not hear Miss Beverley say you were the truest Ouran Outang, or man-monkey, she ever knew?

1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross (new ed.) xxxv. 277 Go on! ye miserable man-monkey of a boy!

1883 tr. N. Joly Man before Metals 17 Prehistoric man..has even been sometimes called man-monkey, or pithecanthrope.

man-mountain n. [in quot. 1726 used contextually as a name for Gulliver by the Lilliputians; in later use probably after Swift's use] a giant, a very large man; a wrestler.

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the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [noun] > and broadness > person

giant1559

Hercules1567

Gogmagogc1580

cob1582

Gargantuist1593

hulk1600

rhinoceros1602

colossus1605

pompiona1616

lump1630

strapper1675

man-mountain1726

Brobdingnagian1728

grenadier1805

butt-cut1806

gorilla1884

King Kong1933

hunk1941

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. ii. 38 In the right Coat-Pocket of the Great Man Mountain (for so I interpret the Words Quinbus Flestrin).

1770 C. Burney Jrnl. 13 Dec. in Music, Men & Manners (1969) 223 To M. Rousseau, Rue Grenelle, at a small house, a crayon painters'... In a dark corner was the man mountain.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §429/1 Corpulent person,..man mountain.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §707/2 Man mountain, a large wrestler.

1956 J. Symons Paper Chase xxx. 240 He was trying desperately to establish some kind of grip that would move this man mountain.

1993 Maclean's 26 Apr. 27/1 This was supposed to be the year of Eric Lindros, the Philadelphia Flyers' man-mountain rookie from Toronto.

† man-mountainism n. Obsolete the great stature enjoyed by a person of exceptional achievements.Apparently an isolated use.

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1842 E. B. Browning Bk. Poets in Athenæum 4 June 498/1 While Gower may blame ‘his fortune’..for the dry specimen crumbled off from his man-mountainism.

man overboard n. a person who has fallen into the sea from a vessel; (so as int.) a call to alert crew members to such a casualty and initiate the recovery procedure; (occasionally) the procedure itself.

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1829 D. Jerrold Black-ey'd Susan ii. 32 That fellow would sit still at his grog, at the cry of ‘a man overboard!’

c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 9 Cutters are used as despatch boats and for light work, such as answering signals, rowing guard, picking up a man overboard, or to assist in towing.

1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xx. 179 The seaboat's crew had gone through an undress rehearsal of ‘Man overboard!’

1992 Offshore Sept. 85/1 A makeshift drogue could have been rigged for the Man Overboard pole.

man-pack n. a compact package containing equipment or supplies, designed to be carried easily by one person.

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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > amount that can be carried on the back

backload1725

man-load1878

man-pack1925

1925 J. R. Smith N. Amer. xl. 695 Transportation by wagon is unthinkable; even by donkey it is most difficult. The footpath and the man-pack are the common types.

1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 52/2 The jungle..absorbs and deflects transmissions from man-pack radio sets.

1981 Times 2 Feb. 18/8 Plessey..is believed to have an order..to supply HF and UHF tactical radios for manpacks.

man-pack v. (a) transitive to transport (equipment, supplies, etc.) in a pack designed to be carried easily by one person; (b) intransitive to travel carrying equipment, etc., in a man-pack.

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1888 Tasmanian 1 Sept. 21/1 The Government road party are making poor progress... I have still to man-pack everything three miles of a dreadful track.

1965 Beaver (Winnipeg) Autumn 55/1 We man-packed from there on, some hundred miles to the Mackenzie River.

1999 W. B. Haworth Bradley & how it got that Way viii. 97 The Bradley commander..was also provided with two radios, an AN/GRC-46 and an AN/GRC160. The latter could be dismounted and man-packed for ground use.

† man peach n. Obsolete a variety of peach.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > peach > other types of peach

avant-peach1611

melocoton1611

man peach1629

nutmeg1629

muscat1664

Portugal peach1664

Modena1674

nipple peach1719

peachlet1877

peregrine1903

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > types of peach

presse1604

avant-peach1611

man peach1629

nutmeg1629

Roman peach1629

muscat1664

Rambouillet1664

winter peach1664

rumbullion1670

Orleans1674

pavie1675

Magdalenea1678

minion1691

admirable1693

maudlin1699

clingstone1705

nipple peach1719

rareripe1722

melter1766

vanguard1786

freestone1807

cling1845

lemon cling1848

peregrine1903

doughnut peach1993

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. xv. 582 The Man Peach is of two sorts, the one longer then the other.

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 72 in Sylva Roman Peach, Man Peach, Quince Peach.

man-rail n. a rail serving as a handhold for a person.

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1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Dec. 24 Along each side of the boiler is fixed a hand-rail, called a man-rail.

man-rem n. a unit of radiation exposure equal to one rem incident on one person.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > radiation > unit of radiation exposure

man-rem1973

1973 J. Dunster in New Scientist 18 Oct. 194/1 The collective dose..is the sum of the products of a level of radiation dose and the number of people exposed at that level. The collective dose has the unit ‘man-rem’ and is a useful measure of the total dose to a community or population.

1975 Science 14 Feb. 509 The total future cost of one man-rem in terms of health costs paid in present dollars, is between $12 and $120.

1983 Financial Times 8 Jan. 4/2 The collective radiation dose of 50,000 man-rems accumulated by that work-force ‘may be increasing this number [of deaths from cancer] to 505 per year’.

1993 Nucl. Engin. Internat. Mar. 17 Remote installation of nozzle dams in PWR steam generators is now a well established technique, with substantial man-rem savings.

manrider n. Mining a train used to transport miners underground.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > vehicle for underground haulage or transportation

tram1517

wagon1649

rolley1817

buggy1867

barney1874

hod1883

whirley1886

shuttle car1905

manrider1967

scooptram1967

1967 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) x. 11 Manrider, a manriding train.

1991 Times 12 Mar. 3/2 The three-carriage manrider, normally used to carry construction workers, was to take 20 people to France.

man-riding n. chiefly Mining the vehicular transportation of workers around a mine, building site, etc.; frequently as adj.

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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > transporting by lift or cage

shaft-riding1887

man-riding1950

1950 H. F. Banks in E. Mason Pract. Coal Mining II. xxxv. 530/2 Where locomotives and large mine cars are in use, they serve also as a means of man riding.

1950 H. F. Banks in E. Mason Pract. Coal Mining II. xxxv. 531/1 Fig. 78 illustrates one type of man-riding car.

1973 Times 2 Mar. (Wales Suppl.) p. iii/3 The coal board is now concentrating on increasing ‘manriding’—trains from pit bottom to coalface—wherever the geology makes it possible.

1991 New Builder 12 Sept. 28/5 The Tirak P compact and lightweight motorised hoist can be mounted on platforms or stirrups for safe man-riding in suspended access applications.

man-root n. (a) either of two North American ipomoeas with large tuberous roots, Ipomoea leptophylla, of the dry plains east of the Rocky Mountains, and the wild potato vine, I. pandurata; (b) any of several western North American gourds of the genus Marah (family Cucurbitaceae); (c) the medicinal root of a ginseng (genus Panax), esp. one from Asia.

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1848 W. H. Emory Notes Mil. Reconnaissance 13 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Exec. Doc. 41) IV The principal growth is the buffalo grass,..and very rarely that wonderful plant, the Ipomea leptophylla, called by the hunter man root.

1876 C. E. Hobbs Bot. Hand-bk. Bot. & Pharmacopoeial Names 68 Man root, Convolvulus panduratus.

1901 W. L. Jepson Flora Western Middle Calif. 320 Roots, sometimes as large as and not unlike the shape of a man's body... E[chinocystis] fabacca... Common Man Root.

1955 N. Taylor F. Schuyler Mathews' Field Bk. Amer. Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) 386 Those [herbs] below are often weedy pests, but the native Ipomœa pandurata, the wild potato-vine or manroot, has an enormous starchy root once a favorite food of the Indians.

1966 in F. G. Cassidy & J. H. Hall Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 504 A Washington variety of wild cucumber is manroot, with root three feet long and perhaps four inches in diameter.

1976 Star (Sheffield) 26 Nov. 10/7 You might have wondered what all the talk about ‘man root’ [sc. ginseng] was.

1988 Natural Choice ii. 17/2 Because of its curious shape, ginseng, or Jin-chen, was called ‘Man Root’.

1991 Yours Feb. 16/1 (advt.) The ‘man root’ was introduced into Europe in the early seventeenth century.

1994 M. Griffiths Index Garden Plants 725/1 Manroot, Marah.

man-rope n. Nautical one of the ropes on each side of a gangway or ladder, used in ascending and descending a ship's side, etc.

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1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Tire-veilles, the man ropes, or entering-ropes of the side.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick viii. 42 With both hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes.

1927 Blackwood's Mag. 20 July 4/2 The gig is alongside the gangway..decorated with white manropes before the Captain appears.

man-rope knot n. a knot tied with the strands at the end of a rope to serve as a handhold.

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1856 C. Nordhoff Man-of-war Life xii. 212 I practised..and was soon master of long and short splices, manrope knots, turks-heads, and Matthew Walkers.

1986 Scouting Mar. (centre pages) The Man Rope Knot gives a firm indication that the end of the rope has been reached.

man-shift n. (the amount of work done in) a single shift worked by one man.

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society > occupation and work > work > amounts of work > [noun] > amount per person per time unit

hour1900

man-hour1915

woman-hour1915

man-shift1930

work rate1957

1930 Engineering 3 Jan. 23/3 Variations in the standard of living..are reflected in the average output per man-shift.

1978 J. Paxton Dict. European Econ. Community (rev. ed.) 43 Average output a manshift underground in coal mining in some countries in the E.E.C. was as follows.

man-size adj. of the size of a man; large, full-size; large enough to occupy, suit, or satisfy a man.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [adjective] > having types of dimensions

life-size1813

handy-sized1834

man-size1913

man-sized1914

1913 R. W. Service Rhymes of Rolling Stone 103 The man-size mountains palisade us round on every side.

1928 Publishers' Weekly 16 June 2441 Since writing is a man-size job, he would have his hands full.

1963 House & Garden Mar. 130/1 (advt.) Fourpenn'orth of Phurnacite ‘eggs’ will heat enough water for a man-size bath.

1994 R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures v. 94 Sister Angelica was already opening a man-size tool chest.

man-sized adj. = man-size adj.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [adjective] > having types of dimensions

life-size1813

handy-sized1834

man-size1913

man-sized1914

1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn ii. 20 Me? I'd pinch the harp and pawn it for ten growlers of Dutch beer and some man-sized rum!

1920 J. Gregory Man to Man (1921) xvii. 209 He was trying to hide a pair of man-sized feet behind his table.

1972 F. Durbridge Bat out of Hell v. 174 Thelma..blew her nose on a tiny handkerchief which seemed ridiculous in her man-sized hand.

1984 F. W. P. Bolger Memories Old Home Place 24/2 Tobacco workers ‘prime’ the man-sized tobacco plants in the fields.

man-starved adj. suffering from the lack of a man or men; having a strong desire (esp. sexual) for a man or men.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > for men

man-wood1579

man-keen1683

man-mad1904

man-crazy1923

nympho1935

man-hungry1951

man-starved1961

1961 Times 24 Oct. 13/2 Beautiful, man-starved women.

† man-state n. Obsolete the state of male adulthood; maturity or manhood; the age at which a man is considered to be fully adult.

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the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity > adulthood of man

manhooda1393

man-statec1400

man-agec1425

man's agec1443

state1553

virility1586

beard1591

father-age1596

c1400 Life St. Anne (Minn.) (1928) 2119 (MED) He begyns fast to manstate at draw.

a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 25 (MED) Whyll a chyld ys ȝeong and wythout synne, hit ys more amyable þen hit ys aftyr when he comyth to man-state.

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iii. xxi. 140 He tooke on his gowne of man-state.

† man-steid adj. Scottish Obsolete rare supplied with men.

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a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 228 Thrie greit scheipis weill man steid, weill wittallit and artaillzeit.

man-strength n. the number of people available for employment, military service, etc.; = manpower n. 2.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > resources > consisting of people

human resources1915

manpower1917

man-strength1931

peopleware1974

1931 Ann. Reg. 1930 1. 23 The United States was greatly adding to its man-strength.

man-sty n. [after pigsty n.] a house or dwelling which is considered squalid, inadequate, or unfit for human habitation.

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1799 R. Southey Jrnl. 25 July in Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 518/2 The most miserable and beastly collection of man-sties I ever beheld.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 May 5/1 The unutterable ‘man-sties’ which do duty for labourers' cottages.

man-tailored adj. and n. (a) adj. designating women's clothes tailored in the style of men's clothes; (b) n. a man-tailored garment.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > made by specific manufacturer > tailor

tailored1862

tailor-made1873

man-tailored1922

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 148 Molly had that elephantgrey dress with the braided frogs. Mantailored with selcovered buttons.

1972 Country Life 25 May 1354/2 A good collection of man-tailoreds.

1985 B. T. Bradford Hold Dream ii. 19 She wore a magenta wool suit, magnificently cut and tailored, obviously a pricey piece of haute couture, with a man-tailored shirt of white silk.

man talk n. speech or conversation characterized as distinctively masculine in tone or subject; talk between men, esp. centring on male preoccupations.

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1926 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXIV. 124 Man-talk, robust, manly talk.

1981 C. James Observer 5 July 40/8 Mark Cox was in the box for a lot of man-talk about the alleged necessity for the bad boy to uncork the boiling lava of his personality.

1987 A. Maupin Significant Others i. 8 When..Brian went to parties, he usually ended up making man talk with the mayor's husband.

1994 S. Butala Perfection of Morning iv. 61 Nearly all the daily conversation I listened to was man-talk: machinery, land, animals, farm economics.

† man-thew n. Obsolete a custom, usage, or general practice (frequently in plural).

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > of men

man-thewOE

OE Guthlac A 507 Ge scyldigra synne secgað, soþfæstra no mod ond monþeaw mæran willað.

OE Cynewulf Juliana 410 Ic beo lareow georn þæt he monþeawum minum lifge.

a1300 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Jesus Oxf.) (1955) 97 Þe hwile hit is lutel, ler him mon-þewes [v.r. monnis þewis].

† man-trade n. Obsolete the slave trade; cf. man-dealer n.

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society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in slaves

slave-trade1734

man-trade1760

man-merchandise1788

slave-dealing1835

slaving1862

1760 J. Philmore (title) Two Dialogues on the Man-Trade.

1828 J. T. Rutt in T. Burton Diary III. 258 (note) This lettered barbarian,..in the genuine spirit of the man-trade, ‘hoped never to see our negroes in America become Christians’.

man-way n. (a) Mining a small tunnel used by miners; (b) an aperture providing access to an interior compartment or enclosed space for purposes of inspection, repair, etc.

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1881 R. W. Raymond Mining Gloss. Man-way, a small passage used by workmen, but not for transportation.

1889 Cent. Dict. Manway, a manhole. (Eng.)

1964 A. Nelson Dict. Mining 273 Manway or Ladderway, a compartment, vertical or inclined, for the accommodation of ladders, pipes and timber chutes.

1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 484/1 Cost [of container] £1,450, depending on optional customer requirements for:—separate compartments..manways, special outlets [etc.].

1976 Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 16/1 The four bottom legs are reached through manways of about 100 ft.

1991 Nucl. Energy June 155/2 The vessel heads, which contain the safety, relief, surge and spray nozzles and the manway, are forged from one piece.

† manweed n. Obsolete rare fuller's teasel, Dipsacus sativus.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Dipsacaceae (teasel and allies) > [noun]

teasela1300

wokethistlea1400

fuller's teasel?c1425

fawthistle1483

Venus's basin1551

card thistle1578

Venus's bath1578

fuller's weed1587

fuller's herb1593

fuller's thistle1601

fuller's thorn1601

Venus' laver1601

shepherd's rod1633

shepherd's staff1760

manweed1829

Venus's cup1855

1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 108 Dipsacus fullonum, manweed or fuller's teasel.

man whore n. slang a male prostitute or gigolo; (more generally) a sexually promiscuous man.

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1987 J. Cambridge Clarise Cumberbatch want to go Home xii. 152 But too-besides all these years she mustbe [sic] know already that you is a manwhore.

2000 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Features section) 17 It must be easier for a woman tart to perform than a man whore. You can fake an orgasm but you can't fake an erection.

2016 N. J. Sales Amer. Girls iv. 199 He's now a major man whore and he needs to leave my school because he has hurt so many girls.

† man-wood adj. Obsolete intensely desirous of a man or men; = man-mad adj.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > for men

man-wood1579

man-keen1683

man-mad1904

man-crazy1923

nympho1935

man-hungry1951

man-starved1961

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 84 Andromanes; to saye manwood [printed manhood, corrected in ed. 1612].

1600 J. Weever Favnvs & Melliflora sig. D4 And women are by nature licorous. These thoughtes awaked, women growe manwood.

man-worship n. chiefly depreciative the worship of a human as a divine being; the inappropriate or idolatrous elevation of a person to the status of a god.

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1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (James ii. 1) 415 He answered,..I would not leave Calvin to hear Paul. This is not only partiality but anthropolatry or Man-worship.

1651 T. Manton Pract. Comm. James i. 4 The sin of Corinth was man-worship, in giving excess of honor and respect to those Teachers whom they admired.

1857 W. Adams Elem. Christian Sci. (ed. 3) 160 The bold and harsh declaration in the text is such that it could only be made..by men..fighting vehemently against papal man-worship.

1978 Jrnl. Southern Hist. Nov. 604 Southern commentators attributed Romantic ‘man-worship’ to the secularization of the idea of the right of private judgement.

manworth n. (also manwyrth) Anglo-Saxon Law (now historical) = wergild n.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > for man's life

man-botea1000

bloodwitelOE

manworthlOE

wergilda1214

kinbootc1425

eric1587

were1607

blood-fine1818

blood money1826

lOE Laws of Hloðhære & Eadric (Rochester) i. 9 Gif mannes esne eorlcundne mannan ofslæhð,..se agend þone banan agefe & do þær þrio manwyrð to.

1670–91 T. Blount Law Dict. Manworth, the price or value of a Man's Life or Head; every Man, according to his degree, being rated at a certain price, according whereunto, satisfaction was, of old, made to his Lord, for the killing him.

1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1139/2 Manwryth [sic], the value or price at which a man was estimated, according to his degree.

b. With a period of time: a day, hour, etc., of one person's work or life (used esp. to quantify labour). Also in extended use. Cf. man-load n., man-shift n. at Compounds 2a. Cf. person-object n. (b) at person n. Compounds 1b.

man-day n.

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1925 E. O. Shebbeare in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 iii. vi. 364 Each case would contain a sufficient ration of all kinds of food for a given number of ‘men-days’.

1993 Connecticut Wildlife Jan. 7/2 The 1992 spring wild turkey season provided 3,549 hunters with 13,568 man-days of recreation.

man-hour n.

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society > occupation and work > work > amounts of work > [noun] > amount per person per time unit

hour1900

man-hour1915

woman-hour1915

man-shift1930

work rate1957

1915 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 14 611 A recent lecture on efficiency may have so impressed the manager that he drives the book-keeper to profanity by requests for information about man-hours, per capita output, inventory, and depreciation.

1991 Highway & Heavy Constr. Oct. 38/1 A man-hour production report that compares man-hours spent to man-hours estimated.

man-minute n.

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1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Man-minute.

1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington Sci. at War ii. 111 The actual working-time was only 53 man-minutes.

man-month n.

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1956 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 3 65 At the cost of..two or three man-months of programming time.

1991 Japan Forum 3 190 The number of man-months expended by Japanese researchers in Germany was approximately three times the figure for German researchers in Japan.

man-week n.

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1945 Times 19 Jan. 2/4 About 1,300,000 man-weeks remained to be consumed by March 31 if the labour force remained the same.

1961 Jrnl. Oil & Colour Chemists' Assoc. 44 296 With proper planning fifty paints can be fully investigated in approximately two man weeks.

man-year n.

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1928 A. S. Eddington Nature Physical World ix. 180 We must describe the amount of humanity in it [sc. Great Britain] as 400 million man-years.

1990 Financial Post (Canada) 31 Oct. 17 (advt.) DMC comprises seasoned professionals with a total of over 100 man-years of direct ORACLE experience.

C3. Compounds with man's.

† man's age n. Obsolete the age at which a man is considered an adult; = man-age n.¹

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the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity > adulthood of man

manhooda1393

man-statec1400

man-agec1425

man's agec1443

state1553

virility1586

beard1591

father-age1596

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 338 (MED) In his ful mannys age he is bounde to reuerence fadir and modir.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. To Rdr. sig. a8^v The bodie of man in the third part of his age, commonly called Mans-age [etc.].

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris Addenda 541 They wanted two years of Man's Age.

man's best friend n. an animal that performs valuable service to humans; spec. the dog, esp. as a domestic pet.

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1841 United Service Jrnl. May 58 An episode of an..affecting nature, in the history of man's best friend, the noblest, and most attached animal in the creation, the dog.

1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 393/1 Such a creature as a snake-eater is man's best friend.

1939 O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 60 Beaten copper reminders that a man's best friend is his dawg (beloved of the golf-playing classes).

1993 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 10 Aug. d1 Man's best friend has been a dependable draw at the movies since the silents, when Rin-Tin-Tin was one of the screen's biggest attractions.

† man's blood n. Obsolete (a) a kind of thistle; (b) [after Hellenistic Greek ἀνδρόσαιμον < ancient Greek ἀνδρός , genitive singular of ἀνήρ man (see andro- comb. form) + αἱμα blood (see haemo- comb. form)] , a kind of St John's wort whose fruits have blood-red juice.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > thistles

thistlec725

carduea1398

wolf's-thistlea1400

cardoona1425

wolf-thistle1526

cotton-thistle1548

gum-thistle1548

oat thistle1548

black chameleon1551

ixia1551

Saint Mary thistle1552

milk thistle1562

cow-thistle1565

bedeguar1578

carline1578

silver thistle1578

white chameleon1578

globe thistle1582

ball thistle1597

down thistle1597

friar's crown1597

lady's thistle1597

gummy thistle1598

man's blood1601

musk thistle1633

melancholy thistle1653

Scotch thistle1660

boar-thistle1714

spear- thistle1753

gentle thistle1760

woolly thistle1760

wool-thistle1769

bur-thistlea1796

Canada thistle1796

pine thistle1807

plume thistle1814

melancholy plume thistle1825

woolly-headed thistle1843

dog thistle1845

dwarf thistle1846

welted thistle1846

pixie glove1858

Mexican thistle1866

Syrian thistle1866

bull thistle1878

fish belly1878

fish-bone-thistle1882

green thistle1882

herringbone thistle1884

Californian thistle1891

winged thistle1915

fish-thistles-

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 98 Acorna, marg., A kind of thistle: some call it Mans bloud.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 275 Some cal this herbe Androsæmon, marg. Mans bloud.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Acorna A thistle called Mans blood.

† man's-bond n. Obsolete rare a slave or bondsman (in quot. used collectively with plural agreement).

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society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave

theowc893

thrallc950

young manOE

slavec1290

boyc1300

servanta1325

bondc1330

bondmana1340

manciplea1387

man's-bond?a1400

thrillc1480

thrillmanc1480

serf1483

bondservant1535

bondslave1561

bondling1587

slave-boy1607

slave-labourer1607

chattel1649

bondsman1713

livestock1755

esne1819

thirl-man1871

task-labourer1897

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 115 (MED) Now er þise bot mansbond, rascaile of refous.

† man's enemy n. Obsolete rare the Devil.

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a1800 Laird of Waristoun v, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 31/1 At her richt hand There stood Man's Enemy.

man's-eye view n. [after bird's eye view n. 1] (a) a view of the landscape as seen by a person, esp. from a specified position; (b) a distinctively male perspective on affairs or events.

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1912 P. W. Beck in G. H. Curtiss & A. Post Curtiss Aviation Bk. iv. v. 214 From an aeroplane or balloon the ground presents a very different appearance than it does from over usual man's eye view.

1962 Harper's Mag. Feb. 110/3 The Life pictures [sc. photographs from a satellite], however, are a really special dimension—magnificent man's-eye views of all corners of this man-inhabited globe.

1962 Times 11 Oct. 15/3 Mr. G. O. Jones's second novel..is a man's-eye view of Mrs. Mortimer's world.

1993 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 25 Apr. d1/2 How much have you written about the war that gives the man's-eye view?

† man's kind n. Obsolete = mankind n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > [noun]

maneOE

worldOE

all fleshc1000

mankinOE

earthOE

little worldc1175

man's kinda1200

mankinda1225

worldrichec1275

slimec1315

kindc1325

world1340

sectc1400

humanityc1450

microcosma1475

peoplea1500

the human kindred?1533

race1553

homo1561

humankind1561

universality1561

deadly?1590

mortality1598

rational1601

vicegerent1601

small world1604

flesh and blooda1616

mannity1621

human race1623

universea1645

nations1667

public1699

the species1711

Adamhood1828

Jock Tamson's bairns1832

folx1833

Bimana1839

human1841

peeps1847

menfolk1870

manfolk1876

amniota1879

peoplekind1956

personkind1972

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 99 (MED) Þanne he giueð mannes cuinde.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 69 (MED) God to mans kynd had grete lufe When he ordaynd..Heven and herth.

man's man n. a man whose qualities are appreciated by other men; a man who is popular with other men.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [noun] > virile man

manc1330

real man1872

he-man1885

man's mana1896

virilist1910

cocksman1916

macho1943

Marlboro Man1957

macho man1959

man1963

a1896 G. Du Maurier Martian (1897) 214 He had been essentially a man's man hitherto, in spite of his gay light love for lovely woman; a good comrade par excellence, a frolicsome chum, a rollicking boon-companion, a jolly pal!

1995 Face Sept. 161/2 There was no room to express love and only space for one kind of man: the hard man, the man's man.

man's meat n. (a) meat (or other food) for humans; †(b) colloquial a suitable sexual partner for a man (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > food for people

man's meat1463

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual partner > [noun] > woman considered in sexual terms or as a sexual partner > collectively

muttona1529

man's meat1629

charver1846

gash1914

poontang1945

poon1947

pussyc1947

crumpet1958

grumble1962

tail1967

fanny1993

1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 216 My mastyr payd at Brendwode ffor hys costys in horssemete and mannysmete.

c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 76 My hap at þat tȳm waz to be akquainted with A yoong ȝentilwoman who not only for her gifts of nātiur waz mans meat, but also for her gifts of þe mynd.

1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 46 I will not envy him, so long as I feed on that which is sound and mans meate (as we say).

a1663 Viscount Falkland Mariage Night (1664) ii. 13 But is she Mans meat? I..can scarcely digest one in her Teens.

1760 S. Foote Minor ii. 67 Here she has brought..a pretty piece of man's meat already; as sweet as a nosegay, and as ripe as a cherry.

1894 J. H. Wylie Hist. Eng. Henry IV II. xlv. 128 He extorted blackrent in the shape of mansmeat, horsemeat, and ‘coins’.

† man's mercer n. Obsolete a person who deals in tailors' materials (see quot. 1803).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns

mercerc1230

clothier1362

draper1362

woolman1390

yarn-chopper1429

line-draper1436

Welsh drapera1525

telerc1540

purple-seller1547

linen-draper1549

staplera1552

silkman1553

woollen-draper1554

wool-driver1555

woolster1577

linener1616

woolner1619

linen-man1631

ragman1649

rag merchant1665

slop-seller1665

bodice-seller1672

piece-broker1697

wool-stapler1709

cloth-man1723

Manchester-man1755

fleece-merchanta1774

rag dealer1777

man's mercer1789

keelman1821

man-mercer1837

cotton-broker1849

slopper1854

shoddyite1865

costumier1886

cotton-man1906

1789 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1938) VI. 612 Mans-mercers & Womens-mercers.

1803 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. 267 A man's mercer—One who furnishes small articles to taylors', as twist, buckram, stay tape.

† man's motherwort n. Obsolete = sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > castor-oil plant or bean

ricinusOE

oil treea1425

Palma Christic1450

man's motherworta1500

tick-seed1562

tick-weed1563

finger orchis1597

kick1597

steadfast1597

palmchrist1611

oil-nut1694

oilseed1760

castor-oil bean1814

castor-bean1819

castor-oil plant1839

a1500 Agnus Castus (Laud) (1950) 197 Palma Christi is an herbe þat me cleputh mannes moderwort or palme de dieu or stedefast..he beryþ litel reed flours in eyþer syde of hure stalk.

1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Mans motherwort is Palma Christi.

† man's queller n. Obsolete rare an executioner (cf. manqueller n.).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > executioner

manquellera1275

officer?1387

smiterc1390

manslayera1425

man's quellerc1429

baserc1480

butcher1483

executora1513

slaughter-slave1556

carnifex1561

executioner1561

deathsman1589

verdugo1616

hals-mana1658

c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3290 Qwene Thamare..Whilk Cirus..mannes qwellere hevedid.

man's woman n. a woman whose qualities are appreciated by men; a woman who is popular with men.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [noun]

wifeeOE

womaneOE

womanOE

queanOE

brideOE

viragoc1000

to wifeOE

burdc1225

ladyc1225

carlinec1375

stotc1386

marec1387

pigsneyc1390

fellowa1393

piecec1400

femalea1425

goddessa1450

fairc1450

womankindc1450

fellowessa1500

femininea1513

tega1529

sister?1532

minikinc1540

wyec1540

placket1547

pig's eye1553

hen?1555

ware1558

pussy?a1560

jade1560

feme1566

gentlewoman1567

mort1567

pinnacea1568

jug1569

rowen1575

tarleather1575

mumps1576

skirt1578

piga1586

rib?1590

puppy1592

smock1592

maness1594

sloy1596

Madonna1602

moll1604

periwinkle1604

Partlet1607

rib of man1609

womanship?1609

modicum1611

Gypsy1612

petticoata1616

runniona1616

birda1627

lucky1629

she-man1640

her1646

lost rib1647

uptails1671

cow1696

tittup1696

cummer17..

wife1702

she-woman1703

person1704

molly1706

fusby1707

goody1708

riding hood1718

birdie1720

faggot1722

piece of goods1727

woman body1771

she-male1776

biddy1785

bitch1785

covess1789

gin1790

pintail1792

buer1807

femme1814

bibi1816

Judy1819

a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823

wifie1823

craft1829

shickster?1834

heifer1835

mot1837

tit1837

Sitt1838

strap1842

hay-bag1851

bint1855

popsy1855

tart1864

woman's woman1868

to deliver the goods1870

chapess1871

Dona1874

girl1878

ladykind1878

mivvy1881

dudess1883

dudette1883

dudine1883

tid1888

totty1890

tootsy1895

floozy1899

dame1902

jane1906

Tom1906

frail1908

bit of stuff1909

quim1909

babe1911

broad1914

muff1914

manhole1916

number1919

rossie1922

bit1923

man's woman1928

scupper1935

split1935

rye mort1936

totsy1938

leg1939

skinny1941

Richard1950

potato1957

scow1960

wimmin1975

womyn1975

womxn1991

1928 New Yorker 31 Mar. 26/1 (cartoon) You know, I don't care for women. I guess I'm a man's woman.

1968 ‘E. McGirr’ Lead-lined Coffin iii. 108 Jeanie's a man's woman, you know, not a woman's woman.

man's work n. = men's work n. at Compounds 5.

ΚΠ

1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xx. 194 ‘But, Lady Blakeney,’ said the young man, touched by the gentle earnestness of this exquisitely beautiful woman, ‘do you know that what you propose doing is man's work?—you cannot possibly journey to Calais alone.’

1991 S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 86 It's from the planting in the tlacolol, from the hard man's work I do clearing the field with the hoe and the machete..work no woman would do before the war.

man's world n. a social environment dominated by men and masculine values and qualities; (hence) a society tending to discriminate against women.

ΚΠ

1915 C. P. Gilman Herland vii, in Forerunner July 185/1 Of course they can't understand a Man's World! They aren't human—they're just a pack of Fe-Fe-Females!

1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind iii. 58 She did not expect life to be easy... It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such.

1992 Esquire July 62/2 Yeah, it's a man's world, surfing, but the whole world's that way. I don't have a dick—sometimes it makes selling hard.

C4. Compounds with men.

a. Appositive, serving as plurals of compounds with man: see Compounds 1a, 1b, and main entries, e.g. man-child n. See also menfolk n., and menkind n.

b. Objective, instrumental, etc., equivalent to the corresponding compounds with man (see Compounds 1c, Compounds 1d, and Compounds 2a; also man-eater n., man-hater n., and manqueller n.).

(a)

men-catcher n.

ΚΠ

1681 E. Hickeringill Horrid Sin Man-catching i. 19 These Men-catchers lay their Snares and their Oathing-Gins to catch them.

1903 W. Blackwood Local Veto & Bk. xvi. 40 The trap-setters and men-catchers were rapidly hastening the dynasty of Judah to its dissolution.

† men-eater n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating flesh or meat > cannibalism > cannibal

cannibal1541

anthropophagusa1544

anthropophagite1555

Carib1555

men-eater1599

man-eater1600

anthropophaginian1602

Lestrigon1605

anthropophagist1650

anthropophagizer1854

Lestrigoniana1887

1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 104 Which made them beleeue that we were cruell people and men-eaters.

1760 T. Jefferys Nat. & Civil Hist. French Dominions N. & S. Amer. I. 163 Along the western coast..there is a nation of men-eaters, who are supposed to feed upon their enemies.

† men-fisher n. Obsolete rare

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun] > one who evangelizes

fisherc1000

man-fisherc1300

vangelista1330

evangelizer1382

evangelyc1384

evangelist1535

men-fishera1557

seminary1583

evangel1593

Philip1613

evangelica1617

evangelizationer1825

a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) iv. 19 Come after me and J wil maak yow menfischers.

men-hater n.

ΚΠ

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 99/1 The glamour business..is crammed with both women-haters and men-haters of dubious sex polarity.

† men-hunter n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > pursuit > hostile or violent > man-hunt or man-hunting > one who

manhunter1555

men-hunter1834

1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 124 The men-hunters found a Guahibi mother, with three children.

1897 H. G. Wells Invisible Man xxvi. 220 These men-hunters had particular instructions in the case of an encounter as to the way they should support one another.

† men-maker n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 11 All the Fraternity of Men-makers..; Taylors, Peruquiers, Hatters, Hosiers.

† men-mender n. Obsolete rare

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun]

chirurgeon1297

surgeonc1330

surgera1400

surgeonrer1483

surgeoner1526

chirurge1535

scarifier1566

scissor man1593

operator1598

man-mendera1625

men-mendera1625

flesh-tailor1633

nim-gimmer1699

sawbones1837

lint-scraper1860

knife-man1961

a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) ii. iii. sig. E1 Whither goe all these men-menders, these Physitians?

† men-pleaser n. Obsolete rare

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer

papelard1340

placeboc1395

fawnerc1440

pickthank1460

adulator?a1475

earwigc1475

curry-favel1515

men-pleaser1526

gnatho1533

upcreeperc1540

claw-back1549

curry-favourer1563

man-pleaser1564

claw-poll1569

please-man1570

sycophant1575

curry-favour1577

capper1587

insinuator1598

clawera1603

scrape-shoe1607

suck-fist1611

courtiera1616

foot lickera1616

fleerera1627

wriggler1631

fawn1635

limberham1689

toad-eater1742

tuft-hunter1755

arse-kisser1766

sleeve-creeper1809

lick-spit1822

lickspittle1825

shoe-licker1826

toady1826

toad1831

toader1842

bootlicker1846

bootlick1849

favour-currier1855

lubricator1872

bum-sucker1877

handshaker1884

suck1900

mbongo1911

sucker-up1911

apple-polisher1918

snurge1933

ass-licker1939

brown-nose1939

brown-noser1942

arse-licker1951

ass-kisser1951

greaser1959

suck-hole1966

suck-up1970

bumboy1984

fly-

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Eph. vi. 6 Not with service in the eye sight, as men pleasars.

† men-queller n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun]

manslagheOE

manquellera1250

men-quellerc1325

manslayera1382

men-slayera1400

homicide1421

man-killera1500

dead-slayer1535

kill-man1598

man-slaughterer?1611

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9333 Robbeors..& manquellers [v.r. menquellares].

?a1400 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Royal) (1961) 200 (MED) Wycches and vnchast men and menquelleris.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 110/2 Which al were estemed as menquellers.

† men-slayer n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun]

manslagheOE

manquellera1250

men-quellerc1325

manslayera1382

men-slayera1400

homicide1421

man-killera1500

dead-slayer1535

kill-man1598

man-slaughterer?1611

a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) v. 7 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 134 (MED) Menslaers [v.rr. Mensloers, Menslores; L. Virum sanguinum] and swykel lauerd wlate sal.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) v. 7 Men slaers, with tonge or hand or hert..god sall desherit.

† men-stealer n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > kidnapper or abductor > [noun]

man-thiefeOE

men-stealer1526

man-stealer1582

spirit1611

plagiary1613

spiriter1665

kidnapper1678

silver-cooper1796

abductor1809

body snatcher1852

shanghaier1917

snatcher1932

1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Tim. i. 10 To menstealers: to lyars and to periured.

1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 134 The Tyrians..were slave-dealers, and in the earliest time, men-stealers.

† men-trapper n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1796 M. Robinson Angelina I. 36 The men-trappers rushed in, and they forced him away.

† men-worshipper n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1846 E. A. Poe Marginalia in U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Apr. 271/2 The very smallest of mankind are the class of men-worshippers.

1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. x. 166 We are still idolaters, that is, mere men-worshippers.

(b)

† men-bearing adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 30 Those mountainous kind of Animals and Men-bearing Trees.

† men-eating adj. Obsolete rare

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [adjective] > eating flesh > eating human flesh

man-eating1607

men-eating1634

anthropophagous1703

feminivorous1820

hominivorous1859

androphagous1865

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile Alphabet. Table sig. G2^v/1 Anzigues, a men-eating Nation.

† men-enchanting adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1619 A. Newman Pleasures Vision (1840) 42 They have such men-inchanting features.

† men-fishing n. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1895 Churchman No. 185. 268 Men-fishing is most difficult work, but He who bade us go has likewise said ‘I am with you’.

† men-pleasing adj. and n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun]

fawninga1350

adulationc1400

papelardya1425

papelardrya1500

captation1523

clawing1548

insinuation1553

curry-favour1581

man-pleasing1588

courting1607

men-pleasing1615

supparasitation1620

sycophantizing1640

assiduity1641

ingratiating1642

licking1648

man-pleasance1656

sycophancy1657

fawnery1661

sycophantrya1677

nutting1789

tuft-hunting1789

cultivation1793

huggery1804

ingratiation1815

sycophantism1821

lickspittling1839

toadyship1839

toadyism1840

bootlicking1849

toadying1863

arse-licking1912

lickspittle1914

apple-polishing1926

pot-licking1929

brown-nosing1934

ass-kissing1936

arse-kissing1937

ass-licking1946

sucking-up1946

bum-sucking1949

love bomb1975

love-bombing1976

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adjective]

fikingc1230

papelarda1500

gnathonical1540

clawing1574

pickthank1575

slavering1575

claw-back1577

courting1580

fawning1585

adulatory1587

insinuating1592

insinuative1592

scraping1599

adulatorious1612

men-pleasing1615

pickthanking1621

sycophantical1632

gnathonic1637

insinuanta1639

sycophantizing1640

ingratiating1642

led1672

sycophanting1674

sycophantly1680

sycophanta1684

sycophantica1698

pickthankly1702

assiduous1725

foot-licking1786

tuft-hunting1789

sycophantish1821

favour-currying1831

bootlicking1849

toadying1863

creepy-crawly1890

slauming1904

toadyish1909

ass-licking1940

ass-kissing1942

brown-nosing1946

arse-licking1950

sucky1991

1615 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching in Wks. (1620) I. 604 Such a time-seruing, men-pleasing, forsaking of flockes.

1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 28 S. Paul who in one place professeth men-pleasing..taking it in the better sence.

(c)

† men-fleshed adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 51 Such menflesht vilaynes, make small accompte for kyllinge anye one.

men-only adj. designating a place, etc., restricted to the use of men.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > for men only

men-only1965

1935 (title) Men only.

1955 H. W. Allen in Stag Party with ‘Men Only’ 12 The Sporting Times, affectionately known from the colour of its paper as the Pink 'Un, that spicy and distinctly Men Only weekly of Victorian days.]

1965 ‘S. Ransome’ Alias his Wife vi. 57 Without discouraging women as customers, it had become a men-only place.

1972 G. Beare Bee Sting Deal x. 123 There was one hotel..rigidly dry and rigidly men-only.

1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto i. 17 Men-only hostels, rather than houses, were built to accommodate workers during the early years of Soweto's history.

C5. Compounds with men's (cf. Compounds 3). See also menswear n.

† mens-kind n. Obsolete rare = menkind n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [noun] > men collectively

wapman-kinc1175

manc1300

menkinda1470

mankind1526

manhood1588

mens-kind1592

the sterner (alsobetter, rougher, stronger) sex1608

lords of creation1649

menfolk1749

masculinity1860

1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. F^v Wee mens-kinde in our minoritie, are like women in their vncertaintie.

