Definition von man- im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Denoting a relation to humans or humanity
- Denoting a relation to men or masculinity
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-about-town
- Alternative spelling of man about town. (A worldly, social man.)
The man-about-town began to follow her, but along the other side of the boulevard, keeping his eyes trained on her.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-at-arms
- A medieval heavily armed mounted member of the cavalry
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-bag
- The equivalent of a woman's small handbag designed for use by men, having compartments for mobile phones etc
Unisex styling gave the ‘man-bag’ its brief moment and many rough hewn embroidered denim and handtooled leather shoulder bags were worn by both sexes.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-boob
- Alternative spelling of man boob
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-child
- Alternative spelling of man child
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-day
- One person's working time for a day, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-eater
- An animal that has a reputation for eating humans, such as the tiger or shark
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-eater
- A cannibal
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-eater
- A woman with a threatening attitude, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-hour
- The amount of work that can be done by one person in an hour
Since 1950 our agricultural output per man-hour has actually doubled!.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-in-the-middle
- An adversary that intercepts, and often modifies, communications
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-killer
- A murderer
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-killer
- Someone who habitually seduces men
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-killer
- An animal that kills humans
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-machine
- Of or pertaining to a system that includes both human and machine and/or their interface
The man-machine system is a combination of people and equipment interacting to produce a desired result from given inputs. .
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-machine
- A state of "oneness", between a programmer and his computer. When the observer cannot readily identify the transition between the human programmer (usually some form of system engineer) and the computer
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-mark
- To mark an opposition player closely
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-month
- One person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-o'-war
- an armed naval vessel
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-o'-war suit
- A suit, especially worn in the 19th century, with long trousers and wide-brimmed straw sailor hat
She had an open book on her knees and was pointing out something in it to Constantine who, dressed in a man-o'-war suit, lay at her feet. - The Dead, from Dubliners, by James Joyce.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-o-war
- Portuguese man-of-war, a kind of jellyfish
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-of-letters
- Attributive form of man of letters
Carlyle in his man-of-letters patronage missed the craft with which the angry Corn-Law rhymester rhymester of The Village Patriarch meant to reclaim the people’s half.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-of-war
- The Portuguese man-of-war, a kind of jellyfish
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-of-war
- An armed naval vessel, primarily one armed with cannon and propelled by sails
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-portable
- That can be transported on a person. Often used about military weapons systems; e.g. missiles
Man-portable missiles imperil both military, civilian aircraft.: An article from: National Defense by Sandra I. Erwin.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-sized
- That needs manly attributes, such as strength or endurance
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-sized
- Of a size suitable for a man; larger than normal
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-tiger
- mandrill
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-to-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- direct, forthright and honest
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-to-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- one-on-one
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-to-<span class="word-self">manspan> defense
- A defense in which each player guards a particular opposing player
They'll have trouble playing a man-to-man against such a fast guard and tall center.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-witch
- A male witch; a warlock
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-year
- One person's working time for a year, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-eater
- an animal that devours human beings
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-trap
- a place or structure dangerous to human life
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-about-town
- a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-at-arms
- a heavily armed and mounted soldier in medieval times
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-at-arms
- men-at-arms a soldier
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-at-arms
- soldier, military man
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-eating
- A man-eating animal is one that has killed and eaten human beings, or that people think might do so. man-eating lions
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-hour
- A man-hour is the average amount of work that one person can do in an hour. Man-hours are used to estimate how long jobs take, or how many people are needed to do a job in a particular time. The restoration took almost 4,000 man-hours over four years. the amount of work done by one person in one hour
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-hour
- (Ticaret) The period of time measured by a single person working for one hour. Standard man-hours specify the amount of time normally expected to be used in a process or operation, based on estimation or past history
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-hour
- one hour of work by employees
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-hours
- number of hours one person works
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-hungry
- (Slang) searching for sexual intercourse with a man
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-made
- not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-made
- not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-made
- Man-made things are created or caused by people, rather than occurring naturally. Man-made and natural disasters have disrupted the Government's economic plans. a variety of materials, both natural and man-made. natural
