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womanchild
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See also:
woman-child
and
woman child
English
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Etymology
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From
woman
+
child
.
Noun
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womanchild
(
plural
womanchildren
or
womenchildren
)
An
immature
woman
.
Coordinate term:
manchild
1988
February 12, Anthony Adler, “Send in the Hicks”, in
Chicago Reader
[1]
:
Where the Henley heroine comes across as an awkward, desperate, emotionally battered
womanchild
, the knockoff's simply dumb, needy, and infantile.