womanishadj.

Brit.

/ˈwʊmənɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈwʊmənɪʃ/

Forms: see woman n. and -ish suffix¹; also Middle English wymmenysch.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: woman n., -ish suffix¹.

Etymology: < woman n. + -ish suffix¹. Compare earlier womanly adj. and also earlier mannish adj.In the form wymmenysch probably reflecting the plural of woman n. (perhaps arising as a result of reanalysis of α. forms at mannish adj. and adv.). Compare later womenish adj.

1. That is considered to be characteristic of a woman; womanly, feminine. Frequently derogatory.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [adjective]

femalea1382

womanisha1393

faira1450

women's-kinsc1450

feminatea1533

womankind?c1570

womenkind1571

sex1700

mollyish1801

petticoated1824

femme1925

the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > characteristic of

womanisha1393

womanlyc1400

feminec1425

femininec1425

she1531

wifish1535

female1566

ladylike1566

womenish1604

tender-hefteda1616

ladied1628

feminary1630

feminile1650

feminal1875

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 855 Sche wolde hire goode name kepe For feere of wommanysshe schame.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 3055 As he which hath himself restreigned..Out of the manere of a man, And tok his wommannysshe chiere.

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 694 Tho wo[r]des and þo wommannyssh [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 womanliche] þynges.

c1450 in Mod. Philol. (1924) 21 392 (MED) Of the forhede playn and wommanysshe To discryue my hert slepyth for faut of englysshe.

1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 760/2 Her questions..wer like to be but friuolous & womannish.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 7^v A voice, not softe, weake, piping, womannishe, but audible, stronge, and manlike.

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. H1^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Womanish, encountrings, vnseemely lyings, and childish threatnings.

1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Maides Trag. i. sig. B2^v She has a brother..Like her, a face as womanish as hers.

1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis viii. 14 So weak, so womanish a woe.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 363. ¶9 Eve's Complaint..is wonderfully beautiful: The Sentiments..have something in them particularly soft and womanish.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 203 Nothing, said she, but Womanish Curiosity.

1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. II. 207 She betrayed neither weakness, nor womanish submission.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xvii. 245 To love her [sc. the camel] for the sake of her gentle, and womanish ways.

1889 Sat. Rev. 6 Apr. 402/2 He must have been under the influence of fears which it would be an excess of flattery to call womanish.

1918 Times 3 Dec. 3 That silly, womanish revenge which exasperates enemies without weakening them.

1943 A. Bax Farewell my Youth 105 His expression was gentle and even almost womanish.

1957 M. McCarthy Memories Catholic Girlhood 144 He found the womanish rhetoric of republican institutions oppressive.

2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 171 He emits a piercing, womanish scream and the gun skitters across the floor.

2. Of or belonging to a woman or women; used or done by women.

ΘΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > relating to

wifelyeOE

womanisha1393

femalea1398

wivenc1400

feminine1490

womanly1562

gynaecian1640

muliebral1651

feminal1739

the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > carried on by

womanisha1393

female1579

feminine1649

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 495 (MED) With so swete a stevene Lik to the melodie of hevene In wommanysshe vois thei singe.

c1555 Lady Fane Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1445/1 I..doe prepare..my womanishe backe to their burthens of reproufe.

1610 A. Cooke Pope Ioane 100 They might haue pretended that they would not be subiect to a womanish and an whorish gouernment.

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iii. 130 Spinning, weaving, and the like womanish chares.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 342 Peplum is properly a womanish Pall or Veil.

1827 G. Griffin Tales Munster Festivals I. 226 The office alluded to [sc. milking cows]..is looked upon as exclusively womanish and unworthy of the dignity of a man.

1896 F. Harrison in 19th Cent. Mar. 501 A separate degree-conferring and exclusively womanish university.

1936 J. Whitney Elizabeth Fry vi. 119 It might well seem in all this overwhelming mass of womanish duty that Elizabeth's destiny had abandoned her.

