mannish

Meaning

Adjective

• Resembling or characteristic of a man, masculine.
• Resembling or characteristic of a grown man (as opposed to a boy); mature, adult.
• Impertinent; assertive.
• Resembling or characteristic of a human being, in form or nature; human.

Origin

• From Middle English mannish, mannisshe, mannysh, from earlier mennish, from Old English mennisċ, from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz, from Proto-Germanic *mann-, from Proto-Indo-European *man-; synchronically analyzable as man + -ish. mennish, mensk, mense, and mensch.