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-made fabric
- synthetic fabric, cloth produced by chemical processes
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-made fiber
- created from natural materials or by chemical processes
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-of-the-earth
- long-rooted morning glory of western United States
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-of-war
- man-o'-war men-of-war a ship with guns that was used in the past in sea battles
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-of-war
- a warship intended for combat
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-of-war
- large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-of-war bird
- frigate bird: long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-on-a-horse
- an edible agaric with yellow gills and a viscid yellow cap that has a brownish center
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-portable
- portable by one man
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-sized
- appropriate to the size of a man; "a man-sized piece of cake"
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-sized
- large, size suitable to a grown man
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-sized
- calling for manly attributes; "a man-sized job
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-to-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- Used as defensive tactic, whereby each player marks a single opposition player
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-to-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- directly; "we must talk man-to-man
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-to-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- Form of defense in which each player is assigned to mark a player on the offensive team
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-to-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- forthright and honest; "had a man-to-man talk about the facts of life"
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-to-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- directly; "we must talk man-to-man"
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-to-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- a type of defense where each defender is assigned to mark a different forward from the other team; the most common type of defense for national-level teams
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-to-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player; "one-on-one defense"
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-to-<span class="word-self">manspan> defence
- act of closely guarding an opponent (Sports)
- <span class="word-self">manspan>-year
- the amount of work done by one person in a year, used as a measurement
- -<span class="word-self">manspan>
- Someone (implied male) who has special characteristics relating to an area, e.g. freeman, iceman, superman
- -<span class="word-self">manspan>
- Someone (implied male) who is employed or holds a position in an area; e.g lawman, newsman
- -<span class="word-self">manspan>
- Someone (implied male) who is an expert in an area; e.g. horseman, sportsman
- -<span class="word-self">manspan>
- In certain cases, someone (implied male) who derives from a particular nationality; e.g. Scotsman, Chinaman
- Abraham <span class="word-self">manspan>
- One of a set of vagabonds / vagrants who, in the 1700s and 1800s, roamed through England, feigning mental illnesses to obtain alms
- Abram-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- Variant of Abraham man
- Angry Young <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- Any of a group of mostly working-class and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who rose to prominence in the 1950s, their works being characterized by harshness, realism, and disillusionment with traditional norms
- Essex <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- A stereotype of a working class Conservative voter in the south-east of England, characterized by brash and right wing views and few cultural or intellectual interests but an interest in wealth and material goods
- Fat <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- The nickname given to the nuclear bomb dropped over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945
- G-<span class="word-self">Manspan>
- Any person working for the US Government, especially in undercover work
- G-<span class="word-self">Manspan>
- A fictional character based on this definition, eg, Dick Tracy
- G-<span class="word-self">Manspan>
- A US government agent fighting organized crime in the interwar years
- I see, said the blind <span class="word-self">manspan>
- Said to express confusion
- Isle of <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- An island in the Irish Sea, a British Crown dependency that is part of the British Isles but not of the United Kingdom
- Java <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A purported species of primate, a supposed ancient descendant of human beings, given the scientific name Pithecanthropus erectus
- <span class="word-self">MANspan>
- Metropolitan Area Network; a large computer network usually spanning a city
- <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- The genus Homo
- <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- The Isle of Man
- <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- Manitoba, a province of Canada
- <span class="word-self">Manspan> U
- Abbreviation of Manchester United Football Club
- <span class="word-self">Manspan> United
- Manchester United Football Club
- <span class="word-self">Manspan> Upstairs
- God
God can't be found in unsanctified imaginations or in the caricatures of pop culture. He is not The Man Upstairs. He does not help those who help themselves..
- <span class="word-self">Manspan> in Black
- the country musician Johnny Cash
- <span class="word-self">Manspan> of the Match
- A player chosen as having made the most outstanding achievement during a match; awarded a small prize
- Mister <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- Used to address a male, especially one whose name is not known to the speaker
'Who are you, Mister Man?' The boy sensed more about Burton than his name, but what a bust-up it would cause if I told him, Alma thought.
- New <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- a man who, rejecting sexist attitudes, aims to be caring and sensitive, and to take a substantial role in the domestic routine
- Pac-<span class="word-self">Manspan>
- Anything that consumes indiscriminately
Like the Pac-Man of garbage, Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) is gobbling up smaller waste disposal firms — 113 in 1994 alone — as that industry becomes increasingly consolidated.
- Portuguese <span class="word-self">manspan>-of-war
- A floating colony of hydrozoans (Physalia physalis) attached to a float; it superficially resembles a jellyfish
- Pr. of <span class="word-self">Manspan>.
