Wannish vs Mannish - What's the difference?
wannish | mannish |
(obsolete) quite wan, quite pale
*{{quote-book, year=1890, author=Hezekiah Butterworth, title=The Log School-House on the Columbia, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Leigh Gordon Giltner, title=The Path of Dreams, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Sheer slanting down the sky an opal light Pierces the snow-blur's veil of wannish gray, In iridescent sheen, tingeing the dazzling white With amethystine, gold or beryl ray. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=John Keats, title=Keats= Poems Published in 1820, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne's tiar: Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet! }}
Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or suitable for a man
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.
* Gower
(obsolete, of a woman) Fond of men.
In obsolete terms the difference between wannish and mannish
is that wannish is quite wan, quite pale while mannish is resembling a human being in form or nature; human.wannish
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(en adjective)- (Chaucer)
- A woman impudent and mannish grown.
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- But yet it was a figure / Most like to mannish creature.
- (Chaucer)