he-man
See also: heman
English
Etymology
he- + man
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhiː.mæn/
Noun
he-man (plural he-men)
- A strong or virile man.
- 1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXIX, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, OCLC 1229243390, section V, page 352:
- What's the matter with his talking so polite? Hell's bells, Harry, no harm in being polite. There's some regular he-men that are just as polite as women, prett' near.
- 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:
- One of the better jokes arrives late into the movie, when Guy is forced to take on a brawny he-man doppelgänger—a planned addition to the game’s sequel—who the programmers haven’t finished scripting, and his unfinished dialogue is all placeholders.
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Synonyms
- macho man; see also Thesaurus:hypermasculine man
Translations
strong or virile man — See also translations at macho#Noun, macho man
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Anagrams
- Ehman, Mehan, maneh