The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mannish \Man"nish\, a. [Man + -ish: cf. AS. mennisc, menisc.]
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Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.
--Chaucer.But yet it was a figure Most like to mannish creature.
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Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike, masculine.
--Chaucer.A woman impudent and mannish grown.
--Shak. Fond of men; -- said of a woman. [Obs.]
--Chaucer. [1913 Webster] -- Man"nish*ly,adv. -- Man"nish*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity
Usage examples of "mannishness".
She was very much a heterosexual woman in love with a strong, handsome man, and yet her mannishness intensified and her voice, if anything, seemed even deeper, with all traces of femininity in her vanishing as things had gone on.