"mannishness" meaning in English

See mannishness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From mannish + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|mannish|ness}} mannish + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} mannishness (uncountable)
  1. The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-mannishness-en-noun-Nxjl~uwI
  2. (Caribbean) Impertinence; precociousness. Tags: Caribbean, uncountable
    Sense id: en-mannishness-en-noun-glWaq54y Categories (other): Caribbean English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 90 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 14 86 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 88 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 96
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mannish",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "mannish + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mannish + -ness.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "mannishness (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1903, Mabel Atkinson, Review of Lily Braun, Die Frauenfrage: ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche Seite in American Journal of Sociology, 1 March, 1903, p. 703,\nShe thinks also that when once the first ardor of revolution, with its inevitable tendency to mannishness, has passed by, women who work need lose none of their proper grace and charm—a view which is certainly borne out by facts."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, A. S. M. Hutchinson, This Freedom, Part Two, Chapter 2:",
          "text": "I hate women in stiff collars and shirts and ties and mannishness like that […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Debra Spark, “Chocolate Mice”, in New England Review, volume 20, number 4, page 123:",
          "text": "There was a certain thickness to her movement and appearance, a rough mannishness, despite the large breasts which she tried to flatten beneath a harness-like bra, stolen from an older sister's dresser.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity."
      ],
      "id": "en-mannishness-en-noun-Nxjl~uwI",
      "links": [
        [
          "mannish",
          "mannish"
        ],
        [
          "manliness",
          "manliness"
        ],
        [
          "masculinity",
          "masculinity"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Caribbean English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 90",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 86",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ness",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 5:",
          "text": "Chinta came straight up to him and said, with the mannishness she put on when Mrs Tulsi was away, ‘Brother-in-law, I want you to know that until you came to this house there were no crab-catchers here.’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Impertinence; precociousness."
      ],
      "id": "en-mannishness-en-noun-glWaq54y",
      "links": [
        [
          "Impertinence",
          "impertinence"
        ],
        [
          "precociousness",
          "precociousness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Caribbean) Impertinence; precociousness."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Caribbean",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mannishness"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ness",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mannish",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "mannish + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mannish + -ness.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "mannishness (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1903, Mabel Atkinson, Review of Lily Braun, Die Frauenfrage: ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche Seite in American Journal of Sociology, 1 March, 1903, p. 703,\nShe thinks also that when once the first ardor of revolution, with its inevitable tendency to mannishness, has passed by, women who work need lose none of their proper grace and charm—a view which is certainly borne out by facts."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, A. S. M. Hutchinson, This Freedom, Part Two, Chapter 2:",
          "text": "I hate women in stiff collars and shirts and ties and mannishness like that […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Debra Spark, “Chocolate Mice”, in New England Review, volume 20, number 4, page 123:",
          "text": "There was a certain thickness to her movement and appearance, a rough mannishness, despite the large breasts which she tried to flatten beneath a harness-like bra, stolen from an older sister's dresser.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mannish",
          "mannish"
        ],
        [
          "manliness",
          "manliness"
        ],
        [
          "masculinity",
          "masculinity"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Caribbean English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 5:",
          "text": "Chinta came straight up to him and said, with the mannishness she put on when Mrs Tulsi was away, ‘Brother-in-law, I want you to know that until you came to this house there were no crab-catchers here.’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Impertinence; precociousness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Impertinence",
          "impertinence"
        ],
        [
          "precociousness",
          "precociousness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Caribbean) Impertinence; precociousness."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Caribbean",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mannishness"
}

Download raw JSONL data for mannishness meaning in English (2.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.