womanchild

See also: woman-child and woman child

English

Etymology

From woman +‎ child.

Pronunciation

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Noun

womanchild (plural womanchildren or womenchildren)

1. An immature woman.

   Coordinate term: manchild

   • 1988 February 12, Anthony Adler, “Send in the Hicks”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Where the Henley heroine comes across as an awkward, desperate, emotionally battered womanchild, the knockoff's simply dumb, needy, and infantile.