† menskins adj. [ < the genitive plural of man n.¹ + the genitive of kin n.¹ (see kin n.¹ 6b)] Obsolete rare of the male sex.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > sex and gender > male > [adjective]

malea1382

masclea1425

masculinec1425

mankind1479

menskins1534

1534 Will Sir W. Butler (Somerset Ho.) Euerye of my seruauntes aswell menskynes as womenskynnes.

Men's Lib. n. [after women's lib n.] originally U.S. = Men's Liberation n.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > advocacy of the rights of men

masculinism1911

masculism1914

Men's Lib.1970

Men's Liberation1970

men's movement1971

1970 New Yorker 19 Dec. 101 The members of Men's Lib say they are tired of ‘having to prove our masculinity twenty-four hours a day’ and believe that if their cause should prevail ‘outmoded concepts would disappear in the face of reality’.

1972 ‘J. Melville’ Ironwood ix. 154 Three months of Tessa and they [sc. her male assistants] must have been heading for freedom and Men's Lib.

Men's Liberation n. [after women's liberation n.] originally U.S. a movement aimed at freeing men from traditional views of their character and role in society.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > advocacy of the rights of men

masculinism1911

masculism1914

Men's Lib.1970

Men's Liberation1970

men's movement1971

1970 New Yorker 19 Dec. 101 We recently read in the Times about a group called Men's Liberation, Inc., whose aim is to free men from their traditional role of ‘all-powerful provider’ and embolden them to cry, complain, feel sorry for themselves, and change their minds.

1991 A. Borrowdale Distorted Images iv. 40 Feminists are understandably suspicious whenever they hear talk of ‘men's liberation’, for it tends to be presented as an alternative to women's liberation.

men's magazine n. a magazine containing items of interest primarily to men (originally chiefly applied to one containing pornography, and now with wider application); cf. woman's magazine n. at woman n. Compounds 3.

ΚΠ

1957 O. Keepnews Charlie Parker in Jazz Makers 205 Commenting on an article in one of the shock-value men's magazines.

1962 M. J. Herzberg Reader's Encycl. Amer. Lit. 691/2 The mid-century group of ‘men's magazines’ began with the success of Esquire.

1977 Daily News (Perth, Austral.) 19 Jan. 20/7 Her husband admires the very ‘ample’ ladies in men's magazines.

1993 Pop. Sci. June 84/2 Although there has been much talk about bodysuit-fitted virtual reality, particularly in men's magazines, that level of immersion has yet to make it out of the laboratory.

men's movement n. [after women's movement n. at woman n. Compounds 5] chiefly U.S. = Men's Liberation n.; (in later use, sometimes spec.) = mythopoetic men's movement at mythopoetic adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > advocacy of the rights of men

masculinism1911

masculism1914

Men's Lib.1970

Men's Liberation1970

men's movement1971

1971 Life 27 Aug. 53/2 That right there is the basic difference between the men's movement and the women's lib thing... With the women there's an oppressor. The enemy is men. But our enemy isn't women, it's the role we're forced to play.

1988 R. Bly in Mother Earth News Nov. 50/1 I suspect that the reason a bona fide ‘men's movement’ has lately emerged in our society..is that many men feel isolated.

1993 W. Farrell Myth Male Power (1994) iv. 264 The men's movement will be the longest of all movements because it is not proposed merely to integrate blacks or Hispanics into a system that already exists, it is proposing an evolutionary shift in the system itself—an end to woman the protected and man the protector.

1995 Independent on Sunday 28 May (Review Suppl.) 14/4 Shelley had long been interested in the ‘dream work’ that the men's movement likes to explore.

men's room n. originally U.S. a lavatory or washroom for men (see also men's n.).

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory > public > men's

the gentlemen's1929

men's room1929

gents1938

1929 ‘E. Queen’ Roman Hat Myst. iii. 31 Search the lounge downstairs. The men's room, the ladies' room.

1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 51 Malin excused himself and went to the men's room.

1990 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 35/1 Kev..had been incarcerated in the men's room since they had all reeled back from a liquid lunch.

men's tee n. Golf the standard tee position, originally intended for use by male players; cf. women's tee n. at woman n. Compounds 5.

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1902 N.Y. Tribune 31 Aug. ii. 7/1 Driving from the men's tee,..she defeated her husband.

1946 Monroe (Wisconsin) Evening Times 23 July 5/2 The result was that mechanically perfect shot from the men's tee which bounced on, made straight for the lip and went down without a hitch.

2009 Independent (Nexis) 16 July 48 One of the early leaders was..a six-year-old from Eastbourne, Sussex, who has already broken a hundred at his local course (off the men's tees) and looked every inch the miniature pro.

men's work n. work traditionally undertaken by, and regarded as suited to, men, esp. heavy manual work.

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1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. ii. 57 ‘Some were farm labourers; a good deal worked at Mr. Oliver's needle-factory, and at the foundry.’ ‘Did Mr. Oliver employ women?’ ‘Nay; it was men's work.’

1989 K. F. Wiebe Real Live Death in H. F. Tiessen Liars & Rascals 44 Other men in unaccustomed stiff suitcoats..stood near the mounds of dirt by the hole, ropes in hand, ready to do the men's work at the funeral.

1992 S. Holloway Courage High! xxx. 239/2 The very nature of a firefighter's work tended to attract men who were physically and mentally tough and who, at that time, still regarded women as a race apart... Those who were openly ‘anti’ maintained simply that this was mens' work [sic].

Derivatives

ˈman-wise adv. and adj. (a) adv. in the manner or way of men; in respect of a man; (b) adj. concerning individual men.

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the world > people > person > man > [adverb]

mannishc1395

mannishly1867

man-wise1893

1893 R. Kipling in Illustr. London News Christmas No. 5/3 A monstrous grey Ape..seated himself man-wise.

1901 E. A. Ross Social Control 29 The fittest to survive when the competition is man-wise, may be eliminated when the competition is group-wise.

1930 D. H. Lawrence A Propos Lady Chatterley's Lover 39 Men experience the great rhythm of emotion man-wise, women experience it women-wise.

† man-worthiness n. Obsolete

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1841 R. W. Emerson Method Nature in Wks. (1875) II. 233 How all that is called talents and success in our noisy capitals, becomes buzz and din before this man-worthiness.

† man-worthy adj. Obsolete worthy of humankind, humanitarian.