1996 J. Whyte Singing Sword (1997) viii. 163 I loved her deeply as a woman, so I seldom considered the steel that underlay her womanish exterior.

a. Chiefly derogatory. Of a person: resembling a woman in appearance or behaviour; feminine; effeminate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > effeminate man

womanisha1393

womanlike1440

feminatea1533

effeminate1549

womanlike1565

cockney1573

feminine1614

androgynous1628

muliebrious1652

petit maître1729

Miss Nancyish1855

gynaecomorphous1865

gynandrous1878

girly-girly1882

nancified1901

wimbly-wambly1929

tapette1930

queeny1936

female1940

poofed-up1964

pansy-ass1976

wussy1977

effete1981

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 1530 (MED) He syh wher sat a creature, A lothly wommannysch figure.

c1425 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Linc. Oxf.) (1850) 1 Cor. xiv. 34 Gloss. Man that is vnstable in mynde..he is vndirstonden a woman... To al siche wommanysche men Y vndirstonde Poule to bidde silence in the chirche.

1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 97 Elyne..was..More angelyke then womannyshe of hewe.

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. §2. 167 If musicke can make warriers womanish.

1670 T. Pierce Signal Diagnostick i. iv. 37 Such as is our Love, such will be our Submissions... 'Tis This hath made so many womanish uxorious Husbands.

1767 Public Advertiser 20 Feb. I have a strong Inclination to write you a very long Postscript, but..I shall suppress it, by which I shall not..appear too womanish.

1849 E. Bennett Leni-Leoti viii. 39 I..sot down to my lone camp-fire, feelin as used up and womanish as ef I'd shuk with the ager a month.

1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lxv. 324 Lascivious Otho, gluttonous Vitellius, savage Domitian, womanish Elagabalus.

1914 H. R. Martin Barnabetta xxv. 221 I think I always imagined before I knew him, that it was only weak, womanish men that were so genteel.

1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes v. 213 He was the worst kind of sycophant, a whimpering, womanish, two-faced Stinky Pete.

1990 Rouge Winter 19/2 She sometimes leans..towards the costume of the woman, the ‘womanish’ lesbian/the femme.

b. Of a girl: resembling an adult woman in appearance or behaviour; spec. (Caribbean and in African-American usage) overconfident, impertinent, ‘full of oneself’.

ΚΠ

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 9 I was now about Ten Years old, and began to look a little Womanish, for I was mighty Grave, very Mannerly, and as I had often heard the Ladies say I was Prety.

1788 J. Wesley Jrnl. 10 June in Extract Jrnl. (1791) XXI. 111 This girl..being then between fourteen and fifteen years old. But she was then quite a womanish girl.

1848 A. Sidney Sadness & Gladness I. viii. 138 There is nothing more odious than a womanish child, aping the follies of her elders.

1881 Sunday at Home 16 July 450/1 The forward, self-possessed, womanish, girls that had, to their great annoyance, sprung up of late years.

1932 R. Macaulay Shadow Flies ii. 180 He considered her rather too hoyting a tomrigg, and if she didn't grow more womanish she'd end a horse-godmother.

1967 Negro Digest July 61/1 These kids were either timid and backwards or too manish [sic] or womanish for their ages to suit Mrs. Turner.

1990 J. Buffong in N. Payne & J. Buffong Jump-up-and-kiss-me 124 I didn't tell Mammy because she always on about how the little girls in the village womanish.

1996 D. E. McDowell Leaving Pipe Shop (1998) 126 ‘You are a womanish Little Miss,’ Grandma Edie used to say with that deep gutteral sound that she would summon for mention of anything distasteful.

†4. Having a great inclination or liking for women; womanizing. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] > fond of women

womanish1529

gynophilous1623

gynophilian1647

mulierous1652

mulierose1721

philogynaecic1870

philogynous1892

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i. xii. 18/1 A freer wylbe womanysh loke the holy horeson neuer so sayntly.

1579 [see womanishness n. at Derivatives].

Compounds

C1. Parasynthetic.

womanish-hearted adj. now rare

ΚΠ

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job cxxxix. 655/1 Euen they whiche are mightie, and ought not to enuie their inferiours, are notwithstanding so womanish hearted, that they are afrayde of them.

a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr3/2 One so full of childish feare, And womanish hearted.

1824 J. McHenry O'Halloran I. vi. 87 O'Halloran is too womanish-hearted, to give good advice in this case.

1906 Chambers's Jrnl. 15 July 526/1 Christie falls in love with a painter, Charles Gatty, a poor womanish-hearted young man.

womanish-minded adj. now rare

ΚΠ

1898 H. Sutcliffe Ricroft of Withens xv. 189 Niver sin' I war a lad do I mind sich womanish-minded skies, nor clouds so full o' wickedness.

