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womanchild

womanchild

See also: woman-child and woman child

English

Noun

womanchild (plural womanchildren)

  1. An adult woman who has not become mature
    • 1988 February 12, Anthony Adler, “Send in the Hicks”, in Chicago Reader:
      Where the Henley heroine comes across as an awkward, desperate, emotionally battered womanchild, the knockoff's simply dumb, needy, and infantile.

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