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a1834 S. T. Coleridge in Webster's Dict. Eng. Lang. (1886) at Man It is in advance to a better and more man-worthy order of things.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	man
释义	mann.¹int. Brit. /man/, U.S. /mæn/ Inflections: Plural men; Forms: 1. Singular. a. Old English manna, Old English monn, Old English monna, Old English–Middle English mann, Old English–Middle English mon, Old English– man, Middle English mane, Middle English mone, Middle English monne, Middle English (2000s– English regional (Cornwall)) mahn, Middle English–1600s manne; also in sense 16 English regional (northern) and Scottish 1600s– mun, 1700s– mon, 1800s– min; Scottish pre-1700 mane, pre-1700 mann, pre-1700 manne, pre-1700 1700s– man, 1700s– maun; also Welsh English 1900s– mun. b. Genitive. α. Old English–Middle English monnes, Old English–1600s mannes, Middle English manes, Middle English mannus, Middle English mones, Middle English monnis, Middle English monnys, Middle English–1500s manis, Middle English–1500s mannys, Middle English–1600s mannis, Middle English–1600s mans, 1600s– man's; Scottish pre-1700 mannis, pre-1700 mannys, 1700s– man's. β. Uninflected (northern) Middle English man, Middle English mane, Middle English men (probably transmission error). c. Dative. Old English mæn, Old English menne, Old English–early Middle English men, early Middle English menn, early Middle English monnen, Middle English manne, Middle English monne. 2. Plural. a. Old English–early Middle English mæn, Old English–Middle English menn, Old English– men, late Old English–early Middle English mænn, early Middle English mannen, early Middle English monne, Middle English man (probably transmission error), Middle English mannes, Middle English mennes (probably transmission error), Middle English meyn (probably transmission error), Middle English–1600s menne; Scottish pre-1700 mean, pre-1700 mene, pre-1700 menn, pre-1700 menne, pre-1700 1700s– men. b. Genitive. α. Old English–early Middle English manna, Old English–early Middle English monna, early Middle English mannæ, early Middle English mannan, early Middle English mannen, early Middle English mannene, early Middle English mone, early Middle English monnæ, early Middle English monnan, early Middle English monnen, early Middle English monnene, Middle English manne, Middle English monne. β. Middle English mannes (probably transmission error), Middle English menes, Middle English menys, Middle English–1500s mennes, Middle English–1500s mennis, Middle English–1500s mennys, Middle English–1700s mens, 1500s menis, 1700s– men's; Scottish pre-1700 meanis, pre-1700 menis, pre-1700 mennis, pre-1700 mennys, 1700s– men's. γ. early Middle English mennen, Middle English menne, Middle English mennene. δ. Uninflected (northern) Middle English men. c. Dative. α. Old English–early Middle English mannum, Old English–early Middle English monnum, early Middle English manna, early Middle English mannan, early Middle English mannen, early Middle English monen, early Middle English monnam, early Middle English monnan, early Middle English monnen, Middle English manne, Middle English mannes (probably transmission error), Middle English monne. β. early Middle English mennen, Middle English menne. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian man, mon, Old Dutch man (plural man; Middle Dutch man (plural manne, man); Dutch man (plural mannen, rarely mans)), Old Saxon man (plural man; Middle Low German man (plural man, manne, men, menne, mans, mannes, mennes, mannen, mennen, manner, menner), Low German Mann (plural Manns, Männer)), Old High German man (plural man; Middle High German man (plural man), German Mann (plural Männer)), Old Icelandic maðr (stem mann-, plural menn; Icelandic maður), Faroese maður, Norwegian mann (plural menn, (Nynorsk) menner), Old Swedish maþer, mander, man (plural män; Swedish man (plural män)), Old Danish man, mand (Danish mand (plural mænd)), Gothic manna (genitive singular mans, plural mans, mannans); further etymology uncertain. The forms in the various Germanic languages belong to two different types of stem: one is a consonant-stem, giving Old English mann (genitive mannes, dative menn, plural menn, genitive manna, dative mannum; some of these Old English forms have been re-formed after the a-declension) and the other an n-stem, giving Old English manna, the only attested oblique form of which is mannan, found almost exclusively as accusative singular. Old English menn (plural and dative singular) has the umlaut which regularly arose from an original -i in the nominative plural and dative singular of Germanic consonant-stem nouns.In the Old English corpus as a whole the spelling with o appears to be somewhat under half as frequent as that with a . Many Northumbrian and Mercian texts normally have the o -spelling; it is common in early West Saxon texts, but the a -spelling heavily predominates in later texts. In Middle English, a spelling with o occurs mainly in texts from the west midland counties of England from Lancashire in the north to Gloucestershire in the south. J. Wright Eng. Dial. Gram. (1905) records /ɒ/ (or /ɔ/) as the vowel of this word in approximately the same area (with outliers to the north, east, and south). In sense 16 the regional forms min and mun , and mon outside the west midlands, appear to have developed under low stress. The pre-Germanic etymology of the word is problematic. Formerly, the -nn- of the Germanic consonant stem was held to have developed from an earlier -nw- , directly reflected in Sanskrit manu man (see Manu n.). However it is possible that the n -stem is the earlier formation, and that the form with double -nn- represents a later generalization of the double -nn- which originally occurred in those parts of the paradigm where the n of the suffix, subject to zero-grade of ablaut, immediately followed the n of the base. The earlier form with the single n of the base followed by the vowel + n of the suffix may explain the Gothic variant mana- used in compounds (e.g. mana-maurþrja murderer). This word and Sanskrit manu have been together referred by some to the Indo-European base of mind n.¹, on the basis that thought is a distinctive characteristic of human beings. A more recent theory suggests a derivation (with loss of an initial obstruent) from the Indo-European base of Lithuanian žmonės people and Old Prussian smunents man, which is a variant (with a different ablaut grade) of the Indo-European base of classical Latin homō man, Old English guma and its Germanic cognates (see gome n.¹), and Old Lithuanian žmuo ; but these Indo-European words are usually referred to the Indo-European base of classical Latin humus (see humus n.) and ancient Greek χθών (see chthonic adj.) meaning ‘earth’. In all the Germanic languages the word had the two senses ‘human being’ and ‘adult male human being’, though except in English it has been mainly replaced in the former sense by a derivative (German Mensch , Dutch mens , Swedish människa , Danish menneske person, human being: compare mannish n.). In Old English the words distinctive of sex were wer were n.¹ and wīf wife n., wǣpmann wapman n. and wīfmann woman n.; both the masculine terms became obsolete by the end of the 13th cent., leaving English with no means of distinguishing the two major senses. The genderless uses of man to mean ‘human being’ or ‘person’ are now often objected to on the grounds that they depreciate women, and are frequently replaced by human , human being , or person . There is a parallel between semantic developments in English represented by senses 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 and semantic developments in post-classical Latin homo and Old French hom (om , home , ome ). In classical Latin homō primarily meant ‘human being’ or ‘person’ (in contrast to vir ‘adult male human being’); it also had the sense ‘member of a military force, crew, or other body’, where the contextual reference was normally to a male. In post-classical Latin, homo developed the senses ‘adult male human being’, ‘armed retainer’, ‘servant, retainer’, and ‘vassal’ (8th cent. or before; all found in British sources by 12th cent.). The reflexes of classical Latin homō in the Romance languages have the dual senses ‘human being’ and ‘adult male human being’. Both senses are attested for Old French hom in the earliest sources (end of 10th cent.); the Old French word also has the senses ‘husband’ (11th cent.), ‘fighting man’ (12th cent.), and ‘vassal’ (12th cent.). S. Afr. use in senses 8a, 16b, and 16c is after Afrikaans man. Sense 24 is probably after Anglo-Norman home man, chess piece (13th cent. or earlier; compare post-classical Latin homo (14th cent. in a British source), and see chessmen n., etymological note). Sense 25 perhaps first arose in the compound man-of-war (see man-of-war n. 2a). Sense 27 appears to be sparsely attested before the 19th cent.: some Middle English surnames (one of which is cited in Middle Eng. Dict.) possibly derived from toponyms incorporating man in this sense are given in G. Kristensson Stud. Middle Eng. Topogr. Terms (1970) 35. The earliest attestations of toponyms of this kind are of Knock Old Man (1588) and Seavy Man (1652) (both in Westmorland). Some scholars consider the man element in these names to reflect the Old British base of Welsh maen , Cornish men ‘stone’, later reinterpreted as English man : place names apparently containing this element are found in Cumberland, Westmorland, Cheshire, Lancashire, Dorset (attested in the Domesday Book), and Cornwall (attested in late Old English charters). Sense 28 originally referred to the side of a penny which had the king's head, the ‘woman’ being the side with the figure of Britannia. I. A human being (irrespective of sex or age).Man was considered until the 20th cent. to include women by implication, though referring primarily to males. It is now frequently understood to exclude women, and is therefore avoided by many people. In some of the quotations in this section, it is difficult or impossible to tell whether man is intended to mean ‘person’ or ‘male human being’. 1. A human being. †a. As a designation applied equally to particular individuals of either sex. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] hadc900 lifesmaneOE maneOE world-maneOE ghostOE wyeOE lifeOE son of manOE wightc1175 soulc1180 earthmanc1225 foodc1225 person?c1225 creaturec1300 bodyc1325 beera1382 poppetc1390 flippera1400 wat1399 corsec1400 mortal?a1425 deadly?c1450 hec1450 personagec1485 wretcha1500 human1509 mundane1509 member1525 worma1556 homo1561 piece of flesh1567 sconce1567 squirrel?1567 fellow creature1572 Adamite1581 bloat herringa1586 earthling1593 mother's child1594 stuff1598 a piece of flesh1600 wagtail1607 bosom1608 fragment1609 boots1623 tick1631 worthy1649 earthlies1651 snap1653 pippin1665 being1666 personal1678 personality1678 sooterkin1680 party1686 worldling1687 human being1694 water-wagtail1694 noddle1705 human subject1712 piece of work1713 somebody1724 terrestrial1726 anybody1733 individual1742 character1773 cuss1775 jig1781 thingy1787 bod1788 curse1790 his nabs1790 article1796 Earthite1814 critter1815 potato1815 personeityc1816 nibs1821 somebody1826 tellurian1828 case1832 tangata1840 prawn1845 nigger1848 nut1856 Snooks1860 mug1865 outfit1867 to deliver the goods1870 hairpin1879 baby1880 possum1894 hot tamale1895 babe1900 jobbie1902 virile1903 cup of tea1908 skin1914 pisser1918 number1919 job1927 apple1928 mush1936 face1944 jong1956 naked ape1965 oke1970 punter1975 eOE Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) iii. xxxviii. 332 Gif wife to swiþe offlowe sio monað gecynd, genim niwe horses tord, lege on hate gleda, læt reocan swiþe betweoh þa þeoh up under þæt hrægl, þæt se mon swæte swiþe. OE Blickling Homilies 9 Heofonrices duru..belocen standeþ þurh þa ærestan men. OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 206 Hwæt ða Agathes inwerdlice clypode mid astrehtum handum to þam hælende þus, Eala ðu min drihten þe me to menn gesceope. OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 36 Hic et haec homo.., ægðer is man ge wer ge wif. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 639 Þæs dohter wæs gehaten Ercongota halifemne, & wundorlic man. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 138 He [sc. the Devil] þam ereste men Adam and Euam..forcostode and biswaac. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily De Initio Creaturae (Vesp. A.xxii) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 223 He com þa anedren hiwe toðam twam mannum, erest toðan wife. a1400 (c1300) Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in J. Small Eng. Metrical Homilies (1862) 155 And yef thaie [sc. the husband and wife] riht riche men ware. a1400 (c1300) Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in J. Small Eng. Metrical Homilies (1862) 156 Wit tua men [sc. Simeon and Anna], that him comly grette. 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxxvi. 481 The Lord had but one paire of men in paradise. b. As a general or indefinite designation, esp. with determiners such as every, any, no, etc., and in plural, esp. with all, any, some, many, few, etc.: a person.Since the generalization of the sense ‘adult male human being’ this use has been apprehended as primarily denoting the male sex, though by implication referring also to women. The gradual development of the use of genderless synonyms body, person, one, and (for the plural) folk(s), people, greatly narrowed the currency of man in this sense, which by the 19th cent. was literary and proverbial rather than colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] > some person maneOE someonec1305 somewho1390 somebodya1400 quidam1579 who1654 monkey1815 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter: Canticles & Hymns (1965) i Exiui obuiam alienigenae : ic uteode ongegn fremðes cynnes men. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xii. 19 Neque audiet aliquis in plateis uocem eius : ne geheres ænig mon [ West Saxon Gospels: Corpus Cambr. nan man] in worðum stefn his. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xvi. 13 Quem dicunt homines esse filium hominis : huelcne cueðas menn sie sunu monnes? OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 232 Hwæt eom ic manna þæt ic mihte god forbeodan? ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Pais he makede men & dær. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 127 (MED) Soð god..wes imacad to monne ilicnesse. 1241 ( Royal Charter: Henry I to Sheriffs & Thegns of London, Essex, Herts., & Middlesex in M. Gibbs Early Charters Cathedral St. Paul (1939) 20 On minan lande, & on ælces oðres mannes lande ofer eall þat bisceoperice. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 1246 (MED) An summe men kumed harm..Schal he..Hit wite me for ich hit wot? c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) 2909 He makede on riche borh Þorh wise menne reade. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 4726 (MED) Mens [a1400 Gött. men, a1400 Trin. Cambr. mennes] bodis bolnud ware. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 11483 (MED) Bot gudes of oþer mens haue I no ryȝt to gyfe. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 131 (MED) For mennys hertis ben enstraunged from the obeisaunce of holy chirche for the straungenes of his mynisters. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 46 Men callis me Rauf Coilȝear. 1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 106 I regard not the body, the soule is the man. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 92 No Man can be said to be happy before Death. 1718 Free-thinker No. 75. 1 He who dissembles with, or betrays one Man, would betray every Man. 1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xxxvi. 185 No man is so good as not..to be liable to become dishonest. 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. xii. 338 Shafton.., men say, was a-kin to the Piercie on the wrong side of the blanket. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous i. 5 Guess I've as good right here as the next man. 1955 Philos. Rev. 64 175 There is at least one natural right, the equal right of all men to be free. 1993 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. ii. 5/1 The playwright Robert Schenkkan, casting his sights lower, sees a country born of greed and deceit and single-mindedly devoted to the notion that all men are fleeceable. c. to become (also be, be made, † be worth) man: (used chiefly of Christ's incarnation) to have or assume human nature. as man: (used of Christ) in respect of his human nature. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [verb (intransitive)] > become incarnate to become (also be, be made, be worth) manOE to take flesh and blooda1340 to be manned1577 OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 162) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 256 He..wæs man geworden þa ða he sylf wolde for ure alysednysse. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 199 (MED) He bi-com man for us. c1200 Serm. in Eng. & Germanic Stud. (1961) 7 61 God wold mon bicumen al for ure sake. J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (York Min.) (1901) 26 (MED) Iesu crist..toke flesh and blode and bicome man. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. 493 (MED) Þi sone..bicam man of a mayde. 1483 ( Pilgrimage of Soul ii. xlii. 48 Thou man bycome thy selfe, for mannes nede. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Euensong f. vii Our Lorde Jesus Christe the sonne of God, is God and man. God of the substaunce of the father, begotten before the worldes: and man of the substaunce of his mother, borne in the worlde... For as the reasonable soule and fleshe is one man: So God and man is one Christe. 1574 J. Whitgift Serm. before Queene sig. B2^v Whether the Pope be God or man, or a meane betwixt both? 1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 19 We altogether dissent..from the Germaine Vbiquitaries..saying that Christ as man, is not onely in heauen, but in earth too at this instant. 1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 11 Those men which held..that, Christ..was man in appearance onely. 1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. ii. lvii. 30 It was for the soules sake that God became man. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 273 God was never made man, my Harry. God cannot be debased. 1866 J. H. Newman Let. to Pusey 36 He..became man, that by what way the disobedience arising from the serpent had its beginning, by that way also it might have an undoing. 1898 A. G. Mortimer Catholic Faith & Pract. ii. vii. 186 The theologians..have taught that our Lord as Man had three kinds of knowledge. 1994 30 Days in Church & in World No. 10. 15/1 Christianity is always the annunciation of God become man. d. half man, half beast, etc.: half human, half another animal. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [adjective] > of human hybrids half man, half beasteOE anguipede1878 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. ix. 28 Ealle þa æðelestan bearn þara Atheniensa hi genoman, & sealdon þæm Minotauro to etanne, þæt wæs healf mon, healf leo. OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 52 Onocentaurus, healf man and healf assa. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 667 Hit [sc. the mermaid] is half mon & half fisc [c1300 Otho Elf his wi[m]man elf fis]. a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 406 He hauen told of ðis mere ðat ðus uniemete, Half man & half fis, sum ðing tokneð bi ðis. c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 57 Poetis seide be ficcion that he was half man & half bull. a1665 J. Quarles tr. J. Cats Self-conflict (1680) 96 Half I am Beast, half Man; half black, half white; Deform'd and comely and half wrong, half right. 1808 R. Cumberland & J. B. Burges Exodiad v. 272 How debas'd and vile Those natures are, who can devise a form, Half man, half beast, modell'd of stone or brass, The work of their own hands, and call it god. 1906 H. D. Rawnsley Love Triumphant in Sonnet Chron. 22 He, the welcoming friend of great and least, Fell smitten by a man, half man half beast. 1951 Times 6 Dec. 5/7 He describes it [sc. a yeti] as half man half beast, about five feet six inches tall. †e. Used indefinitely without article: any person (in later use chiefly in negative or proverbial phrases). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > state of being non-specific > unspecified thing(s) > anyone anyOE any man aliveOE anybodyc1300 manc1384 any only ——c1475 person?a1789 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) John vii. 46 Neuere man spak so, as this spekith. c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 1377 Out of a hille a stone without mans hande was kytte. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 226 Fredome mays man to haiff liking, Fredome all solace to man giffis. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 710/1 He deserveth it as lytell as ever dyd man. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 41 They haue shambles of mans-flesh as wee haue of beeues and muttons. 1684 J. Dryden Epil. Princess of Cleves in Misc. Poems 297 Never was Man worse thought on for high-flying. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. iv. 48 I never fear'd man, since I could write man. 1851 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 4) iii. 60 I was courteous, every phrase well-oil'd, As man's could be. f. man or beast: a human being or any other kind of animal; frequently in negative phrases, as no use to man or beast. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > [noun] neteneOE wightc888 deerc950 beastc1225 jument1382 creaturea1387 animala1398 bestialc1400 bullifanta1528 bovya1549 animant1599 man or beast1600 breather1609 fellow creature1726 fig-fauns1750 critter1815 fellow1816 demon1821 skelm1827 1600 R. Cawdrey Treasurie Similies 750 The East wind is accounted neither good for man nor beast. 1790 J. Fisher Poems Var. Subj. 104 Lucken hands, she ne'er had nane To man or beast. 1878 Spirit of Times 19 Jan. 680/1 (advt.) Whether for use on man or beast, Merchant's Gargling Oil will be found an invaluable Liniment and worthy of use by every resident in the land. 1995 C. Bateman Divorcing Jack xxv. 217 So what I have is a tape with a couple of drunks talking on it. Of no good to man nor beast. 2. Also Man. In abstract or generic sense. Now only without article. a. The human race or species; mankind, humankind (personified as an individual); (Zoology) the human race viewed as a genus ( Homo) or species ( H. sapiens) of animal.In Old English frequently with the definite article. The English use of the word as a quasi-proper name, without article, differs from the practice of a number of modern European languages (cf. French l'homme, German der Mensch), and from the usage of English itself with regard to other generic names of animals (see quot. 1898). ΘΚΠ the world > people > [noun] maneOE worldOE all fleshc1000 mankinOE earthOE little worldc1175 man's kinda1200 mankinda1225 worldrichec1275 slimec1315 kindc1325 world1340 sectc1400 humanityc1450 microcosma1475 peoplea1500 the human kindred?1533 race1553 homo1561 humankind1561 universality1561 deadly?1590 mortality1598 rational1601 vicegerent1601 small world1604 flesh and blooda1616 mannity1621 human race1623 universea1645 nations1667 public1699 the species1711 Adamhood1828 Jock Tamson's bairns1832 folx1833 Bimana1839 human1841 peeps1847 menfolk1870 manfolk1876 amniota1879 peoplekind1956 personkind1972 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) viii. 5 Quid est homo quod memor, es eius : hwet is mon [OE Ælfred tr. Psalms (Paris), se mann] ðæt gemyndig ðu sie his. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxi. 349 He cwæð bodiað eallum gesceafte, ac mid þam naman is se mann ana getacnod. OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) ii. 27 Restedæg wæs geworht for þa men, næs se man for ðam restedæge. a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 59 (MED) Hit wes for mon alle þinge he makede. c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 540 Ure Louerd..þat makedest man, Þe ihc þonki. c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 185 (MED) And he mate þe walles an hundreþ & foure & fourty cubites by þe mesure of Man & of Aungel. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 552 (MED) Man es clepid þe lesse werld. a1450 York Plays (1885) 174 (MED) Kynde of man is freele. a1500 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) 2980 (MED) His sone he shal here sende a-doun To die for manis saluacioun. 1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 2 Mans weakenes and miserie is so great, that [etc.]. 1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus viii. 90 This Centre is enuironed with a Circle, called Iris, of many colours in Man onely. 1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 41 Man was made at first with a concreate Similitude to God. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 2 The only Science of Mankind is Man. 1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 507/2 In the Systema Naturæ, Man (Homo) is ranked as a distinct genus of the Primates. 1859 J. R. Lowell Villa Franca 14 Men are weak, but Man is strong. 1898 Guide Galleries Mammalia Dept. Zool. Brit. Mus. (ed. 6) 11 Man, Apes, and Monkeys constitute the suborder Anthropoidea. 1935 Times 11 Feb. 14/2 Man as a personality is destined to be a free citizen in a free world, not an ant in some human termitary. 1994 Daily Tel. 12 Sept. 19/1 But man is a problem solving animal and his ingenuity is endless. b. Chiefly Physical Anthropology. With modifying word, often the name of the place where the first remains were found: a particular prehistoric type of human being or member of the genus Homo; a particular fossil hominid.Cro-Magnon, Java, Neanderthal, Peking, Rhodesian Man, etc.: see the first element. Cf. also Piltdown man. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [noun] anthropolite1778 Neanderthal man1861 caveman1862 man1863 prehistoric man1863 Pithecanthropus1873 Java man1895 Homo erectus1904 Heidelberg1909 Eoanthropus1912 dawn man1913 Neanderthaler1913 Piltdown man1913 Aurignacian1915 Neanderthalian1920 Rhodesian man1921 Boskopoid1926 Peking man1926 Sinanthropus1927 Piltdown1931 Predmostian1931 Minnesota Man1932 Neanderthaloid1934 Steinheim1935 Gigantopithecus1936 Africanthropus1938 Paranthropus1938 Piltdowner1941 Meganthropus1942 Telanthropus1949 Saldanha Man1953 pithecanthropine1955 Nutcracker Man1959 Homo habilis1964 iceman1972 1863 T. H. Huxley Evid. Man's Place Nature iii. 142 The posterior lobe of the brain of the Neanderthal man must have been as much flattened as I suspected it to be. 1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Hunters & Artists 60 The great frontal torus or overgrown brow-ridges of Neanderthal Man. 1937 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 68 51 Javanthropus appears to be more primitive than the European Neandertal man and has quite a resemblance to the Rhodesian Man. 1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins x. 169/2 The bone of the Swanscombe skull is thinner than that of Peking Man but thicker than in modern man's. 1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) ii. iv. 58/2 The fossil hominid with the largest back teeth (Paranthropus boisei, nicknamed ‘Nutcracker Man’) has the smallest incisors and canines. c. With modifying word: a type of human being living at a particular time or in a particular place or habitat, as modern man, urban man, etc. Now also used humorously to typify a particular class of people. ΚΠ 1909 G. K. Chesterton Orthodoxy i. 14 A life such as western man at any rate always seems to have desired. 1916 G. Elliot Smith Primitive Man 18 Thus the new spirit of man and modern man himself are revealed in the Upper Palaeolithic period. 1964 D. F. Gray Immunol. x. 95 Active immunization against a number of the epidemic and endemic diseases to which urban man is prone. 1974 Times 31 Dec. 12/4 Selsdon man went wrong because it appeared to make the Conservative Party into a set of decimalized economic liberals. 1992 Economist 24 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/1 Would Basildon Man, for instance, have voted Conservative today—as he did in April to the consternation of the Labour Party? 3. With modifying word. a. Chiefly Theology. A particular aspect of a person's identity or nature; the inner (spiritual), outer (material), etc., part of a human being.inner man: see inner adj. 3a. inward man: see inward adj. 2. old man: see old man n. new man: see new man n.¹ 1a. outer man: see outer n.² 5. outward man: see outward adj. 3b. utter man: see utter adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ OE Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti (Laud) 175 Se innera man, þæt is seo sawl. OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (1969) x. 104 Hoc est perfectum et rationabile ieiunium, quando noster homo exterior ieiunat, interior orat : þæt ys fullfremed & gesceadwislic fæsten þænne ure mann uttra fæst se inra gebitt. lOE tr. Alcuin De Virtutibus et Vitiis (Vesp.) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 94 Se lichame byð gefeded mid flæsclicen meten, swa eac se innre mann, þæt is seo sawle, byð gefedd mid þan godcundan spæcen. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) 1 Pet. iii. 4 The hid man of herte [1535 Coverdale y^e inwarde-man of y^e hert]. a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) Rom. vii. 15 (MED) For þat þat I wyrke aftyr þe outer man, I undyrstande not after þe inner man. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. iv. 16 Though oure vttward man perisshe, yet the inwarde man is renewed daye by daye. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiv. 245 In y^e inward man there are (as ye would say) three men; the liuing, the sensitiue, and the reasonable. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 162/2 The lower man is our enquickned body. 1673 J. Caryl Nature & Princ. Love 46 Sin did impure his whole inner Man. 1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revel. (1852) ii. 65 I may put into the registers of my belief, all that comes home to me through the senses of the outer man. 1888 H. P. Blavatsky Secret Doctr. (ed. 2) I. 639 Our more intimate astral, or inner man. 1997 Sunday Times 26 Oct. (Sport section) 8/2 Your inner man is interested in something more profound..than salary. b. humorous. The inner (outer, etc.) part of a person's body. Now rare except in inner man at inner adj. 3, outer man n. at outer adj. and n.² Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > [noun] lichamc888 bodyeOE earthOE lichOE bone houseOE dustc1000 fleshOE utter mana1050 bonesOE bodiȝlichc1175 bouka1225 bellyc1275 slimec1315 corpsec1325 vesselc1360 tabernaclec1374 carrion1377 corsec1386 personc1390 claya1400 carcass1406 lump of claya1425 sensuality?a1425 corpusc1440 God's imagea1450 bulka1475 natural body1526 outward man1526 quarrons1567 blood bulk1570 skinfula1592 flesh-rind1593 clod1595 anatomy1597 veil1598 microcosm1601 machine1604 outwall1608 lay part1609 machina1612 cabinet1614 automaton1644 case1655 mud wall1662 structure1671 soul case1683 incarnation1745 personality1748 personage1785 man1830 embodiment1850 flesh-stuff1855 corporeity1865 chassis1930 soma1958 1830 Amer. Monthly Mag. (Boston) May 124 If he could go on dressing..but alas!.. He could not expose, even to a poet, the humble arrangements by which his outer man was held together. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xli. 170 Gabriel's lower man was clothed in military gear. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xiii. 121 Gravely attired, as to his upper man, in black; and as to his legs, in pepper and salt colour. 1954 J. Corbett Temple Tiger 110 After fortifying the inner man I returned with Sham Singh and three men borrowed from the fishing party. II. An adult male human being, and senses principally based on this. 4. An adult male human being. a. Contrasted with a woman. †man and woman: (used in apposition to a preceding noun) male and female (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] churla800 werec900 rinkeOE wapmanc950 heOE wyeOE gomeOE ledeOE seggeOE shalkOE manOE carmanlOE mother bairnc1225 hemea1250 mother sona1250 hind1297 buck1303 mister mana1325 piecec1325 groomc1330 man of mouldc1330 hathela1350 sire1362 malea1382 fellowa1393 guestc1394 sergeant?a1400 tailarda1400 tulka1400 harlotc1405 mother's sona1470 frekea1475 her1488 masculinea1500 gentlemana1513 horse?a1513 mutton?a1513 merchant1549 child1551 dick1553 sorrya1555 knavea1556 dandiprat1556 cove1567 rat1571 manling1573 bird1575 stone-horse1580 loona1586 shaver1592 slave1592 copemate1593 tit1594 dog1597 hima1599 prick1598 dingle-dangle1605 jade1608 dildoa1616 Roger1631 Johnny1648 boy1651 cod1653 cully1676 son of a bitch1697 cull1698 feller1699 chap1704 buff1708 son of a gun1708 buffer1749 codger1750 Mr1753 he-man1758 fella1778 gilla1790 gloak1795 joker1811 gory1819 covey1821 chappie1822 Charley1825 hombre1832 brother-man1839 rooster1840 blokie1841 hoss1843 Joe1846 guy1847 plug1848 chal1851 rye1851 omee1859 bloke1861 guffin1862 gadgie1865 mug1865 kerel1873 stiff1882 snoozer1884 geezer1885 josser1886 dude1895 gazabo1896 jasper1896 prairie dog1897 sport1897 crow-eater1899 papa1903 gink1906 stud1909 scout1912 head1913 beezer1914 jeff1917 pisser1918 bimbo1919 bozo1920 gee1921 mush1936 rye mush1936 basher1942 okie1943 mugger1945 cat1946 ou1949 tess1952 oke1970 bra1974 muzhik1993 OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 28 He..sæde hyre gewislice hwæt heo man ne wæs. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2389 Ȝho wass hanndfesst an god mann Þatt iosæp wass ȝehatenn. c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 37 (MED) Hwer se we eauer iseoð mon oðer wummon eani god biginnen. c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 628 Bi here breste he kneu anon Þat on was maide & þat oþer a mon. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 421 (MED) O, Elflede myȝti, O mayde mennene [v.r. mennes; L. virorum] drede! c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiv. 264 (MED) As a mayde for mannes loue her moder forsaketh. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 4966 Alle men sal ryse þan þat ever had life, Man and woman, mayden and wyfe. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 14996 (MED) And þou wott I wroght neuer swylke wrang to murther noþer man ne wyfe. c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 347 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 200 Mariage..to cople man & vemene. a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 42 Sen ȝe war menis wyffis. 1546 in J. Bulloch Pynours (1887) 63 Euery pynour baytht man and voman. 1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 10^v A woman sitteth crowned in parliament amongest the middest of men. 1603 Philotus lxxxi. sig. D Ȝour douchter..Ane mannis claithis hes on hir tane. 1671 Lady M. Bertie in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 23 The Dutchesse..was very fine in..a short mans coat very richly laced. 1729 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 191 Every man took the woman he liked best to dance country-dances. 1773 H. Chapone Lett. Improvem. Mind I. 111 Women are more fearful than men. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 235 Destroyers of men, and debauchers of women. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. i. 1 All the folk, free and unfree, man and woman, out on the streets. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. i. 6 Men (the jury of householders empanelled to deliver verdicts upon the ways of women). 1949 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite i. 8 You will generally find women loosen up less lavishly than men. 1991 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 17 421 All the Indians here, men and women and children, are busily ploughing the hillsides. b. Without explicit contrast in terms of sex or age.The man is occasionally used for he or him, usually with a slight implication of depreciation, sympathy, or other feeling.Also in expressions (colloquial, now rare) like ‘the late man’, ‘the present man’, etc., referring to the former or present holder of an office or position. ΚΠ lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1124 Þet wæron on þa litle hwile ealles feower & feowerti manne, & six men spilde of here ægon & of here stanes. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 173 Sanctus Petrus..iseah..þæt wuldor þare tweȝræ monnæ Moyses and Helias. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 31 (MED) Bluðeliche þe mon wile gan to scrifte and segge þe preoste þet he haueð ireaueð and istolen. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 302 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 115 Þe guode Man seint thomas. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 4828 (MED) We ar all a man [v.rr. an monnes, a manes, oon monnes] barn-teme. c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 114 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 10 To theophill sanct paule askyt þane, quhy þat he þat wrechit mane held swa in presone. a1500 Terms Assoc. in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1962) 13 233 (MED) A oste of men. 1523–4 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 71 The man that come with James Broun. a1599 R. Rollock Sel. Wks. (1849) I. 446 Be the hand of the man Christ. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 47 This is reason put into Verse, and worthy the consideration of a wise man . View more context for this quotation 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xv. 464 There is no question the Man [sc. Cromwell] was in great agony, and in his own mind did heartily desire to be King. 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. iii. 87 The man in gibbets who hung by the road. 1837 O. A. Brownson in H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 347 With the discerning it has already become more honourable to call one simply a man than a gentleman. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists vi. 314 [He] was hand and glove with some of the best men in town. 1853 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey (new ed.) ii. xvi. 84 If the forty country gentlemen who follow..our friend Sir Berdmore..were to declare their opposition to any particular tax, the present men would be beaten. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist I. xiii. 233 Sir Willoughby was flattered and satisfied... A steady look of hers had of late perplexed the man, and he was comforted by [etc.]. 1937 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 13 Aug. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 70 What a mug she was to marry the man. 1993 V. Headley Excess vii. 53 Charlie, though he was one of the top men in the trade, didn't do crack at all. c. With special reference to age: a male person who has reached adulthood (spec. the age of majority); a male person who shows maturity. man and boy adv. through or during both boyhood and adulthood; throughout life from youth. †to write man, to be entitled by age to call oneself a man (obsolete). †to man: to man's estate, to adult age (obsolete). to separate (also sort out, etc.) the men from the boys (colloquial): to distinguish (through a test or challenge of some kind) which members of a group are skilled or expert in something, or which are mature, fearless, etc. (sometimes used of both sexes). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adult man manc1175 the world > people > person > child > boy > [adverb] > from boyhood man and boy1545 the world > people > person > adult > distinguish adults [verb] to separate (also sort out, etc.) the men from the boys1951 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8055 Son summ icc wass waxenn mann Þa flæh i childess cosstess. a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Lamb.) 117 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 167 Al þet ech Mon haueð idon soððen he com to monne. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 76 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 108 (MED) Suyþe gret prece of gurles and Men comen hire al-a-boute. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 1967 He began to clepe and calle, As he which come was to manne. c1440 (a1400) Sir Eglamour (Thornton) (1965) 1317 ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘God forȝelde the! Þou hase hym broghte to man [c1440 Calig. made hym a manne]’. a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 1343 (MED) He was growe to mannys age. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 48 In shoting both man & boye is in one opinion, that [etc.]. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 158 I haue been Sexten heere man and boy thirty yeeres. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 199 I must tell thee sirrah, I write Man: to which title age cannot bring thee. View more context for this quotation 1654 O. Cromwell in Whitelocke's Mem. (1853) IV. 170 They thought it more noble to die by the hand of a man than of a stripling. 1712 J. Addison When all thy Mercies (hymn) in Spectator No. 453 vi Thine Arm unseen convey'd me safe And led me up to Man. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. iv. 48 I never fear'd man, since I could write man. 1798 R. Southey Eng. Eclogues i, in Poet. Wks. (1838) III. 3 I've lived here, man and boy, In this same parish, well nigh the full age Of man. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxiv. 248 An elderly gentleman in top-boots, who had been..a peace-officer, man and boy, for half a century. 1889 P. A. Bruce Plantation Negro 153 The man of ripe years has all the mental floridness of a boy. 1951 J. Jones From Here to Eternity li. 776 That was where they told the men from the boys. 1962 J. Braine Life at Top ii. 39 Every day one was tested, the men were separated from the boys. 1967 Listener 16 Feb. 239/1 It is always quite a pleasure to see some really professional jazz players and hear their sounds and one of the best examples is Jazz Goes to College..which certainly sorts out the men from the boys. 1991 D. Cohen Circle of Life ii. 66 They reenact one of humanity's oldest and most vital passages, the transformation from boy into man. 2000 F. Forsyth in Spectator 5 Aug. 25/3 Someone who had worked man and boy for what Gaitskell once called ‘the party I love’. d. In abstract or generic sense, without article: the male human being. Cf. sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > men collectively wapman-kinc1175 manc1300 menkinda1470 mankind1526 manhood1588 mens-kind1592 the sterner (alsobetter, rougher, stronger) sex1608 lords of creation1649 menfolk1749 masculinity1860 c1300 St. Michael (Laud) 699 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 319 (MED) Þo made he þe kuynde..bi-twene Man and womman. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 6797 (MED) Man & woman vrn so dere. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) xxxvi. 191 (MED) Man be-hettith woman loue when he Set the Ring on hir fynger. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 893/2 Man is head of the woman, hee ought to be more aduised & wise. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 109 Were man But Constant, he were perfect. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 111 Man is enemie to virginitie. View more context for this quotation a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 300 As the Woman was the Glory of man, so were their Off-springs the Glory of both. 1748–58 M. Mendez Sqr. Dames i. i. xxvii Man throws the wimble bait, and greedy woman bites. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman ii. 49 Man, from the remotest antiquity, found it convenient to exert his strength to subjugate his companion. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 156 Woman is not undevelopt man But diverse. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 318 As for the men, well of course they would marry any lady of any tribe, if she had a pretty face,..that's just man's way. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female ix. 190 Man, the heir of tradition, provides for women and children. 1991 S. Keen Fire in Belly v. xiii. 203 This assumed superiority of women is evident in the image of woman as peacemaker and man as warmonger. †e. A male (used contextually to refer to a child). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > boy > [noun] knightc893 knapec1000 knaveOE knape childc1175 knave-childa1225 groom?c1225 knight-bairnc1275 pagec1300 mana1382 swainc1386 knave-bairna1400 little mana1425 man-childa1438 boy1440 little boya1475 lad1535 boykin1540 tomboya1556 urchin1556 loonc1560 kinchin-co(ve)1567 big boy1572 dandiprat1582 pricket1582 boy child1584 callant1597 suck-egg1609 nacketc1618 custrel1668 hospital-boy1677 whelp1710 laddie1721 charity-boy1723 pam-child1760 chappie1822 bo1825 boyo1835 wagling1837 shirttail boy1840 boysie1846 umfaan1852 nipper1859 yob1859 fellow-my-lad?1860 laddo1870 chokra1875 shegetz1885 spalpeen1891 spadger1899 bug1900 boychick1921 sonny boy1928 sonny1939 okie1943 lightie1946 outjie1961 oke1970 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Par. xxxi. 16 Þat feiþfulli þei dele to þer breþern parties to þe lasse & to þe more, out takyn þe men [a1425 L.V. malis; L. maribus] fro þre ȝeer. ?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 106 (MED) To wetyn ȝif a woman be with chylde, and whethyr it is a man or woman. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 155 Their Priests sacrificed ten children of three yeares of age,..fiue of these children were menne, and the other fiue wemen. 1651 Burnett Family Papers in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Education..to be given them gratis..unpaying anything therfor to the masteris of the man's school or to the mistresses of the woman's school. f. to be one's own man: see own adj. 1c. g. The personal character or intrinsic qualities of a man, as distinguished from his achievements, abilities or learning, rank or wealth, etc.; a man in his human (as distinguished from his professional, etc.) capacity or character. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] > person in respect of character personagec1485 man1674 1674 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer i. i I weigh the man, not his Title. 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 30 Nor in the Critick let the Man be lost. 1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 13 A Father's Heart Is tender, tho' the Man's is made of Stone. 1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling 209 I cannot throw off the man so much, as to rejoice at our conquests in India. 1812 Antigallican Monitor 17 May 558/3 The high estimation they entertained of the merits of that illustrious person, both as a Minister and a man. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 94 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man, robs him of his strength, wit, and versatility, to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty. a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 174 We feel that the man must have been greater than his works. 1920 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 24 Nov. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 13 Since first I went to sea, I'm twice the man I used to be... It's the uniform That takes the girls by storm. 1986 E. Ullah tr. B. K. Bhattacharya in Panorama 2 Even today he could not find a means of livelihood nor could he establish himself as a man. 5. Usually with possessive indicating the person's superior or leader. a. A subject, adherent, or follower (of a person), spec. a member of a body of supporters. Chiefly in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > adherent followerOE manOE soldier1340 suerc1384 suitora1398 adherent1426 clienta1464 aggregator1541 sectator?1541 suppost1547 ensuer1550 adherer1561 sectary1590 symbolizer1607 acolyte1623 sectarian1819 tailer1838 OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) i. xx. §2. 302 And eac ah hlaforda gehwylc þæs formycle þearfe, þæt he his men rihtlice healde. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1100 He wæs swiðe strang & reðe ofer his land & his mænn, & wið ealle his neahheburas. ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1140 Willelm de R[om]are..& te æorl..fuhten suythe on Candel masse dæi agenes heore lauerd, & namen him, for his men him suyken & flugæn. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 141 (MED) Gif þu woldest at te [k]inge ani þing beseken..ðu scoldest ane speken to-foren alle hise mannen. c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 215 (MED) Herodes..was michel anud, and alle hise men. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 209 (MED) So manly he rides..so ferforþ fram his men..þat of horn ne of hound ne miȝt he here sowne. c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 41 (MED) Ponthus had his menne sworne to hym..that they shuld not dycouer hym to noo body. 1599 George a Greene sig. F1 Were ye as good as Robin Hood, and his three mery men, Ile driue you backe the same way that ye came. 1604 Bp. W. Barlow Summe Conf. at Hampton Court in Phenix (1721) I. 179 Conformitans hang down their heads, and the Bishop's Men curse the Puritans. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 13 He canton'd out the Country to his Men. 1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 27 The name by which they chuse to distinguish themselves, is that of King's men, or the King's friends. 1821 G. F. Lyon Narr. Trav. N. Afr. ii. 74 Some one of Mukni's men cries out ‘The Fattha!’ (or first chapter of the Koran), every one joining in that prayer. 1886 Dict. National Biogr. IX. 293/1 She and the king went a-maying to Shooter's Hill in 1515, and met in the woods Robin Hood and his merry men dressed in green. 1921 E. R. G. R. Evans South with Scott xvii. 243 Captain Amundsen..told me he himself could never have manhauled as Scott's men did. 1966 Listener 29 Sept. 445/1 Stalin would speak disparagingly of Mao's men as being ‘not real communists’. 1991 Newsweek 20 May 20/3 The vice-president's men hoped for a public backlash against the Quayle-bashers in the press. b. spec. A vassal, a liegeman; a feudal tenant. Also figurative (in Middle English poetry): a lover (cf. sense 8b). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > [noun] > vassal manlOE subjectc1350 liegemana1375 liege1377 feudary1387 servant?a1400 vassala1400 feedmanc1460 sidesman1462 feeman1517 feudatary1586 feudatory1765 leud1812 geneat1861 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1072 Se cyng Melcolm..griðede wið þone cyng Willelm..& his man wæs. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 33 Gif þu me dest woh and wit beon anes lauerdes men. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 2254 (MED) O knes ful fayre he him sette..And bi-cam is man Rith þare. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 10430 (MED) Þe king made ek is chartre to þe court of rome To bicome þe popes man & homage him do. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 72 Ledy, ha mercy of þy mon! c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 78 (MED) Guillomer, þe Kyng of Scotland..ȝelde him to þe Kyng Arthure and bicome his man. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) i. 434 For myn estat roial I here resigne Into hire hond, and with ful humble chere Bicome hir man, as to my lady dere. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 12566 (MED) Þe prince so turnes hym home in hy; full mery ware his men ylkon. c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 10 (MED) Sacke ys pleys and amendys of mysdoynges of your men in your courte. ?a1500 (a1471) Brut (Lyell) in J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. (1856) 44 The Erl Douglas of Scotland cam in to Englond, & was swore to the king for to be his trew manne. c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) lxiii Quhen sall ȝowr merci rew vpon ȝowr man, Quhois seruice is ȝit vncouth vnto ȝow? c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlv. 150 To become my man, and to do me homage. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem f. 42^v Homage suld be made in this maner, that is, the maker therof, sall become his over-lords man [etc.]. c1670 T. Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1840) 93 The Tenant shall hold his Hands together between the Hands of his Landlord, and shall say thus; I become your Man from this day forth. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 129 By taking service in William's army he had become the man of the Duke of the Normans. 1972 L. J. Downer Leges Henrici Primi 179 Every lord..shall so support his man everywhere that he shall suffer no injury as a result of his protection. 1998 N. Malcolm Kosovo iv. 67 Probišić..was one of Branković's own vassals... Leaving aside the story about his [sc. Branković's] man Dragoslav Probišić.., we can still note [etc.]. 6. A fighting man, a man-at-arms, a soldier; a member of a force fighting under the command of a specified person; (now) esp. a soldier, sailor, or airman as distinguished from an officer. Chiefly in plural. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun] wyec900 rinkeOE earlOE manlOE champion?c1225 warrer?c1225 drightmanc1275 here-dringc1275 here-gumec1275 here-kempec1275 wal-kempc1275 warrior1297 battlerc1300 fighterc1300 battle-wrighta1400 man-of-war1449 frekec1475 war-manc1485 combatant1489 Mars1565 warfarer1591 combater1598 Mavortian1598 brave1601 fire-eater1792 war-wolf1810 war-hound1812 war-dog1846 toa1860 Mavors1868 fightist1877 ninja1964 simba1964 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > common soldier > [noun] soldiera1300 sergeantc1300 private soldier1566 common soldier1569 private man1651 man1690 (private) centinel1710 single sentinel1721 private1775 single soldier1816 troop1832 ranksman1845 dog soldier1852 ranker1890 other rank1904 mucko1917 squaddie1933 craftsman1942 peon1957 grunt1969 troopie1972 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1069 Eadgar æðeling, & fela hund manna mid heom..ferdon to Eofer wic..& ofslogon fela hund manna. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Ezek. xxxv. 8 In thi litil hillis and in thi valeis..men slayn in swerd shuln falle doun. 1449 Rolls of Parl. V. 147/2 That every xxxti men furnysshe a man horsed and armed in bryganders. a1500 (?a1450) Merlin 244 Ther were..moo than a thousande me [sic; Fr. hommes] slayn. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xviii. 29 In the I can discomfit an hoost of men. c1600 C. Wriothesley Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 57 The King sent the duke of Norfolke, with an armie of menn. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 111 Foure thousand men would have made a shrewd adventure to have taken his Indies from him. 1690 London Gaz. No. 2596/3 Another of our Parties have cut off a Rappery Colonel, with 50 of his Men. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea III. i. 7 Leonidas..defended the streight of Thermopilæ with 4,000 men. 1805 C. Collingwood Let. 24 Oct. in Daily Chron. (1905) 10 July 3/4 This Great day has not been without a considerable suffering on our part in loss of Officers and Men. 1878 Ld. Tennyson Revenge 10 I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore. 1880 J. T. Wheeler Short Hist. India 604 The English had lost more than 2,400 officers and men. 1909 Daily Chron. 15 June 5/5 Rations for three days, ammunition, field bandages, and identity discs were issued to the men. 1941 H. G. Wells You can't be too Careful v. iii. 249 When confronted by a pincer-like movement, a soldier and a gentleman abandons his men and material and bolts home. 1990 C. Allen Savage Wars of Peace (1991) p. xvii A mutual respect between the men he commanded and himself..helped to unite officers, NCOs and men into one extended hierarchical family. 7. a. A male personal attendant; a manservant, a valet. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > valet manc1175 valet1567 varlet of the chamber1567 point-trusser1594 valect1610 valet-de-chambre1646 Andrew1700 gentleman's gentleman1704 bearer1727 sirdar-bearer1782 sardar1816 tiring-man1856 Jeeves1952 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5199 Wiþþ himm wass an oþerr mann Hiss mann forr himm to þeowwtenn. a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 38 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 16 Faret summe of myne men ant facchet hire to me. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 393 (MED) Þou..art a garsoun & art mi man, & man schalt be. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1512 (MED) And uche mon for his mayster machches alone. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 12783 (MED) He and his man with outyn mo went all þer enmys euyn amang. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. vj^v The mayster to his man makyth his Roys. a1500 (?a1400) Tale King Edward & Shepherd 148 (MED) Þei do but gode, þe Kyngus men..Thai take geese, capons, and henne. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 142 To serve and leif in beggartie To man and maistir is baith schame. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 151 A Gentleman and his Man shall spend as much, as if he were accompanied with another Gentleman and his Man. 1639 J. Endecott Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 136 One Samuel Eale, a man of Mr. Nathan Rogers, which Nele hath caryed with him. ?1684 in Roxburghe Ballads (1897) VIII. 453 Come saddle my horse and call up my man. a1745 J. Swift My Lady's Lament. in Wks. (1765) VIII. ii. 184 Find out..Who's master, who's man. 1791 C. Smith Celestina IV. 117 There was no possibility of his man giving Willoughby notice. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 218 I am the upper boots..; the other man's my man, as..does odd jobs. 1870 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) vi. 209 Another functionary of a country parish is usually called the minister's man. 1925 P. G. Wodehouse Carry on, Jeeves vi. 145 Biffy's man came in with the nose-bags and we sat down to lunch. 1990 F. Kanga Trying to Grow xvi. 158 I realised that the man behind him was his man, his personal servant. b. gen. A workman, an employee. Frequently in opposition to master (master n.¹ 2a). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] man1381 workera1382 labourerc1400 piner1497 pair of hands1598 operator1611 operatist1651 operative1809 operant1831 ouvrier1845 scissorbill1910 rehire1927 society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] > in relation to employer or capitalist man1381 workman1704 worker1848 1381 Rolls of Parl. III. 113/1 Johannes Pope, Taverners-man. 1426–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 66 (MED) Also, þe same day a dawber and his man, xiiij d. c1480 (a1400) St. Matthias 127 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 225 Iudas þane be-come his mane, & mad his dwelling vith hym þane. 1526 Hundred Mery Tales (1866) 146 Here is nother mayster nor man. 1623 King James VI & I in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 127 He is a happy man that serves a good Master. 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 7 June 2/2 Well trim tram, like Master like man. a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. iv. vii. 311 The way-beaten couple, master and man, sat them down. 1812 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. J. Hodgson (1857) I. 97 Two shifts or sets of men were constantly employed. 1872 T. Brassey Work & Wages i. 6 The masters had found it necessary..to reduce the rate of wages; but the men..refused to accept the reduction. 1955 Times 3 Aug. 8/7 A shortage of labour caused a lightning strike of about 200 men at the Albert and William Wright docks at Hull to-day. 1982 R. Carr Spain 1808–1975 (1993) (BNC) 54 The failure of democratic radicalism to develop a doctrine of class conflict was a reflection of this situation: master and man wanted the same relief from conscription and food taxes. 8. a. A husband. Now chiefly English regional (northern), Scottish, and South African, except in man and wife. Cf. goodman n. 5. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband churla800 lordeOE werec893 husbanda1275 mana1325 masterc1325 sovereign1390 maritea1398 husbandman?a1439 goodman?1507 baron1595 spouse1604 husband of one's bosom1611 old man1673 hubby1682 sposo1741 hub1809 master-man1825 pot and pan1900 mister1931 DH1993 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > married people > married couple couple1393 pairc1400 married couplea1625 happy couple1631 man and wife1749 Ozzie and Harriet1974 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 452 Bigamie is unkinde ðing, On engleis tale twie-wifing. For ai was rigt and kire bi-forn, On man, on wif, til he was boren. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. iii. 6 Sche toke of the fruyt of it & ete, and ȝaue to here man [a1425 L.V. to hir hosebonde; L. viro suo]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 23335 (MED) O þaim þai sal noght reu a dele..Þe wijf hir man [a1400 Trin. Cambr. þe husbonde] or man his wijf. c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) i. 1084 (MED) Oon is concord betwene brethren to be hadde, And loue among neighbours, as God badde, Loue also betwene man and wyffe in-same. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 188 God send euerie Priest ane wyfe, And euerie Nunne ane man. 1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore iv. sig. G3 Bee not amaz'd; nor blush young louely Bride, I come not to defraud you of your man. 1652 Ripley's Epist. Edward IV in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 116 Our Man, our Wife. 1724 A. Ramsay This is no my ain House iii To make me still a prudent spouse And let my man command ay. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. xii. 68 In less than a Month the Captain and his Lady were Man and Wife. 1829 C. Rose Four Years S. Afr. 263 The wife broke out, ‘You lament a brother, and you a child, but I have lost my man.’ 1842 Ld. Tennyson Dora in Poems (new ed.) II. 41 He..often thought ‘I'll make them man and wife’. 1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums 108 Nor would Nancey take it kindly if I called her man names. 1920 R. Y. Stormberg Mrs Pieter de Bruyn 72 The country lady strolls in to buy a hat,..tells them to put it down to her ‘man's’ account. 1962 Buchan Observer 24 July 2 Nippet words an' soor ill-naiter Gart her man an' bairns behave! 1996 Daily Mirror 12 June 12/3 I'm not saying our relationship is a bed of roses, but we are getting on with it, like any man and wife. 2014 S. Blackhall in Lallans 85 29 Trudy Harrison..met her man in Naples, on a summer holiday. b. A lover, a suitor. Cf. sense 5b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > male lover servantc1405 specialc1425 servitorc1450 love-lad1586 young man1589 inamorato1592 swainc1592 gentleman friend1667 enamorado1677 spark1707 beau?1720 Johnny1726 man friend1736 feller1842 novio1843 soupirant1849 fella1874 man1874 fellow1878 square-pusher1890 stud1895 papa1896 lover mana1905 boyfriend1906 daddy1912 lover-boy1925 sheikh1925 sweetback1929 sweet man1942 older man1951 boyf1990 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. i. 10 Go and marry your man—go on! 1899 W. Besant Orange Girl ii. xiv. 295 You've put my man in prison—the properest man in St. Giles's. 1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues vii. 79 A doctor had told her once..she should..take a natural interest in some other man. But she wouldn't. He was her man. 1992 More 28 Oct. 92 Since I started seeing my new boyfriend, my girlfriend has been giving me the cold shoulder... She seems to hate it when I want to see my man alone. 9. a. A person (usually an adult male) regarded in terms of the qualities of courage, strength, or responsibility, etc., traditionally associated with adult males. Also (in extended use): †manliness, courage (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > virile man manc1330 real man1872 he-man1885 man's mana1896 virilist1910 cocksman1916 macho1943 Marlboro Man1957 macho man1959 man1963 the mind > emotion > courage > manliness > [noun] manshipc1275 manheadc1300 virtuec1330 manhooda1393 manliheadc1425 manful-hardinessc1450 manlinessc1450 manfulnessc1460 virtuosity1543 man1602 manlikeness1742 ruggedness1845 balls1958 c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem 2782 (MED) Tristrem, as aman Fast he gan to fiȝt. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iii. 205 (MED) Meede makeþ him beo bilouet and for a Mon I-holden. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xiii. 930 (MED) And vppon him proveth that ȝe men ben! 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. sig. F^v A Man, a man, a kingdome for a man. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. C Heape vp thy powers, double all thy man. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 221 Hauing more man then wit about me. View more context for this quotation 1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 193 Worth makes the Man, and want of it the Fellow. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxix. 286 Be a man Jack, and have no more of this puling. 1900 J. Morley Cromwell v. vii. 453 Of that pettish egotism which regards a step taken on advice as a humiliation, he [sc. Cromwell] had not a trace; he was a man. 1990 New Age Oct. 42/1 For generations men have been toughened up and shut down. Be a man; don't get emotional; that's for women. b. (a) man of men n. an exceptional or powerful man. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person gemc1275 blooma1300 excellence1447 mirrorc1450 man of mena1470 treasure?1545 paragon1548 shining light1563 Apollo's swan?1592 man of wax1597 rara avis1607 Titan1611 choice spirita1616 excellency1725 inestimable1728 inimitable1751 cock of the walk1781 surpasser1805 shiner1810 swell1816 trump1819 tip-topper1822 star1829 beauty1832 soarer1895 trumph1895 pansy1899 Renaissance man1906 exemplum virtutis1914 museum piece1920 superman1925 flyer1930 pistol1935 all-star1949 a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 41 Nero that was a myghty man of men. 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iii. iii That man of men. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. v. 71 I will giue thee bloody teeth, If thou with Cæsar Parago nagaine [sic]: My man of men . View more context for this quotation 1624 P. Massinger Bond-man i. iii. sig. B3 Corinth..hath vouchsafed to lend vs Her man of men Timoleon to defend Our Country. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 122 This man of men, attested Son of God. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. iii. 47 Wilt thou suffer this guest of guests, this man of men..to fall into the meshes of thy nephew? 1887 R. Browning C. Avison in Parleyings xvi Pym, the man of men! (b) a man among men n. a person regarded as epitomizing manhood or humankind; (esp. as a term of praise) one who is the equal of or an example to all others; an active, well-rounded member of society. ΚΠ a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Boke M. Aurelius (1559) sig. Mmii f. 134 In good sothe there is no man among men, no humain among the humains, but he is as a brute beast, and wilde among wyld beastes. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 283 Thou therefore whom thou only canst redeeme, Thir Nature also to thy Nature joyne; And be thy self Man among men on Earth, Made flesh. View more context for this quotation] 1875 J. R. Lowell in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 358 He is at least a man among men, and not a humbug among humbugs. 1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 28 Because I was all but your brother in blood, I promise that when I am a man among men I will not betray ye to men as ye have betrayed me. 1926 D. H. Lawrence David xiii. 99 He is no man among men any more. Evil possesses him. 1983 J. Jones Dostoevsky vi. 216 ‘The truth of God and the law of nature’..compel Raskolnikov first to be exiled from the humanity he has outraged, and then to confess and accept the public consequences of confession as the only way to become a man among men again. 1988 M. Charney Hamlet's Fictions iii. ix. 130 To be a man among men is the ultimate superlative. c. like a man: courageously, resolutely. Frequently in to take it (or something) like a man. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > [adverb] like a manc1475 courageously1477 lion-like1610 c1475 Mankind 226 (MED) The temptacyon of þe flesch ȝe must resyst lyke a man. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Fortiter Fortiter ferre aliquid, To take a thynge paciently and lyke a man. 1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxviii. 3 Gird vp nowe thy loines like a man . View more context for this quotation 1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1838) I. i. v. §2. 394/1 The boys endured their punishment like men and Christians. a1811 R. Cumberland tr. Aristophanes Clouds in T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Comedies (1822) II. 84 Tuck yourself up, and buff it like a man. 1846 Emancipator (Boston) 4 Feb. 162/7 The editor of the Visiter [sic] takes it like a man. 1921 H. Willsie Enchanted Canyon i. i. 12 Don't want to be helped out... I'll take my punishment like a man. 1990 M. Dibdin Vendetta (1991) 249 Are you going to come out and die like a man, or do you want to play hide-and-seek? 2008 Times 18 June (Times2 section) 3/2 Take it like a man, and mind that you don't break a nail. d. to play the man: to act in a manly fashion. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [verb (intransitive)] to play the man1548 the world > people > person > man > [verb (transitive)] to play the man1548 man1605 uneffeminate1631 manify1799 virilify1849 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Mark in Paraphr. New Test. i. 12–15 Thou haste here behaued thyselfe valiauntly, and played the manne a while. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 319 The Lord Wilbewill also did play the man within. View more context for this quotation 1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah xi. 388 How their sire played the man in the time of the great troubles. e. to make a man of: to make (a person) mature, fearless, resilient, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > encourage or embolden [verb (transitive)] hearteOE bieldc897 hardenc1175 elnea1225 hardyc1225 boldc1275 hardishc1325 endurec1384 assurec1386 emboldc1400 recomfortc1405 enharda1450 support1479 enhardy1483 animatec1487 encourage1490 emboldishc1503 hearten1524 bolden1526 spright1531 raise1533 accourage1534 enheart1545 to hearten on1555 hearten?1556 alacriate1560 bespirit1574 bebrave1576 to put in heart1579 to hearten up1580 embolden1583 bravea1593 enhearten1610 inspiritc1610 rehearten1611 blood1622 mana1625 valiant1628 flush1633 firm1639 buoy1645 embrave1648 reinhearten1652 reanimate1655 reinspirit1660 to give mettle to1689 warm1697 to lift (up) a person's spirits1711 reman1715 to make a man of1722 respirit1725 elate1726 to cocker up1762 enharden1779 nerve1799 boost1815 brace1816 high-mettle1831 braven1865 brazen1884 1722 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack 197 I once told you, I would make a Man of you. 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. v. 71 Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seemed to have made a man of him. 1981 S. Rushdie Midnight's Children 338 The idiot child, they put him in the Army to make a man of him! 10. a. A personal (or personified) being, esp. God, the Devil, or Death.In early use frequently used as the complement of a sentence (now rare).the Man Upstairs: see upstairs adv. and n. 2f. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > personification of manc1510 genius1600 c1510 Gest Robyn Hode iv. 959 in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 68 For god is holde a ryghtwys man. ?1550 R. Weaver Lusty Iuventus sig. C.ii He wyl say that God is a good man. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. v. 35 Well, God's a good man . View more context for this quotation 1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. C3 Your the last man I thought on, saue the diuell. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes Intermean i. 60 in Wks. II Expectation. But was the Diuell a proper man, Gossip? Mirth. As fine a gentleman, of his inches, as euer I saw trusted to the Stage. 1727 A. Pope Mem. of P. P. in J. Swift et al. Misc. II. 284 Do all we can, Death is a Man, That never spareth none. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness in Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) There's a man aboon'll mak ye all care some day, if you don't care noo. 1891 H. Johnston Kilmallie II. 90 The yite has a drop o' the bad man's bluid in it. 1943 M. McLaverty White Mare & Other Stories 75 The Man above is tired of listening to us... When it does rain we want sunshine and when we have sun we want rain. 1988 G. Lees Meet me at Jim & Andy's xiii. 263 Mingus was dressed all in black, including a cape and a leather hat. ‘I thought The Man had come for me!’ †b. As part of an oath: ‘God’. Obsolete.Substituted for God in certain plays printed in the 17th cent., to escape the penalties against profane language on the stage. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun] > euphemisms for stronger oaths > for 'God' man1602 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster i. i. sig. A3^v Hart a' man . View more context for this quotation a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub ii. ii. 27 in Wks. (1640) III For the passion of man, hold. View more context for this quotation a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub ii. ii. 58 in Wks. (1640) III Breath of man ! View more context for this quotation 11. Sport. a. A male member of a sports team; spec. a member of a cricket team. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > team or group > member of man1744 team man1763 team player1882 teamer1924 MVP1940 1705 Postman 24 July This is to give Notice that a Match of Cricket will be plaid between eleven Gentleman of..Kent and those of Chatham, for 11 Guineas a Man.] 1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket iii. Argt. 17 Kent, in the Second Innings is very near losing, the two last Men being in. 1816 W. Lambert Instr. & Rules Cricket 42 Long Stop. This man..should be one who is not afraid of the Ball, when bowled swift, and who can throw in well. 1909 R. H. Barber Double Play xvii. 208 The fourth man up chose a ball to his liking and sliced it down the first-base line. 1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 340 Power-play (ice hockey), launched when a team has an extra man or is trailing in the final minutes, all players rushing into the opponent's zone, and putting on the pressure. 1987 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 27 Jan. 7 Cricket (as explained to a foreign visitor). You have two sides: one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out [etc.]. 1998 BBC Match of Day Mag. Apr. 84/2 What struck me was how good their defenders were at man-marking: they have the ability to focus solely on the man rather than the ball. b. man-for-man: = man to man adj. 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [adjective] > formation man to man1922 man-for-man1923 wishbone1972 1923 J. W. Wilce Football ix. 163 Man-for-man defense in football is very much the same as the guarding of a man in basket-ball. 1937 F. C. Allen Better Basketball xviii. 291 It is to be noticed in charting these penetrating offensive plays against a zone defense that the setup of the offense is identical with that used in penetrating the man-for-man defense. 1979 K. Jones & P. Welton Football Skills & Tactics 72/3 Five or six-a-side games, conditioned for man-for-man marking, are the final stage in developing your technique. 1981 J. Lehane Basketball Fund. v. 186 Constant drilling on making the transition from offense to defense is a requirement for effective full-court man-for-man pressure. c. man-on-man: = man to man adv. ΚΠ 1963 Maclean's 14 Dec. 21/1 ‘He's always at the outer edge of the rulebook anyway,’ says Eric Nesberenko of the Chicago Black Hawks, who has played frequently against Howe man-on-man. 1992 When Saturday Comes Apr. 8/1 Leave him man-on-man with the very best and he'd struggle at times. †12. slang. An undergraduate, as contrasted with a graduate; a pupil at a British public school, contrasted with a master. Cf. sense 15f. Obsolete.In quot. 1885: a female undergraduate. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > undergraduate magistrand1628 undergraduate1630 man1803 undergrad1827 tassel1828 grad1958 1803 Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 89 At Cambridge, and, eke, at Oxford, every stripling is accounted a Man from the moment of his putting on the gown and cap. 1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Man (Cambridge), any undergraduate from fifteen to thirty. As a man of Emanuel—a young member of Emanuel. 1874 Lays Mod. Oxf. 43 Every bulldog when he spies a Man without a gown, Promptly chases him and tries a- Main to run him down. 1885 A. Edwardes Girton Girl III. xiii. 230 I may go up to Girton as a bye-term man in January. 1897 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 103/1 [At Winchester College] When a master wishes a ‘man’ to taste the sweets of a flogging he tells him to order his name to. 13. Scottish. Christian Church. [So called to distinguish them from the clergy.] In plural. With the. In northern parishes of the Church of Scotland: a group of devout and ascetic laymen acting as spiritual leaders, who expounded a highly strict doctrine of religious observance. Now historical. the day of the Men: a day, usually the Friday prior to the half-yearly Communion service, when preaching was customarily carried out by the Men; also the Men's day. ΚΠ 1835 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. xi. 188 It is still customary in the north of Scotland for the elders to address the people..on their experiences of the truth of religion. The day dedicated to this purpose is termed the day of the men. 1845 A. Beith Highland Tour (1874) 241 I could gather that the Men..were not satisfied that so much time was devoted to discussion and deliberation, and that so little, comparatively, was given to holy services. 1868 A. Auld Ministers & Men in Far North 142 The ‘Men’ were so styled..‘not because they were not women, but because they were not ministers.’ 1881 Chron. Stratheden ii. 57 On this day those called ‘The Men’ have the field very much to themselves. They do the greater part of the speaking, and Friday is popularly known as ‘the Men's’ day. 1881 A. M. Stoddart J. S. Blackie (1896) 356 ‘The Men’ wield grim influence, narrowing, depressing, and yet not without dignity and even sacredness. 1916 W. L. Mathieson Church Reform Scotl. 1797–1843 341 In the northern Highlands..almost every parish had its group of leaders whose pretensions to superior sanctity were indicated by long hair, a long cloak and a cotton handkerchief worn in place of a cap and who, in order to distinguish them from the clergy, were known as ‘the Men’. 1960 G. B. Burnet Holy Communion 302 The Men's Day is largely kept in Lewis, Skye, Harris, and Wester Ross, generally with two services, though the Men are gone. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Sept. 1084/4 The ‘men’, the lay preachers like Donald Munro of Skye or John Morrison of Harris, were the forgers of a new secular as well as a religious ideology among the crofting population. III. With qualification denoting a particular kind of man.These phrases and compounds are used chiefly of men only, but are occasionally used gen. to include both sexes, esp. in the names of posts or professions which were established before the entry of women into such occupations. 14. With postmodifying of-phrase denoting a place or institution: an inhabitant or native of the place specified; a person associated with the specified institution. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > [noun] maneOE wonnera1340 dwellera1382 livera1382 indweller1382 resiant1405 inhabitor1413 inhabitera1425 tenanta1425 abider1440 citizenc1450 inhabitant1462 resident1463 denizen1474 inhabitator?a1475 mansionarya1475 habitant1490 incolera1513 occupier?1542 land-occupier1576 residentiary1581 burgessa1586 incolant1596 consistorian1599 ledger1600 resider1632 residenter1644 habitator1646 endwellera1649 incolary1652 incolist1657 insetter1712 houser1871 eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 895 Þa men of Lundenbyrig. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 187 (MED) Men of france..sone me sucþ amende. c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 157 Whon kene men of hir court comen til hir cri. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/2 Man of Turkey, Turc. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges viii. 15 The men of Sucoth. a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ffff4^v/1 Men of Britain, Like boading Owls, creep into tods of Ivie. 1798 W. S. Landor Gebir ii. 42 Ye men of Gades. 1837 S. Smith Let. to Singleton in Wks. (1859) II. 289 Men of Lincoln have left to Lincoln Cathedral, and men of Hereford, to Hereford. 1934 E. Blunden Choice or Chance 53 Ye men of England, hear the clarion. If Inferior nations biff you, them rebiff. 1988 B. Desai Memory of Elephants 297 The men of Watsonburg rotated shifts voluntarily for fire duty. 15. As the second element of a compound. [As a second element -man approaches the status of a terminal combining form, being reduced in normal pronunciation to /mən/ in both singular and plural in a large number of words; a few words of which it is the second element (leman n., woman n., and yeoman n.) are no longer felt to be compounds owing to obscuration of the first element (additionally, leman has the regular plural lemans ). Despite this, -man as a terminal element has continued to be regarded as a specific use of the noun. In many compounds, the full pronunciation Brit. /man/ , U.S. /mæn/ is the only one, or has been restored, or is an acceptable alternative. Some shorter compounds formerly written and pronounced as one word (e.g. deadman n.) have been reanalysed as two; with others, the option of writing man as a separate word is available (e.g. jazzman n.), while longer ones are normally written as two (or more) words (e.g. medicine man n.). The wide range of compounds in which it is employed, including many that are casually created, likewise argues against assigning -man the status of terminal combining form. The first element, if it is a noun, in many such compounds ends in -s : in the oldest formations (e.g. doomsman n., kinsman n., landsman n.¹, redesman n., steersman n., townsman n.), which are sometimes written as two words in the earliest sources (e.g. rædes menn ), this is evidently the genitive inflection. In early Middle English, variants in -sman of older compounds in -man are found (e.g. lodesman n.), evidence for the analogical spread of this type of formation, which continued into early modern English (compare beadsman n., herdsman n.). In Middle English and modern English the formation with -s- preceding -man has been very productive; the -s- in some formations is definitely genitival in origin (e.g. bridesman n., groomsman n.) while in others it certainly or arguably represents the plural inflection (e.g. Downsman n., locksman n.³, woodsman n.). In the majority it is perhaps best viewed as an arbitrary connective element.] a. Modified by an adjective, as handy-, reading, sick man, etc.: see the first element. Occurring spec. with adjective indicating the nationality, birthplace, residence, creed, etc., to which a person belongs: see christenman n., Englishman n., Frenchman n., Northman n., etc. See also best man n., deadman n., freeman n., little man n., new man n.¹, old man n., red man n. b. With prefixed noun: a person who is connected with a specified place, building, profession, business, society, etc., as assembly-, Banbury, Inns of Court, Paul's man, railway man, etc.: see the first element. See also barman n., bondsman n., borough-man n., clergyman n., churchman n., countryman n., exciseman n., harvestman n., journeyman n., landsman n.¹, linesman n., portman n.¹, postman n.¹, salesman n., seaman n., waterman n., world-man n., etc. Thesaurus » Categories » c. With prefixed noun: a trader in or manufacturer of the specified product, as ale-man, lead-man, rag-and-bone man: see the first element. See also coalman n., iceman n., milkman n., oilman n., porkman n., timberman n., etc. d. With prefixed noun: a person who uses or is skilled in the use of a specified implement, craft, etc., as canoe-man, lathe-man: see the first element. See also axeman n., brakesman n., hammerman n., penman n.¹, swordsman n., etc. e. With prefixed noun: a person who is a specialist or expert in a specified subject; a supporter or adherent of a specified person; a person who favours a specified activity, object, or product. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > expert, specialist, authority masterc1225 historian?a1439 authentic1613 scientiate1647 supernaturalist1659 authority1665 connoisseur1732 pundit1816 expert1825 specialist1839 past master1840 sharp1840 professional1846 beggar1859 specializer1868 passed master1882 buff1903 man1921 sharpshooter1942 sharpie1949 watcher1966 meister1975 the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > of some specific thing or person sectarian1819 man1958 1527 W. Tyndale Parable Wicked Mammon in Wks. (1573) 88 A Duns man would make xx. distinctions. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1657 (1955) III. 196 Desperat Zealots, cald the fift Monarchy-men. 1833 C. F. Hoffman Let. 26 Dec. in Winter in West (1835) I. 211 The most devout temperance man could see no harm in that! 1843 Christian Lady's Mag. 20 211 The opinions of Oxford-tract men..upon the divine efficacy of Sacraments. 1921 T. S. Eliot Let. 26 Oct. in Waste Land Drafts (1971) p. xxii I have wondered whether he is quite the best man for me as he is known as a nerve man and I want rather a specialist in psychological troubles. 1958 Listener 25 Sept. 449/2 I am therefore wholeheartedly a Galbraith man... Professor Galbraith is the first writer to attempt a systematic economic analysis of such a society. 1969 Listener 24 July 102/1 I had been the Daily Telegraph's main German man for some time. 1974 P. Lovesey Invitation to Dynamite Party ii. 25 ‘Is it the hard stuff that you've taken a fancy to?’ ‘Not me, Sarge. I never was a whisky man.’ f. With prefixed noun denoting a school, college, or university: a man who is or has been a member of the institution specified. ΘΚΠ society > education > member of university > [noun] suppost1522 supposit1532 man1573 academic1581 catercap1588 black gown1616 square cap1642 academical1656 academician1665 gownsman1665 sleeve1752 Academe1861 society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > former pupil or student man1573 alumnus1800 alumna1843 alum1877 society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > former pupil alumnus1800 alumna1843 old boy1857 man1866 old girl1875 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 54 He is a Pembrook Hal man, ergo a good schollar. 1580 E. Spenser & G. Harvey (title) Three proper, and wittie, familiar Letters passed between two Vniuersitie men. 1687 C. Aldworth in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) 42 Dr. Haddon was a Cambr. man. 1709 M. Prior Epil. to Phaedra (ed. 2) 3 An Oxford man, extremely read in Greek. 1796 in C. Whibley In Cap & Gown (1889) 88 Ye Johnishe men, that have no other care, Save onelie [etc.]. 1866 John Bull 24 Mar. 202/1 All old Westminster men..will regret to hear [etc.]. 1876 Sun (N.Y.) 20 Nov. 3/1 A Harvard man redelivers the ball by a fine ‘punt’ kick. 1918 W. Faulkner Let. in Thinking of Home (1992) 63 The English are trying to get officers now... I can enlist as a second year Yale man. 1979 H. Hood Reservoir Ravine iii. 47 The Right Honourable, the Earl Balfour, KG, PC, was a Cambridge man, as it happens. g. colloquial. With prefixed noun: a man defined in terms of which part of a woman's body he tends to find most attractive or arousing, as ass man, breast man, leg man, tit man, etc. ΚΠ 1944 M. Heimer World ends at Hoboken 43 Before I forget, incidentally, let me get it down that I am more of a leg man than a chest man. 1946 L. W. Dearborn in C. R. Adams & J. S. Fisher Psycho-physiol. Bases Family Life: Proc. (Inst. Marriage & Home Adjustm.) 27 Another man spoke up and said, ‘Oh, you are a breast man; I am a hip and thigh man’. 1960 R. Barber Night they raided Minsky's viii. 290 Maybe everyone else ain't such a big tit man as you. 1979 N.Y. Mag. 25 June 41/3 Hell, we can't even change a breast man into a leg man, let alone hurdle the heterosexual-homosexual divide. 2004 A. Sohn My Old Man 81 Are you an ass man, a pussy man, a tit man, or a leg man? IV. Vocative uses. 16. As vocative or as int., introducing a remark or parenthetically. a. Used to address a person (usually a man, but sometimes a woman or child) emphatically to indicate contempt, impatience, exhortation, etc. Now somewhat archaic. ΚΠ OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) xxii. 369 Geþence nu ðu, man, & ongyt gif ðu sylf þe nelt alysan þa hwile þe ðu miht. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxvi. 238 Þu mann wylt habban god, þu wilt habban hælu þines lichaman. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 31 (MED) God mon, nim þu nuðe of þin aȝen ehte. a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 1598 Allass, Man, whuch is þin heorte hardour þan eny ston? c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 315 (MED) Mon, bi þe muche god..Vndur a Cyne..I hir se. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) 14447 (MED) Man, knaw þi selfe ryȝt sone! els wyll yt not be wele. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 661/2 Plucke up thy herte, man, for Goddes sake. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iii. 41 Tut, man. 1714 R. A. Hunter Monoropolis Ded. p. i What's the matter Man? Have ye got the Gripes? 1767 I. Bickerstaff Love in City 35 Zouns he will not bite you, Man. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. iv. 198 Hah! what—what's all this! Here, read it, read it, man. 1890 W. Besant Demoniac vi. 69 Why, man, with such a vice as yours, you would love your life too well. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career ii. 11 Here,..with splendid roads, mail thrice weekly, and a railway platform only eight miles away, why, man, my fortune is made! 1992 P. Ling Flood Water (1993) (BNC) 14 Pull yourself together, man! How could it come out, after all this time? b. English regional (northern), Scottish, Irish English, Welsh English, and South African colloquial. Also, esp. in 20th cent., in Caribbean English and among African Americans. Used to address a person (in many varieties of English, irrespective of sex) parenthetically without emphasis to indicate familiarity, amicability, or equality between the speaker and the person addressed. Now sometimes with loss of vocative force. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > as form of address cousinc1330 neighboura1500 man?a1513 a chara1829 digger1915 boet1920 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 108 ‘Fow wo’, quod scho, ‘Quhair will ȝe, man?’ 1589 Hay any Work 1 Heere be non but frends man. 1675 P. Bellon Mock Duellist ii. ii. 30 Fear it not, man; I'll be in this as secret as thy self. 1691 Braggadocio iii. i. 35 A scouring Bottle of Pontack will scour it again, Mun. 1715 J. Vanbrugh tr. F. C. Dancourt Country House ii. 23 Char. [to Mariane] You see I can keep a secret—I am no girl mun. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. xiv. 268 I have seen you often at Fair; why, we have dealt before now mun, I warrant you. View more context for this quotation 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer v. 93 Why that's it, mon. 1780 S. Lee Chapter of Accidents ii. ii. 26 But the best fun is to come, mun! 1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 55 I'll do it, min. 1892 J. Barlow Bog-land 25 Hullo, Connor!..is it you, man? 1933 Metronome Aug. 23 Trum's greeting was in the Negro dialect he usually employed: ‘Man! How is you?’ 1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock i. 21 The Jamaican stood up and stretched himself. ‘Glad you woke me, man,’ he said. 1961 ‘B. Wells’ Day Earth caught Fire ix. 145 ‘Cut that out, man,’ the beatnik said. 1976 R. Bulter Shaela 58 Min A'm vexed ta hear yun. 1988 M. Orson in Fair Lady (Cape Town) 16 Mar. 128 Oh man Lisa, your nails are digging into my arm again man. 1993 V. Headley Excess xiv. 180 We have to talk some business. You been dissin' me, mon. 2001 N. Griffiths Sheepshagger 142 ‘Ianto, just fuckin ignore him, mun... He's just tryin-a wind yew up, mun.’ ‘Go on then, Ianto mun, fuckin prove it.’ c. As int. colloquial (formerly chiefly among African Americans and South African). Used to express surprise, delight, disbelief, amazement, etc. (frequently in oh man!), or to give force to the statement which it introduces. man alive!: see alive adj. Phrases 4. Cf. boy int., and brother n. 4c. ΚΠ 1823 J. Neal Errata I. i. 37 Man!—Man!—I had a heart like a well—into it, every living creature might have dipped. 1850 Spirit of Times 19 Jan. 566/3 Man! I tell you, I begin to feel mad then! 1896 H. A. Bryden Tales S. Afr. i. 29 ‘Man!’ he said, ‘if I had not been shamed into following you, I would never have come across that place.’ 1934 Z. N. Hurston Jonah's Gourd Vine xx. 240 Man he kin cold preach! Preached over in Goldsborough las' night and strowed fire all over de place. 1960 C. Hooper Brief Authority 76 Man, Padre, they will like it there, where they can grow things and live as in the reserve. 1969 A. Ginsberg Coll. Poems (1984) 535 Man, I'm really stoned out of my skull. 1990 C. L. Vincent Police Officer iv. vii. 121 Man, oh man, nobody is going to turn me into a social worker! V. Idiomatic uses. Sometimes referring to male persons only, but frequently used without regard for gender. 17. In various syntactic collocations. a. a man (used quasi-pronominally): anyone, someone, one (but frequently with implied reference to the male sex only). Cf. man pron., men pron., me pron.² †a man's self, a man's own: oneself, one's own. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > any man a manc1225 anything in trousers1858 c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 51 (MED) Ha..schal lihte se lahe into a monnes þeowdom. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 1533 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 150 Ðwane a man is In mest soruwe and teone, þanne is ore louerdes grace next. c1390 Form of Confession (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 344 (MED) Whuche are a Monnes fyue wittes? Heering, Seoing, Smellyng, Tastyng, and Touching. a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 40 (MED) Meeknes..is not ellis bot a trewe knowyng & felyng of a mans self as he is. 1477–8 Bk. of Curtesye (Caxton) (1882) l. 283 Who that vsith a mannes tale to breke Letteth vncurteysly alle the audyence. ?c1500 Digby Plays 19 Her, virgynes, as many as a man wyll, shall holde tapers in ther handes. 1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 10 Enuie..is best extinguished by declaring a mans selfe in his ends, rather to seeke merite then fame. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 39 Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellowes. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 306 To Praise a Mans selfe, cannot be Decent..: But to Praise a Mans Office or Profession, he may doe it with Good Grace. 1637 P. Heylyn Briefe Answer Burton 53 A man would think that you had said enough against your soueraigne. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 14 A Man would expect..to find some considerable Antiquities. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. vi. p. xliii A man may be weak all his life long, without experiencing any disease. 1842 Ld. Tennyson You ask me Why 8 The land, where..A man may speak the thing he will. 1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 426/1 By turning an arrow and pressing a button, a man may in half a minute order a cocktail, towels, [etc.]. 1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society v. 135 A man can acquire wealth by working in the White economy as a wage labourer. 1990 A. Duff Once were Warriors vi. 53 What happens when a man can really handle himself: people wanna buy a man a beer. b. as one man [after post-classical Latin quasi vir unus (Vulgate), rendering Hebrew kĕ'īš 'eḥād (e.g. Judges 20:1, Ezra 3:2); compare post-classical Latin quasi unius hominis (Judges 20:8), quasi unus (Ezra 2:64; rendering Hebrew kĕ'eḥād)] : unanimously, with one accord, all together. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > in/into one place, company, or mass [phrase] > together or in a body > specifically of people or animals as one mana1382 in (also on, upon, etc.) a routa1387 in blanda1400 in sorta1400 on a sorta1550 at one1591 in the (or a) quilla1616 in uniform1623 in hand1883 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) 1 Esdras ii. 64 Al þe multitude as oon man [a1425 L.V. (margin) o man; that is, of o purpos and wille, to bilde the temple]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges xx. 8 So all the people gat them vp as one man. 1611 Bible (King James) Judges xx. 1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the Congregation was gathered together as one man . View more context for this quotation 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. Introd. 5/2 Inspiring them, as one Man, to secede into a Wilderness. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §64. 63 They went altogether as one Man. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 160 We rose up as one man, against a paltry stamp-tax. 1872 London Figaro 14 Dec. (Farmer) There is no good to be got out of gassing about rallying around standards, uniting as one man to resist, etc. 1911 J. London Strength of Strong in Hampton's Mag. Mar. 311/1 Of the ten Meat-Eaters, each man had the strength of ten, for the ten had fought as one man. They had added their strength together. 1993 J. Neale Laughter of Heroes (BNC) 72 The crowd rise to their feet as one man. Keith goes for the goal line. c. every (also each) man for himself: look out for your own interests before those of anyone else; (also) designating a situation in which each person is preoccupied with his or her own safety or advancement. ΚΠ c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1182 At the kynges court my brother Ech man for hymself. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges i. sig. Eij^v Eche man for hym selfe, and the frende for all. 1562 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tounge (new ed.) ii. ix, in Wks. sig. k4 Every man for him selfe, and god for us all. 1615 T. Adams White Deuill (ed. 4) 83 That by-word, Euery man for himselfe, and God for vs all, is vncharitable, vngodly; and impugneth directly the end of euery good calling, and honest kind of life. 1729 J. Gay Polly ii. xii. 50 Every man for himself, say I. There is no being even with mankind, without that universal maxim. 1798 J. O'Keeffe Tantara-rara i. ii. 358 Oh, very well, gentlemen, I'll throw up the hand, and ev'ry man for himself. (a loud knocking) There's the young Lord—plague on your mutinying—to your posts—fly! 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. xxix. 90 ‘Forward! Forward!’ were the cries, on every side of our hero. ‘Forward! forward! every man for himself!’ 1880 in F. B. Hough Thousand Islands of River St. Lawrence 85 Acting upon the maxim of ‘every man for himself’, the crowd dispersed. 1916 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 21 607 A world literally of every-man-for-himself would be a world of disinherited men. 1922 H. Walpole Cathedral i. i. 14 They had been troublous times. It had been every man for himself. 1967 G. Baxt Swing Low Sweet Harriet viii. 86 In times of disaster, kiddo, it's every man for himself. 1991 Newsweek 23 Dec. 32/1 ‘The '80s were about every man for himself,’ says Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. 1997 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 91/2 An every-man-for-himself attitude among the staff..poses a serious hazard. d. man for man: with each person of one side in a contest, etc., matched, paired, or compared with one of the other side. ΚΠ a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xliv. 215 (MED) Owt of this tour scholen Comen..Man for Man with hem to fyhte. a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 1944 Sen he haid oblist king for king..and onlie man for man. 1592 Let. 29 Jan. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. IV. 104 When two or more ships do joyne in consortship together, then whatsoever is gotten in that consortship is to be devidid tonne for tonne, and man for man. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4482/2 That the Prisoners taken on either side be exchanged Man for Man. 1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 11 Man for man the Fuzzy knocked us 'oller. 2014 Triple Crowned (Bay Area News Group) 90/2 We understand that we might not be man for man, you know, the favorites... Our strength is who we are as a team. e. man by man: each person in turn or in series. ΚΠ a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 77 (MED) And eueriche schal occupie þre foot of space in lengþe of þe raunge, man by man. 1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 23 Ther Screvener..wrytyng ower namys man by man. 1611 Bible (King James) Josh. vii. 14 The housholdes which the Lord shall take, shal come man by man . View more context for this quotation 1713 J. Addison Cato i. iii I've sounded my Numidians, man by man, And find 'em ripe for a revolt. 1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 176 And the greedy spear upswallowing Man by man, its gory food. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 549/1 The Macedonian army were suffered to pass man by man through his chamber to bid him farewell. f. between man and man: between or among individuals; between or among the various societies of the human race. ΚΠ 1537 Cardinal R. Pole Let. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. lxxxiv. 219 He would be content..to disturb al commerce between..man and man. 1615 W. Bedwell Arabian Trudgman in tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ sig. N4^v, at Talby These..are authorized to draw writings betweene man and man. a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 651 He doth..correct those actions, that unlink the mutual assistance between Man and Man. 1784 E. Allen Reason vi. §2. 212 The same is the case between man and man, or with mankind in general. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. x. 168 The balance of justice, between man and man. 1892 S. R. Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. 21 Justice was done between man and man. 1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After iv. 90 How far, we may ask, is the continued strife between man and man necessary for the further development of the race? 1989 P. Tristram Living Space in Fact & Fiction (BNC) 51 It..has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest. g. a man or a mouse (also man or mouse): (originally) †a successful person or a failure (obsolete); (in later use) a courageous person or a coward. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > there is much success [phrase] > succeed or fail sink or swima1538 a man or a mouse1541 1541 Schole House of Women sig. B.iii Feare not she sayeth, vnto her spouse A man or a mouse, whyther be ye. a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr^v/2 Your Father has committed you to my charge, and I will make a man, or a mouse on you. 1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn xx The game is made. Red, thirty-two. Now for it, Grog, man or a mouse, my boy. Mouse it is! 1938 Time 30 May 48/3 Are we mice or men? 1975 L. Deighton Yesterday's Spy xxii. 169 She gave a mocking laugh. ‘What are you?.. A man or a mouse?’ 1996 C. Bateman Of Wee Sweetie Mice & Men xxxi. 242 ‘Who's game?’ ‘It'll be fuckin' freezin',’ said McClean. ‘So. Are ye a man or a mouse?’ †h. to make (a person) a man: to ensure the prosperity or success of. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > cause to prosper or flourish [verb (transitive)] > ensure prosperity or success of make1460 to be the making ofa1500 to make a man for ever1584 to make (a person) a man1584 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xv. xvii. 425 Applie it, & thou shalt be made a man for euer. 1624 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 251 [To] set him upon his legs, and make him a man for ever. 1671 J. Tillotson Serm. I. 227 What poor man could not cheerfully carry a great burthen of Gold..thereby to be made a man for ever. i. to the last man: without exception (= to a man at sense 17j); until every person is dead, or until only one person remains alive. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. vii. 495 They bound themselves by a sacred law and oth to fight it out to the last man. 1677 W. Hubbard Narrative (1865) i. 161 [He] said they would fight it out to the last Man. 1837 T. De Quincey Revolt of Tartars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 102/1 One entire tribe of the Khan's dependents..had perished to the last man. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee v. 68 The peoples of the earth shall famish and die, to the last man! 1936 Times 30 Nov. 5/4 A pack who shoved to the last man and quick-heeled from the tight and loose. 1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness ii. ix. 205 300 local allies were massacred to the last man by the Latookas after an unsuccessful attempt at ambush. j. to a man: without exception; including every person. ΚΠ 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 224 They might haue had the killing of all his army to a man. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 444. ¶1 The ordinary Quack-Doctors..are to a Man Impostors. 1764 Ann. Reg. 1763 159 The soldiers,..immediately after roll calling,..assembled to a man. 1838 E. Flagg Far West I. 20 The former dwellers in Kentucky..were exterminated to a man. 1894 S. Baring-Gould Deserts S. France II. 228 He cut them down almost to a man. 1958 M. L. King Stride toward Freedom iv. 64 At the words ‘All in favor of the motion stand’, every person to a man stood up. 1990 Gay Times Dec. 11/1 To a man, they went on about how George was ‘unique’. k. per man: for each person. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [phrase] > individually or separately > per person headOE per capita1621 per mana1687 per capita1834 per caput1856 per caput1911 a skull1922 a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) 49 About 72,000l, at the medium of 3l per Man, would Salariate the whole number of twenty four thousand. 1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 48 With no farther ammunition than ten rounds per man more. 1904 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Sept. 39/1 Terms as usual, 4s. per man per week, the cook to find his own slushy. 1979 R. S. Peffer Watermen 118 The eelers' income dropped to less than $150 per man per week. l. to be man enough: to have sufficient strength, courage, resolution, etc. (for a task, opponent, etc.). Chiefly with infinitive. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > manliness > behave manfully [verb (intransitive)] to be man enough1799 to play up?1888 to cowboy up1973 to grow a pair1987 to man up1996 1641 T. Killigrew Claracilla v. sig. F8 I finde I have not man enough to meete with her Without trembling.] 1799 J. Boaden Aurelio & Miranda ii. i. 27 I am not man enough. Tell him. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. vi. 99 May the foul fiend fly off with me, if I am not man enough for a dozen of them. 1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray II. vii. 138 He was not man enough to stand up and face this new enemy unless he were backed by his old friends. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf xxxv. 328 He deserves to die..and God forgive me, I am not man enough to be his executioner. 1953 J. Wain Hurry on Down ix. 202 You aren't man enough to scrape up a miserable seventy-five pounds without all this whining. 1986 Pract. Gardening Mar. 13/3 That lot is no lightweight! But the special staging is more than man enough for the job. 18. With the. Also with capital initial. a. Chiefly in predicative use: the man referred to previously; the man most suitable for some office, task, etc.; the kind of man qualified or likely to do something; †figurative (humorous): something which is precisely what is wanted or required (obsolete). the man for me: the man whom I would choose to employ or support, the man whom I endorse.the man for my money: see money n. Phrases 1a(b). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > that which is suitable or appropriate > the appropriate person man1535 old who1594 my man1611 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xii. 7 Thou art euen the man. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 12^v When Easter comes, who knowes not than, that Ueale and Bakon, is the man. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 123 Ouiddius Naso was the man . View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 108 You coulde neuer doe him so ill well, vnlesse you were the very man . View more context for this quotation 1678 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 49 The House met to-day and are violent upon chussing a new Speaker and Sir Sawyer is lyke to be the man. 1783 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband v. iii. 46 Let me see,—Well made, a good air, you are the man for a dancer. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) v. i. 4 The very man fitted by nature to retrieve the desperate fortunes of her beloved province. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 549 Lauzun was in every respect the man for the present emergency. 1897 H. G. Wells Invisible Man ix. 74 Here..is an outcast like myself. This is the man for me. 1963 Times 20 May 4/7 Tambling was the man for the quick break and almost stole two more goals near the end. 1991 N.Y. Times 13 Nov. b7/1 If there was a situation that needed to be sized up, then Magic Johnson was the man for the job. b. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). A person in authority; spec. a prison warder or governor; a policeman; an employer, a boss. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority mastereOE herOE lordOE overmana1325 overling1340 seignior1393 prelatea1475 oversman1505 signor1583 hogen mogen1639 boss-cocky1898 man1918 trump1937 authority figure1948 Great White Father1960 1918 G. M. Battey 70,000 Miles in Submarine Destroyer (1919) 302 Any body in authority is ‘the man’. 1928 R. Fisher Walls of Jericho 306 The man, designation of abstract authority. He who trespasses where a sign forbids is asked: ‘Say, biggy, can't you read the man's sign?’ 1933 Amer. Speech 8 iii. 29/2 Unuther goddam word out o' you-all, an' Ah'll send ev'ry goddam one of ye up t' the Man. 1936 W. Cumming in D. G. McLean Hist. Fordyce Acad. 127 He asked leave from the ‘man’, Mr. Innes; he put his request so politely..that the dominie always granted the request. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 270 Man, a policeman. A word used by teen-age drivers. ‘When I heard the siren, I knew it was the Man.’ 1974 R. Thomas Porkchoppers xi. 98 They'll be on my back for telling them something that they don't think the man needs to know. 1995 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 2 July e4/2 It was a vicarious way of powerless people being able to stick it to the Man. c. Chiefly among African Americans: a white person, esp. regarded as an oppressor; white people collectively. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority > white person over black White Father1806 man1931 1931 L. Hughes & Z. N. Hurston Mule Bone (1991) 142 Dis railroad belongs to de man—I kin walk it good as you, cain't I? 1963 N.Y. Times 18 May 12/2 A well-educated Negro said today: ‘The demonstrations, I think, suggested to “The Man” that tokenism won't make it and that he has to come to grips with the problem right now.’ ‘The Man’, in Negro parlance, is the white man. 1972 Guardian 12 Aug. 9 Rus is not Uncle Tomming it around Harlem with ‘the Man’. He has brought a foreign visitor. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 1548/2 The majority of southern blacks spent much of their lives ‘workin' for the man’ (a catch-all phrase for whites). d. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). A drug dealer. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs drug dealer1800 drug peddler1889 swing man1903 drug pusher1904 drug trafficker1912 dope-merchant1921 junker1922 dope-pedlar1923 junkie1923 pedlar1929 pusher1929 dope-seller1930 dope-runner1933 connection1934 dope-smuggler1937 tea man1938 man1942 dealer1951 score1951 passer1956 candy man1965 narcotraficante1980 clocker1989 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §510/3 Narcotic trafficker,..hop merchant..,man,..peddler. 1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie ix. 87 When I first hit New Orleans, the main pusher—or ‘the Man’, as they say there—was a character called Yellow. 1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie Gloss. 14 ‘The Man’, junk seller. ‘The Man’ is a New Orleans expression, and can also refer to a Narcotics Agent. 1967 L. Reed in Between Thought & Expression (1993) 4 I'm waiting for my man Twenty-six dollars in my hand Up to Lexington 1-2-5 Feeling sick and dirty more dead than alive. 1973 Black World Nov. 92/2 Their writing mainly concerns the street life—the pimp, the junky, the forces of drug addiction, exploitation at the hands of ‘the man’. 1995 Independent 27 Apr. 22/7 I burnt my finger on a roach while I was waiting for the man to come across with my skunk. e. U.S. slang (chiefly among African Americans). A man who is highly respected or accomplished, esp. in a particular field. Also in you're the man (usually in form you da man), used to express commendation or approval. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > admiration > [noun] > admired person wonder-man1883 bonzer1897 man1952 badman1954 motherfucker1958 motor scooter1960 1952 G. Mandel Flee Angry Strangers 33 I'm diggin a lot of Armstrong, 'cause he's the man. 1981 Time 12 Oct. 10 I got a pair of $600 lizard shoes and I got silk shirts. I'm the Man, boy. I changes my clothes 15 times a day. 1999 Boston Globe 24 Sept. c5 Wild, wild applause. Teenagers are screaming and everyone is yelling, ‘You da man!’ 19. Modified by a number or quantifier, forming a phrase used attributively or as an adjective, as four-man, eight-man, etc.: comprising the number of people specified; suitable for or requiring the number of people specified. See also multiman adj., one-man adj., three-man adj., and two-man adj. at two adj., n., and adv. Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > rower or oarsman > crew of 4- or 8-oared boat > one of eight-man1600 seven1870 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 229 If I do, fillip me with a three man beetle. View more context for this quotation 1842 Congress. Globe 27th Congress 2 Sess. App. 812/3 Those whose clamors are so unceasing against what they are pleased to call the ‘one-man power’. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 47 A Faroese ‘Eight-man boat’, fully equipped for the grind or chase of the..Bottle-nose Whale. 1902 Daily Chron. 16 July 9/1 A couple of four-man teams. 1966 Melody Maker 7 May 4 Pollwinner Tubby Hayes heads a five-man British contingent. 1990 Pilot Oct. 44/1 The emergency equipment consisted of a five-man dinghy, [etc.]. 20. With possessive. a. my man n. (also your man, etc.) the person who can fulfil one's requirements; the person whom one is seeking out or pursuing. See also sense 7a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > that which is suitable or appropriate > the appropriate person man1535 old who1594 my man1611 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings xx. 20 And they slew euery one his man [Hebrews ‘a man his man’] . View more context for this quotation 1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 23 If Hector be to fight with any Greeke, He knows his Man. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 19 A horse has various methods of getting rid of his man. 1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 53 For gallygaskins Slowshears is your man; But coats must claim another artisan. 1830 Chron. in Ann. Reg. (1831) 165/1 He..did not fire for some seconds, until he had fairly covered his man. 1837 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 144 ‘Nine pund’ says he, ‘and I'm your man’. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. i. 5 And who don't agree, let him choose his weapons, and I'm his man. 1864 M. Lemon Loved at Last II. 228 Mr. Rasper entered the room... Cecil knew his man,—he merely bowed to him. 1887 R. Buchanan Heir of Linne i Oil my voice, and I'm your man. 1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories 73 Whoever you are if it's war you want, I'm your man. b. Originally among African Americans. my man n. a male person regarded with great respect or admiration; a person's very close male friend. Frequently as a form of address (sometimes without connotation of close friendship, as a merely familiar form of address between two males (cf. my adj. 2a)). See main man n. at main adj.² Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1945 L. Armstrong & F. Robbins in Jazz Record Dec. 8/2 Fred: He was your idol, huh?... Louis: Yeah, he was my man. 1952 E. Brown Trespass iii. 30 Crazy? My man, you know who you talking to? 1973 E. K. Ellington Music is my Mistress 251 ‘Francis, you know Al Hibbler.’ ‘Why, that's my man.’ 1987 J. Estes Field of Innocence 129 Jackson, my man! What it is! What it is! 1997 Village Voice (N.Y.) 18 Mar. 42/3 ‘Yo, somebody just got wet,’ announced my man Sean as we pulled away in a swift 180. c. our man in —— n. one's representative or envoy in a specified place.Sometimes with allusion to Graham Greene's novel Our Man in Havana (1958). ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > representative > one's representative in a specified place our man in ——1958 1958 ‘A. Bridge’ Portuguese Escape iii. 44 One of the real stars is pro-West, and arranged with our man in Hungary to bring him along. 1963 L. Deighton Horse under Water vi. 33 ‘Welcome to Gibraltar,’ said Joe MacIntosh, our man in Iberia. 1990 S. Morgan Homeboy iii. 29 They're raiding you tomorrow night. Luckily our man in Muni Court informed me. 21. man jack n. the average or common person (cf. Jack n.² 2a); also †man John, †man Jonathan. Chiefly in every man jack n. (also †every Jack man) every single person. any man jack n. any person at all. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > each and every one thing each oneOE everya1250 still and boldc1300 all and somea1350 all and somea1350 one and all (also all and one)a1400 all and sundry1428 all the sort of1535 every or each several?a1562 first and last1582 each and singular1668 all and singular1669 every man jack1807 1807 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1947) VIII. 601 May I never weigh anchor again—If I don't upset every Man-Jack of you. 1818 G. Daniel Doctor Bolus i. 5 O 'twill be Dickey with ev'ry man Jack of us! 1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) II. xxiii. 33 Every man Jonathan of them sets off again full gallop. 1838 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 141 I knocked down 16 geese and sacked ‘every man John’ of them. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxix. 163 ‘You don't mean to say their old wearers are all dead?’.. ‘Every one of 'em... Every man Jack!’ 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. vi. vi. 214 My missus says that not a man John of them is to be seen. 1849 Blackwood's Mag. 697 At length the men were all embarked—the sick, the wounded, every man John of them. 1891 Eng. Illustr. Mag. No. 88. 306 Bail up, throw up your hands now, or I'll shoot every man jack of you. 1970 S. Selvon Plains of Caroni v. 77 But nowadays manjack and his brother brushed shoulders with the whites. 1995 E. Toman Dancing in Limbo iii. 76 Before any man jack of you is let loose you will know this job inside out. 22. [Compare French le nommé in legal use.] Prefixed to a name (as the man ——, or, usually with hostile or contemptuous emphasis, that man ——): the man known by or bearing the name specified; the man previously referred to by the name specified. ΚΠ 1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. iv. 109 Know'st thou not..that I have followed the man Cromwell as close as the bulldog follows his master. 1864 M. Lemon Loved at Last III. 190 If that should be the man Kiddy, do not admit him. 1922 E. von Arnim Enchanted April (1989) 247 The muddle that man Droitwich made in his department in the war was a national scandal. 1946 Negro Digest Aug. 48/1 Compared to the man Bilbo, 63-year-old John Rankin is strictly penny ante. 1977 C. Thomas Firefox (1978) p. x Our information comes principally from the man Baranovich, who has been responsible for the electronics. 23. the man in the street: see street n. and adj. Phrases 5; hence in extended use, as the man in the (also a) parlour (pub, bus, etc.). the man on the Clapham omnibus: see Clapham n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people Jackc1390 fellowa1400 commonerc1400 populara1525 plebeianc1550 ungentle1562 Tom Tiler1582 roturier1586 vulgarity1646 little man1707 pleb1795 man of the people1799 the man in the street1831 snob1831 man1860 oickman1925 1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Wks. (1906) II. 321 What pious men in the parlour will vote for what reprobates at the polls! a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 393 He has, au fond, the man-in-a-pub's moral mistrust of art. 1958 Listener 4 Dec. 920/2 Take, for instance, the terms in which the ordinary man-in-the-bus expresses his agreement with somebody else's opinion. 1990 R. Bly Iron John vii. 198 The contemporary man in the Kmart or the church basement or the lawyer's office has no Iron John from whom he can receive a four-legged horse. VI. Extended uses. 24. One of the pieces used in certain board games, esp. in chess, draughts, and backgammon. Also figurative. Cf. chessmen n., tableman n., and meinie n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > [noun] > piece manc1460 tableman1480 piece1562 counter1600 game piece1880 onesie1888 tile1923 gamesman1931 meeple2000 c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1821 (MED) Comyth nere! Ye shul se..How he shall be matid with what man me list. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) xxi. 71 The first man, þat goth afore, hath not but oo poynt, but whenne he goth aside, he takith anoþer... The secund, scil. alphyn, renneth iij. poyntes both vpward and douneward. 1562 tr. Damiano da Odemira Pleasaunt Playe of Cheasts sig. Aij As if thei had the cheste-bourde and men in their handes. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Dame,..a man at Tables, or Draughts. 1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 55 Like a skilful Chest-player, by little and little he draws out his men. 1735 J. Bertin Noble Game of Chess p. vi Never croud your game by too many men in one place. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vi. 121 On asking for a back-gammon-board, having one brought in—in ruins the men half lost, and the dice quite. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iv. 27 The huffing of Miss Bella and the loss of three of her men at a swoop. 1907 S. S. Blackburne Terms & Themes Chess Probl. 87 Sacrificing, offering a White man to be captured. If a man or men already en prise be left so, this may be called a ‘passive sacrifice’. 1960 H. Lee To kill Mockingbird (1963) ii. xv. 149 Bam, bam, bam, and the checker-board was swept clean of my men. 1992 Economist 3 Oct. 50/3 Mr Kravchuk, who prides himself on his chess-playing prowess, did not give up his man easily. 25. With modifying word: a ship, esp. a sailing ship. See also East Indiaman n., Indiaman n., man-of-war n. 2a, merchantman n. 2. Now rare (historical). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] shipc725 beamOE boardOE bargea1300 steera1300 vessela1300 treea1382 loomc1400 man1473 ark1477 bottom1490 keela1547 riverboat1565 craft1578 pine1592 class1596 flood-bickerer1599 pitchboard1599 stern-bearer1599 wooden horse1599 wooden isle1603 water treader?1615 water house1616 watercraft1618 machine1637 prore1642 lightman1666 embarkation1690 bark1756 prowa1771 Mudian1813 bastiment1823 hooker1823 nymph1876 M.F.V.1948 1473 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 588 A fewe Frenshemen be whyrlyng on the coostys so þat ther dare no fyshers go owght. 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 125 The Christopher being the headmost & the weathermost man, went roome with the Admirall. 1665 Oxf. Gaz. No. 3/4 They chased a Barbadoes and a Jamaica man into Limrick. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tant,..Mast of a Ship or Man. 1778 H. Walpole Last Jrnls. (1859) II. 284 The Brest fleet was sailed, twenty-eight men-of-the-line. 1788 J. May Jrnl. 7 May (1873) (modernized text) 33 In order to put them on board the Kentucky-man. 1889 Daily News 21 Oct. 6/5 The vessel..proved to be a Frenchman. 26. An image or portrait of a man; something bearing a resemblance to a human figure. man of straw, straw man: see straw n.¹ 2e, Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > three-dimensional representation > [noun] > model of a human woman1509 manikin1535 malkinc1565 man1600 kirn-baby1777 maid1794 knack1813 snowman1827 moggie1896 1600 in J. Arnold Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (1988) 275/2 Item one rounde gowne of heare colored raized mosseworke enbrodered allover with leaves pomegranets and men. a1635 ‘T. Randolph’ in Ann. Dubrensia (1636) sig. C3 They looke like yonder man of wood that stands To bound the limits of the Parish lands. 1811 L. Aikin Juvenile Corr. 86 We have all been joining to build up a man of snow in our garden. 1906 E. V. Lucas Wanderer in London 170 One of the old weather-cottages, with a little man and a little woman to swing in and out and foretell rain and shine. 1994 R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures viii. 142 A ‘foosball’ game, one of those table games where you knock a ball back and forth by rotating levers with little men attached to them. 27. In Cumbria: a cairn marking a summit or prominent point of a mountain (now chiefly in local names for particular mountain or rock features, as Low Man, High Man). More generally: a prominent mass of rock forming part of a mountain. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > boundary mark > stone > pyramid of stones cairn1770 man1800 the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > crag > [noun] stonec825 knara1250 scar13.. craga1375 nipc1400 knag1552 knee1590 jag1831 man1897 1800 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads II. 163 And there they built up without mortar or lime A Man on the peak of the crag. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe iii. 163 A stone man or cairn. 1897 O. G. Jones Rock-climbing 68 They reached the Low Man, as the nearly horizontal crest of the first huge buttress is called. 1897 O. G. Jones Rock-climbing 243 Then to the right comes the actual Pillar Rock, the ‘High Man’. 1897 O. G. Jones Rock-climbing 243 The Low Man, the immense buttress that from below hides the true summit altogether. 1964 D. K. Findlay Northern Affair 98 Over the elephant rocks and under the lee of the stone man. †28. colloquial. The obverse of a coin (used in the context of tossing a coin). Cf. woman n. 12. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > obverse or reverse of coin pilea1393 cross and pile1584 reverse1605 averse1655 ranverse1656 obverse1658 heads1675 tail1684 endorse1688 woman1785 mazard1802 man1828 mick1918 1828 ‘J. Bee’ Living Picture London 241 The person calling for ‘man’ or ‘woman’. 1858 Househ. Words 4 Dec. 1/2 Up goes the dollar... ‘Heads or tails? Man or woman?’ 29. coarse slang. the (little) man in the boat: the clitoris. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > clitoris clitoris1615 clitty1873 the little man in the boat1896 button1898 clit1958 1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 278/1 The little man in the boat (venery), the clitoris. 1959 Encounter 12 May 21 [Prostitute speaking] The man in the boat's my mascot. As a matter of fact it's every woman's mascot. 1975 F. Exley Pages from Cold Island vi. 88 Up in the cowshed..we'd known forever about..the ‘man in the boat’ and that a man bent on giving a woman pleasure must approach this cute little bugger with a certain worldly..enthusiasm. 1984 W. J. Caunitz One Police Plaza 96 Please observe the glans clitoris resembles a man standing in a boat. Hence..the nickname, the man in the boat. 30. U.S. slang. [Shortened < iron man n. 6a.] A dollar. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a dollar skin1834 rock1837 buck1856 scad1856 simoleon1881 plunk1885 clam1886 slug1887 bone1889 plunker1890 ace1900 sinker1900 Oxford1902 caser1907 iron man1907 man1910 berry1918 fish1920 smacker1920 Oxford scholar1937 loonie1987 1910 T. A. Dorgan in N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 3 May 18/2 Ah—here's the salary with three extra men for that night I worked. 1921 H. C. Witwer Leather Pushers vii. 174 I'll go to the cleaners for sixty thousand men if Kid Roberts don't dash home in front. 1967 P. Thomas Down these Mean Streets xii. 106 Here's half a man. Phrases Man enters into an almost unlimited number of phraseological collocations in which it is connected by a preposition with another noun, usually denoting quality, character, occupation, or profession. For man of business, man of the cloth, man of clouts, man of colour, man of fashion, man of figure, man of (his) hands, man of the house, man of mark, man of means, man of the moment, man of motley, man of numbers, man of parts, man of quality, man of religion, man of service, man of sin, man of sorrows, man of straw, man in the street, man about town, man of the town, man of wax, man of the wood(s), man of one's word, man of few or many words, man of worship, see the second nouns. See also ladies' man n. at lady n. Compounds 3b; world's man at world n. 4a; man of law n., man of the world n., etc. P1. With man. a. † man of after-wits n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. bbb3 The People of this Countrey were..said to be also the Inventors of Augury... And yet for the most part men of after-wits. b. † man of antipathies n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1838 Ann. Reg. 1837 i. Hist. Europe 412/1 William the 4th was not a man of antipathies. c. † man of chaff n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > coward(s) coward?a1289 hen-hearta1450 staniel?a1500 pigeon?1571 cow1581 quake-breech1584 cow-baby1594 custard1598 chicken heart1602 nidget1605 hen?1613 faintling1614 white-liver1614 chickena1616 quake-buttocka1627 skitterbrooka1652 dunghill1761 cow-heart1768 shy-cock1768 fugie1777 slag1788 man of chaff1799 fainter1826 possum1833 cowardy, cowardy, custard1836 sheep1840 white feather1857 funk1859 funkstick1860 lily-liver1860 faint-heart1870 willy boy1895 blert1905 squib1908 fraid cat (also fraidy cat)c1910–23 manso1912 feartie1923 yellowbelly1927 chicken liver1930 boneless wonder1931 scaredy-cat1933 sook1933 pantywaist1935 punk1939 ringtail1941 chickenshit1945 candy-ass1953 pansy-ass1963 unbrave1981 bottler1994 1799 W. Wordsworth Poet's Epit. 14 Or art thou one of gallant pride, A Soldier and no man of chaff? d. man of character n. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Incog, for Incognito, a Man of Character or Quality concealed or in disguise. 1991 N. Sands Palace Centurions (BNC) 59 A man of character, he was always able to give one-hundred per cent effort. e. † man of charge n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 9 All great Captaines, Chieftaines, and men of charge. f. † man of dignity n. Obsolete ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 165 Destroyede..senatoures, consuls, pretories, and edelynes, men of dignyte. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 27170 (MED) Þou agh to min Quat man he es..Man of office or dignite. g. man of distinction n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male gallant1388 wamfler15.. rutter1506 younkera1522 fine gentleman1575 cavalier1589 whisker1595 jinglespur1604 bravery1616 brisk1621 chevalier1630 man about town1647 man of mode1676 man of distinction1699 sprag1707 sparky1756 blood1763 swell1786 Corinthian1819 galliard1828 mondain1833 toff1851 flâneur1854 Johnny1883 silver-tail1898 knut1911 lounge lizard1918 old buster1919 Hooray Henry1959 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 40 It is..much more pleasing to see..a dead Friend, or Relation, or..a Man of Distinction, Painted as he was. 1954 ‘P. Quentin’ Wife of Ronald Sheldon xix. 167 He'd never been so innocent, so the man of distinction. 1971 D. Lees Rainbow Conspiracy vii. 111 He had a nervous apprehensive look that contrasted strangely with his man-of-distinction appearance. h. man of feeling n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] > sensitive person sensitive plant1665 man of feeling1771 sensitive1807 soul1814 sensitivist1839 tender-heart1904 1771 H. Mackenzie (title) The Man of Feeling. 1991 H. Blamires Hist. Lit. Crit. (BNC) 237 There is a curious air of modernity about his willingness to theorise directly from self, as poet and man of feeling. i. † man of glee n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1799 W. Wordsworth Fountain 20 The dear old Man,..The grey-haired man of glee. j. † man of healing n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1847 G. P. R. James Convict II. 195 As soon as the man of healing was gone,..he sprang up in his bed, hurried on his clothes [etc.]. k. man of honour n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > honourableness > [noun] > point of honour > man concerned with honour man of honoura1470 a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 578 He hath wonne wyth his hondys thirty knyghtes that were men of grete honoure. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 99. ¶10 If every one that fought a Duel were to stand in the Pillory it would quickly lessen the Number of these imaginary Men of Honour. 1993 Economist 7 Aug. 32/3 Neither Gladstone nor Disraeli could have survived as men of honour in the age of tabloidism. l. man of mould n. ΚΠ 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiii. 241 ‘Rouse up thy soul to say what thou wilt do for thy liberty.’ ‘What a man of mould may,’ answered Athelstane, ‘providing it be what a man of manhood ought.’ 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. i. 26 Though one at least of his contributors, W. Hunnis, was a man of mould. m. † man of nothing to do n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 252 Like a Man of nothing to do. n. † man of office n. Obsolete ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 27170 (MED) Þou agh to min Quat man he es..Man of office or dignite. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xiii. 274 ‘You must remove nothing here,’ said the man of office, ‘or you will be liable for all consequences.’ 1856 C. Reade It is never too Late II. v. 103 His heart broke..its tapen bonds, and the man of office came quickly to the man of God. o. man of peace n. ΚΠ 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cxx. 7 I am for peace. [Margin] Or, a man of peace. 1993 N.Y. Times 13 Apr. a21/3 The Dalai Lama is coming to Washington at the end of April. It is time to send a different message to this man of peace. p. † man of practice n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. v. 214 This..almost stupid Man of Practice, pitted against some light adroit Man of Theory. q. † man of preferment n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1698 Money Masters all Things 131 The ugly and crippled were the only Men of Preferment. r. man of property n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > man of property livelihood mana1450 livinga1450 man of livinga1556 man of property1765 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. ii. 115 The commons consist of all such men of property in the kingdom as have no seat in the house of lords. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. iv. 18 If the intermediate tenant is..a man of property, the same argument is applicable to his reletting to another intermediate man. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. iii. 52 You misled me by the term gentleman. I thought you were speaking of some man of property . View more context for this quotation 1919 J. Galsworthy Let. 25 Nov. in H. V. Marrot Life & Lett. J. Galsworthy (1935) iv. i. 485 I have just finished a sequel to The Man of Property, and, in accordance with the scheme I broached to you..have still one story and a third novel in further sequel to write, to make the whole of The Forsyte Saga. 1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 103 Now I was a man of property, the joint owner of a large house in North Oxford. s. man of rank n. ΚΠ 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. s.v Honour The title of a man of rank. 1993 W. James Other Side of Heaven (BNC) 138 Even slaves were part of an organised meritocracy, and birth alone was insufficient to assure any man of rank or position. t. man of sense n. ΚΠ a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) i. 33 One would think, that a man of sense should grutch to lend his ears..to such putid stuff. 1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn I. xiv. 111 But Mr. Ratler is a man of sense, Lady Laura, and is not to be despised. 1993 P. Marshall Amer. Princess (BNC) And how could Dr Neil, who was such a man of sense, tolerate such a…nodcock? u. man of talents n. (also man of talent) ΚΠ 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. II. 259 The duke of Buckingham, a man of talents and power. c1807 H. C. Robinson Let. 7 June in Diary (1869) I. xi. 236 A man of talent, but a political despairer, an ex-jacobin. 1978 J. Ramsden Age of Balfour & Baldwin (BNC) 65 Long was supported by the bulk of the English county members but by few of the party's men of talent. v. man of theory n. ΚΠ 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. v. 214 This..almost stupid Man of Practice, pitted against some light adroit Man of Theory. 1950 E. H. Carr Bolshevik Revol. I. ii. 38 The Mensheviks..were primarily men of theory; in Bolshevik terminology they were raisonneurs. w. † man of title n. Obsolete ΚΠ a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. ii. 46 A sin your man of title Is seldom guiltie of. 1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Of Happy Life i. 3 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) The Man of Title, as well as the Clouted Shooe. x. † man of weight n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1747 Frauds & Abuses Coal-Dealers (ed. 3) 5 In all popular Assemblies, it has been found necessary to place some Man of Weight and Dignity in the Chair. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 153 If any man of weight..would..explain the state of things. y. man of wisdom n. ΚΠ 1611 Bible (King James) Micah vi. 9 The Lords voice cryeth vnto the citie, and the man of wisedome shall see thy Name. View more context for this quotation 1988 B. Stewart Charlemagne (BNC) 41 He summoned scholars and men of wisdom from all over the known world. z. man of years n. ΚΠ 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 46 The Man of Wisdom is the Man of Years. 1903 Daily Chron. 16 Apr. 5/1 Every second young man, and every third man of years, was wearing a cap. P2. a. man about the house n. humorous a husband or male companion who carries out domestic duties, household repairs, etc., for a woman. ΚΠ 1961 J. Dawson Ha-ha iii. 59 ‘A blockage’, and how she wished there were a man about the house. 1973–6 (title of UK television series) A man about the house. 1975 D. Bloodworth Clients of Omega xvii. 157 I don't want a man about the house... A woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman could be just the thing. 1992 Face Oct. 48 Eric (‘the man about the house who keeps the place vibesy’). b. man for all seasons n. see season n. 13c; so in (sometimes humorous) ad hoc phrases modelled on this. ΚΠ 1973 Listener 29 Nov. 745/1 He [sc. John Kennedy] was a man for all seasons, a man for all people. 1975 Times 3 May 14/2 As many-sided as a diamond, Mr Trinder has proved himself a man for all occasions. 1983 N.Y. Times 16 Mar. 132/1 ‘I will be the Commissioner for good times for people, plants and animals,’ Mr. Stein said, ‘I will be a man for all species.’ 1990 Newsweek 12 Mar. 89/1 He became ‘a man for all times’, a rare example of the strengths—and limits—of moral statecraft. c. man from Mars n. a hypothetical observer of human behaviour and society whose perspective would be entirely detached and objective; (attributive) designating such a detached perspective or attitude. ΚΠ 1948 V. Massey On being Canadian i. 11 If ‘the man from Mars’..could see us, what would he think of our future as a community? 1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) i. 1 A completely man-from-Mars attitude toward any language. 1975 Business Week 22 Dec. 56/1 Two years ago, the proverbial man from Mars might have sniffed the stench of Watergate and predicted that the U.S. would undergo a period of almost puritanical political reform. 1989 Atlantic Aug. 23/1 Ely took a man-from-Mars look at Japanese trading practices. 1994 Guardian 29 Oct. 26/1 Does anybody, incidentally, think that the world is a poorer place because the unsubstantiated allegations against Mr Smith were substantiated? A man from Mars, innocently reading HMG statements over the last couple of days, might be forgiven for concluding otherwise. d. man from the ministry n. see ministry n. 5d. e. man in black n. †(a) a clergyman (obsolete); (b) (see men in black n. at Phrases 3a). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] God's maneOE priestOE clerkc1050 secularc1290 vicary1303 minister1340 divinec1380 man of Godc1384 kirkmana1400 man of the churchc1400 cockc1405 Ecclesiastc1405 spiritual1441 ministrator1450 abbé1530 reverend1547 churchman1549 tippet-captain?1550 tippet knight1551 tippet man1551 public minister1564 reading minister1572 clergyman1577 clerk1577 padre1584 minstrel1586 spiritual1600 cleric1623 cassock1628 Levite1640 gownsman1641 teaching elder1642 ecclesiastic1651 religionist1651 crape1682 crape-gown-man1682 man in black1692 soul driver1699 secularist1716 autem jet1737 liturge1737 officiant1740 snub-devil1785 soul doctor1785 officiator1801 umfundisi1825 crape-man1826 clerical1837 God-man1842 Pfarrer1844 liturgist1848 white-choker1851 rook1859 shovel hat1859 sky pilot1865 ecclesiastical1883 joss-pidgin-man1886 josser1887 sin-shiftera1912 sin-buster1931 parch1944 1692 Gentleman's Jrnl. May 5 The Man in black makes but one of two in less than half an Hour. f. man in motion n. see motion n. Phrases 3c. g. man in possession Law = possession man n. at possession n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt > trustee or receiver trustee1708 receiver1768 receiptor1819 possession man1851 man in possession1876 1876 Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 3/5 Mr. James Albery has constructed an original three-act comic drama called ‘The man in possession’. 1897 Daily News 10 Dec. 3/2 (heading) The ‘Man in Possession’. h. † man-in-the-cars n. U.S. Obsolete rare an ordinary or typical person (= the man in the street at street n. and adj. Phrases 5). ΚΠ 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxvi. 7 That representative of public opinion whom Americans call ‘the man in the cars’. i. man-in-the-loop n. Engineering a human operator who directly controls some variable element in a closed-loop feedback control system; (frequently attributive) designating a closed-loop system in which a human response forms part of the control loop. ΚΠ 1962 H. C. Ratz & G. H. M. Thomas in IRE Trans. on Human Factors in Electronics II. iii. 36/1 Studies have been made of the performance of the human operator as an element in feedback control systems. The transfer function of his motor response is important to the stability of systems in which he is an integral part of the control loop.] 1965 B. T. Bachofer in Jrnl. Spacecraft & Rockets 2 1003/2 (title) Man-in-the-loop space station navigational and control simulation. 1976 Jrnl. Sound & Vibration 43 727 (title) The influence of vibration and control gain of the performance of man-in-the-loop continuous control systems. 1991 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst. June 24/2 The ability of the man-in-the-loop to take advantage of opportunities such as these will continue to be unequalled for the forseeable [sic] future. j. † man in the oak n. Obsolete a spirit or ghost supposed to inhabit an oak tree. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > nature-spirit > inhabiting woods or trees man in the oak1584 wood-spirit1845 green man1907 tree-people1954 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft vii. xv. 153 Robin good fellowe, the spoorne, the mare, the man in the oke. a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) i. ii. 299 Dwarffes, Imps, the Spoorne, the Mare, the Man i'th Oake: the Hell-wayne, the Fire-Drake, the Puckle. k. man in the pew n. [after the man in the street at street n. and adj. Phrases 5] (a member of) a Christian church congregation, esp. as distinguished from theologians or clergy; also man (or woman) in the pew. ΚΠ 1904 J. Dawson Man in Pew 3 Never a Sabbath passes but the man in the pew is slogged by the man in the pulpit. 1977 Evening Post (Nottingham) 27 Jan. 7/2 The survey..aims to find out how the ‘man-in-the-pew’ has reacted to changes in the Church and in society over the past ten years. 1991 Managem. Today Mar. 74/1 Donations from the man or woman in the pew form the Church of England's other big source of income. l. man of action n. a man whose life is characterized by physical activity or deeds rather than by thoughts and ideas. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > one who acts or does > as opposed to theoretical man of action1598 practic1599 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xi. iii. 143 Bardanes, who being a man of action..in two daies inuaded three thousand stadia. 1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxiv. 193 Dr. John could think, and think well, but he was rather a man of action than of thought. 1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness i. iv. 103 Stanley a man of action, an energetic voluntarist who believed in making things happen. m. man-of-all-work n. (also man of all jobs) [humorously after maid-of-all-work n. at maid n.¹ 3b] a servant or employee who does all kinds of work. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > factotum both-hands1631 man Fridaya1809 factotum1824 man-of-all-work1830 bottle washer1835 bumboy1907 1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 278 Mrs. Villars's man-of-all-work, Joseph. 1896 F. J. Furnivall Eng. Conquest Ireland p. vii But illness prevented him; and so I (as the Society's man-of-all-work) had to take the book up. 1938 S. Beckett Murphy iv. 54 Neary..boarded the first train for Dublin, accompanied by his âme damnée and man-of-all work, Cooper. 1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing xx. 22 Hermann, the man of all jobs, a former member of the Party's paramilitary organisation in Saxony. n. † man of Belial n. [after post-classical Latin vir Belial (Vulgate), rendering Hebrew 'īš habbĕlīyyaʿal (e.g. 2 Samuel 16:7, 20:1)] Obsolete an evil man; a murderer. ΚΠ c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 2379 Semey [= Shimei] callid Dauid ‘man of Belial’ and ‘manquhellere’. 1822 W. Scott Monastery III. ix. 226 A scoffer, a debauched person, and, in brief, a man of Belial. o. man of blood n. [after post-classical Latin vir sanguinus (Vulgate), rendering Hebrew 'īš haddāmīm (e.g. 2 Samuel 16:7, 16:8), 'īš dāmīm (e.g. Psalm 5:7); in the King James Bible (1611) usually translated bloody man, but several marginal readings (e.g. at 2 Samuel 16:7) give man of blood] a murderer or a man responsible for someone's death; a man who uses violence. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > guilt > guilty person > [noun] > bloodshed man of bloodsa1425 man of blooda1500 society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [noun] > guilt of bloodshed > person man of blooda1500 a1500 Legend of Cross in Medium Ævum (1965) 34 219 (MED) But for that he was a man of bloode, God wold nat suffre hym to parforme his hous. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 125 The secret'st man of Blood . View more context for this quotation 1659 W. Allen Faithful Memorial Meeting of Officers of Army 1648 5 That it was our duty..to call Charles Stuart, that man of bloud, to an account, for that bloud he had shed..in these poor Nations. 1811 C. Lamb in Reflector 1 428 Eye-scaring portraits of the man of blood. 1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness ii. vi. 146 There were..the men of blood such as Carl Peters who itched for the use of force. p. † man of bloods n. [after post-classical Latin vir sanguinus (see man of blood n. at Phrases 2o)] Obsolete = man of blood n. at Phrases 2o. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > guilt > guilty person > [noun] > bloodshed man of bloodsa1425 man of blooda1500 a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) 2 Kings xvi. 7 Go out, go out, thou man of bloodis. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) v. 7 Man of blodes & swikel wlath sall lord. q. † man of cabinets n. Obsolete rare an antiquarian. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > object from the past or antique > one who is interested in antiquary1566 antiquarian1595 philarchaist1652 man of cabinets1699 antiquitarian1720 antiquist1789 palaeophilist1822 palaeologist1828 archaista1861 palaeologian1894 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 58 The Vulgar Name, by which those Men of Cabinets distinguish them is..Des Lampes. r. † man of death n. [after post-classical Latin vir mortis (Vulgate), rendering Hebrew 'īš māweṯ] Obsolete a man who deserves to be put to death. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] > worthy of hanging wickhals?a1400 crack-rope?a1500 stretch-hemp1532 man of death1535 slip-string1546 waghalter1546 hang-rope1570 rope-ripe1570 crack-halter1573 hempstring1573 wag-string1578 stretch-halter1583 gallows1598 halter-sack1598 wag-with1611 roper1615 gallows-climber1668 hang-string1675 gallows-face1725 gallows-bird1785 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal > worthy of hanging wickhals?a1400 crack-rope?a1500 widdieneck?a1500 widdiefu?a1513 thevis neka1525 stretch-hemp1532 man of death1535 slip-string1546 waghalter1546 ropeful1567 gallows-clapper1570 hang-rope1570 rope-ripe1570 crack-halter1573 hempstring1573 wag-string1578 stretch-halter1583 gallows1598 halter-sack1598 wag-with1611 crack-hempa1616 roper1615 halter-sick1617 gallows-climber1668 hang-string1675 hempy1718 gallows-face1725 gallows-bird1785 hang-gallows1785 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings ii. 26 Thou art a man of deeth. 1642 Ess. of King in Bacon's Wks. (1858) VI. 596 Not to suffer a man of death to live. s. man of destiny n. a man looked upon as an instrument of destiny; spec. Napoleon I. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > others micklea1300 personagec1485 Triton1589 Jovian1598 gallimaufry1600 lords of creation1649 man of destiny1827 mugwump1828 man of the moment1837 history-maker1848 1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon IX. Concl. 329 The great plans which the Man of Destiny had been called upon earth to perform. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 5/1 His man-of-destiny characteristics made him an interesting study to the newspaper correspondents. 1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah iv. ii. 178 Napoleon (impressively). I am the Man of Destiny. 1990 B. Turner And Policeman Smiled (1991) (BNC) 76 Here spoke the man of destiny whose singleness of purpose overrode all other considerations. t. man of God n. [after post-classical Latin homo Dei (e.g. Deuteronomy 33:1), vir Dei (e.g. Judges 13:6) (Vulgate), rendering Hebrew 'īš 'ĕlōhīm, 'īš hā'ĕlōhīm] a man devoted to the service of God, esp. a saint or an ecclesiastic. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] God's maneOE priestOE clerkc1050 secularc1290 vicary1303 minister1340 divinec1380 man of Godc1384 kirkmana1400 man of the churchc1400 cockc1405 Ecclesiastc1405 spiritual1441 ministrator1450 abbé1530 reverend1547 churchman1549 tippet-captain?1550 tippet knight1551 tippet man1551 public minister1564 reading minister1572 clergyman1577 clerk1577 padre1584 minstrel1586 spiritual1600 cleric1623 cassock1628 Levite1640 gownsman1641 teaching elder1642 ecclesiastic1651 religionist1651 crape1682 crape-gown-man1682 man in black1692 soul driver1699 secularist1716 autem jet1737 liturge1737 officiant1740 snub-devil1785 soul doctor1785 officiator1801 umfundisi1825 crape-man1826 clerical1837 God-man1842 Pfarrer1844 liturgist1848 white-choker1851 rook1859 shovel hat1859 sky pilot1865 ecclesiastical1883 joss-pidgin-man1886 josser1887 sin-shiftera1912 sin-buster1931 parch1944 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Tim. iii. 17 [16] That the man of God be perfyt, lerud to al good werk. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall v. 81 The man of God lives longer without a Tomb then any by one. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xiii. 30 The wondrous life Of the meek man of God [sc. St Francis]. 1992 M. Medved Hollywood vs. Amer. ii. iv. 57 Ultimately, the pastor's guilty secret is exposed; this mendacious man of God..fathered her illegitimate son. u. man of his hands n. [compare of (one's) hand (also hands) at hand n. Phrases 1g(a)] now archaic a man of valour, skill, or practical ability. ΚΠ 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. iii. 130 Mony thousand douchty men of handis.] ?1545 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture sig. B.iii A man of his handes with hastynesse shulde not be defyled. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 23 He is as tall a man of his hands, as any is betweene this and his head. View more context for this quotation 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. E2 He loved Sword and Buckler men, and such as our Fathers were wont to call, men of their hands. 1702 D. Jones Hist. France I. vii. iii. 269 King Edward was much astonished to find a Prince, who was not a Man of his Hands, thus to dare to denounce War against him. 1824 Port Folio Feb. 129 Your good trowler of his pottle loves to meet with men of their hands. 1886 F. Pollock Oxf. Lect. iv. 108 Learning to be a man of your hands with another weapon or two besides. 1925 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 16/1 John L. Sullivan, mighty man of his hands. 2007 H. Turtledove Beyond Gap 62 Count Hamnet here is an excellent man of his hands. v. man of Kent n. a male inhabitant of Kent in England, spec. one who lives to the east of the River Medway, as contrasted with the ‘Kentish men’ (Kentish adj.) who live to the west of the Medway. ΚΠ 1641 A. Brome Canterbury Tale sig. A4 Not for Pope Ioane, but for the man of Kent, Gay Copes, Hare Sarkes, Holy Bread, and Crosses. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. at Kent All the inhabitants of Kent east of the river, Medway, are called Men of Kent,..the rest of the inhabitants of the county are stiled Kentish-men. 1861 ‘C. Bede’ New Rector x. 104 The ‘Men of Kent’, you know, were never conquered! 1983 New Scientist (BNC) 31 Mar. Lord Bute's administration drove hitherto placid Devonians, Men of Kent and Kentish men into a frenzy by introducing a ‘cider tax’. w. man of letters n. [compare French homme de lettres] a man of learning, a scholar; a professional writer, esp. one having a variety of literary or intellectual interests. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary man scholarc1600 man of letters1645 literator1710 literarian1740 literary gent1773 literary1801 littérateur1806 1645 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 146 There were likewise the effigies of the most illustrious men of letters. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 200. ⁋2 Men of Letters know too much to make good Husbands. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xiv. 138 It was sufficient to shew me that he was a man of letters. 1811 W. Scott Misc. Prose Wks. (1870) IV. 191 Lord Minto, himself a man of letters, a poet and a native of Teviotdale. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 131 A man of letters whose life was tormented by censors of the press. 1937 D. Thomas Let. 30 Oct. (1987) 262 I've been receiving strange requests from magazines... Do you think this means, at last, that I'm a man of letters? 1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) iii. 80 Imitation taught Renaissance painters, sculptors, architects, and men of letters how to reanimate ancient models and yet also improve on them. 2009 L. McMurtry Literary Life v. 30 As I was writing this memoir word came that John Updike died—a great man of letters is gone. x. man of ransom (see ransom n. 4a). y. † man of Rome n. Obsolete the Pope. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun] popeeOE apostoilec1275 vicary1303 vicar1340 bridge maker1341 Antichristc1370 vicar generalc1386 Holy Fatherc1400 servant of the servants of Godc1405 His Holy Fatherhood?a1425 universal bishopc1475 holiness1502 harlot1535 papa1555 Apostolic seat1560 vicegerent1572 man of Rome1581 pontiff1583 bullman1588 apostolicship1599 Pontifex Maximus1610 infallibleship1613 sanctity1633 popeship1641 decretaliarch1656 blessedness1670 Holy seata1674 infallibilityship1679 pontifexa1680 holyshipc1680 unholiness1682 His Infallibility1834 Pape1927 1581 J. Walker in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iv. sig. Ziij^v He..hath..fled to the man of Rome. 1624 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 47 Bvll is an Instrument so called, graunted by the man of Rome. z. man of the church n. an ecclesiastic; = churchman n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] God's maneOE priestOE clerkc1050 secularc1290 vicary1303 minister1340 divinec1380 man of Godc1384 kirkmana1400 man of the churchc1400 cockc1405 Ecclesiastc1405 spiritual1441 ministrator1450 abbé1530 reverend1547 churchman1549 tippet-captain?1550 tippet knight1551 tippet man1551 public minister1564 reading minister1572 clergyman1577 clerk1577 padre1584 minstrel1586 spiritual1600 cleric1623 cassock1628 Levite1640 gownsman1641 teaching elder1642 ecclesiastic1651 religionist1651 crape1682 crape-gown-man1682 man in black1692 soul driver1699 secularist1716 autem jet1737 liturge1737 officiant1740 snub-devil1785 soul doctor1785 officiator1801 umfundisi1825 crape-man1826 clerical1837 God-man1842 Pfarrer1844 liturgist1848 white-choker1851 rook1859 shovel hat1859 sky pilot1865 ecclesiastical1883 joss-pidgin-man1886 josser1887 sin-shiftera1912 sin-buster1931 parch1944 c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 494 Men of þo Chirche schulden not ride on so stronge horsys. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 318/1 Man of the churche, ecclesiastique. 