- An abbreviation used for the Prayer of Manasseh, a book of the Apocrypha
- Son of <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- Jesus Christ
- Tin <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- The Tin Woodsman, a metallic character in the fictional Land of Oz who travels with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion to the Emerald City in search of a heart
- Vitruvian <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- A drawing of anatomy created by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1487
- Wicker <span class="word-self">Manspan>
- A giant effigy of a man used in Celtic rituals involving human sacrifice
- a good <span class="word-self">manspan> is hard to find
- Men who make good husbands or workers are rare
- a <span class="word-self">manspan> is known by the company he keeps
- People are similar in character to their friends
- a <span class="word-self">manspan>'s home is his castle
- a proverbial expression of personal privacy and security
- advance <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A male advance person
- all-night-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- a body snatcher or grave robber
- aye <span class="word-self">manspan>
- yes!
- barrow <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A man under sentence of transportation; alluding to the convicts at Woolwich, who are principally employed in wheeling barrows full of brick or dirt
- batty <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A homosexual man
- bin <span class="word-self">manspan>
- a male with the job of collecting refuse from people's homes and transporting it to a refuse tip for processing
- black <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A (male) member of a racial group having dark skin colouring, typically of sub-Saharan African descent
- black <span class="word-self">manspan>
- An evil spirit, a demon
he suspects everything he hears and sees to be a devil, or enchanted, and imagineth a thousand chimeras and visions, which to his thinking he certainly sees, bugbears, talks with black men, ghosts, goblins, etc.
- blind <span class="word-self">manspan>'s bluff
- A game where one person is blindfolded and tries to touch the other players
- blind <span class="word-self">manspan>'s buff
- A game where one person is blindfolded and tries to touch the other players
- butter-and-egg <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up
He puffed on the big cigar that he always had stuck in his face and posed back like a big butter-and-egg man.
- button <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A contract killer; a professional assassin
- can <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A firefighter whose task is to haul a fire extinguisher
Douglas Oelschlager was the can man, bringing up extinguishers.
- candy <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A drug dealer
- candy <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A person who sells sweets, especially a sidewalk or street vendor
There comes the candy-man! exclaimed a little fellow, pressing up to the side of the lady. Quick, ma! Here, candy-man! calling after an old man with a tin cylinder under his arm.
- candy-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- Alternative spelling of candy man
- chi chi <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A homosexual man
- clothes don't make the <span class="word-self">manspan>
- An aphorism meaning that you cannot judge a person solely by his appearance. Usually pertains to men
- common <span class="word-self">manspan>
- The average citizen, as contrasted with the social, political or cultural elite
- confidence <span class="word-self">manspan>
- Someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust
- dead <span class="word-self">manspan> walking
- Someone who is about to die; someone condemned
- dead <span class="word-self">manspan>'s brake
- A brake that normally operates under pressure, but engages fully when all pressure is released
- dead <span class="word-self">manspan>'s brakes
- plural form of dead man's brake
- dead <span class="word-self">manspan>'s hand
- A pair of aces and a pair of eights, in a player's hand
- dead <span class="word-self">manspan>'s hand
- Other various hands, among them a full house of three jacks and two tens
- dead <span class="word-self">manspan>'s hand
- An ace and an eight as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
- dead <span class="word-self">manspan>'s switch
- a switch that automatically stops a machine or vehicle after a set period of inactivity from the operator
- dimber damber upright <span class="word-self">manspan>
- The chief of a gang of thieves or gypsies
- dirty old <span class="word-self">manspan>
- An adult male - usually middle-aged or elderly - who acts in a lecherous or lewd manner
Always shouts out something obscene / Such a dirty old man.
- drinking <span class="word-self">manspan>'s degree
- A lower second class honours or 2.2 degree
- early to bed, early to rise, makes a <span class="word-self">manspan> healthy, wealthy and wise
- platitude from Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Poor Richard
- every <span class="word-self">manspan> Jack
- All the members of a group with no exceptions
When the captain offered a free round of grog to the crew, every man Jack of them lined up for a cupful.
- every <span class="word-self">manspan> for himself
- selfish
I quit showbusiness because there was too much of an every-man-for-himself attitude going on.
- every <span class="word-self">manspan> for himself
- An expression of panic, that everyone should forget about comradeship and save themselves
- every <span class="word-self">manspan> has a price
- Everyone can be bribed or corrupted for a certain price
- every <span class="word-self">manspan> jack
- Alternative spelling of every man Jack
- face <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A person who is used to present a good public face for an organization
- family <span class="word-self">manspan>
- An adult male with a spouse and children to whose well-being he is dedicated
- fancy <span class="word-self">manspan>
- : A woman's lover
- fellow <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A kindred member of humanity
- fellow-
- Prefixed to a noun to say that someone shares the same condition as oneself as represented by the noun
His call for action was supported by the majority of his fellow-students at the meeting.
