manwise

manwise

English

Etymology

man +‎ -wise

Adverb

manwise (comparative more manwise, superlative most manwise)

1. In a way befitting a man.
   • 2000, Linda Grant De Pauw, Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present

     In the enemy army there also were women on horseback, in armor and steel helmets who fought manwise; they hurled themselves into the thick of the battle […]

   • 2005, John Fox, The Heart of the Hills

     For a little while Jason rode with his hands folded manwise on the pommel of his saddle and with manlike emotions in his heart […]

2. (not comparable) In terms of a man.
   • 1995, Michael Stein, Probabilities

     But she had this urgent need to think of herself in terms of who she was with, manwise […]

   • 1995, Carrie Fisher, Delusions of Grandma

     At the moment, Cora was basically at a standstill, manwise, somewhere between the next to come and the last to go. The last to go had been Charles […]

Anagrams

• Weisman, Wiseman, wise man, wiseman