1991 D. Mowat New Yorkers (BNC) 41 But there was another person who was staying in the same house—the Reverend Arthur Lyle. Yes, Lynn, a man of the church! aa. man of the cloth n. see cloth n. ab. man of the earth n. U.S. the wild potato vine, Ipomoea pandurata. ΚΠ 1819 Catal. Plants N.Y. 25 Convolulus..panduratus..Man of the earth. 1847 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 442 Wild Potato. Man-of-the-earth. 1947 Dispensatory U.S.A. (ed. 24) 593/2 The I. pandurata (L.) Meyer (commonly known as the wild-potato vine, man-of-the-earth or wild potato) is a native climber with a large perennial root sometimes two or three feet in length. 1958 M. Fernald & A. Kinsey Edible Wild Plants iii. 326 The tremendous, yam-like root of Man-of-the-Earth is reported by several writers on Indian foods to be used by the Indians [etc.]. 1976 H. Bruce How to grow Wildflowers 288 Man-of-the-Earth..is a true morning glory, related closely to those of our gardens. ac. man of the house n. the male head of a household; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > head of household houselordOE husbandOE lordOE goodmanc1275 husbandmanc1330 master1536 man of the house1539 housemaster1593 major-domo1649 house head1864 old baas1882 1539 Bible (Great) Judges xix. f. xxi The men..set the house round about, and thrust at the dore, and spake to the man of the house, the olde man. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. vii. 340 The man of the house..was one of the Gend'arme of the King's own Troop. 1789 J. Gough Hist. People called Quakers II. xii. 114 There were none present in the house at that time, but the man of the house, his wife and servant maid. 1850 N.Y. Daily Tribune 1 June 1/3 Some of the young men boarding in the house offered to contribute $12 to send him to the Hospital, but the man of the house told them it would cost $25. 1905 J. A. LeRoy Philippine Life in Town & Country iii. 81 Not a purchase was made..without the final and effective intervention of the quiet mistress of the place. She was ‘the man of the house’. 2006 Sight & Sound Sept. 46/1 When their successful businessman father, Jim, is diagnosed with a terminal disease, he readies young Jack to become the man of the house. ad. † man of the long coat n. Obsolete a member of the legal profession; cf. long robe n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] lawyer1377 man of lawc1405 practiserc1450 jurist1481 lawman1535 practitioner1576 man of the long coat1579 (a gentleman) toward the law1592 gownsman1627 law-driver1640 long-robe man1654 green bag1699 flycatcher1708 homme d'affaires1717 jet1728 law-solicitor1738 shark1806 blue bag1817 law-person1819 law-gentleman1837 maître1883 lip1929 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin i. 58 Certeyne men of the longe coate, (so are called in Fraunce lawyers, doctors, and men of iustice). ae. man of the match n. a player named or regarded as the outstanding performer in a team sports match (esp. in Association Football and Cricket). ΚΠ 1924 Times 13 Oct. 5/4 Cambridge were particularly well served..by P. S. Douty, who..gave a highly finished all-round display... Altogether he was unquestionably the man of the match. 1963 Playfair Cricket Monthly Jan. 7/1 There will..be awards..on the basis of meritorious individual performances. The Gillette awards will be made to the ‘man (or men) of the match’. 1976 A. Nickolds & S. Hey ‘Foul’ Bk. Football i. 51/2 Gordon Taylor..at one stage won three consecutive ‘man of the match’ awards. 1993 Times 2 Aug. 19 (caption) Hockley..is run out for 24 by a direct throw from Chamberlain..who was later made man of the match [in the women's World Cup]. af. man of the people n. a man who comes from or identifies himself with the common people; a working-class man. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people Jackc1390 fellowa1400 commonerc1400 populara1525 plebeianc1550 ungentle1562 Tom Tiler1582 roturier1586 vulgarity1646 little man1707 pleb1795 man of the people1799 the man in the street1831 snob1831 man1860 oickman1925 1799 Hull Advertiser 2 Mar. 4/4 The Man of the People..at a rope~maker's shop. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. ii. 36 Mrs. Pryor..wondered how her daughter could be so much at ease with a ‘man of the people’... She felt as if a great gulf lay between her caste and his. 1883 H. James En Province in Atlantic Monthly Oct. 468/1 A man of the people,..extremely intelligent,..yet remaining essentially of the people. 1973 ‘P. Malloch’ Kickback vii. 47 He was a man of the people. He'd been born in the Gorbals and had left school at fourteen. ag. man of this world n. a man who is from earth rather than from heaven, a human being; one who is concerned more with his current life than the hereafter, a worldly or sinful man; cf. man of the world n. ΚΠ ?c1430 (?1383) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 309 Men of þis world dreden more þe popis leed. ?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. Fij The wyse menne of this worlde, the verye reprobates from God, all drye without the true faythe, dranke vp this fylthye water. 1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xiv. §2. 248 The men of this world, those Brutigenists, or Terrigenists..Earth-bred wormes. 1704 W. Congreve Let. 14 Oct. (1964) 32 I find you are resolved to be a man of this world, which I am sorry for, because it will deprive me of you. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote II. v. x. 45 Mrs. Rivers had furnished out a plain, but elegant, supper, and Wildgoose, being happy in the company and friendly conversation of an old acquaintance, forgot a little his usual austerity, and seemed to enjoy himself like a man of this world. 1851 Ladies' Repository 11 ii. 75/2 Death calls upon the man of this world to strip and die, and this world can take away what it gave; but the world did not give the good man his happiness—it came from God; and the world can not take it away, and death can not take it away. 1928 N.E.D. at World-man A man of this world, a human being. ah. † man with the beard n. Obsolete rare a drinking mug on which a bearded man is represented. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > other specific shapes gripe's egg1391 gripe-shell15.. Priapus1613 man with the beard1631 delphin1638 belly-cup1673 spout cup1702 leaf cup1716 image mug1788 rhyton1820 toby1841 Sussex pig1846 bell-cupa1849 biberon1853 moustache cup1863 trembleuse cup1869 steeple-cup1909 thistle cup1947 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iv. iv. 62 in Wks. II Hee has wrashled so long with the bottle, heere, that the man with the beard, hash almosht streeke vp hish heelsh. ai. man who has sex with men: see men who have sex with men n. at Phrases 3f. P3. With men. a. men in black n. U.S. dark-clothed men of unknown identity or origin, who supposedly visit those who have seen a UFO or reported an alien encounter, in order to prevent them publicizing their experience. ΚΠ 1956 G. Barker They knew too much about Flying Saucers 166 What, if anything, linked the South Pole with the three men in black and the solution to the saucer mystery? 1963 A. K. Bender Flying Saucers & Three Men xvii. 151 In November, 1953, the Bridgeport Sunday Herald printed a story about the IFSB closing and a visit from three men in black. 1986 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 1 June (Books section) 5 Young readers will feel for Scott as his life becomes disrupted and confused. However this confusion merely adds to the excitement of the story, as beings from other planets, visions of the future, and strange men in black come into play. 1998 Daily Mail (Nexis) 16 Feb. 50 CIA ‘dirty trick’ tactics included surveillance of UFO groups to make them look silly—the origin of the Men in Black legend. b. men in blue n. colloquial policemen. ΚΠ 1890 J. S. Farmer Slang I. 253/2 The police more recently have been known collectively as blues, men in blue, [etc.]. 1975 High Times Dec. 10/3 Here in Juneau, the men in blue have used illegal search and seizure, entrapment, perjury and are especially fond of falsifying evidence. c. men in suits n. somewhat derogatory (a collective term for) executive, managerial, or bureaucratic figures whose conventional formal dress is perceived as variously suggestive of conservative attitudes, a lack of individuality, or (esp. in political contexts) the anonymous exercise of power; also men in dark (also grey) suits; cf. suit n. 24c. ΚΠ 1955 S. Wilson (title) The man in the gray flannel suit.] 1978 Economist 29 July 95 Publishers have hands it is a terrible thing to fall into—or so it seems to writers, ever in battle to drive a pristine vision past men in suits muttering about costs and paper and the libellous passage in Chapter XXII. 1978 New Scientist 21 Sept. 873/2 Men in dark suits and homburg hats will be commissioning think tanks to strategize. 1983 N.Y. Times iv. 3/1 Mr. Nakasone also has proved a contrast to his predecessors, most of whom were hard-to-remember men in gray suits and moods. 1990 K. J. Yeovil Krokodil Tears 135 Manolo had always known there were men in suits behind the Surf Nazis, but he'd never carried the vendetta to them. 1990 Sunday Tel. 25 Nov. 23 Margaret Thatcher was brought down by a brief, tacit alliance of ‘men in grey suits’ and Thatcher loyalists. 1992 Daily Mirror 8 Sept. 6/1 The men in dark suits put in charge of the changes don't like their new-look health service. 1994 Francophile Mag. Autumn 54/1 The magic kingdom [sc. Euro Disneyland] is struggling to satisfy the men in grey suits, the financiers who were only too happy to pour millions of pounds into the venture, but are now getting nervous. d. men in white coats n. (a) medical or laboratory staff, esp. doctors (cf. whitecoat n. 1c); (b) psychiatrists or psychiatric workers, usually (with humorous exaggeration) referred to in order to imply a person's supposedly imbalanced or deluded state of mind. ΚΠ 1961 W. Fennell Dexter gets Point 135 I think I'd better phone the man in the white coat.] 1967 L. Andrews Hosp. Circles ii. 33 He did not wake when the usual procession of night sisters and men in white coats came in and out. 1968 D. Helwig in Sat. Night Mar. 37/3 They're going to put you in jail, do you know that? Or they're going to send the men in white coats for you. 1992 A. McConnell Quantum Leap v. 76 Around the perimeter of the next room men in white coats moved back and forth, exchanging worried comments. 1994 Guardian 21 Nov. i. 20/5 Sir Richard Body..the target of a famous Major aside about men in white coats, and a man with little to lose. e. † men of foot n. Obsolete foot soldiers, infantry; cf. sense foot n. 4b, footman n. 1. ΚΠ c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 2812 (MED) Þo be-gan þe slauȝter on ouþer side Of men of fote & of hem þat ride. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 6969 (MED) Þe kyng þen bitaughtym four þousand Of men of armes wel seruand, & þre þousand men of fote. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 245 Men of armes, and .ix. thousand Archers, besyde men of foote. 1634 Hist. Present Warres Germany iii. 46 In all 1500 men of foot. 1638 Invasions of Germanie §27. sig. C6 The Imperiall Generall Tilly..slew, and tooke prisoners some 4000. men of Foot. f. men who have sex with men n. men (including those who do not identify themselves as homosexual, bisexual, etc.) who engage in sexual activity with other men; also occasionally in singular, as man who has sex with men; abbreviated MSM (see MSM n. at M n. Initialisms 1).Typically used in public health contexts to avoid excluding men who identify themselves as heterosexual. ΚΠ 1988 N.Y. Amsterdam News 30 Apr. 44 (advt.) The NYC Department of Health is requesting..applicants..who have the ability to communicate with the following populations: men who have sex with men [etc.] 1990 Sexual Behaviour & Risks HIV Infection: Proc. Internat. Workshop 98 Most men who have sex with men do not identify themselves as homo- or bisexuals. 1999 Out Apr. (advt.) 157 Participants will receive HIV testing and counseling. Requirements: A man who has sex with men [etc.] 2008 N.Y. Mag. 16 June 58/2 HIV infection is once again on the rise among young men—specifically, MSMs, as they're now known in the public-health jargon, for men who have sex with men. Compounds C1. a. General attributive and appositive.In plural, frequently with men-. † man-angel n. Obsolete ΚΠ a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo xi, in Wks. (1721) III. 315 A new extemporaneous Race Of those Man-Angels peopled the whole place. man-beast n. ΚΠ 1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice iv. sig. H2^v Some strangely-shap'd man-beast. 1648 Hunting of Fox 38 That Man-beast, the Major of London. 1991 D. Kingsbury in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars IV xiv. 109 The man-beasts he had seen were very badly organized into slavehood. † man cattle n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1814 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 346 His holiness made his entrance yesterday, drawn by men cattle. man-devil n. ΚΠ c1600 Timon (1980) i. iv. 15 His nam'es Philargurus a man-devill. 1616 T. Dekker Villanies Lanthorne & Candle-light (new ed.) xiii. sig. K^v This Homo-Damon (Man-Diuell) when hee is once Anthropophagized, and longs for humane flesh, no furie is so cruell. 2003 home.earthlink.net 23 July (O.E.D. Archive) Do you lose money on your job, because the unconverted man-devils hate seeing Jesus in you? man-dinner n. ΚΠ 1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village V. 88 An odious man-dinner at the Clarendon. man-dog n. ΚΠ 1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 May 304/2 The Man-dog came from Russia, and was for a long time exhibited in Paris. 1887 G. Meredith Ballads & Poems 19 The man-dog for his mistress thinks, Not less her faithful dog. † man-excellence n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. iv. 120 In such a Frame, as is indeed wonderfully commodious to support that Man-Excellence of Thought and Reason. man-eye n. ΚΠ 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August i. 23 She traverses the ranked battery of maneyes and enters the store. man-famine n. ΚΠ 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxvi. 94 I..found a husband before the present man-famine began. man fiend n. ΚΠ 1639 J. Ford Ladies Triall iii. sig. E4^v There is no valour In tugging with a man fiend. 1888 News of World 7 Oct. 1/5 The man fiend cautiously arose, not without marks of the deed about him, and wended his way to Aldgate. man-flesh n. ΚΠ 1652 H. L'Estrange Americans No Iewes 47 Their bodies brake out into foul ulces, and thence is called the Neopolitan disease, and Sandys conceives that man-flesh eating breeds it the more among the Americans. 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 17 Crib having been known to be the best bit of manflesh nature ever cast in her mould. 1923 R. Graves Whipperginny 25 And frozen music dulls their need Of drink and man-flesh greed. man-fly n. ΚΠ 1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village V. 81 The sedan-chair—a much more dignified conveyance..than any of the race of flies, whether horse-fly or man-fly. man-life n. ΚΠ 1918 D. H. Lawrence New Poems 43 The man-life north-imprisoned, shut in the hum of the purpled steel. man-mark n. ΚΠ 1888 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 105 Squadroned masks and manmarks treadmire toil there. 1974 D. Stuart Prince of my Country i. 5 Silent old man with the manmarks on his chest, deepset eyes, strong jaw white with a few weeks of beard, fine hands, and no words. man-miracle n. ΚΠ 1646 M. Lluelyn (title) Men-miracles. With other poemes. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 34 Sure of the blade that served the great man-miracle [sc. Napoleon]. man-monster n. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. ii. 12 My man-Monster hath drown'd his tongue in sacke. View more context for this quotation c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 125 Thair cam to Abirdene ane Italian man monster. 1991 Football Action '91 40/3 Leading the charge is man-monster Steve Emtman, a 6–4, 285 pounder junior tackle. man-nature n. ΚΠ 1895 How to get Married 107 Her knowledge of man-nature. 1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Feb. 135/1 So with the garden, it is a metaphor, where an ideal of man-nature is represented. † man-plague n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1617 W. Drummond Forth Feasting sig. B^v Which haue no Law to their ambitious Will, But (Man-plagues) borne are humane Blood to spill. † man satyr n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1778 J. Woodforde Diary 8 Dec. (1924) I. 240 The two Priests and myself went to the Castle Hill in the afternoon to see the Man Satire which was nothing more than a large Monkey. I gave there 0. 0. 6. It did not answer our Expectations at all. 1780 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 196/2 A large fierce animal which Mr. Atkins affirmed to be a centaur..it proved to be a Man satyr. man seed n. ΚΠ 1934 D. Thomas in Criterion Oct. 27 The growing bones, the rumour of manseed Within the hallowed gland. 1978 A. K. Armah Healers iii. i. 85 At least four times she welcomed manseed in her womb and gave it space to grow into new life. man-service n. ΚΠ 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxiv. 552 Every male between the ages of seventeen and sixty-five in Jersey,..is bound to render man-service to the crown. man-sex n. ΚΠ c1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 82 Breathing bloom of a chastity in mansex fine. man-shape n. chiefly poetic ΚΠ 1877 W. Morris Sigurd Volsung ii. 104 But Loki took his man-shape, and laughed aloud and cried. 1911 F. F. Ayer Bell & Wing 881 To crowd out of him, next to nil, His man-shape of magic will. 1992 C. Wilkins Wolf's Eye 33 Across the bay lay the Sleeping Giant... Neil had been six before he could recognize the man-shape in the rock. man-smell n. ΚΠ 1905 J. London White Fang iii. i. 124 Then he smelled the strange fabric, saturated with the man-smell. 1989 S. Tapscott Another Body ii. 23 Unused to the December air and the strange hands and the mansmell I carried. man-soul n. ΚΠ a1450 Desert of Relig. (BL Add.) 477 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1911) 126 66 Þar is nathyng man-saule may greve, Bot if þis tre graunt þaim leve. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 4 For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that builded Mansoul, that the Walls could never be broken down. View more context for this quotation 1845 J. H. Carleton Prairie Logbks. 30 May (1983) 201 The reasoning Essense [sic] of the Man-soul—I like that phrase: there's marrow and fatness in it—the Man-soul—the Intellect without death. 1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty iv. 1391 From this dilemma..Man-soul made glad escape in the worship of Christ. † man-sphinx n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel vii. 442 Large colossi and very long men-sphinxes. b. Appositive, passing into adj.: ‘male’. Occasionally with names of animals. See also man-child n., manservant n., man-midwife n.In plural, frequently with men. † man actor adv. Obsolete ΚΠ 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. v. vi. 215 Men-Actors in womens attire, are not..so bad..as women Stage-players. 1786 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 225 To the play I went... The men actors at this period do not shine in London. † man-bairn n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 8 The manbarnes following of him sall be heyires. man Cingalese n. ΚΠ 1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 141 We had a dispute which were men Cingalese and which women. man-cook n. ΚΠ 1662 S. Pepys Diary 26 Mar. (1970) III. 53 We had a man-cook to dress dinner to-day, and sent for Jane to help us. 1734 G. Berkeley Let. to Prior 30 Apr. in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley (1871) vi. 227 A man-cook would be a great convenience to us. 1897 Private Life of Queen iv. 33 The army of white-capped and aproned men-cooks. man dancer n. ΚΠ 1746 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 147 The principal man-dancer. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 517 What's our studfee?... You fee men dancers on the Riviera, I read. † man-fellow n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 233 Do you, Beck, help Pamela to 'tend us; we will have no Men-fellows. † man-fighter n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Joel iii. 9 Alle Men-fiȝters [a1425 L.V. men werriours; L. viri bellatores], cum to and stey up. man friend n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > male lover servantc1405 specialc1425 servitorc1450 love-lad1586 young man1589 inamorato1592 swainc1592 gentleman friend1667 enamorado1677 spark1707 beau?1720 Johnny1726 man friend1736 feller1842 novio1843 soupirant1849 fella1874 man1874 fellow1878 square-pusher1890 stud1895 papa1896 lover mana1905 boyfriend1906 daddy1912 lover-boy1925 sheikh1925 sweetback1929 sweet man1942 older man1951 boyf1990 1736 Ld. Hervey Mem. (1952) 182 The King's letter to the Queen about this affair was an extraordinary one, asking her, as he would have done a man-friend, what she thought of all this business. 1893 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Apr. 39/1 There is no impropriety in a man friend writing to you without having asked your permission. 1994 Amer. Spectator Mar. 48/2 Snooping neighbors noticed that she entertained men friends. † man lover n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/2 Man lover, amant. † man mackerel n. [see mackerel n.²] Obsolete rare ΚΠ a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) i. i. 4 The man makare [l] and marchant off madens-ffleshe. man-nurse n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > other types man-nurse1530 probationer nurse1584 parish nurse1716 day nurse1759 school nurse1836 Gamp1846 hospital nurse1848 pupil nurse1861 male nurse1874 district nurse1883 relief nurse1884 casualty nurse1885 bayman1888 maid nurse1895 charge-nurse1896 ward nurse1899 health visitor1901 practice nurse1912 community nurse1922 scrub nurse1927 theatre nurse1934 para-nurse1942 nurse practitioner1967 rehab nurse1977 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 242/2 Man nourse, novrricier. 1885 W. D. Howells Indian Summer (1886) xxi. 358 One of these was the man-nurse, who had evidently taken care of him throughout. man-peasant n. ΚΠ 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 172 Men-peasants from jungle villages dancing and running with sweat and laughing. † man-practitioner n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1752 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. 55 The lives of many women and children were saved by the skill of the man-practitioner. † man-saint n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ a1698 F. Sheppard Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. Misc. Wks. (1704) 217 Both among the Men-Saints and Women-Saints. † man-scold n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. H3^v (stage direct.) Enter women and man-scold. man seal n. ΚΠ 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 59 And when the first September gales have slaked their rutting-wrath, The great man-seal haul back to the sea. 1901 Munsey's Mag. (U.S.) 25 355/2 Frequently a man seal will swim out to a lady seal [etc.]. † man singer n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1611 Bible (King James) Eccles. ii. 8 Men singers and women singers. View more context for this quotation man-witch n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > sorcerer or magician > [noun] wielerOE jugglera1100 wielea1350 magicianc1375 sorcerc1400 warlockc1400 mage?a1425 sorcerer1526 witch-mana1538 wizarda1557 wise man1562 cunning man1594 man-witch1601 wonder-master1603 sorcerist1624 talisman1646 ob1659 fascinator1677 varlet1701 Magian1716 brujo1758 mediciner1845 bomoh1851 pellar1865 trollman1865 baloi1871 magic-man1905 Wiccan1971 1601 tr. Strange Rep. Sixe Notorious Witches B ii The other fiue men-Witches, had also sixe stripes apeece. a1622 H. Ainsworth Annotat. Five Bks. Moses, Bk. Psalmes & Song of Songs (1627) 88 He speaketh of the woman,..but implieth also the man-witch, or sorcerer. 1886 E. Marshall Tower on Cliff v. 68 If ever there was a man-witch, it's Sir Thomas Cooke. c. Objective. Cf. Compounds 4b. (a) † man-container n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. i. 185 This Mansion-Globe, this Man-Container. man-destroyer n. ΚΠ 1647 Foure Deliberate Queries 6 It issueth from the old Serpent the Dragon, the man-destroyer, the old lyer, the deluder of the world. 1824 J. Symmons tr. Æschylus Agamemnon 137 Nor turn thy wrath 'gainst Helen, that she was a man-destroyer. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. viii. 135 The Man-destroyer [sc. Mars]. † man-fisher n. Obsolete rare ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun] > one who evangelizes fisherc1000 man-fisherc1300 vangelista1330 evangelizer1382 evangelyc1384 evangelist1535 men-fishera1557 seminary1583 evangel1593 Philip1613 evangelica1617 evangelizationer1825 c1300 St. Andrew (Harl.) 6 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S.-Eng. Legendary (1956) 543 ‘Come,’ he seide, ‘after me & ich wole ȝou make Manfischers’. man-maker n. ΚΠ a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cclxviii, in Poems (1878) III. 204 In his want Pittied, perhaps by Maiestie, who now Was a Man-Maker. 1994 T. C. Boyle Without Hero (1995) 9 In the evening, it's the big stuff, the man-maker, old Simba himself. † man-marrer n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow i. 82 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 284 And a man merrour An evill wyffis mirrour. man-moulder n. ΚΠ 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists i. ii. 22 How the dangerous Man-moulder wou'd proceed; and what wou'd be the Event of his Tampering. 1943 C. S. Lewis Abolition of Man iii. 30 The man-moulders of the new age will be armed with the powers of an omnicompetent state. † man-murderer n. Obsolete ΚΠ ?a1425 (?c1350) Northern Passion (Rawl.) 1380 (MED) Þai had in presone ane Barabas þat man mortherer and traytur was. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 169 (MED) The Iues..Sauyd baraban, the thefe and a man murderere. † man-murther n. Obsolete ΚΠ OE Poenitentiale Theodori & Capitula d'Acheriana (Laud) in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws & Instit. of Eng. (1840) II. 154 Þa wif þe doð awegaworpenessa heora bearna..syn hy geteald to manmyrðrum. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 23112 (MED) Þe first raw..sal be of wrecchis..man mirþeres & theuis fals. man-picker n. ΚΠ 1939 W. B. Yeats Last Poems 17 Man-picker Niamh leant and sighed By Oisin on the grass. † man-planter n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1713 Guardian No. 155 8 Sept. 2/1 She conversed with her Husband, or Man-planter, in broad Day-light. man-pleaser n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer papelard1340 placeboc1395 fawnerc1440 pickthank1460 adulator?a1475 earwigc1475 curry-favel1515 men-pleaser1526 gnatho1533 upcreeperc1540 claw-back1549 curry-favourer1563 man-pleaser1564 claw-poll1569 please-man1570 sycophant1575 curry-favour1577 capper1587 insinuator1598 clawera1603 scrape-shoe1607 suck-fist1611 courtiera1616 foot lickera1616 fleerera1627 wriggler1631 fawn1635 limberham1689 toad-eater1742 tuft-hunter1755 arse-kisser1766 sleeve-creeper1809 lick-spit1822 lickspittle1825 shoe-licker1826 toady1826 toad1831 toader1842 bootlicker1846 bootlick1849 favour-currier1855 lubricator1872 bum-sucker1877 handshaker1884 suck1900 mbongo1911 sucker-up1911 apple-polisher1918 snurge1933 ass-licker1939 brown-nose1939 brown-noser1942 arse-licker1951 ass-kisser1951 greaser1959 suck-hole1966 suck-up1970 bumboy1984 fly- 1564 Briefe Exam. sig. ***^v This is very sore judgement, to condemne all your brethren for manpleasers. 1644 W. Walwyn Compassionate Samaritane* 50 A Synod..who have so lately most notoriously discovered themselves to be men-pleasers and temporisers. 1728 J. Swift Short View State Ireland 15 A Man-pleaser at the Expence of all Honour, Conscience and Truth. 1992 New Musical Express (BNC) 12 Sept. 33 Sack Kylie—she is but a cipher, a simpering, unthreatening man-pleaser. man-stealer n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > kidnapper or abductor > [noun] man-thiefeOE men-stealer1526 man-stealer1582 spirit1611 plagiary1613 spiriter1665 kidnapper1678 silver-cooper1796 abductor1809 body snatcher1852 shanghaier1917 snatcher1932 1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Tim. i. 10 To man-stealers, to liers, to periured persons. 1993 J. Neil Waters of Eden (BNC) To hear you talk, anyone would think I was some kind of wanton, a man-stealer. man-subduer n. ΚΠ 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. 272 Woman, as the man-subduer. man-tamer n. ΚΠ 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table (1883) 198 If the Houyhnhnms..send a man-tamer to Rareyfy me. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 504 Master! Mistress! Mantamer! † man-thief n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > kidnapper or abductor > [noun] man-thiefeOE men-stealer1526 man-stealer1582 spirit1611 plagiary1613 spiriter1665 kidnapper1678 silver-cooper1796 abductor1809 body snatcher1852 shanghaier1917 snatcher1932 eOE Laws of Ælfred (Corpus Cambr. 173) ix. §2. 54 Manig witu maran ðonne oþru; nu sint eal gelic buton manðeofe: cxx scill. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Filching-cove, a Man-thief. 1863 E. Dicey Six Months in Federal States II. 254 This nation..has for two generations been the accomplice of man-thieves. man-tracker n. ΚΠ 1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) i. 32 Nip and Tuck go back to Georgia..with a big reputation as man-trackers. man-trapper n. ΚΠ 1815 Zeluca III. 167 I hope I shall not be marked out as a man-trapper for my friend as well as myself. 1906 G. Ade In Pastures New (1907) 271 Cleopatra, the man trapper. (b) man-abhorring adj. ΚΠ 1846 C. G. Prowett tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound 33 The bands Of man-abhorring Amazons. man-baiting n. ΚΠ 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 135 To see this man-baiting, all people of all kindes flock'd together. 2003 web.ukonline.co.uk 23 July (O.E.D. Archive) ‘Perfect Plan 9T6’ is a creepy Hazel O'Connor-ish (honest!) new-wave bit of man-baiting. man-carrying adj. ΚΠ 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xx. 486 The whole population took to flight, and tried to hide themselves from the man-carrying-pig, as they christened the horse. 1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 142/1 Cody became actively interested in kite flying, and patented a man-carrying kite system in 1901. man-catching n. ΚΠ 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 23 Aug. 2/1 This was a way of Man-catching which our Friend Hick ne'r thought on. 1814 T. Carlyle Let. 1 July in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) I. 17 Gentry..who after educating their daughters, bring them into the mighty field of Man-catching. man-compelling adj. ΚΠ 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxix. 137 A harassing mistrust of her man-compelling power. man-degrading adj. ΚΠ 1788 W. Cowper Negro's Compl. 46 Our sufferings, since ye brought us To the man-degrading mart. 1958 E. Fuller Man in Mod. Fiction Pref. p. xvii The canon of critical values which elevates the man-degrading books to claims of literary-artistic eminence. man-destroying adj. ΚΠ 1647 A. Wilbee Secunda Pars 14 O how long shall these Harpeys, these House Tyrants, these Men-destroying Gaolers, be suffered thus to transgresse the Lawes of the Land. 1743 R. Blair Grave 13 Th' oppressive, sturdy, Man-destroying Villains! 1955 S. Spender Coll. Poems 1928–53 194 Man-made man-destroying ills. man-devouring n. and adj. ΚΠ 1650 T. Thorowgood Iewes in Amer. 17 ᾺνΘρωποϕαγία Americanorum, the Man-devouring that is in America. 1653 Ad Populum sig. A2 That Man-devouring Lunsford were he put Under an Arme of theirs, would only strut Like a young Mandrake. 1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton i. 15 A mighty man-devouring ogre. 1990 ‘A. Cross’ Players come Again (1992) x. 210 You will be seen as an unfeminine, man-devouring, balls-crushing, lesbian, strident, shrill women's libber. man-fearing n. ΚΠ 1881 T. E. Bridgett Hist. Holy Eucharist II. 297 Free from man-fearing and man-pleasing. man-lifting adj. ΚΠ 1846 Pract. Mechanic June 235/1 The man-lifting engine erected at United Mines, Gwennap..for lowering and raising the miners. 1992 R. Moulton & P. Lloyd Kites (BNC) 143 Flexifoils have a wide repertoire, from individual and team ballet performances to sprint flying through a speed trap, man-lifting power-kiting, [etc.]. man-loving adj. ΚΠ 1895 W. James in Internat. Jrnl. Ethics Oct. 8 The old warm notion of a man-loving Deity. 1989 E. K. Sedgwick in S. Atlantic Q. 88 59 Gender-separatist models would thus place the woman-loving woman and the man-loving man each at the ‘natural’ defining center of their own gender. † man-maiming n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1809 Sporting Mag. 33 63 The royal and martial games of cock-fighting, bull-baiting, and man-maiming. man-making adj. and n. ΚΠ 1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd iii. sig. H2^v Gold, gold, man-making gold. View more context for this quotation 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 25 Some say that Man-making was no treason. 1902 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 30 All the man-making pastimes of Eton boys. 1972 D. Stuart Ilbarana 10 We were few in the Land, only the strongest survived, but always I looked forward to my manmaking. † man-mimicking adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus xiv. 46 in A. Pope Wks. II The glaring Cat-a-mountain..and the Man-mimicking Manteger. † man-pleasing n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] fawninga1350 adulationc1400 papelardya1425 papelardrya1500 captation1523 clawing1548 insinuation1553 curry-favour1581 man-pleasing1588 courting1607 men-pleasing1615 supparasitation1620 sycophantizing1640 assiduity1641 ingratiating1642 licking1648 man-pleasance1656 sycophancy1657 fawnery1661 sycophantrya1677 nutting1789 tuft-hunting1789 cultivation1793 huggery1804 ingratiation1815 sycophantism1821 lickspittling1839 toadyship1839 toadyism1840 bootlicking1849 toadying1863 arse-licking1912 lickspittle1914 apple-polishing1926 pot-licking1929 brown-nosing1934 ass-kissing1936 arse-kissing1937 ass-licking1946 sucking-up1946 bum-sucking1949 love bomb1975 love-bombing1976 1588 G. Withers View Marginal Notes Popish Test. 221 God grant that you at length may cast away your desire of contending, and man pleasing, and seeke the truth in sinceritie. 1646 J. Caryl Present Duty 16 The servants of Christ know very well that the concernements are of man-pleasing. 1671 R. Baxter Difference between Power of Magistrates & Church-pastors i. 16 No man-pleasing, no worldly honour to invite them. † man-selling adj. and n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1853 C. Dickens in Househ. Words 31 Dec. 409/1 Murderous, man-selling despots. 1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxxvii. 110 This is what you call your Crown; it can shake hands with man-selling. man-stealing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > [noun] rape1436 abreption1550 man-stealing1577 plagium1577 raptc1614 abduction1632 man-stealth1663 plagiary1673 kidnapping1682 enlevement1769 plagiat1809 body-snatching1840 kidnappery1890 snatching1931 shanghaiing1985 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. vii. sig. Kk.ii/2 The offence called Plagium, y^t is to saye, manstealing. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 42 What more ungodly sacriledge or manstealing can there be then to purloyn from godly Ministers the first born of their fervent prayers and faithfull preachings. 1907 N.E.D. at Plagium Kidnapping, man-stealing. 1993 Spy (N.Y.) Aug. 14/1 Paramount's major spin job was transforming Sharon Stone's image from..man-stealing slut to mere garden-variety home wrecker. man-stopping adj. ΚΠ 1898 G. W. Steevens With Kitchener to Khartum xxxiii. 285 The officer assailed put a man-stopping revolver bullet into him, but it did not stop him. 1973 Guardian 17 Mar. 13/2 Both guns increase the ‘man-stopping’ effectiveness of police marksmen. man-supporting adj. ΚΠ 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvi. 343 It had a bad look, this man-supporting August ice. man-tracking adj. ΚΠ 1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) i. 17 They is man-tracking bloodhounds from Georgia. (c) (i) † man-idolatry n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. ii. iii. iv Nor forc'd conceit, nor man-idolatry. † man-pleasance n. Obsolete rare ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] fawninga1350 adulationc1400 papelardya1425 papelardrya1500 captation1523 clawing1548 insinuation1553 curry-favour1581 man-pleasing1588 courting1607 men-pleasing1615 supparasitation1620 sycophantizing1640 assiduity1641 ingratiating1642 licking1648 man-pleasance1656 sycophancy1657 fawnery1661 sycophantrya1677 nutting1789 tuft-hunting1789 cultivation1793 huggery1804 ingratiation1815 sycophantism1821 lickspittling1839 toadyship1839 toadyism1840 bootlicking1849 toadying1863 arse-licking1912 lickspittle1914 apple-polishing1926 pot-licking1929 brown-nosing1934 ass-kissing1936 arse-kissing1937 ass-licking1946 sucking-up1946 bum-sucking1949 love bomb1975 love-bombing1976 1656 J. Trapp Comm. Gal. i. 10 Dastardliness and man-pleasance. † man-stealth n. Obsolete rare ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > [noun] rape1436 abreption1550 man-stealing1577 plagium1577 raptc1614 abduction1632 man-stealth1663 plagiary1673 kidnapping1682 enlevement1769 plagiat1809 body-snatching1840 kidnappery1890 snatching1931 shanghaiing1985 1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. Ccc3^v Are you not affraid he should accuse you of Man-stealth, and summon you before the Areopagus? (ii) man-shy adj. ΚΠ 1803 S. T. Coleridge Let. 13 Mar. (1956) II. 939 I am quite menschenscheu, as the Germans say—i.e. man-shy. 1931 F. D. Davison (title) Man-shy. 1955 V. Palmer Let Birds Fly 103 Birds that had never become man-shy. d. Instrumental. See also man-made adj. and n. man-caused adj. ΚΠ 1916 O. Lodge Raymond Revised iii. vii. 323 The very fact that we lament so sincerely this dire and man-caused fate. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. a4/3 Other fires were raging..in Wyoming, including one believed to be man-caused. 1992 S. S. Hall Mapping Next Millenium (1993) v. 114 Scientists invoke an incriminating word to describe this jump: anthropogenic, or ‘man-caused’. man-created adj. ΚΠ 1850 J. G. Saxe Poems 113 Mitres and thrones are man-created things. man-devised adj. ΚΠ 1574 tr. Life 70. Archbishopp Canterbury To Rdr. sig. Fij^v This Church off Englande allowinge no mandeuised order off regular ministerie. 1960 R. W. Marks Dymaxion World Buckminster Fuller 40/1 Fuller became alert to the fact that there was a regularity of patterning linking the behavior of man-devised structures, such as bridges, buildings, frames, trusses, [etc.]. man-enslaved adj. ΚΠ 1876 Bulwer-Lytton's Pausanias (ed. 2) i. ii. 51 In the city one is the god-born, the other the man-enslaved. man-filled adj. ΚΠ 1909 E. Pound Personae 30 A bustling man-filled place. man-girdled adj. ΚΠ 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 115 Almost our maids were better at their homes, Than thus man-girdled here. man-gripped adj. ΚΠ 1921 D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia vi. 215 How old the real Italy is, how man-gripped, and how withered. man-managed adj. ΚΠ 1909 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 14 756 Man-managed industry, though it is an improvement on warfare, is still destructive of life. 1915 H. Keller in N.Y. Call 17 Oct. ii. 5/3 The man-managed State so conducts its schools that the ideals of women are warped to hideous shapes. 1958 New Biol. 26 33 In man-managed grasslands, cohabitation of at least two..species [of buttercup] is the general rule. 1977 J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants xvi. 496 The time is ripe for bringing the..techniques of plant pathology from its traditional area of concern with crops and man-managed vegetation to the exploration of natural vegetation. man-measured adj. ΚΠ 1943 D. Gascoyne Poems 1937–42 v. 60 In the pure ray shed by the loss Of all man-measured value. man-named adj. ΚΠ 1850 E. B. Browning Poet's Vow (new ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 262 Stars—revealed to man, And man-named. man-propelled adj. ΚΠ 1937 Sunday Times 10 Jan. 27/5 All man-propelled or horse-drawn traffic would automatically be relegated to the service roads. 1963 ‘Han Suyin’ Four Faces 54 A samlo, the three-wheeled vehicle, man-propelled, in use in Cambodia. man-taught adj. ΚΠ 1884 J. Tait Mind in Matter 206 St. Paul obtained his knowledge either from the field notes of St. Matthew, or from his Greek gospel, which had been recently published. By not considering himself man-taught he evinced his faith in the inspiration of that gospel. e. Parasynthetic, similative, originative, or predicative. (a) man-bodied adj. ΚΠ 1880 S. Lanier Sunrise 19 Sweet burly-bark'd, man-bodied Tree. man-born adj. ΚΠ 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 219 All theosophic lore Of man-born, or angelic mind. † man-breasted adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 238 And strong man-breasted things stood from the sea. man-centred adj. ΚΠ 1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music ii. 54 A proud, man-centred existence, in which the emphasis was on personal happiness. 1990 H. P. Chapman Rembrandt's Self-portraits 4 A fundamental shift away from a God-centered world-view and toward a man-centered one took hold in the Renaissance. man-faced adj. ΚΠ 1877 G. MacDonald Marquis of Lossie II. x. 116 There's mair poetry in auld man-faced Miss Horn nor in a dizzen like them. 1989 R. Waterfield tr. Empedocles in Before Eureka vii. 80 Creatures were often born with faces and chests on both sides; man-faced bulls rose up. man-grown adj. now Irish English (northern) ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [adjective] > adult man manly1579 virile1603 man-growna1641 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvii. 320 Not being a babe or a yoong childe, but being come to yeeres of discretion and a mangrowen.] a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 168 His owne sonnes now man-growne. 1888 Western Galaxy Mar. 115/1 I remember well that the innocent toad did not live in Mona's Isle until I was man grown, nor then until imported from Scotland. 1907 J. London Road vii. 173 A gay-cat is a new-comer on The Road who is man-grown, or, at least, youth-grown. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 216/1 Man-big,..of a boy man-grown, grown up. man-headed adj. ΚΠ 1855 J. Gott Let. 20 Feb. (1918) 81 Rows of sphinxes man-headed and god-headed. 1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats v. 98 The hero of this poem..is a man sailing through faerie seas haunted by man-headed birds. man-high adj. ΚΠ 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 164 Part of the Battlement being Breast high..the other part Man-high, to secure Men from the shot of their enemies. 1837 H. W. Longfellow Frithiof's Homestead 4 Man-high was waving the rye-field. 1993 J. Pournelle & S. M. Stirling Prince of Sparta 56 Smooth man-high shapes, with nothing on the exterior but a console, screen and the ingress and egress ports. † man-minded adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1823 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (2000) V. 293 The Greyhound compared with the man-minded Pudel. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak xiii, in Poems (new ed.) II. 67 When his [sc. King Henry VIII's] man-minded offset rose To chase the deer at five. man-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1801 S. T. Coleridge Let. 31 Oct. (1956) II. 772 Old Symes—i.e. a Man-shaped animal capable of ‘a deep malignant Rage’. 1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xvii. 196 The man-shaped silhouette used on rifle ranges. man-smelling adj. ΚΠ 1914 Harper's Weekly 16 May 20/1 A summer-stifled, man-smelling city street. man-stale adj. ΚΠ 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August ii. 44 The house unpainted, small..mansmelling, manstale. man-tall adj. ΚΠ 1938 S. Spender Trial of Judge i. 15 Electric advertisements In city squares—those man-tall golden letters. 1990 Village Voice (N.Y.) 11 Sept. 33/1 Countryside waist-high in tangled green, marked with..man-tall, cipherous anthills. † man-turned adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses i. 6 In a throne, he plac'd The man-turnd Goddesse. man-visaged adj. ΚΠ 1920 R. Graves Country Sentiment 39 Sing then of ringstraked manticor, Man-visaged tiger. (b) man-fashion adv. ΚΠ 1874 Congress. Rec. 1 Apr. 2682/2 [If Senator Morton] is entirely confident that his opinions are sound, why so timid?.. Why not walk up to this man-fashion? 1912 T. Dreiser Financier xxiv. 290 He was counting practically, and man-fashion, on her love for her children. C2. a. man-ape n. now chiefly historical a primate with both human and ape-like characteristics; esp. a fossil hominid of the genus Australopithecus; cf. apeman n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) babiona1529 jackanapes1528 Johnanapes1633 man-monkey1651 ape1699 pygmy1699 Simia1719 great ape1771 anthropoid1861 pithecoid1874 man-ape1878 pongid1949 pithecine1962 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 44 The myriads of years which have elapsed since the man-apes began to stand upright. 1925 Nature 7 Feb. 195 (title) Australopithecus africanus: the man-ape of South Africa. 1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins ix. 135/2 Dart and a colleague, Dr. Robert Broorn, continued their work on the South African ‘man-apes’. 1991 P. Matthiessen Afr. Silences i. 49 In fact, agrogwe—which the Africans regard as a small man-ape—have been reported from many forest regions all across tropical Africa. man bag n. a man's handbag or shoulder bag, esp. one of a style more usually carried by women. ΚΠ 1968 Newark (Ohio) Advocate & Amer. Tribune 24 Apr. 10/1 (caption) The manbag is a natural progression in the men's wear revolution that started a short time ago with turtlenecks. 1996 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 2 Aug. 32 s A third guy who wasn't carrying a man bag. But he was wearing open-toed sandals with socks. 2004 Independent 18 Nov. (Review section) 15/1 Last weekend, one Sunday supplement was full of the damn things—men, in case you didn't know—and they were all carrying man bags. † man-bane n. [after the names of poisonous plants such as henbane: see bane n.¹ 2b] depreciative Obsolete tobacco. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] petun1568 tobacco1588 Indian herbc1600 weed1600 Indian weed1602 man-bane1614 smokec1616 fogusc1625 Indian drug1630 sot-weed1698 noxious weed1773 baccy1792 backer1823 bacca1824 tobaccy1835 nicotia1868 nicotina1876 snout1885 Magaliesberg1895 tickler1904 burn1964 1614 J. Taylor Nipping of Abuses sig. D1 A foule contagious, stinking Manbane weede. ?1617 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 102 Th' Heat and Drought of th' Herb American Being intensiue (fitter call'd Man-Bane). man-bites-dog adj. [see quot. 1918] originally and chiefly U.S. (of a news story or event) arousing interest because of its bizarre or unexpected nature. ΚΠ 1918 F. M. O'Brien Story of Sun x. 241 John Bogart, a city editor of the Sun..once said to a young reporter: ‘When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.’ 1933 Time 8 May 52/3 Man Bites Dog..is an inferior newspaper play.] 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 22 Sept. 12/1 He was expelled, so the news accounts say, from a UAW local in 1938. Since then, he claims, the company has transferred, fired, rehired and refired him... That may seem to some to have a distinct man-bites-dog flavor. 1974 S. Marcus Minding Store iv. 74 We provoked a tremendous amount of talk... We had created a ‘man bites dog’ story overnight. 1987 New Eng. Monthly June 10/2 To any one who..heeded..the defense case.., any other result would have been man-bites-dog. man-body n. chiefly Scottish and Irish English a man, a male person. ΚΠ 1825 A. Crawford Tales of my Grandmother II. 254 Is it because we have no manbody to take our part, that he should dare to act such an unmanly part? 1882 Lett. ‘Norah’ x. 52 Here's the crature of a widow from the mountain with four small children, and no man body to help her with the place. 1903 S. Macmanus Red Poocher i. 18 I was tempted to slip aff over to me mother's country to help her..for she was..without a manbody nixt or near her wee place. 1929 Scots Mag. May 148 Here wis some man buddy comin' speirin' efter some o' them. 1933 J. Gray Lowrie 55 As he opened his kot..didna I noteece at ‘he’ wis waerin a green flooered slug, an' wisna a man body ava. 1996 M. Flaws & G. Lamb Orkney Dict. at Man-buddie I don't think thir's a man-buddy aboot the hoose at aal. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 216/1 Man-body, a man. man boobs n. colloquial = man breasts n. ΚΠ 1991 soc.motss (Usenet Newsgroup) 3 Jan. (title of posting) Like man boobs eh? 1999 Vancouver Sun 30 Apr. a15/4 He proceeded to clasp one of my ‘man boobs’..and encourage the others in his group to come over and ‘cop a feel’. 2006 Teen Now Spring 11/2 My body could be a bit thinner. I'm not keen on my belly or my man-boobs. † man-bound adj. Nautical Obsolete rare unable to leave port because of a shortage of crew. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 466/1 Man-bound, detained in port in consequence of being short of complement. man-boy n. a youth; an immature man. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun] frumberdlingc1000 young manOE childc1225 hind1297 pagec1300 youtha1325 fawnc1369 swainc1386 stripling1398 boy1440 springaldc1450 jovencel1490 younkera1522 speara1529 gorrel1530 lad1535 hobbledehoy1540 cockerel1547 waga1556 spring1559 loonc1560 hensure1568 youngster1577 imp1578 pigsney1581 cocklinga1586 demy1589 muchacho1591 shaver1592 snipper-snappera1593 callant1597 spaught1598 stubble boy1598 ghillie1603 codling1612 cuba1616 skippera1616 man-boy1637 sprig1646 callow1651 halflang1660 stubbed boy1683 gossoon1684 gilpie1718 stirraha1722 young lion1792 halfling1794 pubescent1795 young man1810 sixteener1824 señorito1843 tad1845 boysie1846 shaveling1854 ephebe1880 boychick1921 lightie1946 young blood1967 studmuffin1986 1637 T. Brian Pisse-prophet iv. 28 His Hubber de hoy which is his man-boy, or halfe a man and halfe a boy. 1768 W. Donaldson Life Sir Bartholomew Sapskull II. 213 I had dealings with men-boys. 1992 T. Pow In Palace of Serpents (BNC) 49 A thick mop of black hair over a man-boy's smooth olive complexion. man breasts n. colloquial unusually prominent breasts on a man (likened to those of a woman), typically consisting of pectoral fat but sometimes caused by hormonal factors. ΚΠ 1993 Re: Tuan & Breasts: Flame-war in alt.sex-stories.d (Usenet newsgroup) 22 July You are nothing but an imposter, a disgusting worm tweaking the tiny nipples of your man breasts. 1997 Face June 204/2 My stomach is too big. I appear to be growing man-breasts. 2006 Express (Nexis) 22 July 12 Our summer dress sense is appalling... Horrendous man breasts and beer guts decorate every pavement. † man-broker n. Obsolete rare an agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc.; = crimp n.² 3. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 466 Man-broker, synonymous with crimp. man-car n. U.S. Mining a type of elevator car used in certain mines (see quot. 1890). ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Man-car, a kind of car used for transporting miners up and down the steeply inclined shafts of some mines on Lake Superior. 1960 Man. Climax Molybdenum Co. 48 Man-train, mantrip, man-cars, specially built cars to carry men to and from mine workings. † man-case n. Obsolete a body.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 93 He had an handsome man-case. † man-catch v. Obsolete rare (transitive) to trap (a man). ΚΠ 1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist Introd. sig. B Bespatter them, Trepan them, Teague them, Taffee them, and Man-catch them. man-catcher n. (a) a person who catches or traps men; (b) North American slang, an employment agent or agency; spec. one enlisting vagrants to work on ships, etc.; cf. crimp n.² 3; (c) an instrument used for catching men (esp. in New Guinea; see quot. 1898). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > others artificera1553 man-catcher1649 stormer1655 sallier1685 pressmana1694 camp colour-man1753 sharpshooter1802 train soldier1833 escalader1849 adviser1854 outflanker1854 observer1870 spiker1884 mopper-up1917 slushy1919 wire-cutter1922 televisionary1925 flash-spotter1930 spotter1931 parashooter1940 parashot1940 bunker buster1944 sound-ranger1978 yomper1982 technical1992 1649 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 46. sig. Mmm2v The honest House of Commons bestow daily Wages out of other mens Purses, on these men-catchers that (besides Whoreing and Tippling) betray those upright Consciences that cannot by cry out against their Treasons. