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'Womanish' describes a man who looks or acts in a way people think of as typical of women, and — this is the whole point of the word — it is said as an insult. It is not a neutral description. Compare it with 'feminine', which is neutral or positive and is normally used about women; 'womanish' is used about men, and it means 'weak', 'silly' or 'not properly manly' in the mouth of whoever says it. That is a judgement about the speaker's values as much as about the person described, and modern English speakers are well aware of this: the word is now old-fashioned and is often felt to be sexist twice over, once against the man being mocked and once against women, since it treats 'like a woman' as an obvious bad thing. You will meet it mostly in older books and in reported speech ('he called him womanish'), rather than from anyone speaking naturally today. English has a small family of these '-ish' words for people — 'childish', 'mannish', 'boyish' — and it is worth noticing that '-ish' on a person almost always adds this flavour of 'too much like, in a way I don't approve of'.
（形容男人）女人氣的、娘娘腔的（帶貶意，是罵人的話）
組成'woman' + '-ish'. The suffix '-ish' here means 'having the qualities of', and when it is used about a person it usually adds a note of disapproval.
原始詞典資料3 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。
womanishadj/ˈwʊmənɪʃ/
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derogatoryCharacteristic of a woman; effeminate, feminine.
- […] Romans novv / Haue Thevves, and Limbes, like to their Anceſtors; / But vvoe the vvhile, our Fathers mindes are dead, / And vve are gouern'd vvith our Mothers ſpirits, / Our yoake, and ſufferance, ſhevv vs VVomaniſh.
- The Fence was a proper Park paling in excellent condition; with clusters of fine Elms, or rows of old Thorns following its line almost every where.—Almost must be stipulated—for there were vacant spaces & through one of these, Charlotte as soon as they entered the Enclosure, caught a glimpse over the pales of something White & Womanish in the field on the other side;—it was a something which immediately brought Miss B. into her head—& stepping to the pales, she saw indeed—& very decidedly, in spite of the Mist; Miss B—seated, not far before her, at the foot of the bank which sloped down from the outside of the Paling & which a narrow Path seemed to skirt along;—Miss Brereton seated, apparently very composedly—& Sir E. D. by her side.
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Carried out by or pertaining to a woman.
- And gan recomfort her in her rude vvyſe, / VVith vvomaniſh compaſſion of her plaint, / VViping the teares from her ſuffuſed eyes, […]
womanishverb/ˈwʊmənɪʃ/
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obsoleterareTo make womanish.
- Then the Lord Gaspar: “I believe music,” quoth he, “together with many other vanities, is meet for women, and peradventure for some also that have the likeness of men, but not for them that be men indeed, who ought not with such delicacies to womanish their minds and bring themselves in that sort to dread death.”
- [T]his effeminate love of a Woman, dothe ſo womaniſh a man, that, yf yow yeelde to yt, yt will not onely make yow a famous Amazon but a Launder, a Diſtaff ſpinner, or whatſoever other vyle occupacyon theyre Idle heades can Imagyn, and theyre weyke handes ꝑforme [performe]: […]
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。