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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
womanish
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Burden thought him a weak womanish fool, despising his red eyes and the muscle that twitched in his cheek.
▪ His face was girlishly pretty, with a sort of womanish frivolity in his look.
▪ Posi has the most womanish ability to choose the worst moments to disrupt a man's thoughts - usually with something trivial.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Womanish

Womanish \Wom"an*ish\, a. Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate. `` Thy tears are womanish.''
--Shak. `` Womanish entreaties.''
--Macaulay.

A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but audible, strong, and manlike.
--Ascham. [1913 Webster] -- Wom"an*ish*ly, adv. -- Wom"an*ish*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
womanish

late 14c., "womanly, feminine; resembling a woman;" of a man or men, "behaving in the manner of a woman, effeminate," from woman + -ish. Related: Womanishly; womanishness.

Wiktionary
womanish

a. 1 (context often pejorative English) Characteristic of a woman; feminine; effeminate. (from 14th c.) 2 Carried out by or pertaining to a woman. (from 14th c.)

WordNet
womanish

adj. having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men; "womanish tears"

Usage examples of "womanish".

I reproached him with being as womanish as we were in going down on his knees to the general behind Natacha and me, when it became necessary to kill all those poor moujiks of Presnia.

The Turks wiped their knives clean and once more sat cross-legged in the coffeehouses, smoking their narghiles and listening with half-closed eyes to the chubby-faced Turkish boy as he sang in Ms womanish voice.

Turks wiped their knives clean and once more sat cross-legged in the coffeehouses, smoking their narghiles and listening with half-closed eyes to the chubby-faced Turkish boy as he sang in Ms womanish voice.

I reproached him with being as womanish as we were in going down on his knees to the general behind Natacha and me, when it became necessary to kill all those poor moujiks of Presnia.

In Kesey's view, modern society is a reflection of womanish values archetypically responsible, cautious, repressive, deceitful, and solemn.

In Kesey's view, modern society is a reflection of womanish values--archetypically responsible, cautious, repressive, deceitful, and solemn.