Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mannish"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mannish \Man"nish\, a. [Man + -ish: cf. AS. mennisc, menisc.]
1. Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.
--Chaucer.
But yet it was a figure Most like to mannish
creature. --Gower.
2. Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man,
manlike, masculine. --Chaucer.
A woman impudent and mannish grown. --Shak.
3. Fond of men; -- said of a woman. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --
{Man"nish*ly},adv. -- {Man"nish*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mannish
adj 1: resembling or imitative of or suggestive of a man rather
than a woman; "a mannish stride"
2: characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman; "true
mannish arrogance"
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