wombly

English edit

From womb +‎ -ly.

wombly (comparative more wombly, superlative most wombly)

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of having a womb.
- 1929, Nor Hall, Warren Royal Dawson, Brood Males:
  In practicing couvade, the male makes himself wombly. An initiated aboriginal man made womanly by sub-incision can imitate the womb's ability to open.
- 1978, John Hayden Woods, Engineered Death:
  Or is it that foetuses, and they alone, require wombly residence in order to survive?
(figurative, by extension) motherly; womanly.
- 1990, Suzette A. Henke, James Joyce and the Politics of Desire:
  He remembers Milly's childhood fear of being deserted and the terror she experienced at the first bloody sign of womanly/wombly maturation: "Her growing pains at night […]
- 2005, Deborah Sawyer, David Gunn, Gary. A Philips, God, Gender and the Bible:
  This image extends to the divine person through the use of […] in Jeremiah 31.20 to signify God's motherly (or 'wombly') compassion for the beloved child, Ephraim.

of or pertaining to the womb