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单词 man-woman
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man-womann.

Brit. /ˈmanˌwʊmən/, /ˌmanˈwʊmən/, U.S. /ˈˌmænˈˌwʊmən/
Inflections: Plural men-women.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: man n.1, woman n.
Etymology: < man n.1 + woman n. Compare Middle French, French homme-femme (1569 as adjective, 1782 as noun).
Originally: a person with the physical traits of both sexes, a hermaphrodite. Also (in early use derogatory): a person who combines the qualities associated with both sexes; (occasionally) a woman of masculine characteristics or behaviour.
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the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > state or condition of having characteristics of both sexes > person or animal
scratc1000
androgyneOE
hermaphroditec1400
scarth?a1513
man-woman1587
she-mana1613
epicene1641
will-jill1677
morphoditea1726
bisexual1879
pseudohermaphrodite1881
harumfrodite1896
sex mosaic1903
intersex1916
intersexual1917
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvi. 458 Concerning the creation of Man, the Ægiptians say hee was created both Male and female. Herevpon Plato gathereth that he was a Manwoman or Herkinalson [Fr. il fut fait Androgyne, ou Hermaphrodite].
1620 (title) Hic mulier: or, the man-woman: being a medicine to cure the staggers in the masculine-feminines of our times.
a1666 R. Fanshawe tr. A. Hurtado de Mendoza Querer por solo Querer (1670) iii. 108 I am so in wroth With this Man Woman, Angel-Devil..That could I light upon her Grace, I'd tell her..y' are a Woman, not an Amazon.
1736 H. Fielding Pasquin ii. 14 We shall see Faribelly, the strange Man-Woman.
1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda ii. xvi. 139 Juba, with much simplicity, expressed his aversion of the man-woman who lived in the house with them.
1889 Ld. Tennyson Demeter & other Poems 166 But, friend, man-woman is not woman-man.
1894 A. E. Abbott in Idler Sept. 194 That stage of progress has been passed, and, as an outcome, we have the ‘Emancipated Woman’, or ‘Man-Woman’.
1920 D. Lindsay Voy. Arcturus xviii. 240 ‘What do you call men-women?’ ‘Persons of mixed sex, like yourself.’
1975 P. G. Winslow Death of Angel iv. 109 The new man-woman, emerging from the chaos that is matter.
1990 C. Paglia Sexual Personae xxiii. 602 The epic catalogs of Leaves of Grass are the poet's gluttonous self-fecundation or female swelling, a portrait of the artist as Great Mother, a Universal Man-Woman.

Derivatives

man-ˈwomanly adj. masculine as well as feminine in character.
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the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > having characteristics of both sexes
bisexed1605
hermaphroditical1605
epicene1607
hermaphrodite1607
hermaphroditic1631
promiscuousa1637
androgynal1646
masculo-feminine1646
androgynous1651
ambosexous1656
hermaphroditish1764
androgyne1765
bisexual1793
hermaphrodital1823
heautandrous1837
amphigonic1876
intersexual1916
intersex1920
intersexed1921
harumphroditic1924
man-womanly1929
ambosexual1931
bi-gendered1976
1929 V. Woolf Room of one's Own 148 It would be well to test what one meant by man-womanly.
1961 Yale French Stud. No. 27. 11 Virginia Woolf seems right when she asserts..that it is necessary for a writer to be man-womanly and conversely woman-manly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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