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Mannish means “like a man,” but not in the warm way manly does. You almost always hear it about a woman, or about her clothes, her walk, her voice, her haircut. A mannish jacket is cut like a man’s. A mannish voice, said of a woman, is low and hard. The dictionary often marks that this is used especially when the speaker finds that look — so the is sitting inside the word, not only in the listener’s ear. It can be a straight description of a coat. It can also be a way of saying she has off the path people wanted her on. If you want a kind word, this is usually not it. Many people now avoid it. Use manly for praise of “male” strength; save mannish for the “like a man, said of a woman” sense, and handle it with care. Though actually, the older English word behind it just meant “human.” That “human” meaning has dropped out of ordinary English. What is left is the “like a man” meaning, and it often comes with a look.
男性化的、像男人的（多用來形容女性；常不太客氣。口語「男人婆」更重，也很不禮貌。）
組成From Middle English mannish, from earlier mennish (“human”), from Old English mennisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *mannisk, from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz (“human”). By the pieces you can still see: man + -ish. An old relative of the same “human” root later shows up in English as mensch, but that is a different word now.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mannishadj/ˈmæn.ɪʃ/
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Resembling or characteristic of a man, masculine.
- A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loathed than an effeminate man In time of action.
- She detested the look of herself in large goggles, detested being forced to tie on her hat, detested the heavy, mannish coat of rough tweed that Sir Philip insisted she must wear when motoring.
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Resembling or characteristic of a grown man (as opposed to a boy); mature, adult.
- And let us, Polydore, though now our voices Have got the mannish crack, sing him to the ground,
- And so, with an air of mannish superiority, he seems rather to pity the bashful girl, than to apprehend that he shall not succeed.
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Impertinent; assertive.
- 2014, Kurt Campbell, “Police left 15-year-old to die — Relatives,” inewsguyana.com, 11 March, 2014, “They could have saved his life because he was still living, one woman said when she told the police that the boy was alive he said leave him to die, he’s wanted,” Giddings cried, adding that “I know he bad, he mannish, he does misbehave but I never know he was wanted… how can they make the claim without medical assistance.”
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Precocious.
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archaicfantasyResembling or characteristic of a human being, in form or nature; human.
- The Westron was a Mannish speech, though enriched and softened under Elvish influence.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。