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. App. 63/1 Captain..fell into the Hands of these desperate [Indian] Man-Catchers. 1851 Rep. Sel. Comm. Passengers' Act 409 in Parl. Papers XIX. 451 Everything seems as if it were done on purpose to favour the runners and man-catchers; the people are actually driven from the ship with sticks into the hands of those people. 1898 Dublin Rev. July 170 Another instrument of capture is the ‘man-catcher’, a flexible rattan fastened at one end in a loop, into which a sharp spike protrudes. As it is slipped over the foe, a sudden jerk is given to it, which causes the latter to impale the base of the skull. 1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route x. 112 In good times, when jobs are plenty,..the man catchers and labor sharks are out on the streets pulling them in. 1972 T. Coleman Passage to Amer. v. 67 Runners, otherwise called crimps, touts, and man-catchers. 1989 Dragon Nov. 19/2 Man catchers are clumsy to carry, so are used only when a specific criminal is sought. † man-catching n. Obsolete rare the action or practice of trapping men. ΚΠ 1681 E. Hickeringill (title) The Horrid Sin of Man-catching: a Sermon on Jer. v. 25, 26. man cave n. colloquial a room or other space (typically a shed or garage) used by a man to pursue his own hobbies and recreational activities.Usually with the connotation of escaping or excluding the rest of his family. ΚΠ 1992 Toronto Star 21 Mar. e1/5 With his cave of solitude secured against wife intrusion by cold floors, musty smells and a few strategic cobwebs, he will stay down there for hours nestled in very manly magazines and open boxes of tools. Let's call the basement, man cave. 1998 Video Card Advice in alt.games.jedi-knight (Usenet newsgroup) 7 Aug. I should have my new computer next weekend, and I plan to enter my ‘man-cave’ for about 72 hours straight to try all my games on the new system. 2016 Northern Echo 9 Sept. He is already planning a redevelopment of the ‘man cave’ in his home that houses all his framed medals as well as a full-size pool table and big-screen TV. man coverage n. U.S. Sport = man defence n. ΚΠ 1979 Washington Post 18 Nov. d1/4 We blitzed and tried man coverage and they still beat us. 1993 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. viii. 1/4 When you're running down the sideline in man coverage against an All-Pro receiver like Michael Irvin and the safeties are up and there is no one in the middle, there isn't much team play in that. † man-crab n. Irish English Obsolete a swimming crab whose carapace has markings roughly resembling a human face. ΚΠ 1750 C. Smith Antient & Present State Cork I. ii. i. 139 A species of crabs, called man-crabs, from the resemblance of a human face on the back of them. 1772 J. Rutty Ess. Nat. Hist. Dublin I. 375 Cancer latipes Rondeletti, a small shell-fish about the bigness of a wall-nut, which has something like the delineation of a human face upon it, whence it has been sometimes called the Man-Crab. man-crazy adj. = man-mad adj. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > for men man-wood1579 man-keen1683 man-mad1904 man-crazy1923 nympho1935 man-hungry1951 man-starved1961 1923 G. Atherton Black Oxen xlii. 262 The young women would say, in their nasty slang, that I was probably man-crazy. 1996 E. Danticat Krik? Krak! 11 He called me selfish, and he asked if I hadn't seen or heard what was happening to man-crazy whores like me. man crush n. colloquial an intense liking or admiration felt by one man for another (in a non-romantic or non-sexual context); (also) a man who is the object of such feelings; cf. girl crush n. at girl n. Compounds 5. ΚΠ 1998 BG in alt.music.judas-priest (Usenet newsgroup) 20 Sept. I'm getting a serious man crush on you. 2004 M. St. Amant Committed (2005) xxiv. 189 Some of the..guys have developed unholy man-crushes on their players. 2011 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 16 Aug. 69 He never swears in front of women and his man crush is Johnny Depp. † man-dealer n. Obsolete rare a slave-dealer. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in slaves knave-seller1552 mango1602 Guinea merchant1719 slave-merchant1746 Guinea-man1756 Guinea trader1756 soul driver1774 Negro-dealer1799 slave-trader1813 nigger jockey1838 Negro-hunter1839 slaver1842 fleshmonger1845 man-dealer1860 blackbirder1876 1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxxvii. 110 The Transatlantic man-dealer. man defence n. [shortened < man-to-man defence: see man to man adj. 3] U.S. Sport a defensive strategy in a team ball game in which each player is responsible for marking one member of the opposing side. ΚΠ 1979 Washington Post 16 Feb. c5/2 We'll use both zone and ‘man’ defense. Duke is not a one-man team. You have to stop them all. 1991 Inside Sports Aug. 70/3 In just two years Fuller has restored the familiar swagger to Texas' man defense, bolstered the pass rush, and returned the secondary to its old glory. † man-dream n. [ < man n.¹ + dream n.¹] Obsolete human joy; loud mirth. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [noun] dreamOE man-dreamOE gleea1200 galec1200 bauderyc1386 oliprancec1390 cheera1393 gaynessc1400 disportc1405 joyousitiea1450 festivitya1500 lakea1500 gaiety1573 merriment1574 jucundity1575 galliardise?1577 jouissance1579 merrymake1579 jolliment1590 mirth1591 jollyhead1596 spleen1598 jocantry16.. geniality1609 jovialty1621 jocundry1637 gaietry1650 sport1671 fun1726 galliardism1745 gig1777 merrymaking1779 hilarity1834 rollick1852 the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > [noun] mirthOE gladdingc1000 man-dreamOE gleea1200 joyingc1300 rejoyingc1350 gloryingc1384 joya1400 mirthinga1400 rejoicingc1400 exultationc1425 rejoice1445 joyousitiea1450 solation1483 festivitya1500 rejoicement1523 jubilee1526 joyance1590 insolence1595 exiliency1618 exilience1626 exultancy1632 ovation1649 exultance1650 exulting1744 jubilance1864 jubilancy1894 OE Beowulf 1264 He [sc. Cain] þa fag gewat, morþre gemearcod mandream fleon, westen warode. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11949 Þa aras þe mon-drem [c1300 Otho mannes drem] þat þe uolde dunede a-ȝen. man-engine n. a lift for carrying miners up or down a shaft consisting of a pair of reciprocating vertical rods with opposite motions and platforms fixed to them at intervals, the end points of the motion occurring when the platforms on the two rods are in line, so that by stepping back and forth between the rods a person may maintain a continuous ascent or descent. ΚΠ 1865 Morning Star 7 Jan. In a few mines the man-engine, which hoists and lowers the men, has been introduced. 1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) iv. i. 372 You can't ride the man-engine to the bottom of the mine, boy, you're too small. You'd miss your footing and fall down the shaft. 1992 Mod. Painters Spring 54/2 One day at Levant Mine..there was an accident and some 200 men were lost as they were climbing on the Man-Engine to the surface. † man-entered adj. Obsolete rare initiated into manhood. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. ii. 99 His Pupill age Man-entred thus. View more context for this quotation † man-fish n. Obsolete a merman; (Heraldry) a representation of a merman. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > monsters dragonc1330 griffina1400 yalec1425 mermaid1445 manticorec1470 cockatrice1513 mermaiden1538 opinicus1546 lituit1562 Pegasus1562 equicerve1572 harpy1572 lyciske1572 verme1572 wyver1599 merman1601 lion-dragon1610 lion-poisson1610 wyvern1610 Sagittarius1619 sagittary1632 man-fish1653 sea lion1661 satyral1724 man-tiger1780 sea-dog1780 Welsh dragon1799 camelopardel1830 satyr1845 serpivolant1866 sea monkey1909 1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) 444 Scaliger writes, that one of those Sea-men, or men-fishes was seen by Hierom Lord of Noricum, which laid hold on the Cable of his Ship. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 360/1 A Mere-man, or a Man-marine, or a Man-fish..by others termed a Triton. 1892 C. R. B. Barrett Essex Highways 139 The catching..of a man-fish, or sea-monster, in the reign of Henry II. man flu n. depreciative colloquial a cold or similar minor ailment as experienced or reported by a man prone to exaggerate the severity of the symptoms. ΚΠ 1999 Hosp. Stay Nightmare in misc.health.diabetes (Usenet newsgroup) 26 Jan. The ER doc came in and said it was just a ‘Man Flu’. 2003 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 13 Jan. This is the viral category [of cold] or as a friend calls it ‘Man flu’! What a truly wonderful and spot-on description. Man Flu, applicable only to those who do not suffer well. 2017 Sunday Times (Nexis) 26 Nov. 3 There is no disease more debilitating and exhausting than ‘man flu’, the illness better known to women as a ‘minor cold’. † man-fungus n. Obsolete rare = earth-star n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > earth-star earth-star1828 man-fungus1866 geaster1887 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 716/1 Man fungus. man-hair n. a man's pubic hair. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > pubic hair > [noun] pubes1569 garden1732 fud1771 pubic hair1836 moss1847 rug1893 maidenhair1908 pussy hairc1910 bush1922 man-hair1928 thatch1933 chuff1967 pube1967 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xv. 265 That's where to put forget-me-nots, in the man-hair, or the maiden-hair. † man-huckster n. Obsolete the manager of a male brothel.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey v. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dd/2 Be so and no more, you man-huckster. man hug n. a friendly embrace between two men, often accompanied by a handshake, a clap on the back, etc.Compare earlier man-to-man hug (see quots. 1975, 1988, and cf. man to man adj. 2). ΚΠ 1975 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 17 Aug. 23/1 (heading) Man-to-man hug no slur on masculinity. 1988 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 July 27/3 The corporate man-to-man hug has long been considered acceptable between old friends... There's a thump-on-the-back hug greeting. It indicates a long history of give and take.] 1998 alt.tv.highlander 26 May (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 4 Sept. 2019) The..man-hug was clipped [from the show], but I saw it. 2005 Philadelpha Nov. 132/1 His eye contact with the valet quickly leads to one of those brief but forceful man-hugs that guys enjoy, more like a collision than an embrace. 2012 @primawesome 27 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 4 Sept. 2019) You grab my hand and pat my back with your other hand. Our junk stays far from touching. Man hug. Don't you ever try to regular hug me, bro. man-hungry adj. having a strong desire (esp. sexual) for a man or men. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > for men man-wood1579 man-keen1683 man-mad1904 man-crazy1923 nympho1935 man-hungry1951 man-starved1961 1951 J. Cornish Provincials 220 Douglas fell..to a girl described by Bunty as twenty-eight and strictly man-hungry. 1993 Q. Wilder One Shining Summer (BNC) He saw her looking at him through binoculars, something he wouldn't have put past a man-hungry shark like Sandra. man-in-space n. originally U.S. an astronaut. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > astronaut or traveller in space space flyer1911 astronaut1928 rocket man1931 spaceman1932 spacefarer1936 cosmonaut1959 man-in-space1959 taikonaut1998 1959 Daily Tel. 21 Nov. 1/2 Capsule recovery is a crisis point in our man-in-space programme. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 43 Before April 12, 1961, the concept expressed by cosmonaut..was rendered..by such terms as..man-in-space. 1975 I. Asimov Eyes on Universe (1976) xiii. 255 For the first six years of the man-in-space program, there had been no deaths. man-keeper n. Scottish and Irish English (northern) (a) a newt; (b) the viviparous lizard, Lacerta vivipara (rare). ΚΠ 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 392 He was fond of drinking filthy fluids, and his belly gave birth to some asks and man-keepers. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Man-keeper, a designation given to the newt..by the inhabitants of Dumfr. and Roxb., because they believe that it waits on the adder to warn man of his danger. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 66 It is said that mankeepers will creep down the throat of a person who falls asleep near any water where they are. 1907 Trans. Dumfries & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Soc. 79 Lizard (Lacerta vivipara), called newts, asks, and mankeepers in the country. † man-leech n. Obsolete rare a prostitute. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 1687 C. Sedley Bellamira iv. i Thou punk, thou cockatrice, thou man-leech, that suck'st their marrow and their money. † man-litter n. Obsolete rare a sedan chair. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > carrying-chair > sedan chair bearing-chair1352 seat1588 sedge1615 chair1634 man-litter1640 sedan1640 chair-volant1667 street-chaira1712 sedan chair1750 stick chair1800 tonjonc1804 jampan1828 1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden ii. ii A couple of lusty able bodied men..carry mee in a Man-litter into the great bed at Ware. man-load n. a load such as one man can carry. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > amount that can be carried on the back backload1725 man-load1878 man-pack1925 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. xiv. 376 Suna commanded his Katekiro to make up 300 man-loads of hoes and old iron. man-machine n. and adj. (a) n. a man who acts mechanically, an automaton; (usually in plural men-machines); (b) n. = man-engine n.; (c) adj. (frequently spelt with an en dash) designating a relationship or communication between a man and a machine. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [noun] > unintentional or involuntary quality > automatic or mechanical quality > person acting with machina1612 machine1676 golem1732 man-machine1749 robot1923 droid1980 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > [adjective] > relationship between man and machine man-machine1951 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 192 Now the man-machine, strongly work'd upon by the sensual passion, felt so manfully his advantages and superiority. 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 279 Where they descend by the man-machines their journey is easy both down and up. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 22 Nov. 12/1 Nowadays the Kaiser's men-machines take the best part of the pavement from anyone whom they may safely elbow off. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 18/1 There is a wide range of mental states engendered in the same man–machine relationship. 1979 F. Jameson Fables of Aggression ii. 36 Man-machine responding to dead environment, automata in specular reaction to each other. 1991 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 550/3 (caption) The ‘man-machine interface’ needs to be the main focus of attempts to reduce flight crew error. man-mad adj. having a strong desire for or preoccupation with men. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > for men man-wood1579 man-keen1683 man-mad1904 man-crazy1923 nympho1935 man-hungry1951 man-starved1961 1904 N.E.D. at Man Man-wood a., Man-mad. 1928 R. Macaulay Keeping up Appearances vii. 62 If a woman went on that way about men you'd call her man-mad. 1990 Daily Star 20 Mar. 7 Man-mad Dolores told men friends she didn't love her husband, and branded him a mummy's boy. man-manage v. (a) intransitive to manage people, usually employees or (in later use) members of a sports team, esp. sensitively; to engage in man-management; (b) transitive to manage (people) in this way. ΚΠ 1970 Times 9 Jan. 26/2 The man appointed will be expected to be self motivating, have a strong personality, the ability to man manage and work within a well defined time programme. 1990 Daily Tel. 25 Jan. (Appointments) p. vii (advt.) You'll need..the ability to build from scratch, man-manage and motivate a strong, thoroughly professional team of engineering staff and technicians. 1999 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 30 Aug. In this day and age there are a number of managers, or perhaps coaches is a better word, who didn't learn the trade or how to man-manage players. man-management n. the management of people, usually employees or (in later use) members of a sports team. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > management methods or systems > [noun] > organizing people into working unit ganging1843 man-management1921 1921 J. Calder et al. Course in Mod. Production Methods VI. viii. 115 It may seem at first sight in reading this incident that some of the more human qualities of man-management were lacking; but the best test of a method is its results, and in this case the results were certainly successful. 1971 Mod. Law Rev. 34 vi. 680 The principle of an employer's responsibility for the results of ‘teamwork by his team’ goes to the centre of all thinking upon the techniques of organisation of groups and ‘man-management’ in large organisations. 2011 FourFourTwo Oct. 51/1 The manager's greatest skill is in man-management, but even he's been tested by his star who trains when he chooses. man-mark v. Sport (originally and chiefly Association Football) (transitive) (of a defender) to mark (a particular opposing attacker) closely; also intransitive. ΚΠ 1990 Times 17 Nov. 27/5 [He] could achieve that by having Paul Gascoigne man-marked. 1991 Independent (Nexis) 12 Nov. 32 Roxburgh promised to start three of his five strikers.., and said no one would be man-marking. man-marker n. Sport (originally and chiefly Association Football) a defender whose role is to mark a particular opposing attacker closely; cf. man to man adj. 3. ΚΠ 1984 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 12 Nov. d1 He's the best man-to-man marker in the league.] 1989 USA Today 25 Aug. (Sports section) 6 c/3 We used him as a man marker... But he can also play deep or wide. 1990 Sunday Express 21 Oct. 40/1 In Bergomi and Ferri, they have typically ruthless man-markers. man-marking n. Sport (originally and chiefly Association Football) the system assigning individual defenders to mark particular opposing attackers throughout a game; the practice of playing in such a system; cf. man to man adj. 3. ΚΠ 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 June (Final ed.) d1 So did Rob Rensenbrink, who almost always seem to do well against Italian defenses, the man-to-man marking.] 1992 Guardian 6 Apr. 20/5 He was the undoing of a Leeds side whose Garboesque defence appeared to abandon man-marking. 1999 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 28 Sept. Wenger is not planning any special man-marking assignments to snuff out the Rivaldo threat. man-meat n. (a) human flesh; (b) the male genitals. ΚΠ 1962 W. Stegner Wolf Willow iii. ii. 148 ‘What's a windigo?’ ‘What the Crees used to call an Injun that made use of man-meat.’ 1971 B. Malamud Tenants 207 The sweaty youths, holding long spears, leaped and yelped as they danced, their man-meat swinging like grapes in bunches in their loincloths. 1990 M. Angelou I shall not be Moved 14 That skimpy piece of man-meat called Coleridge. † man-mender n. Obsolete a surgeon. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun] chirurgeon1297 surgeonc1330 surgera1400 surgeonrer1483 surgeoner1526 chirurge1535 scarifier1566 scissor man1593 operator1598 man-mendera1625 men-mendera1625 flesh-tailor1633 nim-gimmer1699 sawbones1837 lint-scraper1860 knife-man1961 a1625 J. Fletcher Chances iii. ii. 12/1 in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbb2^v Good man mender, Stop me up with Parsley, like stuft Beefe, And let me walke abroad. 1708 Brit. Apollo 18–20 Feb. Man-menders then had noble pay—Which we call surgeons to this day. † man-mercer n. Obsolete rare a person who deals in men's clothes. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns mercerc1230 clothier1362 draper1362 woolman1390 yarn-chopper1429 line-draper1436 Welsh drapera1525 telerc1540 purple-seller1547 linen-draper1549 staplera1552 silkman1553 woollen-draper1554 wool-driver1555 woolster1577 linener1616 woolner1619 linen-man1631 ragman1649 rag merchant1665 slop-seller1665 bodice-seller1672 piece-broker1697 wool-stapler1709 cloth-man1723 Manchester-man1755 fleece-merchanta1774 rag dealer1777 man's mercer1789 keelman1821 man-mercer1837 cotton-broker1849 slopper1854 shoddyite1865 costumier1886 cotton-man1906 1837 M. R. Mitford Country Stories (1850) 99 What business had he in a great shop? a man-mercer's they call it. † man-merchandise n. Obsolete rare slave-dealing. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in slaves slave-trade1734 man-trade1760 man-merchandise1788 slave-dealing1835 slave-dealing1835 slaving1862 1788 W. Cowper Let. 16 Feb. (1982) III. 103 It being impossible to alledge an argument in behalf of Man-merchandize that can deserve a hearing. † man-miln n. Scottish Obsolete a hand-mill for grinding. ΚΠ 1566 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 173 Ane mann-miln for making of poulder, with thre mortaris. 1580 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 302 Ane man myln with all hir ganging geir. † man-minister n. Obsolete rare a chaplain. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > chaplain > [noun] chaplaina1100 padre1584 chapel-manc1650 capellanea1661 man-minister1715 sky pilot1865 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 52 Richard Paice..was at first but a Mann-minister to Thomas Langton Bishop of Winchester. man-monkey n. †(a) an ape (obsolete); (b) (derogatory) an apelike person; (c) = man-ape n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) babiona1529 jackanapes1528 Johnanapes1633 man-monkey1651 ape1699 pygmy1699 Simia1719 great ape1771 anthropoid1861 pithecoid1874 man-ape1878 pongid1949 pithecine1962 1651 T. Vaughan Second Wash 84 Thou hast indeed two strange Creatures, and I must insert them here for posteritie, thy animated bellowes, and thy man-monkie. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. vii. i. 13 Why you won't pretend you did not hear Miss Beverley say you were the truest Ouran Outang, or man-monkey, she ever knew? 1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross (new ed.) xxxv. 277 Go on! ye miserable man-monkey of a boy! 1883 tr. N. Joly Man before Metals 17 Prehistoric man..has even been sometimes called man-monkey, or pithecanthrope. man-mountain n. [in quot. 1726 used contextually as a name for Gulliver by the Lilliputians; in later use probably after Swift's use] a giant, a very large man; a wrestler. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [noun] > and broadness > person giant1559 Hercules1567 Gogmagogc1580 cob1582 Gargantuist1593 hulk1600 rhinoceros1602 colossus1605 pompiona1616 lump1630 strapper1675 man-mountain1726 Brobdingnagian1728 grenadier1805 butt-cut1806 gorilla1884 King Kong1933 hunk1941 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. ii. 38 In the right Coat-Pocket of the Great Man Mountain (for so I interpret the Words Quinbus Flestrin). 1770 C. Burney Jrnl. 13 Dec. in Music, Men & Manners (1969) 223 To M. Rousseau, Rue Grenelle, at a small house, a crayon painters'... In a dark corner was the man mountain. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §429/1 Corpulent person,..man mountain. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §707/2 Man mountain, a large wrestler. 1956 J. Symons Paper Chase xxx. 240 He was trying desperately to establish some kind of grip that would move this man mountain. 1993 Maclean's 26 Apr. 27/1 This was supposed to be the year of Eric Lindros, the Philadelphia Flyers' man-mountain rookie from Toronto. † man-mountainism n. Obsolete the great stature enjoyed by a person of exceptional achievements.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1842 E. B. Browning Bk. Poets in Athenæum 4 June 498/1 While Gower may blame ‘his fortune’..for the dry specimen crumbled off from his man-mountainism. man overboard n. a person who has fallen into the sea from a vessel; (so as int.) a call to alert crew members to such a casualty and initiate the recovery procedure; (occasionally) the procedure itself. ΚΠ 1829 D. Jerrold Black-ey'd Susan ii. 32 That fellow would sit still at his grog, at the cry of ‘a man overboard!’ c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 9 Cutters are used as despatch boats and for light work, such as answering signals, rowing guard, picking up a man overboard, or to assist in towing. 1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xx. 179 The seaboat's crew had gone through an undress rehearsal of ‘Man overboard!’ 1992 Offshore Sept. 85/1 A makeshift drogue could have been rigged for the Man Overboard pole. man-pack n. a compact package containing equipment or supplies, designed to be carried easily by one person. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > amount that can be carried on the back backload1725 man-load1878 man-pack1925 1925 J. R. Smith N. Amer. xl. 695 Transportation by wagon is unthinkable; even by donkey it is most difficult. The footpath and the man-pack are the common types. 1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 52/2 The jungle..absorbs and deflects transmissions from man-pack radio sets. 1981 Times 2 Feb. 18/8 Plessey..is believed to have an order..to supply HF and UHF tactical radios for manpacks. man-pack v. (a) transitive to transport (equipment, supplies, etc.) in a pack designed to be carried easily by one person; (b) intransitive to travel carrying equipment, etc., in a man-pack. ΚΠ 1888 Tasmanian 1 Sept. 21/1 The Government road party are making poor progress... I have still to man-pack everything three miles of a dreadful track. 1965 Beaver (Winnipeg) Autumn 55/1 We man-packed from there on, some hundred miles to the Mackenzie River. 1999 W. B. Haworth Bradley & how it got that Way viii. 97 The Bradley commander..was also provided with two radios, an AN/GRC-46 and an AN/GRC160. The latter could be dismounted and man-packed for ground use. † man peach n. Obsolete a variety of peach. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > peach > other types of peach avant-peach1611 melocoton1611 man peach1629 nutmeg1629 muscat1664 Portugal peach1664 Modena1674 nipple peach1719 peachlet1877 peregrine1903 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > types of peach presse1604 avant-peach1611 man peach1629 nutmeg1629 Roman peach1629 muscat1664 Rambouillet1664 winter peach1664 rumbullion1670 Orleans1674 pavie1675 Magdalenea1678 minion1691 admirable1693 maudlin1699 clingstone1705 nipple peach1719 rareripe1722 melter1766 vanguard1786 freestone1807 cling1845 lemon cling1848 peregrine1903 doughnut peach1993 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. xv. 582 The Man Peach is of two sorts, the one longer then the other. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 72 in Sylva Roman Peach, Man Peach, Quince Peach. man-rail n. a rail serving as a handhold for a person. ΚΠ 1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Dec. 24 Along each side of the boiler is fixed a hand-rail, called a man-rail. man-rem n. a unit of radiation exposure equal to one rem incident on one person. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > radiation > unit of radiation exposure man-rem1973 1973 J. Dunster in New Scientist 18 Oct. 194/1 The collective dose..is the sum of the products of a level of radiation dose and the number of people exposed at that level. The collective dose has the unit ‘man-rem’ and is a useful measure of the total dose to a community or population. 1975 Science 14 Feb. 509 The total future cost of one man-rem in terms of health costs paid in present dollars, is between $12 and $120. 1983 Financial Times 8 Jan. 4/2 The collective radiation dose of 50,000 man-rems accumulated by that work-force ‘may be increasing this number [of deaths from cancer] to 505 per year’. 1993 Nucl. Engin. Internat. Mar. 17 Remote installation of nozzle dams in PWR steam generators is now a well established technique, with substantial man-rem savings. manrider n. Mining a train used to transport miners underground. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > vehicle for underground haulage or transportation tram1517 wagon1649 rolley1817 buggy1867 barney1874 hod1883 whirley1886 shuttle car1905 manrider1967 scooptram1967 1967 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) x. 11 Manrider, a manriding train. 1991 Times 12 Mar. 3/2 The three-carriage manrider, normally used to carry construction workers, was to take 20 people to France. man-riding n. chiefly Mining the vehicular transportation of workers around a mine, building site, etc.; frequently as adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > transporting by lift or cage shaft-riding1887 man-riding1950 1950 H. F. Banks in E. Mason Pract. Coal Mining II. xxxv. 530/2 Where locomotives and large mine cars are in use, they serve also as a means of man riding. 1950 H. F. Banks in E. Mason Pract. Coal Mining II. xxxv. 531/1 Fig. 78 illustrates one type of man-riding car. 1973 Times 2 Mar. (Wales Suppl.) p. iii/3 The coal board is now concentrating on increasing ‘manriding’—trains from pit bottom to coalface—wherever the geology makes it possible. 1991 New Builder 12 Sept. 28/5 The Tirak P compact and lightweight motorised hoist can be mounted on platforms or stirrups for safe man-riding in suspended access applications. man-root n. (a) either of two North American ipomoeas with large tuberous roots, Ipomoea leptophylla, of the dry plains east of the Rocky Mountains, and the wild potato vine, I. pandurata; (b) any of several western North American gourds of the genus Marah (family Cucurbitaceae); (c) the medicinal root of a ginseng (genus Panax), esp. one from Asia. ΚΠ 1848 W. H. Emory Notes Mil. Reconnaissance 13 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Exec. Doc. 41) IV The principal growth is the buffalo grass,..and very rarely that wonderful plant, the Ipomea leptophylla, called by the hunter man root. 1876 C. E. Hobbs Bot. Hand-bk. Bot. & Pharmacopoeial Names 68 Man root, Convolvulus panduratus. 1901 W. L. Jepson Flora Western Middle Calif. 320 Roots, sometimes as large as and not unlike the shape of a man's body... E[chinocystis] fabacca... Common Man Root. 1955 N. Taylor F. Schuyler Mathews' Field Bk. Amer. Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) 386 Those [herbs] below are often weedy pests, but the native Ipomœa pandurata, the wild potato-vine or manroot, has an enormous starchy root once a favorite food of the Indians. 1966 in F. G. Cassidy & J. H. Hall Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 504 A Washington variety of wild cucumber is manroot, with root three feet long and perhaps four inches in diameter. 1976 Star (Sheffield) 26 Nov. 10/7 You might have wondered what all the talk about ‘man root’ [sc. ginseng] was. 1988 Natural Choice ii. 17/2 Because of its curious shape, ginseng, or Jin-chen, was called ‘Man Root’. 1991 Yours Feb. 16/1 (advt.) The ‘man root’ was introduced into Europe in the early seventeenth century. 1994 M. Griffiths Index Garden Plants 725/1 Manroot, Marah. man-rope n. Nautical one of the ropes on each side of a gangway or ladder, used in ascending and descending a ship's side, etc. ΚΠ 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Tire-veilles, the man ropes, or entering-ropes of the side. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick viii. 42 With both hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes. 1927 Blackwood's Mag. 20 July 4/2 The gig is alongside the gangway..decorated with white manropes before the Captain appears. man-rope knot n. a knot tied with the strands at the end of a rope to serve as a handhold. ΚΠ 1856 C. Nordhoff Man-of-war Life xii. 212 I practised..and was soon master of long and short splices, manrope knots, turks-heads, and Matthew Walkers. 1986 Scouting Mar. (centre pages) The Man Rope Knot gives a firm indication that the end of the rope has been reached. man-shift n. (the amount of work done in) a single shift worked by one man. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > amounts of work > [noun] > amount per person per time unit hour1900 man-hour1915 woman-hour1915 man-shift1930 work rate1957 1930 Engineering 3 Jan. 23/3 Variations in the standard of living..are reflected in the average output per man-shift. 1978 J. Paxton Dict. European Econ. Community (rev. ed.) 43 Average output a manshift underground in coal mining in some countries in the E.E.C. was as follows. man-size adj. of the size of a man; large, full-size; large enough to occupy, suit, or satisfy a man. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [adjective] > having types of dimensions life-size1813 handy-sized1834 man-size1913 man-sized1914 1913 R. W. Service Rhymes of Rolling Stone 103 The man-size mountains palisade us round on every side. 1928 Publishers' Weekly 16 June 2441 Since writing is a man-size job, he would have his hands full. 1963 House & Garden Mar. 130/1 (advt.) Fourpenn'orth of Phurnacite ‘eggs’ will heat enough water for a man-size bath. 1994 R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures v. 94 Sister Angelica was already opening a man-size tool chest. man-sized adj. = man-size adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [adjective] > having types of dimensions life-size1813 handy-sized1834 man-size1913 man-sized1914 1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn ii. 20 Me? I'd pinch the harp and pawn it for ten growlers of Dutch beer and some man-sized rum! 1920 J. Gregory Man to Man (1921) xvii. 209 He was trying to hide a pair of man-sized feet behind his table. 1972 F. Durbridge Bat out of Hell v. 174 Thelma..blew her nose on a tiny handkerchief which seemed ridiculous in her man-sized hand. 1984 F. W. P. Bolger Memories Old Home Place 24/2 Tobacco workers ‘prime’ the man-sized tobacco plants in the fields. man-starved adj. suffering from the lack of a man or men; having a strong desire (esp. sexual) for a man or men. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > for men man-wood1579 man-keen1683 man-mad1904 man-crazy1923 nympho1935 man-hungry1951 man-starved1961 1961 Times 24 Oct. 13/2 Beautiful, man-starved women. † man-state n. Obsolete the state of male adulthood; maturity or manhood; the age at which a man is considered to be fully adult. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity > adulthood of man manhooda1393 man-statec1400 man-agec1425 man's agec1443 state1553 virility1586 beard1591 father-age1596 c1400 Life St. Anne (Minn.) (1928) 2119 (MED) He begyns fast to manstate at draw. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 25 (MED) Whyll a chyld ys ȝeong and wythout synne, hit ys more amyable þen hit ys aftyr when he comyth to man-state. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iii. xxi. 140 He tooke on his gowne of man-state. † man-steid adj. Scottish Obsolete rare supplied with men. ΚΠ a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 228 Thrie greit scheipis weill man steid, weill wittallit and artaillzeit. man-strength n. the number of people available for employment, military service, etc.; = manpower n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > resources > consisting of people human resources1915 manpower1917 man-strength1931 peopleware1974 1931 Ann. Reg. 1930 1. 23 The United States was greatly adding to its man-strength. man-sty n. [after pigsty n.] a house or dwelling which is considered squalid, inadequate, or unfit for human habitation. ΚΠ 1799 R. Southey Jrnl. 25 July in Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 518/2 The most miserable and beastly collection of man-sties I ever beheld. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 May 5/1 The unutterable ‘man-sties’ which do duty for labourers' cottages. man-tailored adj. and n. (a) adj. designating women's clothes tailored in the style of men's clothes; (b) n. a man-tailored garment. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > made by specific manufacturer > tailor tailored1862 tailor-made1873 man-tailored1922 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 148 Molly had that elephantgrey dress with the braided frogs. Mantailored with selcovered buttons. 1972 Country Life 25 May 1354/2 A good collection of man-tailoreds. 1985 B. T. Bradford Hold Dream ii. 19 She wore a magenta wool suit, magnificently cut and tailored, obviously a pricey piece of haute couture, with a man-tailored shirt of white silk. man talk n. speech or conversation characterized as distinctively masculine in tone or subject; talk between men, esp. centring on male preoccupations. ΚΠ 1926 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXIV. 124 Man-talk, robust, manly talk. 1981 C. James Observer 5 July 40/8 Mark Cox was in the box for a lot of man-talk about the alleged necessity for the bad boy to uncork the boiling lava of his personality. 1987 A. Maupin Significant Others i. 8 When..Brian went to parties, he usually ended up making man talk with the mayor's husband. 1994 S. Butala Perfection of Morning iv. 61 Nearly all the daily conversation I listened to was man-talk: machinery, land, animals, farm economics. † man-thew n. Obsolete a custom, usage, or general practice (frequently in plural). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > of men man-thewOE OE Guthlac A 507 Ge scyldigra synne secgað, soþfæstra no mod ond monþeaw mæran willað. OE Cynewulf Juliana 410 Ic beo lareow georn þæt he monþeawum minum lifge. a1300 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Jesus Oxf.) (1955) 97 Þe hwile hit is lutel, ler him mon-þewes [v.r. monnis þewis]. † man-trade n. Obsolete the slave trade; cf. man-dealer n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in slaves slave-trade1734 man-trade1760 man-merchandise1788 slave-dealing1835 slave-dealing1835 slaving1862 1760 J. Philmore (title) Two Dialogues on the Man-Trade. 1828 J. T. Rutt in T. Burton Diary III. 258 (note) This lettered barbarian,..in the genuine spirit of the man-trade, ‘hoped never to see our negroes in America become Christians’. man-way n. (a) Mining a small tunnel used by miners; (b) an aperture providing access to an interior compartment or enclosed space for purposes of inspection, repair, etc. ΚΠ 1881 R. W. Raymond Mining Gloss. Man-way, a small passage used by workmen, but not for transportation. 1889 Cent. Dict. Manway, a manhole. (Eng.) 1964 A. Nelson Dict. Mining 273 Manway or Ladderway, a compartment, vertical or inclined, for the accommodation of ladders, pipes and timber chutes. 1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 484/1 Cost [of container] £1,450, depending on optional customer requirements for:—separate compartments..manways, special outlets [etc.]. 1976 Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 16/1 The four bottom legs are reached through manways of about 100 ft. 1991 Nucl. Energy June 155/2 The vessel heads, which contain the safety, relief, surge and spray nozzles and the manway, are forged from one piece. † manweed n. Obsolete rare fuller's teasel, Dipsacus sativus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Dipsacaceae (teasel and allies) > [noun] teasela1300 wokethistlea1400 fuller's teasel?c1425 fawthistle1483 Venus's basin1551 card thistle1578 Venus's bath1578 fuller's weed1587 fuller's herb1593 fuller's thistle1601 fuller's thorn1601 Venus' laver1601 shepherd's rod1633 shepherd's staff1760 manweed1829 Venus's cup1855 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 108 Dipsacus fullonum, manweed or fuller's teasel. man whore n. slang a male prostitute or gigolo; (more generally) a sexually promiscuous man. ΚΠ 1987 J. Cambridge Clarise Cumberbatch want to go Home xii. 152 But too-besides all these years she mustbe [sic] know already that you is a manwhore. 2000 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Features section) 17 It must be easier for a woman tart to perform than a man whore. You can fake an orgasm but you can't fake an erection. 2016 N. J. Sales Amer. Girls iv. 199 He's now a major man whore and he needs to leave my school because he has hurt so many girls. † man-wood adj. Obsolete intensely desirous of a man or men; = man-mad adj. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > for men man-wood1579 man-keen1683 man-mad1904 man-crazy1923 nympho1935 man-hungry1951 man-starved1961 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 84 Andromanes; to saye manwood [printed manhood, corrected in ed. 1612]. 1600 J. Weever Favnvs & Melliflora sig. D4 And women are by nature licorous. These thoughtes awaked, women growe manwood. man-worship n. chiefly depreciative the worship of a human as a divine being; the inappropriate or idolatrous elevation of a person to the status of a god. ΚΠ 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (James ii. 1) 415 He answered,..I would not leave Calvin to hear Paul. This is not only partiality but anthropolatry or Man-worship. 1651 T. Manton Pract. Comm. James i. 4 The sin of Corinth was man-worship, in giving excess of honor and respect to those Teachers whom they admired. 1857 W. Adams Elem. Christian Sci. (ed. 3) 160 The bold and harsh declaration in the text is such that it could only be made..by men..fighting vehemently against papal man-worship. 1978 Jrnl. Southern Hist. Nov. 604 Southern commentators attributed Romantic ‘man-worship’ to the secularization of the idea of the right of private judgement. manworth n. (also manwyrth) Anglo-Saxon Law (now historical) = wergild n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > for man's life man-botea1000 bloodwitelOE manworthlOE wergilda1214 kinbootc1425 eric1587 were1607 blood-fine1818 blood money1826 lOE Laws of Hloðhære & Eadric (Rochester) i. 9 Gif mannes esne eorlcundne mannan ofslæhð,..se agend þone banan agefe & do þær þrio manwyrð to. 1670–91 T. Blount Law Dict. Manworth, the price or value of a Man's Life or Head; every Man, according to his degree, being rated at a certain price, according whereunto, satisfaction was, of old, made to his Lord, for the killing him. 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1139/2 Manwryth [sic], the value or price at which a man was estimated, according to his degree. b. With a period of time: a day, hour, etc., of one person's work or life (used esp. to quantify labour). Also in extended use. Cf. man-load n., man-shift n. at Compounds 2a. Cf. person-object n. (b) at person n. Compounds 1b. man-day n. ΚΠ 1925 E. O. Shebbeare in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 iii. vi. 364 Each case would contain a sufficient ration of all kinds of food for a given number of ‘men-days’. 1993 Connecticut Wildlife Jan. 7/2 The 1992 spring wild turkey season provided 3,549 hunters with 13,568 man-days of recreation. man-hour n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > amounts of work > [noun] > amount per person per time unit hour1900 man-hour1915 woman-hour1915 man-shift1930 work rate1957 1915 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 14 611 A recent lecture on efficiency may have so impressed the manager that he drives the book-keeper to profanity by requests for information about man-hours, per capita output, inventory, and depreciation. 1991 Highway & Heavy Constr. Oct. 38/1 A man-hour production report that compares man-hours spent to man-hours estimated. man-minute n. ΚΠ 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Man-minute. 1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington Sci. at War ii. 111 The actual working-time was only 53 man-minutes. man-month n. ΚΠ 1956 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 3 65 At the cost of..two or three man-months of programming time. 1991 Japan Forum 3 190 The number of man-months expended by Japanese researchers in Germany was approximately three times the figure for German researchers in Japan. man-week n. ΚΠ 1945 Times 19 Jan. 2/4 About 1,300,000 man-weeks remained to be consumed by March 31 if the labour force remained the same. 1961 Jrnl. Oil & Colour Chemists' Assoc. 44 296 With proper planning fifty paints can be fully investigated in approximately two man weeks. man-year n. ΚΠ 1928 A. S. Eddington Nature Physical World ix. 180 We must describe the amount of humanity in it [sc. Great Britain] as 400 million man-years. 1990 Financial Post (Canada) 31 Oct. 17 (advt.) DMC comprises seasoned professionals with a total of over 100 man-years of direct ORACLE experience. C3. Compounds with man's. † man's age n. Obsolete the age at which a man is considered an adult; = man-age n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity > adulthood of man manhooda1393 man-statec1400 man-agec1425 man's agec1443 state1553 virility1586 beard1591 father-age1596 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 338 (MED) In his ful mannys age he is bounde to reuerence fadir and modir. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. To Rdr. sig. a8^v The bodie of man in the third part of his age, commonly called Mans-age [etc.]. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris Addenda 541 They wanted two years of Man's Age. man's best friend n. an animal that performs valuable service to humans; spec. the dog, esp. as a domestic pet. ΚΠ 1841 United Service Jrnl. May 58 An episode of an..affecting nature, in the history of man's best friend, the noblest, and most attached animal in the creation, the dog. 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 393/1 Such a creature as a snake-eater is man's best friend. 1939 O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 60 Beaten copper reminders that a man's best friend is his dawg (beloved of the golf-playing classes). 1993 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 10 Aug. d1 Man's best friend has been a dependable draw at the movies since the silents, when Rin-Tin-Tin was one of the screen's biggest attractions. † man's blood n. Obsolete (a) a kind of thistle; (b) [after Hellenistic Greek ἀνδρόσαιμον < ancient Greek ἀνδρός , genitive singular of ἀνήρ man (see andro- comb. form) + αἱμα blood (see haemo- comb. form)] , a kind of St John's wort whose fruits have blood-red juice. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > thistles thistlec725 carduea1398 wolf's-thistlea1400 cardoona1425 wolf-thistle1526 cotton-thistle1548 gum-thistle1548 oat thistle1548 black chameleon1551 ixia1551 Saint Mary thistle1552 milk thistle1562 cow-thistle1565 bedeguar1578 carline1578 silver thistle1578 white chameleon1578 globe thistle1582 ball thistle1597 down thistle1597 friar's crown1597 lady's thistle1597 gummy thistle1598 man's blood1601 musk thistle1633 melancholy thistle1653 Scotch thistle1660 boar-thistle1714 spear- thistle1753 gentle thistle1760 woolly thistle1760 wool-thistle1769 bur-thistlea1796 Canada thistle1796 pine thistle1807 plume thistle1814 melancholy plume thistle1825 woolly-headed thistle1843 dog thistle1845 dwarf thistle1846 welted thistle1846 pixie glove1858 Mexican thistle1866 Syrian thistle1866 bull thistle1878 fish belly1878 fish-bone-thistle1882 green thistle1882 herringbone thistle1884 Californian thistle1891 winged thistle1915 fish-thistles- 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 98 Acorna, marg., A kind of thistle: some call it Mans bloud. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 275 Some cal this herbe Androsæmon, marg. Mans bloud. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Acorna A thistle called Mans blood. † man's-bond n. Obsolete rare a slave or bondsman (in quot. used collectively with plural agreement). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave theowc893 thrallc950 young manOE slavec1290 boyc1300 servanta1325 bondc1330 bondmana1340 manciplea1387 man's-bond?a1400 thrillc1480 thrillmanc1480 serf1483 bondservant1535 bondslave1561 bondling1587 slave-boy1607 slave-labourer1607 chattel1649 bondsman1713 livestock1755 esne1819 thirl-man1871 task-labourer1897 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 115 (MED) Now er þise bot mansbond, rascaile of refous. † man's enemy n. Obsolete rare the Devil. ΚΠ a1800 Laird of Waristoun v, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 31/1 At her richt hand There stood Man's Enemy. man's-eye view n. [after bird's eye view n. 1] (a) a view of the landscape as seen by a person, esp. from a specified position; (b) a distinctively male perspective on affairs or events. ΚΠ 1912 P. W. Beck in G. H. Curtiss & A. Post Curtiss Aviation Bk. iv. v. 214 From an aeroplane or balloon the ground presents a very different appearance than it does from over usual man's eye view. 1962 Harper's Mag. Feb. 110/3 The Life pictures [sc. photographs from a satellite], however, are a really special dimension—magnificent man's-eye views of all corners of this man-inhabited globe. 1962 Times 11 Oct. 15/3 Mr. G. O. Jones's second novel..is a man's-eye view of Mrs. Mortimer's world. 1993 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 25 Apr. d1/2 How much have you written about the war that gives the man's-eye view? † man's kind n. Obsolete = mankind n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > [noun] maneOE worldOE all fleshc1000 mankinOE earthOE little worldc1175 man's kinda1200 mankinda1225 worldrichec1275 slimec1315 kindc1325 world1340 sectc1400 humanityc1450 microcosma1475 peoplea1500 the human kindred?1533 race1553 homo1561 humankind1561 universality1561 deadly?1590 mortality1598 rational1601 vicegerent1601 small world1604 flesh and blooda1616 mannity1621 human race1623 universea1645 nations1667 public1699 the species1711 Adamhood1828 Jock Tamson's bairns1832 folx1833 Bimana1839 human1841 peeps1847 menfolk1870 manfolk1876 amniota1879 peoplekind1956 personkind1972 a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 99 (MED) Þanne he giueð mannes cuinde. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 69 (MED) God to mans kynd had grete lufe When he ordaynd..Heven and herth. man's man n. a man whose qualities are appreciated by other men; a man who is popular with other men. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > virile man manc1330 real man1872 he-man1885 man's mana1896 virilist1910 cocksman1916 macho1943 Marlboro Man1957 macho man1959 man1963 a1896 G. Du Maurier Martian (1897) 214 He had been essentially a man's man hitherto, in spite of his gay light love for lovely woman; a good comrade par excellence, a frolicsome chum, a rollicking boon-companion, a jolly pal! 1995 Face Sept. 161/2 There was no room to express love and only space for one kind of man: the hard man, the man's man. man's meat n. (a) meat (or other food) for humans; †(b) colloquial a suitable sexual partner for a man (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > food for people man's meat1463 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual partner > [noun] > woman considered in sexual terms or as a sexual partner > collectively muttona1529 man's meat1629 charver1846 gash1914 poontang1945 poon1947 pussyc1947 crumpet1958 grumble1962 tail1967 fanny1993 1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 216 My mastyr payd at Brendwode ffor hys costys in horssemete and mannysmete. c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 76 My hap at þat tȳm waz to be akquainted with A yoong ȝentilwoman who not only for her gifts of nātiur waz mans meat, but also for her gifts of þe mynd. 1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 46 I will not envy him, so long as I feed on that which is sound and mans meate (as we say). a1663 Viscount Falkland Mariage Night (1664) ii. 13 But is she Mans meat? I..can scarcely digest one in her Teens. 1760 S. Foote Minor ii. 67 Here she has brought..a pretty piece of man's meat already; as sweet as a nosegay, and as ripe as a cherry. 1894 J. H. Wylie Hist. Eng. Henry IV II. xlv. 128 He extorted blackrent in the shape of mansmeat, horsemeat, and ‘coins’. † man's mercer n. Obsolete a person who deals in tailors' materials (see quot. 1803). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns mercerc1230 clothier1362 draper1362 woolman1390 yarn-chopper1429 line-draper1436 Welsh drapera1525 telerc1540 purple-seller1547 linen-draper1549 staplera1552 silkman1553 woollen-draper1554 wool-driver1555 woolster1577 linener1616 woolner1619 linen-man1631 ragman1649 rag merchant1665 slop-seller1665 bodice-seller1672 piece-broker1697 wool-stapler1709 cloth-man1723 Manchester-man1755 fleece-merchanta1774 rag dealer1777 man's mercer1789 keelman1821 man-mercer1837 cotton-broker1849 slopper1854 shoddyite1865 costumier1886 cotton-man1906 1789 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1938) VI. 612 Mans-mercers & Womens-mercers. 1803 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. 267 A man's mercer—One who furnishes small articles to taylors', as twist, buckram, stay tape. † man's motherwort n. Obsolete = sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > castor-oil plant or bean ricinusOE oil treea1425 Palma Christic1450 man's motherworta1500 tick-seed1562 tick-weed1563 finger orchis1597 kick1597 steadfast1597 palmchrist1611 oil-nut1694 oilseed1760 castor-oil bean1814 castor-bean1819 castor-oil plant1839 a1500 Agnus Castus (Laud) (1950) 197 Palma Christi is an herbe þat me cleputh mannes moderwort or palme de dieu or stedefast..he beryþ litel reed flours in eyþer syde of hure stalk. 