单词 | man-woman |
释义 | man-womann. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1587 |
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