1913 Independent 29 May 1196/2 I wish The Independent would be less womanish-minded on the Great Causeless Cause.

C2.

† womanish-made adj. Obsolete (of a man) effeminate.In quot. with reference to male prostitutes frequenting the temple.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 3 Kings xv. 12 He tooc awei þe wommanysch maad men [L. effeminatos] of þe lond.

Derivatives

ˈwomanishness n.

ΘΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > fact or state of being

womanheadc1390

womanhooda1413

womanishness1545

womankind1549

womenhead1555

womanship1608

feminineness1810

femininism1824

feminity1854

femininity1856

femininitude1878

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 10^v The minstrelsie of lutes..is farre more fitte for the womannishnesse of it to dwell in the courte among ladies.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 43 That his womannishenes was rather to satisfie lust, then of any great loue.

1664 H. More Expos. 7 Epist. Pref. sig. c.vj^v The more-then-ordinary Womanishness of the Church of Rome in that Intervall.

1797 T. Beddoes Alternatives Compared 45 Virulence of rancour, and womanishness of sympathy.

1860 Sat. Rev. 7 Jan. 12/2 The clergyman's acquired womanishness.

1959 P. Marshall Brown Girl, Brownstones i. iii. 45 Oh, your womanishness gon do for you, soul.

2000 Northern Echo (Nexis) 9 Nov. 13 When we first met my wife fell for my masculinity and I love her for her womanishness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	womanish
释义	womanishadj. Brit. /ˈwʊmənɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈwʊmənɪʃ/ Forms: see woman n. and -ish suffix¹; also Middle English wymmenysch. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: woman n., -ish suffix¹. Etymology: < woman n. + -ish suffix¹. Compare earlier womanly adj. and also earlier mannish adj.In the form wymmenysch probably reflecting the plural of woman n. (perhaps arising as a result of reanalysis of α. forms at mannish adj. and adv.). Compare later womenish adj. 1. That is considered to be characteristic of a woman; womanly, feminine. Frequently derogatory. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] femalea1382 womanisha1393 faira1450 women's-kinsc1450 feminatea1533 womankind?c1570 womenkind1571 sex1700 mollyish1801 petticoated1824 femme1925 the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > characteristic of womanisha1393 womanlyc1400 feminec1425 femininec1425 she1531 wifish1535 female1566 ladylike1566 womenish1604 tender-hefteda1616 ladied1628 feminary1630 feminile1650 feminal1875 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 855 Sche wolde hire goode name kepe For feere of wommanysshe schame. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 3055 As he which hath himself restreigned..Out of the manere of a man, And tok his wommannysshe chiere. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 694 Tho wo[r]des and þo wommannyssh [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 womanliche] þynges. c1450 in Mod. Philol. (1924) 21 392 (MED) Of the forhede playn and wommanysshe To discryue my hert slepyth for faut of englysshe. 1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 760/2 Her questions..wer like to be but friuolous & womannish. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 7^v A voice, not softe, weake, piping, womannishe, but audible, stronge, and manlike. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. H1^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Womanish, encountrings, vnseemely lyings, and childish threatnings. 1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Maides Trag. i. sig. B2^v She has a brother..Like her, a face as womanish as hers. 1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis viii. 14 So weak, so womanish a woe. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 363. ¶9 Eve's Complaint..is wonderfully beautiful: The Sentiments..have something in them particularly soft and womanish. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 203 Nothing, said she, but Womanish Curiosity. 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. II. 207 She betrayed neither weakness, nor womanish submission. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xvii. 245 To love her [sc. the camel] for the sake of her gentle, and womanish ways. 1889 Sat. Rev. 6 Apr. 402/2 He must have been under the influence of fears which it would be an excess of flattery to call womanish. 1918 Times 3 Dec. 3 That silly, womanish revenge which exasperates enemies without weakening them. 1943 A. Bax Farewell my Youth 105 His expression was gentle and even almost womanish. 