- footplate <span class="word-self">manspan>
- The engineer, or driver of a locomotive
Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.
- front <span class="word-self">manspan>
- striker, attacker, forward
- front <span class="word-self">manspan>
- The lead singer in a musical group
Pete Doherty is the front man of the Libertines.
- garbage <span class="word-self">manspan>
- Someone whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed
- gingerbread <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A biscuit/cookie in the shape of a person and flavoured with ginger
- give a <span class="word-self">manspan> a fish
- Shortened form of give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
- give a <span class="word-self">manspan> a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a <span class="word-self">manspan> to fish and you feed h
- It is more worthwhile to teach someone to do something, than to do something for them
- government <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A supporter of the government
- government <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A representative of the government
- government <span class="word-self">manspan>
- In the days when Australia was a penal colony: a convict
1888: Whatever it was that had happened to him in the old times when he was a Government man he didn’t talk about. — Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms.
- green <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A character in British folklore often depicted as a foliate head
- hatchet <span class="word-self">manspan>
- Someone who carries out brutal and unpleasant duties on behalf of another, such as firing dead wood employees
- hatchet <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A professional killer
- he-<span class="word-self">manspan>
- A strong, virile or sexually active man
- head <span class="word-self">manspan>
- The person in charge of an organization, clan, tribe, or other group
- hit <span class="word-self">manspan>
- Someone who kills for a living; a hired assassin
- hoo <span class="word-self">manspan>
- An attention grabber
Hoo man, slow doon like!.
- hype <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A hip-hop performer responsible for backup rapping and singing and increasing an audience’s excitement with call-and-response chants
- in the land of the blind, the one-eyed <span class="word-self">manspan> is king
- Among others with a disadvantage or disability, the one with the mildest disadvantage or disability is regarded as the greatest
- in the land of the blind, the one-eyed <span class="word-self">manspan> is king
- Even someone without much talent or ability is considered special by those with no talent or ability at all
- it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich <span class="word-self">manspan> t
- The rich can afford more immoral behavior than the poor
- joss pidgin <span class="word-self">manspan>
- Alternative spelling of joss-pidgin-man
- kurdaitcha <span class="word-self">manspan>
- An aboriginal mystic who made an expedition to perform sorcery wearing slippers made from the feathers of emus
- ladies <span class="word-self">manspan>
- Alternative spelling of lady's man
- ladies' <span class="word-self">manspan>
- Alternative spelling of lady's man
Among the Kro-lu she would find another mate after the manner of the strange Caspakian world; but she told me very frankly that whenever I returned, she would leave her mate and come to me, as she preferred me above all others. I was becoming a ladies' man after a lifetime of bashfulness!.
- lady's <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A man who attracts women and enjoys their company
This promenading was chiefly patronised by the marines, and particularly by Colbrook, a remarkably handsome and very gentlemanly corporal among them. He was a complete lady's man; with fine black eyes, bright red cheeks, glossy jet whiskers, and a refined organisation of the whole man.
- lady's <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A womanizer
He was the most celebrated portrait painter of his day, a notorious ladies man, obsessed with women, pale beauties dressed in extravagant gowns . . . or nothing at all.
- like a <span class="word-self">manspan>
- bravely, decisively and without complaining
Don't be a wimp, deal with it like a man!.
- little green <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A Martian
- little green <span class="word-self">manspan>
- One of the supposed extraterrestrial occupants of UFOs
- little <span class="word-self">manspan> in the boat
- The clitoris
- lollipop <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A male school crossing attendant
- made <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A person who has been through an induction ceremony into the Mafia or similar organisation
- made <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A man whose fortune has been made
I had no money, but if I could only find workable country, I might stock it with borrowed capital, and consider myself a made man.
