Mannish vs Watery - What's the difference?
mannish | watery |
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.
Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
, author=Nancy Langston
, title=The Fraught History of a Watery World
, volume=101, issue=1, page=59
, magazine=
Diluted or having too much water.
(of light) Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
Weak and insipid.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=August 21
, author=Jason Heller
, title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)
, work=The Onion AV Club
Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
Tearful.
As adjectives the difference between mannish and watery
is that mannish is of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or suitable for a man while watery is wet, soggy or soaked with water.mannish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Chaucer)
- A woman impudent and mannish grown.
- (Chaucer)
- But yet it was a figure / Most like to mannish creature.
- (Chaucer)
Derived terms
* mannishly * mannishnesswatery
English
Alternative forms
* waterish (rare)Adjective
(er)citation, passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
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