1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Mans motherwort is Palma Christi. † man's queller n. Obsolete rare an executioner (cf. manqueller n.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > executioner manquellera1275 officer?1387 smiterc1390 manslayera1425 man's quellerc1429 baserc1480 butcher1483 executora1513 slaughter-slave1556 carnifex1561 executioner1561 deathsman1589 verdugo1616 hals-mana1658 c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 3290 Qwene Thamare..Whilk Cirus..mannes qwellere hevedid. man's woman n. a woman whose qualities are appreciated by men; a woman who is popular with men. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] wifeeOE womaneOE womanOE queanOE brideOE viragoc1000 to wifeOE burdc1225 ladyc1225 carlinec1375 stotc1386 marec1387 pigsneyc1390 fellowa1393 piecec1400 femalea1425 goddessa1450 fairc1450 womankindc1450 fellowessa1500 femininea1513 tega1529 sister?1532 minikinc1540 wyec1540 placket1547 pig's eye1553 hen?1555 ware1558 pussy?a1560 jade1560 feme1566 gentlewoman1567 mort1567 pinnacea1568 jug1569 rowen1575 tarleather1575 mumps1576 skirt1578 piga1586 rib?1590 puppy1592 smock1592 maness1594 sloy1596 Madonna1602 moll1604 periwinkle1604 Partlet1607 rib of man1609 womanship?1609 modicum1611 Gypsy1612 petticoata1616 runniona1616 birda1627 lucky1629 she-man1640 her1646 lost rib1647 uptails1671 cow1696 tittup1696 cummer17.. wife1702 she-woman1703 person1704 molly1706 fusby1707 goody1708 riding hood1718 birdie1720 faggot1722 piece of goods1727 woman body1771 she-male1776 biddy1785 bitch1785 covess1789 gin1790 pintail1792 buer1807 femme1814 bibi1816 Judy1819 a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823 wifie1823 craft1829 shickster?1834 heifer1835 mot1837 tit1837 Sitt1838 strap1842 hay-bag1851 bint1855 popsy1855 tart1864 woman's woman1868 to deliver the goods1870 chapess1871 Dona1874 girl1878 ladykind1878 mivvy1881 dudess1883 dudette1883 dudine1883 tid1888 totty1890 tootsy1895 floozy1899 dame1902 jane1906 Tom1906 frail1908 bit of stuff1909 quim1909 babe1911 broad1914 muff1914 manhole1916 number1919 rossie1922 bit1923 man's woman1928 scupper1935 split1935 rye mort1936 totsy1938 leg1939 skinny1941 Richard1950 potato1957 scow1960 wimmin1975 womyn1975 womxn1991 1928 New Yorker 31 Mar. 26/1 (cartoon) You know, I don't care for women. I guess I'm a man's woman. 1968 ‘E. McGirr’ Lead-lined Coffin iii. 108 Jeanie's a man's woman, you know, not a woman's woman. man's work n. = men's work n. at Compounds 5. ΚΠ 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xx. 194 ‘But, Lady Blakeney,’ said the young man, touched by the gentle earnestness of this exquisitely beautiful woman, ‘do you know that what you propose doing is man's work?—you cannot possibly journey to Calais alone.’ 1991 S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 86 It's from the planting in the tlacolol, from the hard man's work I do clearing the field with the hoe and the machete..work no woman would do before the war. man's world n. a social environment dominated by men and masculine values and qualities; (hence) a society tending to discriminate against women. ΚΠ 1915 C. P. Gilman Herland vii, in Forerunner July 185/1 Of course they can't understand a Man's World! They aren't human—they're just a pack of Fe-Fe-Females! 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind iii. 58 She did not expect life to be easy... It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. 1992 Esquire July 62/2 Yeah, it's a man's world, surfing, but the whole world's that way. I don't have a dick—sometimes it makes selling hard. C4. Compounds with men. a. Appositive, serving as plurals of compounds with man: see Compounds 1a, 1b, and main entries, e.g. man-child n. See also menfolk n., and menkind n. b. Objective, instrumental, etc., equivalent to the corresponding compounds with man (see Compounds 1c, Compounds 1d, and Compounds 2a; also man-eater n., man-hater n., and manqueller n.). (a) men-catcher n. ΚΠ 1681 E. Hickeringill Horrid Sin Man-catching i. 19 These Men-catchers lay their Snares and their Oathing-Gins to catch them. 1903 W. Blackwood Local Veto & Bk. xvi. 40 The trap-setters and men-catchers were rapidly hastening the dynasty of Judah to its dissolution. † men-eater n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating flesh or meat > cannibalism > cannibal cannibal1541 anthropophagusa1544 anthropophagite1555 Carib1555 men-eater1599 man-eater1600 anthropophaginian1602 Lestrigon1605 anthropophagist1650 anthropophagizer1854 Lestrigoniana1887 1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 104 Which made them beleeue that we were cruell people and men-eaters. 1760 T. Jefferys Nat. & Civil Hist. French Dominions N. & S. Amer. I. 163 Along the western coast..there is a nation of men-eaters, who are supposed to feed upon their enemies. † men-fisher n. Obsolete rare ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun] > one who evangelizes fisherc1000 man-fisherc1300 vangelista1330 evangelizer1382 evangelyc1384 evangelist1535 men-fishera1557 seminary1583 evangel1593 Philip1613 evangelica1617 evangelizationer1825 a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) iv. 19 Come after me and J wil maak yow menfischers. men-hater n. ΚΠ 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 99/1 The glamour business..is crammed with both women-haters and men-haters of dubious sex polarity. † men-hunter n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > pursuit > hostile or violent > man-hunt or man-hunting > one who manhunter1555 men-hunter1834 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 124 The men-hunters found a Guahibi mother, with three children. 1897 H. G. Wells Invisible Man xxvi. 220 These men-hunters had particular instructions in the case of an encounter as to the way they should support one another. † men-maker n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 11 All the Fraternity of Men-makers..; Taylors, Peruquiers, Hatters, Hosiers. † men-mender n. Obsolete rare ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun] chirurgeon1297 surgeonc1330 surgera1400 surgeonrer1483 surgeoner1526 chirurge1535 scarifier1566 scissor man1593 operator1598 man-mendera1625 men-mendera1625 flesh-tailor1633 nim-gimmer1699 sawbones1837 lint-scraper1860 knife-man1961 a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) ii. iii. sig. E1 Whither goe all these men-menders, these Physitians? † men-pleaser n. Obsolete rare ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer papelard1340 placeboc1395 fawnerc1440 pickthank1460 adulator?a1475 earwigc1475 curry-favel1515 men-pleaser1526 gnatho1533 upcreeperc1540 claw-back1549 curry-favourer1563 man-pleaser1564 claw-poll1569 please-man1570 sycophant1575 curry-favour1577 capper1587 insinuator1598 clawera1603 scrape-shoe1607 suck-fist1611 courtiera1616 foot lickera1616 fleerera1627 wriggler1631 fawn1635 limberham1689 toad-eater1742 tuft-hunter1755 arse-kisser1766 sleeve-creeper1809 lick-spit1822 lickspittle1825 shoe-licker1826 toady1826 toad1831 toader1842 bootlicker1846 bootlick1849 favour-currier1855 lubricator1872 bum-sucker1877 handshaker1884 suck1900 mbongo1911 sucker-up1911 apple-polisher1918 snurge1933 ass-licker1939 brown-nose1939 brown-noser1942 arse-licker1951 ass-kisser1951 greaser1959 suck-hole1966 suck-up1970 bumboy1984 fly- 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Eph. vi. 6 Not with service in the eye sight, as men pleasars. † men-queller n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] manslagheOE manquellera1250 men-quellerc1325 manslayera1382 men-slayera1400 homicide1421 man-killera1500 dead-slayer1535 kill-man1598 man-slaughterer?1611 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 9333 Robbeors..& manquellers [v.r. menquellares]. ?a1400 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Royal) (1961) 200 (MED) Wycches and vnchast men and menquelleris. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 110/2 Which al were estemed as menquellers. † men-slayer n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] manslagheOE manquellera1250 men-quellerc1325 manslayera1382 men-slayera1400 homicide1421 man-killera1500 dead-slayer1535 kill-man1598 man-slaughterer?1611 a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) v. 7 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 134 (MED) Menslaers [v.rr. Mensloers, Menslores; L. Virum sanguinum] and swykel lauerd wlate sal. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) v. 7 Men slaers, with tonge or hand or hert..god sall desherit. † men-stealer n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > kidnapper or abductor > [noun] man-thiefeOE men-stealer1526 man-stealer1582 spirit1611 plagiary1613 spiriter1665 kidnapper1678 silver-cooper1796 abductor1809 body snatcher1852 shanghaier1917 snatcher1932 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Tim. i. 10 To menstealers: to lyars and to periured. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 134 The Tyrians..were slave-dealers, and in the earliest time, men-stealers. † men-trapper n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1796 M. Robinson Angelina I. 36 The men-trappers rushed in, and they forced him away. † men-worshipper n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1846 E. A. Poe Marginalia in U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Apr. 271/2 The very smallest of mankind are the class of men-worshippers. 1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. x. 166 We are still idolaters, that is, mere men-worshippers. (b) † men-bearing adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 30 Those mountainous kind of Animals and Men-bearing Trees. † men-eating adj. Obsolete rare ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [adjective] > eating flesh > eating human flesh man-eating1607 men-eating1634 anthropophagous1703 feminivorous1820 hominivorous1859 androphagous1865 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile Alphabet. Table sig. G2^v/1 Anzigues, a men-eating Nation. † men-enchanting adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1619 A. Newman Pleasures Vision (1840) 42 They have such men-inchanting features. † men-fishing n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1895 Churchman No. 185. 268 Men-fishing is most difficult work, but He who bade us go has likewise said ‘I am with you’. † men-pleasing adj. and n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] fawninga1350 adulationc1400 papelardya1425 papelardrya1500 captation1523 clawing1548 insinuation1553 curry-favour1581 man-pleasing1588 courting1607 men-pleasing1615 supparasitation1620 sycophantizing1640 assiduity1641 ingratiating1642 licking1648 man-pleasance1656 sycophancy1657 fawnery1661 sycophantrya1677 nutting1789 tuft-hunting1789 cultivation1793 huggery1804 ingratiation1815 sycophantism1821 lickspittling1839 toadyship1839 toadyism1840 bootlicking1849 toadying1863 arse-licking1912 lickspittle1914 apple-polishing1926 pot-licking1929 brown-nosing1934 ass-kissing1936 arse-kissing1937 ass-licking1946 sucking-up1946 bum-sucking1949 love bomb1975 love-bombing1976 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adjective] fikingc1230 papelarda1500 gnathonical1540 clawing1574 pickthank1575 slavering1575 claw-back1577 courting1580 fawning1585 adulatory1587 insinuating1592 insinuative1592 scraping1599 adulatorious1612 men-pleasing1615 pickthanking1621 sycophantical1632 gnathonic1637 insinuanta1639 sycophantizing1640 ingratiating1642 led1672 sycophanting1674 sycophantly1680 sycophanta1684 sycophantica1698 pickthankly1702 assiduous1725 foot-licking1786 tuft-hunting1789 sycophantish1821 favour-currying1831 bootlicking1849 toadying1863 creepy-crawly1890 slauming1904 toadyish1909 ass-licking1940 ass-kissing1942 brown-nosing1946 arse-licking1950 sucky1991 1615 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching in Wks. (1620) I. 604 Such a time-seruing, men-pleasing, forsaking of flockes. 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 28 S. Paul who in one place professeth men-pleasing..taking it in the better sence. (c) † men-fleshed adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 51 Such menflesht vilaynes, make small accompte for kyllinge anye one. c. men-only adj. designating a place, etc., restricted to the use of men. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > for men only men-only1965 1935 (title) Men only. 1955 H. W. Allen in Stag Party with ‘Men Only’ 12 The Sporting Times, affectionately known from the colour of its paper as the Pink 'Un, that spicy and distinctly Men Only weekly of Victorian days.] 1965 ‘S. Ransome’ Alias his Wife vi. 57 Without discouraging women as customers, it had become a men-only place. 1972 G. Beare Bee Sting Deal x. 123 There was one hotel..rigidly dry and rigidly men-only. 1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto i. 17 Men-only hostels, rather than houses, were built to accommodate workers during the early years of Soweto's history. C5. Compounds with men's (cf. Compounds 3). See also menswear n. † mens-kind n. Obsolete rare = menkind n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > men collectively wapman-kinc1175 manc1300 menkinda1470 mankind1526 manhood1588 mens-kind1592 the sterner (alsobetter, rougher, stronger) sex1608 lords of creation1649 menfolk1749 masculinity1860 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. F^v Wee mens-kinde in our minoritie, are like women in their vncertaintie. † menskins adj. [ < the genitive plural of man n.¹ + the genitive of kin n.¹ (see kin n.¹ 6b)] Obsolete rare of the male sex. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > male > [adjective] malea1382 masclea1425 masculinec1425 mankind1479 menskins1534 1534 Will Sir W. Butler (Somerset Ho.) Euerye of my seruauntes aswell menskynes as womenskynnes. Men's Lib. n. [after women's lib n.] originally U.S. = Men's Liberation n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > advocacy of the rights of men masculinism1911 masculism1914 Men's Lib.1970 Men's Liberation1970 men's movement1971 1970 New Yorker 19 Dec. 101 The members of Men's Lib say they are tired of ‘having to prove our masculinity twenty-four hours a day’ and believe that if their cause should prevail ‘outmoded concepts would disappear in the face of reality’. 1972 ‘J. Melville’ Ironwood ix. 154 Three months of Tessa and they [sc. her male assistants] must have been heading for freedom and Men's Lib. Men's Liberation n. [after women's liberation n.] originally U.S. a movement aimed at freeing men from traditional views of their character and role in society. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > advocacy of the rights of men masculinism1911 masculism1914 Men's Lib.1970 Men's Liberation1970 men's movement1971 1970 New Yorker 19 Dec. 101 We recently read in the Times about a group called Men's Liberation, Inc., whose aim is to free men from their traditional role of ‘all-powerful provider’ and embolden them to cry, complain, feel sorry for themselves, and change their minds. 1991 A. Borrowdale Distorted Images iv. 40 Feminists are understandably suspicious whenever they hear talk of ‘men's liberation’, for it tends to be presented as an alternative to women's liberation. men's magazine n. a magazine containing items of interest primarily to men (originally chiefly applied to one containing pornography, and now with wider application); cf. woman's magazine n. at woman n. Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1957 O. Keepnews Charlie Parker in Jazz Makers 205 Commenting on an article in one of the shock-value men's magazines. 1962 M. J. Herzberg Reader's Encycl. Amer. Lit. 691/2 The mid-century group of ‘men's magazines’ began with the success of Esquire. 1977 Daily News (Perth, Austral.) 19 Jan. 20/7 Her husband admires the very ‘ample’ ladies in men's magazines. 1993 Pop. Sci. June 84/2 Although there has been much talk about bodysuit-fitted virtual reality, particularly in men's magazines, that level of immersion has yet to make it out of the laboratory. men's movement n. [after women's movement n. at woman n. Compounds 5] chiefly U.S. = Men's Liberation n.; (in later use, sometimes spec.) = mythopoetic men's movement at mythopoetic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > advocacy of the rights of men masculinism1911 masculism1914 Men's Lib.1970 Men's Liberation1970 men's movement1971 1971 Life 27 Aug. 53/2 That right there is the basic difference between the men's movement and the women's lib thing... With the women there's an oppressor. The enemy is men. But our enemy isn't women, it's the role we're forced to play. 1988 R. Bly in Mother Earth News Nov. 50/1 I suspect that the reason a bona fide ‘men's movement’ has lately emerged in our society..is that many men feel isolated. 1993 W. Farrell Myth Male Power (1994) iv. 264 The men's movement will be the longest of all movements because it is not proposed merely to integrate blacks or Hispanics into a system that already exists, it is proposing an evolutionary shift in the system itself—an end to woman the protected and man the protector. 1995 Independent on Sunday 28 May (Review Suppl.) 14/4 Shelley had long been interested in the ‘dream work’ that the men's movement likes to explore. men's room n. originally U.S. a lavatory or washroom for men (see also men's n.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory > public > men's the gentlemen's1929 men's room1929 gents1938 1929 ‘E. Queen’ Roman Hat Myst. iii. 31 Search the lounge downstairs. The men's room, the ladies' room. 1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 51 Malin excused himself and went to the men's room. 1990 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 35/1 Kev..had been incarcerated in the men's room since they had all reeled back from a liquid lunch. men's tee n. Golf the standard tee position, originally intended for use by male players; cf. women's tee n. at woman n. Compounds 5. ΚΠ 1902 N.Y. Tribune 31 Aug. ii. 7/1 Driving from the men's tee,..she defeated her husband. 1946 Monroe (Wisconsin) Evening Times 23 July 5/2 The result was that mechanically perfect shot from the men's tee which bounced on, made straight for the lip and went down without a hitch. 2009 Independent (Nexis) 16 July 48 One of the early leaders was..a six-year-old from Eastbourne, Sussex, who has already broken a hundred at his local course (off the men's tees) and looked every inch the miniature pro. men's work n. work traditionally undertaken by, and regarded as suited to, men, esp. heavy manual work. ΚΠ 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. ii. 57 ‘Some were farm labourers; a good deal worked at Mr. Oliver's needle-factory, and at the foundry.’ ‘Did Mr. Oliver employ women?’ ‘Nay; it was men's work.’ 1989 K. F. Wiebe Real Live Death in H. F. Tiessen Liars & Rascals 44 Other men in unaccustomed stiff suitcoats..stood near the mounds of dirt by the hole, ropes in hand, ready to do the men's work at the funeral. 1992 S. Holloway Courage High! xxx. 239/2 The very nature of a firefighter's work tended to attract men who were physically and mentally tough and who, at that time, still regarded women as a race apart... Those who were openly ‘anti’ maintained simply that this was mens' work [sic]. Derivatives ˈman-wise adv. and adj. (a) adv. in the manner or way of men; in respect of a man; (b) adj. concerning individual men. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [adverb] mannishc1395 mannishly1867 man-wise1893 1893 R. Kipling in Illustr. London News Christmas No. 5/3 A monstrous grey Ape..seated himself man-wise. 1901 E. A. Ross Social Control 29 The fittest to survive when the competition is man-wise, may be eliminated when the competition is group-wise. 1930 D. H. Lawrence A Propos Lady Chatterley's Lover 39 Men experience the great rhythm of emotion man-wise, women experience it women-wise. † man-worthiness n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1841 R. W. Emerson Method Nature in Wks. (1875) II. 233 How all that is called talents and success in our noisy capitals, becomes buzz and din before this man-worthiness. † man-worthy adj. Obsolete worthy of humankind, humanitarian. ΚΠ a1834 S. T. Coleridge in Webster's Dict. Eng. Lang. (1886) at Man It is in advance to a better and more man-worthy order of things. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † mann.² Forms: Old English–Middle English man, Middle English mone. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian mēn sin, crime, Middle Dutch meen , mein crime, fault, Old Saxon mēn (Middle Low German mēn , mein ) crime, fault, Old High German mein crime, fault, felony, Old Icelandic mein hurt, harm < the Germanic base of man adj.The word man survived in Scotland and the north of England as the first element of the compound manswear v. Obsolete. Wickedness; a lie. man deed n. a wicked act, wickedness. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [noun] woughc888 naughteOE manOE evilness1000 fakenOE witherfulnessc1200 lithera1225 villainy?c1225 lithernessa1240 unwrastshipa1250 felonyc1290 shrewheadc1290 litherhead1297 illa1300 wicknessa1300 follyc1300 iniquity13.. shrewdom13.. wickhedec1305 shrewdheadc1315 shrewdnessc1315 unwrastnessc1315 wickednessa1340 malicea1382 unequityc1384 lewdnessa1387 mischiefa1387 wickedleka1400 wickedredea1400 badnessc1400 shrewdshipc1400 shrewnessc1425 ungoodlihead1430 wickdomc1440 rudenessc1451 mauvasty1474 unkindliness1488 noughtinessa1500 perversenessa1500 illnessc1500 filthiness?1504 noisomeness1506 naughtiness?1529 noughtihoodc1540 inexcellence1590 improbity1593 flagition1598 meschancy1609 scelerateness1613 pravity1620 meschantnessa1630 flagitiousness1692 flagitiosity1727 nefariousness1727 bale-fire1855 ill-conditionedness1866 iniquitousness1870 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] woughc888 manOE evilness1000 evilc1040 un-i-thora1200 witherfulnessc1200 mixshipc1225 quedeship?c1225 lithernessa1240 unwrastshipa1250 felonyc1290 shrewheadc1290 litherhead1297 wickedheada1300 wicknessa1300 follyc1300 shrewdom13.. wickhedec1305 shrewdheadc1315 shrewdnessc1315 unwrastnessc1315 wickc1330 wickednessa1340 quedehead1340 quedeness1340 lewdnessa1387 felona1400 wickedleka1400 wickedredea1400 badnessc1400 shrewdshipc1400 shrewnessc1425 wickdomc1440 noughtinessa1500 naughtiness?1529 sinfulness1530 noughtihoodc1540 meschancy1609 scelerateness1613 meschantnessa1630 nefariousness1727 devilness1853 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > an evil deed > an evil deed, fault, or offence sinc825 guilt971 man deedOE evilOE misbodea1200 follya1275 unthrift1303 misbreydec1380 offencec1384 crimec1390 forfeit1393 felonya1400 faultc1400 misfeatc1400 feat1481 demerit1485 misdemeanoura1513 facta1533 piaculum1575 miscarriage1579 delinquishment1593 delinquency1603 piacle1644 amissness1648 peccancy1648 OE Phoenix 457 Dryhten..lænan lifes leahtras dwæsceþ, mirce mandæde. OE Beowulf 978 Ðær abidan sceal maga mane fah miclan domes. OE Paris Psalter (1932) cxviii. 69 Ys nu mænigfeald ofer me man and unriht oferhydigra. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 199 Þa..ðær cumeð þe her man wrohten and Godes lare iheren nolden. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4478 Þatt tu þe loke wel fra man Inn aþess. & i wittness. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily In Die Sancto Pentecosten (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 99 Deofles gast wissað to sunnan and to mandeden [OE Royal mandædum]. a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 30 Þat þridde bit riswisnesse þat þu sal heren matins & messe, Mone, & sinne firsaken. a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 63 ^v Suggero, to say manys, egge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † mann.³ Forms: Old English–1600s man, Middle English mane. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin man. Etymology: < post-classical Latin man (Vulgate) < Hebrew mān (see manna n.¹); compare Hellenistic Greek μάν (variant reading for μάννα in the Septuagint version of Exodus 15).St Jerome used man (in Exodus and Numbers) and manna (in Deuteronomy, Joshua, Psalms, and Nehemiah) to render Hebrew mān in the Old Testament; since the New Testament word is μάννα, manna became predominant in post-classical Latin and the vernaculars. Obsolete. Manna (manna n.¹ 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > manna mannaeOE manOE angels' breada1333 angels' foodc1400 society > faith > artefacts > consumables > bread > [noun] > manna mannaeOE manOE OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Exod. (Claud.) xvi. 31 And nemdon ðone mete, Man [v.r. manna]; ðæs swæc wæs swylce smedma mid hunige. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) 6384 (MED) Þis mete þat þai war fedd wid þan þai called it in þair langag man [a1400 Vesp. manna]. a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Exod. xvi. 31 The hows of Yrael clepide the name of it man [v.rr. manne, manna; L. Man]. a1475 Visio Philiberti (Brogyntyn) in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 14 O Crystes modyre..That feede ȝeure chyld with the heyvynly mane. 1604 S. Hieron Preachers Plea in Wks. (1620) I. 500 As soone as they came into the promised land, the man ceased. 1644 Z. Boyd Garden of Zion II. 358 Th' Egyptian hotch potch which Gods Israel Preferr'd to Man their whilom—Angels food. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2021). mann.⁴ Brit. /man/, U.S. /mæn/, South African English /mʌn/ Inflections: Plural manne Brit. /ˈmanə/, U.S. /ˈmænə/, South African English /ˈmʌnə/; Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans man. Etymology: < Afrikaans man < Dutch man (see man n.¹).The word occurs in both the singular and plural forms in spoken South African English, but the singular is not easily documented because the distinction between South African English/mæn/ (man n.¹) and /mʌn/ is not apparent in written contexts. South African slang. 1. a. An ostentatiously virile or manly man; a man engaged in or excelling in activities considered to be typically masculine. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > virile man manc1330 real man1872 he-man1885 man's mana1896 virilist1910 cocksman1916 macho1943 Marlboro Man1957 macho man1959 man1963 1963 B. Modisane Blame me on Hist. iv. 51 ‘O Broad-derick is de manne,’ one of them said, imitating the bubbling speech of the actor. ‘Did you hear him when he said: “I'm the fastest gun there is.”?’ 1981 Frontline May 15 The various sides of our culture..of which the down-and-out meths drinker is as much a part as the manne in the Royal Hotel kroeg. 1990 Weekly Mail 2 Nov. 28 The manne compete to produce the highest number of decibels from their music systems in their Cortinas. b. In plural. With the. The men with whom one shares a sense of camaraderie, ‘the boys’, ‘the guys’; the (important) men of a community (esp. an Afrikaans-speaking one). ΚΠ 1979 A. Harrison in Frontline Dec. 17 I never get lonely. In a city lift I can give the manne a ‘hora hora hoozeet’ and I'm assured of a good conversation. 1989 Weekly Mail (Johannesburg) 15 Dec. 7 ‘I don't wake my wife when I get up at four in the morning..just give her a kiss,’ he says. ‘Then I go out and join the other manne on the way to the harbour.’ 2012 K. L. Seegers tr. D. Meyer 7 Days xliii. 230 I'll talk to the manne up there in the meantime,..to get the timing of this thing right. 2. In plural. A form of address by a man to a group of other men, usually indicating or inviting a sense of male camaraderie: men, guys. ΚΠ 1982 V. Khumalo in Pace May 158 Ek sê, mannes, how's yu'wol? Hoezit chana, hoe's ou Pedro daar?] 1983 G. Silber in Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 28 Aug. (Mag.) 18/2 Al says: ‘Listen, you manne, I don't want to be a spoilsport. But please, no dancing on the grass. It's the Sunday law, okay?’ 1985 Frontline Dec. 6 Okay manne, today I'm going to learn you about riot control. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † manpron. Forms: Old English monn, Old English–Middle English man, Old English–Middle English mann, Old English–Middle English mon, Middle English mane, Middle English manne, Middle English monne. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian ma , me , Middle Dutch men (Dutch men ), Old Saxon man (Middle Low German men ), Old High German man (Middle High German man , German man ); originally an unstressed form of man n.¹ Compare the weakened forms me pron.², men pron.In Old English the word is used only in the nominative singular; it can be referred to anaphorically by either a singular or a plural personal pronoun (compare quot. eOE²). In Old English and Middle English it is not clear in every instance whether a given form represents this word or man n.¹ Obsolete. One (one pron. 17a). ΚΠ eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 455 His broþur Horsan man ofslog. eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. xii. 33 Gif ænig wære þe fyr fluge..þæt hine mon sloge swa raðe swa mon hiora fiend wolde. OE Beowulf 1175 Me man sægde, þæt þu ðe for sunu wolde hereri[n]c habban. OE Beowulf 3176 Þæt mon his winedryhten wordum herge. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 11 Man brohte þa his heafod on anum disce. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123 Se biscop..wearð þa sone dead, & man ferode hine to Lincolne mid micel wurðscipe. c1175 ( Homily: Hist. Holy Rood-tree (Bodl. 343) (1894) 34 Swa wide swa he hine mid him lædde, swa wide mon cristendom underfon wolde. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 14948 Forð mon brohte þat water. a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 169 Ȝet is wunder of ðis wirm more ðanne man weneð. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 90 (MED) Zaynte paul..ous heþ hyer ynemned þe meste gentile guodes þet man may do [Fr. que on puet faire]. c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 493 (MED) Her techeþ þys tretys þenne Hou mon scholde here hys masse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) 21862 (MED) Manne [a1400 Vesp. Men] mai þaim se nu ilka dai. c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) 1022 (MED) He was of all colours Þat man may se of flours Be-twene Mydsomer and May. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † manadj. Forms: Old English–Middle English man, Middle English mane. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian mēn false, Old High German mein false, deceitful, criminal (Middle High German mein false, deceitful), Old Icelandic meinn mean, base, false.Apparently cognate with classical Latin mūnus gift, office (see muneral adj.), ultimately < an Indo-European base meaning ‘change’, ‘exchange’. Obsolete. Wicked, false.With quot. a1400 cf. manath n. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [adjective] woughc888 litherc893 frakeda900 sinnyc950 unrighteouseOE baleOE manOE unfeleOE ungoodc1000 unwrasta1122 illc1175 nithec1175 wickc1175 hinderfulc1200 quedec1275 wickedc1275 wondlichc1275 unkindc1325 badc1330 divers1340 wrakefula1350 felonousc1374 flagitiousc1384 lewdc1386 noughta1387 ungoodly1390 unquertc1390 diverse1393 felona1400 imperfectc1400 unfairc1400 unfinec1400 unblesseda1425 meschant?c1450 naughtyc1460 feculent1471 sinister1474 noughty?1490 ill-deedya1500 pernicious?1533 scelerous1534 naught1536 goodlyc1560 nefarious1567 iron1574 felly1583 paganish1587 improbate1596 malefactious1607 villain1607 infand1608 scelestious1609 illful1613 scelestic1628 inimicitious1641 infandous1645 iniquous1655 improbous1657 malefactory1667 perta1704 iniquitous1726 unracy1782 unredeemed1799 demoralized1800 fetid1805 scarlet1820 gammy1832 nefast1849 disvaluable1942 badass1955 bad-assed1962 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > dishonest manOE unjustc1400 bribing1530 unhonest1545 makeshift1592 sinistrous1600 horse-fair1606 under-honest1609 dishonest1611 one-eyed1833 shystering1860 cross1882 crook1911 bent1914 fly-by-night1914 crookish1927 shyster1943 shonky1970 OE Exodus 149 Manum treowum woldon hie þæt feorhlean facne gyldan. OE Paris Psalter (1932) liv. 14 Forðam on heora gasthusum is gramlic inwit, and on hiora midle man inwitstæf. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 6848 Athes, noiþer sothfast ne man [a1400 Fairf. mane]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020). manv. Brit. /man/, U.S. /mæn/ Forms: Old English mannian, Middle English (1800s regional) mon, Middle English–1600s manne, Middle English– man, 1500s–1600s mann. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: man n.¹ Etymology: < man n.¹ Compare (with differing meanings) Middle Dutch mannen (Dutch mannen), Middle Low German mannen, Middle High German mannen to become a man, to take a man in marriage, to equip with men (German †mannen to become a man, equip with men; also bemannen), Old Icelandic manna, Swedish manna to make a man of, Danish mande to gain courage, to equip with men.The spelling mained in quot. 1632 at sense 9, if not a misprint, seems intended to suggest derivation < French main hand. Although (especially in early use) not necessarily gender-specific, the senses in Branch I. may be considered objectionable by people who relate them to man in the sense ‘adult male’ rather than in the senses ‘human’ or ‘person’, and who thus believe that they exclude women.) I. To provide with a man or men. 1. a. transitive. Originally Military and Nautical. To provide (a fort, ship, etc.) with a person or a company of people as a crew, defensive force, etc. (also intransitive); to serve or defend (a fort, ship, piece of equipment, etc.). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > man manlOE stuffc1400 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1087 Heora ælc ferde to his castele, & þone mannoden. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 5876 With' halfe þair men þis schip þai mande. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxix. f. cxl Kynge Wyllyam also made .iiii. stronge Castelles..and manned theym with Normayns. 1548–9 in A. I. Cameron Sc. Corr. Mary of Lorraine (1927) 287 My lord past hym self and mannit the laycht place with certane Frenchte men and Scoittis men. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 155 Tha schot out the capitan Erskin, and manit the hous. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vi. 27 Man the Boat is to put a Gang of men..into her. c1645 I. Tullie Narr. Siege of Carlisle (1840) 3 He found the other side [of the river] manned w^th regiments of hors and foot. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. xxiv. 100 Man the pinnace, and get her by the Ships side. 1713 R. Steele Guardian No. 170. ⁋21 It is very rare if the French ever make use of any other ships than their own; they victual and man cheaper than we. 1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 28 The number of volunteer seamen..may not be sufficient to man the navy. 1795 Ld. Nelson Let. 21 Mar. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 20 A Fleet half manned, and in every respect inferior to the Enemy. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xi. 139 At last the frigate was full manned. 1885 U. S. Grant Pers. Mem. I. xxi. 292 One hundred men left to man the guns in the fort. 1943 Examiner (San Francisco) 8 Aug. 3/1 The ten-man crew which manned the flying fortress. 1995 Home & School (Canada) Apr. 5/1 Now in a state of siege, many U.S. schools have opted to man the barricades, hiring security guards and installing metal detectors. †b. transitive. With out, forth, after, etc.: to equip and send (a boat, occasionally an army) with its complement of men in the direction specified. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [verb (transitive)] > send a ship mana1513 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxiii. f. c Y^e Londoners..manned out a certayne nombre of men of Armys. 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 99 We..manned out our Skiffe in like case to laye him aboorde. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xiii. 599/2 The Townesmen of Portsmouth and Dart, maund [read mannd] forth a few ships at their owne perill and charge. a1659 F. Osborne Ess. ii, in Wks. (1673) 558 When God Mans out his Hosts, the Poor are found in the Forlorn Hope. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 51 We had mann'd three Boats after them. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 261 I immediately man'd out our Pinnace. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. viii. 320 Lysander at first manned out a few ships. 1835 A. Underwood Jrnl. 1 Sept. in Southwestern Hist. Q. (1928) 32 138 The steamer Laura was imiediately [sic] man [n] ed out and started to rescue the brig. c. transitive. Nautical. To place (members of a crew) at or on (a particular part or manual mechanism of a ship), as at the capstan to heave anchor, or on the yards to salute a distinguished person. Also of a member or members of the crew: to take up a position on or at (part of a ship). Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [verb (transitive)] > provide crew for (specific parts of a ship) man1627 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiii. 61 Mid ships men see the tops and yards well manned. 1697 J. Tutchin Search Honesty v. 16 The Boatswain's whistle, and they Man the Side. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Man the Capstan... Man well the Top... Man the Ladder. 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 174 He came close by our Vessel, we mann'd her, and gave him three Cheers. 1778 S. Barrington Jrnl. 4 May in Barrington Papers (1941) II. 4 The Queen came out of the harbour in His Majesty's Barge..all the Fleet manning and saluting with 21 guns. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxvi. 14 A better seaman never yet did man yard. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xv. 41 We manned the windlass, and hove, and hove away. 1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. viii. 238 As soon as this signal is perceived by those on shore, the whip..will be manned, and the hawser hauled off by it to the wreck. 1932 ‘N. Shute’ Lonely Road vi. 130 I saw them man the windlass. 1977 Navy News June 20/1 By 1873 ships no longer had masts for the spectacular ‘manning the yards’. 1987 A. Dillard Amer. Childhood (1990) ii. 200 He was so tall he had to lean under the housetop to man the wheel. d. transitive. Of a person: to occupy (a post, office, etc.); to fulfil (a function). Also: to fill (a post, office, etc.) with a person or people. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [verb (transitive)] > fill a vacant position > with a person man1821 1821 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 25 295 The pulpits were manned with seditious preachers. 1822 J. W. Croker in L. J. Jennings Croker Papers 25 Aug. (1884) I No Government..was ever better manned in the subordinate departments than ours. 1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 37/1 There are often twenty to thirty of these committees to be manned in a session. 1928 Times 21 July 13/3 They established an elaborate organization, under an important Minister, and manned by specially seconded Civil servants of high standing. 1983 H. Evans Good Times, Bad Times ii. 27 As it was Sunday we were not manning the office. 1991 ACE Bull. July–Aug. 3/3 The Anti Bullying Campaign..now has 13 helplines around the country, all organised and manned by parents of children who have been bullied. †2. a. transitive. To supply with inhabitants; to people. Also in extended use. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > [verb (transitive)] set971 publish?a1400 inhabitc1400 seedc1400 man?a1425 peoplea1475 peoplish1530 repletec1540 empeople1582 popule1588 world1589 appopulate1625 populate1885 ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 125 (MED) This yle is full wel enhabyted & full wel manned. 1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 445/1 Youre Toune..is wele enhabited and manned. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clvj^v The Englishemen wer not of puyssaunce, either to man the tounes..or to inhabite the countrey. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 366 Man-kinde with fruitfull Race began A little corner of the World to man. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 417 I wild that scattered wide They should goe man the world, and loe they bide. a1640 J. Day Parl. Bees sig. H Snakes, Adders, and Newts, that man these lakes. b. transitive. To fill up with men. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. xi. sig. Ii6 [He] slew the formost, that came first to hand, So long till all the entry was with bodies mand . View more context for this quotation †3. a. transitive. To provide (a person) with followers or attendants. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > be a retainer or follower of [verb (transitive)] > provide with retainers or followers man?1486 retinue1827 ?1486 in Notes & Queries (1996) 15/2 Who that mannyth hym with his kynne..Shall haue..full lytyll good seruyes. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Bii Counterfet capytaynes by me are mande. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 16 Thou art fitter to be worne in my cap, then to wait at my heels I was neuer manned with an agot till now. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 53 And heele buy me a horse in Smithfield, and I could get me but a wife in the stewes, I were man'd, horsde, and wiu'd. View more context for this quotation 1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue iii. sig. E2 To be mand with one bare Page and a Pandare. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 446 Such roysters and rake-shames as Mars is manned with, Hercules is not said to be attended withall. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia III. ix. ix. 303 Come along, Jack, I have seen her before; but she is too well manned already. b. transitive. To furnish (a horse) with a rider; to attend to or control (a horse). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > furnish horses with riders man1535 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xviii. 23 I wil geue y^e two thousande horses, let se yf thou be able to man them. 1655 E. Terry Voy. E.-India 411 To have horses alwayes in readinesse well mann'd. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 193 Man the horses, Eachin! †4. transitive. To escort (a person, esp. a woman). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > show (the way) [verb (transitive)] > escort a lady squirec1386 man1567 convoy1578 esquire1786 beau1843 cavalier1863 the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or woo [verb (transitive)] > make or have a date with > act as escort man1567 squirea1578 convoy1578 gallant1690 esquire1786 cavalier1863 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Dij A cut throte rutterkin..Who will, and dare retche forthe his hande, And man the throughe the croude. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 35 She sayd: will you not man vs Fidus, beeing so proper a man? 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. F3 Thou knowest that Barnses wife And I am foes, now man me to her house. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe iv. sig. F^v Wife, on with your ryding suite, and..let my Prentice get vp before thee, and man thee to Ware. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 71/1 A Waiting Man..goeth abroad with his..Mistriss as a Companion, Manning or taking her by the hand in all dangerous places. II. To act, or make act, as a man. †5. a. transitive (reflexive). To play the man; to act in a manly fashion. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [verb (reflexive)] mana1400 a1400 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Egerton) l. 3080 [c1330 Auch. Forþ a wente ase hot] And manned him welle [Auch. continues in a bot]. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 224 (MED) Þei manned þam so boldely, on þam had non entre. a1450 Seven Sages (Cambr. Dd.1.17) (1845) 2851 He mande [perh. read mannes] hym wel ate the knyght. b. transitive. to man out: to endure (something) bravely. Also to man it out: to act outwardly in a manly fashion. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1678 J. Dryden All for Love ii. 20 Well, I must Man it out. 1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver x. 28 It never dawned on me to man them [sc. dangers] out for others' sake. †6. a. transitive. to be manned: to be made human. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [verb (intransitive)] > become incarnate to become (also be, be made, be worth) manOE to take flesh and blooda1340 to be manned1577 1577 H. I. tr. Nicene Creed in tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. sig. ¶.v Iesus Christe..Who for vs men,..was incarnate and manned (was made man) [L. humanatus]. 1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra ii. iii. 214 Just like the raveings of H. Nicholas, David George, and others, who..discourse of being godded with God,..and of Gods being manned with them. b. transitive. To invest with manly qualities or appearance; to make manlike. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [verb (transitive)] to play the man1548 man1605 uneffeminate1631 manify1799 virilify1849 1605 G. Chapman in B. Jonson Sejanus sig. ¶3^v The strength, that mannd him, since he left his Source. ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses ix. 141 One Vlysses; who I thought was mand With great and goodly personage [Gk. ϕῶτα μέγαν καὶ καλὸν]. a1661 B. Holyday Pref. Persius in Decimus Junius Juvenalis & Aulus Decimus Flaccus Translated (1673) 289 The different seasons of his Life, and so riper age, might easily more man his countenance. 1702 R. Cocks Diary 2 Feb. in D. W. Hayton Parl. Diary (1996) 200 If you man boys and hors [sic] Colts you will never come to your Jou[rney's end]. 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 107 I am a man in love, I cried; My heart was early man'd. 1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 152 We manned ourselves in breeches and gaiters. 7. transitive (chiefly reflexive). To make manly or courageous; to brace up; to fortify the spirits or strengthen the courage of. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > encourage or embolden [verb (transitive)] hearteOE bieldc897 hardenc1175 elnea1225 hardyc1225 boldc1275 hardishc1325 endurec1384 assurec1386 emboldc1400 recomfortc1405 enharda1450 support1479 enhardy1483 animatec1487 encourage1490 emboldishc1503 hearten1524 bolden1526 spright1531 raise1533 accourage1534 enheart1545 to hearten on1555 hearten?1556 alacriate1560 bespirit1574 bebrave1576 to put in heart1579 to hearten up1580 embolden1583 bravea1593 enhearten1610 inspiritc1610 rehearten1611 blood1622 mana1625 valiant1628 flush1633 firm1639 buoy1645 embrave1648 reinhearten1652 reanimate1655 reinspirit1660 to give mettle to1689 warm1697 to lift (up) a person's spirits1711 reman1715 to make a man of1722 respirit1725 elate1726 to cocker up1762 enharden1779 nerve1799 boost1815 brace1816 high-mettle1831 braven1865 brazen1884 a1625 J. Fletcher Valentinian ii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaaaaaa4^v/1 Good your Grace, Retire, and man your selfe. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 26 Courage, is able at a pinch to man up it selfe. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 31 The conscience is an active sparke, and can easily man up all the powers of soule and body. 1678 J. Dryden All for Love i. 14 My Soul's up in Arms, And Mans each part about me. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 164. ¶5 Theodosius having mann'd his Soul with proper Thoughts and Reflections. 1717 S. Centlivre Cruel Gift iii. iii. 35 I feel my Spirits gather to my Heart, And man it out with Courage for the Tryal. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake v. 203 He mann'd himself with dauntless air. 1814 Ld. Byron Corsair ii. iii. 34 Submissive, yet with self-possession mann'd. 1875 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims ix. 238 Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me. 1883 J. Hawthorne Dust xxvii. 225 So he manned himself, and said, quietly and firmly: ‘Though [etc.]’. 1933 N. O. Solum tr. O. Rölvaag Boat of Longing i. xiii. 69 A barrier of leaden inertness filled the space between them. Then Nils manned himself. III. To manage, tame. 8. transitive. To be the master of; to manage, rule, or subdue. Now British regional and U.S. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [verb (transitive)] > have authority over lordshipc1350 maistriec1400 mastera1425 manc1426 overlordshipc1460 domine1481 to carry the sway of1549 overmastera1557 command1575 swinge1593 monarch1600 dominate1611 dominion1647 dominate1870 c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 22 (MED) Boldly þer-yn þay mon þe boþ halle. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 6436 To manne Armoriche [?a1400 Petyt to haf a reume] þou were worthi. 1540 in J. Ferguson Ecclesia Antiqua (1905) 286 The said Schir Robert Akynhed to seryf and manne [printed maune] the seid aulter of our ladie. 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. vi. 45 Who like a Cot-queene freezeth at the rocke, Whiles his breech't dame doth man the forrein stock. 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 337 Happy is your soul if Christ man the house..and command all. 1867 B. Brierley Traddlepin Fold iii Aw con never mon her. 1917 Dial. Notes 4 414 You can't hardly man that [tough steak], can you? 1952 F. C. Brown Coll. N. Carolina Folklore I. 563 He was cutting up so much that we had to man him. 9. transitive. Falconry. To accustom (a hawk, occasionally another bird) to the presence of people; to tame by carrying on the fist. Also (in extended use): to make tame or tractable. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > [verb (transitive)] > other hawking procedures enseamc1450 imp1477 rebuke1486 feat1508 mewc1515 canvas1559 cope1575 mail1575 man1575 watchc1575 to imp the wings of1596 pepper1618 stone1618 brail1643 feak1686 hack1873 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 79 To the ende your hawke may be the better manned, & the sooner reclaimed. 1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 47 There are no Hawkes sooner manned then they of India. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 30 After your horse is thus mand, & made gentle to be drest, shod, and handled. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 341 Some reclaime ravens, castrils, pies &c. and manne them for their pleasures. 1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xx. 227 Birds or fowles of Prey that are throughly mained and brought to the fist. 1668 T. Shadwell Sullen Lovers v. 84 Must people then be tam'd into Marriage? as they man Hawks with watching. 1753 Country Gentleman's Compan. II. iii. i. 40 All Hawks are generally manned after one Manner. 1834 Spectator 1 Nov. 1036 The Duke of St. Albans has manned eight hawks, and their training with leash and crease and lure is now in actual progress. 1881 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 39 He [sc. the young hawk] is ‘carried’ for some hours amongst men, children, dogs, and horses..; and by this means,..is soon ‘manned’. 1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep ii. 26 She has been well manned too, and Wattie has killed several brace of grouse with her. 1953 S. Bellow Adventures of Augie March xiv. 319 She was eager to imitate a British captain and an American couple who had taught or ‘manned’ golden and American eagles, some of the few since the Middle Ages. Phrasal verbs to man up 1. transitive. To supply with the full number of workers required. Cf. sense 1d. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [verb (transitive)] > provide with staff staff1859 to man up1947 society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [verb (transitive)] > supply with full number required to man up1947 1947 Times 6 Feb. 5/5 Must industries be fully ‘manned up’ rather than ‘manned’? Must the strong, simple transitive verb..become as obsolete in England as it appears to be in America? 1947 Hansard Commons 18 Dec. 1895/1 Mining and agriculture are the two most vital industries which we must man-up. 1955 Times 20 May 11/6 The need to ‘man up’ undermanned industries ‘in the national interest’ might justify higher wages. 1978 Economist 14 Jan. 71/2 Leyland's share of the home market is 24%, but it is manned up to cater for 35%. 1995 A. Booth Brit. Econ. Devel. since 1945 iv. 115 Ensuring that those industries which provide essential supplies are fully manned up. 2. intransitive. colloquial. To demonstrate manliness, toughness, or courage when faced with a difficult situation. Also: to take responsibility; to own up. Frequently in imperative. Cf. sense 7. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > manliness > behave manfully [verb (intransitive)] to be man enough1799 to play up?1888 to cowboy up1973 to grow a pair1987 to man up1996 1996 Palm Beach (Florida) Post 2 Mar. c1/2 He made a commitment, and to his credit, he manned up to it. 2003 R. Williams Fallout 94 Are you going to man up or what? 2006 New Yorker 9 Jan. 52/2 You gotta suck it up. Put on your tough skin, and man up! 2012 Star Beacon (Ashtabula, Ohio) 19 Oct. a4/2 She manned up. She took responsibility for the attacks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹int.eOEn.²OEn.³OEn.⁴1963pron.eOEadj.OEv.lOE
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