1957 M. McCarthy Memories Catholic Girlhood 144 He found the womanish rhetoric of republican institutions oppressive. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 171 He emits a piercing, womanish scream and the gun skitters across the floor. 2. Of or belonging to a woman or women; used or done by women. ΘΠ the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > relating to wifelyeOE womanisha1393 femalea1398 wivenc1400 feminine1490 womanly1562 gynaecian1640 muliebral1651 feminal1739 the world > people > person > woman > [adjective] > carried on by womanisha1393 female1579 feminine1649 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 495 (MED) With so swete a stevene Lik to the melodie of hevene In wommanysshe vois thei singe. c1555 Lady Fane Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1445/1 I..doe prepare..my womanishe backe to their burthens of reproufe. 1610 A. Cooke Pope Ioane 100 They might haue pretended that they would not be subiect to a womanish and an whorish gouernment. 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iii. 130 Spinning, weaving, and the like womanish chares. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 342 Peplum is properly a womanish Pall or Veil. 1827 G. Griffin Tales Munster Festivals I. 226 The office alluded to [sc. milking cows]..is looked upon as exclusively womanish and unworthy of the dignity of a man. 1896 F. Harrison in 19th Cent. Mar. 501 A separate degree-conferring and exclusively womanish university. 1936 J. Whitney Elizabeth Fry vi. 119 It might well seem in all this overwhelming mass of womanish duty that Elizabeth's destiny had abandoned her. 1996 J. Whyte Singing Sword (1997) viii. 163 I loved her deeply as a woman, so I seldom considered the steel that underlay her womanish exterior. 3. a. Chiefly derogatory. Of a person: resembling a woman in appearance or behaviour; feminine; effeminate. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [adjective] > effeminate man womanisha1393 womanlike1440 feminatea1533 effeminate1549 womanlike1565 cockney1573 feminine1614 androgynous1628 muliebrious1652 petit maître1729 Miss Nancyish1855 gynaecomorphous1865 gynandrous1878 girly-girly1882 nancified1901 wimbly-wambly1929 tapette1930 queeny1936 female1940 poofed-up1964 pansy-ass1976 wussy1977 effete1981 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 1530 (MED) He syh wher sat a creature, A lothly wommannysch figure. c1425 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Linc. Oxf.) (1850) 1 Cor. xiv. 34 Gloss. Man that is vnstable in mynde..he is vndirstonden a woman... To al siche wommanysche men Y vndirstonde Poule to bidde silence in the chirche. 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 97 Elyne..was..More angelyke then womannyshe of hewe. 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. §2. 167 If musicke can make warriers womanish. 1670 T. Pierce Signal Diagnostick i. iv. 37 Such as is our Love, such will be our Submissions... 'Tis This hath made so many womanish uxorious Husbands. 1767 Public Advertiser 20 Feb. I have a strong Inclination to write you a very long Postscript, but..I shall suppress it, by which I shall not..appear too womanish. 1849 E. Bennett Leni-Leoti viii. 39 I..sot down to my lone camp-fire, feelin as used up and womanish as ef I'd shuk with the ager a month. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lxv. 324 Lascivious Otho, gluttonous Vitellius, savage Domitian, womanish Elagabalus. 1914 H. R. Martin Barnabetta xxv. 221 I think I always imagined before I knew him, that it was only weak, womanish men that were so genteel. 1968 F. Exley Fan's Notes v. 213 He was the worst kind of sycophant, a whimpering, womanish, two-faced Stinky Pete. 1990 Rouge Winter 19/2 She sometimes leans..towards the costume of the woman, the ‘womanish’ lesbian/the femme. b. Of a girl: resembling an adult woman in appearance or behaviour; spec. (Caribbean and in African-American usage) overconfident, impertinent, ‘full of oneself’. ΚΠ 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 9 I was now about Ten Years old, and began to look a little Womanish, for I was mighty Grave, very Mannerly, and as I had often heard the Ladies say I was Prety. 1788 J. Wesley Jrnl. 10 June in Extract Jrnl. (1791) XXI. 111 This girl..being then between fourteen and fifteen years old. But she was then quite a womanish girl. 1848 A. Sidney Sadness & Gladness I. viii. 138 There is nothing more odious than a womanish child, aping the follies of her elders. 1881 Sunday at Home 16 July 450/1 The forward, self-possessed, womanish, girls that had, to their great annoyance, sprung up of late years. 