Looking for a good man-word

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Thu Mar 22 16:57:09 UTC 2007


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I showed a picture of our newly-born kid to the old country black guy
who cuts our grass.  He asked, "Is that a man child?"  (He is).

> >
> >Quoting Mark Peters <markpeters33 at YAHOO.COM>:
> >
> > > I'm working on a possible article about the man-word
> trend. I have a
> > > lot
> >of
> > > examples, but I'm sure they're just the tip of the man-berg. The
> > > words
> >I've
> > > collected so far:
> > >
> > >   man bag
> > >   man blouse
> > >   man cave
> > >   man juice
> > >   man laws
> > >   man purse
> > >   man space
> > >   man suit
> > >   man thong
> > >   man-bender
> > >   man-boobs
> > >   man-breasts
> > >   mancation
> > >   man-crush
> > >   mandal
> > >   man-date
> > >   man-dress
> > >   manfriend
> > >   man-hug
> > >   mankini
> > >   man-loaf
> > >   manmaries
> > >   manny
> > >   manorexia
> > >   manscaping
> > >   man-seed
> > >   man-spat
> > >   manties
> > >   mantique
> > >   man-tits
> > >   manzillian
> > >   menaissance
> > >   moobs
> > >   moobster
> > >   murse
> > >
> > >   Any additions to the list would be appreciated!
> > >
> > >   Mark
> > >
> > >
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