Manly vs Manny - What's the difference?
manly | manny |
Having the characteristics of a man.
Having qualities befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
* 2001 , Thomas W. Smith, Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy (page 86)
(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. —
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)- Let's briefly put on manly readiness.
- Serene and manly , hardened to sustain / The load of life.
- 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
* manlinessAntonyms
* womanlymanny
English
Noun
(mannies)CBS News, 9 June 2006