Crossword-Solution: WOMANISH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Womanish | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WOMANISH | anagram | MAINSHOW |
We have 14 clues for the answer “WOMANISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Characteristic of a woman | 1 answer |
| Not masculine | 1 answer |
| an effeminate man | 11 answers |
| nurturing | 13 answers |
| womanlike | 18 answers |
| like a woman | 18 answers |
| unmanly | 19 answers |
| womanly | 19 answers |
| ladylike | 21 answers |
| Feminine | 26 answers |
| effeminate | 31 answers |
| Female | 33 answers |
| woman | 36 answers |
| Cowardly ___ | 45 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WOMANISH (5)
Poor Hepzibah! Could she have understood this fact, it would have brought her some little comfort; for, to all her other troubles,—strange to say!—there was added the womanish and old-maiden-like misery arising from a sense of unseemliness in her attire.
The truth is, we were all womanish fellows about a height; and I have myself been put, more than once, _hors de combat_ by a less affair than the rock of Edinburgh Castle.
Into the hell of her thoughts flashed a little womanish shame, that she, Frances Waldeaux, should be walking on tiptoe, like a thief.
Now Thoreau’s content and ecstasy in living was, we may say, like a plant that he had watered and tended with womanish solicitude; for there is apt to be something unmanly, something almost dastardly, in a life that does not move with dash and freedom, and that fears the bracing contact of the world.
Two ladies, rivals in fashionable life who tormented one another with a thousand little stings of womanish spite, were given to understand that each of their hearts was a nest of diminutive snakes, which did quite as much mischief as one great one.
Quotes with WOMANISH (3)
When I was young and miserable and pretty And poor, I'd wish What all girls wish: to have a husband, A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish Is womanish: That the boy putting groceries in my car See me.
It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that…
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1994–2017).