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manly | manny |

As an adjective manly

is having the characteristics of a man.

As a noun manny is

a male nanny for children.

As a proper noun Manny is

a diminutive=Emmanuel given name.

manly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having the characteristics of a man.
  • Having qualities befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let's briefly put on manly readiness.
  • * Dryden
  • Serene and manly , hardened to sustain / The load of life.
  • * 2001 , Thomas W. Smith, Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy (page 86)
  • Without a successful defense of one's city, none of the other virtues would be possible; manly courage seems to be a precondition for anything else worth achieving in life.

    Derived terms

    * manliness

    Antonyms

    * womanly

    manny

    English

    Noun

    (mannies)
  • (informal) A male nanny (for children).
  • *2006 [Perry Taylor] has popped up in supermarket tabloids as the male nanny – or "manny" – for Britney Spears, who has a 9-month-old son, Sean Preston and is pregnant. — CBS News, 9 June 2006
  • See also

    * mannie * Mannie * Manny