1932 R. Macaulay Shadow Flies ii. 180 He considered her rather too hoyting a tomrigg, and if she didn't grow more womanish she'd end a horse-godmother. 1967 Negro Digest July 61/1 These kids were either timid and backwards or too manish [sic] or womanish for their ages to suit Mrs. Turner. 1990 J. Buffong in N. Payne & J. Buffong Jump-up-and-kiss-me 124 I didn't tell Mammy because she always on about how the little girls in the village womanish. 1996 D. E. McDowell Leaving Pipe Shop (1998) 126 ‘You are a womanish Little Miss,’ Grandma Edie used to say with that deep gutteral sound that she would summon for mention of anything distasteful. †4. Having a great inclination or liking for women; womanizing. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] > fond of women womanish1529 gynophilous1623 gynophilian1647 mulierous1652 mulierose1721 philogynaecic1870 philogynous1892 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i. xii. 18/1 A freer wylbe womanysh loke the holy horeson neuer so sayntly. 1579 [see womanishness n. at Derivatives]. Compounds C1. Parasynthetic. a. womanish-hearted adj. now rare ΚΠ 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job cxxxix. 655/1 Euen they whiche are mightie, and ought not to enuie their inferiours, are notwithstanding so womanish hearted, that they are afrayde of them. a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr3/2 One so full of childish feare, And womanish hearted. 1824 J. McHenry O'Halloran I. vi. 87 O'Halloran is too womanish-hearted, to give good advice in this case. 1906 Chambers's Jrnl. 15 July 526/1 Christie falls in love with a painter, Charles Gatty, a poor womanish-hearted young man. b. womanish-minded adj. now rare ΚΠ 1898 H. Sutcliffe Ricroft of Withens xv. 189 Niver sin' I war a lad do I mind sich womanish-minded skies, nor clouds so full o' wickedness. 1913 Independent 29 May 1196/2 I wish The Independent would be less womanish-minded on the Great Causeless Cause. C2. † womanish-made adj. Obsolete (of a man) effeminate.In quot. with reference to male prostitutes frequenting the temple. Π a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 3 Kings xv. 12 He tooc awei þe wommanysch maad men [L. effeminatos] of þe lond. Derivatives ˈwomanishness n. ΘΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > fact or state of being womanheadc1390 womanhooda1413 womanishness1545 womankind1549 womenhead1555 womanship1608 feminineness1810 femininism1824 feminity1854 femininity1856 femininitude1878 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 10^v The minstrelsie of lutes..is farre more fitte for the womannishnesse of it to dwell in the courte among ladies. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 43 That his womannishenes was rather to satisfie lust, then of any great loue. 1664 H. More Expos. 7 Epist. Pref. sig. c.vj^v The more-then-ordinary Womanishness of the Church of Rome in that Intervall. 1797 T. Beddoes Alternatives Compared 45 Virulence of rancour, and womanishness of sympathy. 1860 Sat. Rev. 7 Jan. 12/2 The clergyman's acquired womanishness. 1959 P. Marshall Brown Girl, Brownstones i. iii. 45 Oh, your womanishness gon do for you, soul. 2000 Northern Echo (Nexis) 9 Nov. 13 When we first met my wife fell for my masculinity and I love her for her womanishness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † womanishv. Forms: see womanish adj. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: womanish adj. Etymology: < womanish adj. Obsolete. transitive. To make womanish; to feminize. ΘΠ the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [verb (transitive)] effeminate1531 womanish1561 feminine1583 womanizea1586 hermaphroditize1598 unman1599 woman1611 smock1614 effeminizec1616 evirate1627 disman1628 lady1656 emolliate1802 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. I.ij Men..who ought not with suche delicacies [as music] to womannishe [It. effeminare] their mindes. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. O.3 Beeing vsed in publique assemblies..it [sc. musick] estraungeth ye mind, stireth vp filthie lust, womannisheth ye minde, rauisheth the hart, enflameth concupisence, and bringeth in vncleannes. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xii. sig. H4^v This effeminate loue of a woman, doth so womanish [edd. 1593–1674 womanize] a man, that (if he yeeld to it) it will..make him..a launder, a distaff-spinner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.a1382v.1561
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womanishadj.

Compounds

Derivatives

† womanishv.