- main <span class="word-self">manspan>
- One's closest male friend
As Moody says of his main man, Diz influenced me from every standpoint. He was a friend, a father, a confidante, just everything to me.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>
- An abstract person; a person of either gender, usually an adult
every man for himself.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>
- To take up position in order to operate something
Man the machine guns!.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>
- An interjection used to place emphasis upon something or someone
Geordie Giv'is a bottle of dog man!.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A person, usually male, who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing
Some people prefer apple pie, but me, I'm a cherry pie man.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A person, often male, with duties or skills associated with a specified thing
I always wanted to be a guitar man on a road tour, but instead I'm a flag man on a road crew.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A mensch; a person of integrity and honor
He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>
- To supply with staff or crew (of either sex)
The shipped was manned with a small crew.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>
- All humans collectively; mankind, humankind. Also Man
God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.
- <span class="word-self">manspan>
- A piece or token used in board games such as chess
- <span class="word-self">manspan>
- An adult male human
- <span class="word-self">manspan> Friday
- A right-hand man
- <span class="word-self">manspan> about town
- A worldly, social man who gets "about"
To Bertha this was a charm rather than a defect; his bashful candour touched her, and she compared it favourably with the foolish worldliness of the imaginary man about town whose dissipation she always opposed to her husband's virtues.
- <span class="word-self">manspan> alive
- An expression of surprise
- <span class="word-self">manspan> alive
- five
- <span class="word-self">manspan> boob
- Large or womanly breasts on a man caused by pectoral fat, or sometimes a hormonal condition as gynecomastia
- <span class="word-self">manspan> boobs
- plural form of man boob
- <span class="word-self">manspan> cave
- A part of a home specifically reserved for adult male activities, such as drinking beer, playing games and watching TV; often a garage or den
- <span class="word-self">manspan> caves
- plural form of man cave
- <span class="word-self">manspan> child
- A male human being of a young age. A boy
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
- <span class="word-self">manspan> children
- plural form of man child
- <span class="word-self">manspan> crush
- A crush-like but non-sexual feeling of attraction toward and admiration for a man.“man crush” in Aaron Peckham (ed.), Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined, Andrews McMeel Publishing (2005), ISBN 0-7407-5143-3, page 217.“man crush” in KTCK's online “Ticktionary”: “One male being in awe of another male for any reason”, quoted in John Mark Dempsey, “KTCK, ‘The Ticket,’ Dallas-Fort Worth: ‘Radio by the Everyman, for the Everyman”, in John Mark Dempsey (ed.), Sports-talk Radio in America: Its Context And Culture, Haworth Press (2006), ISBN 0789025906, page 27
It's no secret that Texas has become my favorite college hoops team; my man-crush on Durant has reached the point that I should probably remain at least 100 yards away from him at all times.
- <span class="word-self">manspan> crush
- A crush on (sexual attraction toward) a man
for a certain faction of American women, the accent is swoon-worthy on its own. I will confess that the Darcy accent I concocted in my head while reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time was a huge contributor to my fictional man crush.
- <span class="word-self">manspan> crushes
- plural form of man crush
- <span class="word-self">manspan> day
- The amount of work that one person can complete in one day, often considered to be equivalent to eight man hours
- <span class="word-self">manspan> flu
- A cold or similar ailment as suffered by a male seen as wildly exaggerating the severity of his symptoms
- <span class="word-self">manspan> ho
- A promiscuous man
Man, you crazy,” said Mikel. “ You just a straight up man ho, yo. You can’t be a playa for ever though.”.
- <span class="word-self">manspan> in the moon
- A human face perceived in the full moon, comprising dark maria and light highlands
- <span class="word-self">manspan> in the street
- A typical person, unversed in a given subject; an inexpert commoner
- <span class="word-self">manspan> magnet
- A person, especially a woman, who is attractive to men
- <span class="word-self">manspan> of God
- any godly man
- <span class="word-self">manspan> of God
- a minister or priest
- <span class="word-self">manspan> of God
- a prophet
- <span class="word-self">manspan> of few words
- A man who doesn't speak much, or speaks only for a short period of time
- <span class="word-self">manspan> of means
- A man who possesses sufficient wealth to be regarded as prosperous or well off
- <span class="word-self">manspan> of parts
- A man that is talented in multiple areas of life. This includes but is not limited to the area of seduction. He puts very little emphasis on memorized scripts or "peacocking" and instead relies on individualized ways to charm a woman
- <span class="word-self">manspan> of straw
- A tactic used in debates and arguments where a weaker thesis is substituted for the opponent's real proposition, this thesis then being refuted, thereby creating the illusion of winning the argument against the original proposition
- <span class="word-self">manspan> of straw
- A weak person
When push came to shove he gave in almost immediately, showing that he was a man of straw after all.
