womanese
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]womanese (uncountable)
- (humorous) Women's way of speaking.
- 1957, Advertising Agency Magazine, volume 50, numbers 14-26, page 1:
- We agree with Mr. Stengel that it is because the Ladies' Home Journal understands women — and talks to them in womanese — that more women buy and read the Journal than any other magazine on earth.
- 2002, Jennifer Greene, The Woman Most Likely To—, page 155:
- He'd known ahead of time that walking into the house with three Sinclair women would be a test of his sanity, because they all talked at the same time, not just in double questions but in womanese.