Looking for a good man-word

[Chris F Waigl]

Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:

> On Mar 21, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Michael H Covarrubias wrote:
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>> man date: a planned outing - or perhaps an edict of "man law"
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> already on mark's list, as "man-date".  some of the others have
> hyphenated, solid, or separated versions.
>
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>> man-gina: unfortunately not referring to male chest-pain
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> i see this one as "mangina" most of the time.  "manhole" is an older,
> somewhat less offensive alternative.
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> i'll probably come across a few more.  oh yeah, "man tights".
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>

I first tried to derive "mangina" from "mangiare" when I came across it.
But no one seemed to use it in the sense that hypothetical sense. "-ina"
is a better first guess for a suffix than "-gina", most of the time.

"Man-skirt",  of course.

You have "man-breast(s)", right? Not rare, and I've seen it in newsprint
repeatedly. Also "manbrella", though for this one Google doesn't have
much ("I bought a manbrella the other day. You can tell it's not an
umbrella because it has a curved handle on it." -- Not really a
distinctive feature for me.)

Chris Waigl

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