manwise
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]manwise (comparative more manwise, superlative most manwise)
- In a way befitting a man.
- 2000, Linda Grant De Pauw, Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present:
- In the enemy army there also were women on horseback, in armor and steel helmets who fought manwise; they hurled themselves into the thick of the battle […]
- 2005, John Fox, The Heart of the Hills:
- For a little while Jason rode with his hands folded manwise on the pommel of his saddle and with manlike emotions in his heart […]
- (not comparable) In terms of a man.
- 1995, Michael Stein, Probabilities:
- But she had this urgent need to think of herself in terms of who she was with, manwise […]
- 1995, Carrie Fisher, Delusions of Grandma:
- At the moment, Cora was basically at a standstill, manwise, somewhere between the next to come and the last to go. The last to go had been Charles […]