womens
English
Noun
womens
- (nonstandard, African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of women (“plural of woman”)
- 1954, Willie Dixon (lyrics), “Hoochie Coochie Man”, performed by Muddy Waters:
- He gonna make pretty womens
Jump an' shout
Then the world wanna know
What this all about
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- Obsolete form of women's (possessive case of women)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, page 84:
- He wondred at her wiſedome heuenly rare, / Whoſe like in womens witt he neuer knew;
- 1640, John Parkinson, “Symphitum majus. Great Comfrey.”, in Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, OCLC 230746811, page 524:
- […] it is good to be applyed to womens breaſts, that grow ſore by the aboundance of milke comming into them: as alſo to repreſſe the overmuch bleeding of the hemorrhoids, to coole the Inflammations of the parts thereabouts, and to give eaſe of paines: […].
- 1671, [Richard Head (denies authorship); Francis Kirkman (purported)], “He is Bound Prentice to a Taylor, the Knavery of that Trade, His Master of a Stitch, He is Turn’d over to a Baker, who Misusing Him He Runeth Away”, in The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants. […] The Second Part. […], London: […] Francis Kirkman, […], OCLC 612728320, page 113:
- Then for womens cloaths, the cabadge of cloath of ſilver, brancht Sattin, and the like, went for pin-cuſhions, pin-pillows, womens purſes; and if black, Church-wardens capes.
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Anagrams
- Newsom, menows