Woman vs Jawn - What's the difference?
woman | jawn |
An adult female human.
* Bible, (w) 2:22:
* (John Ledyard) (1751-1789)
* 1887 , Helen Campbell, Prisoners of poverty: their trades and their lives , p.120:
(lb) All females collectively; womankind.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
* 1997 , Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard , p.42:
* 2011 , Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In , p.109:
A wife (or sometimes a or girlfriend).
* 1914 , , Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays , chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being":
A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing.
* 2004 , Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount , p.70:
A female attendant or servant.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To staff with female labor.
* 1956 , Rex Stout, Three Witnesses , The Viking Press, page 54
* 1990 , Stephen King, The stand: the complete & uncut edition
* 2010 , Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale , page 77
To make effeminate or womanish.
* 1598 , , III. ii. 50:
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
* 1603 , , III. iv. 191:
(slang, chiefly Philadelphia) Something; any object, place or thing.
:Check out this jawn .
*2001 , Steve Jackson, "Takin it back B/W BEEF", rec.music.hip-hop [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.hip-hop/msg/c415feed930748c0]:
*:"Then I started thinking of the Scenario remix and was like yo, that jawn was just as good."
*2007 September 23, Jessica Pressler, "The Bar Car is Rocking" in New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/fashion/23boite.html?ref=fashion]:
*:"Just back from a tour in Australia, he was sitting at a table in the dining car with a group of friends that included members of the hip-hop groups Spank Rock and Plastic Little. 'This,' he said, 'is the jawn .'"
*2013 August 20, MK Asante, Buck: A Memoir (Spiegel & Grau) [http://genius.com/Mk-asante-buck-a-memoir-chap-1-annotated]:
*:"Jawn' can mean anything—person, place, or thing. Sometimes if we’re telling a story and don’t want people to know what we’re talking about, we’ll plug '''jawn''' in for everything. The other day I was at the '''jawn''' around the corner with the young '''jawn''' from down the street. We get to the '''jawn''', right, and the ngh at the door is all on his '''jawn''', not knowing I had that '''jawn''' on me. Man, it was about to be on in that ' jawn ."
(slang) A woman.
:Yo, you see that jawn , she bad as shit.
*1999 July 16, “da One and Only Jazzman”, “Re: RapCity: UnderHouston”, rec.music.hip-hop, Usenet ,[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.hip-hop/msg/edf3ed4e04932a25]
*:MY boi in NY, when he first came to Philly, used to tell me the philly jawns were easy.
*2005 , Krystle J. Nutter, Turned Out ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=5ehZ6HwispcC] iUniverse, ISBN 0-595-36207-9, page 1,
*2006 , G. D. McCrary, Guerrillas in the Midst ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=QX5h8KeTbXMC] Papyrus & Pen Publishing, ISBN 0977068714, page 39,
*:“Who? The jawn sittin’ in the truck wit’ choo? I think I know her.”
*2009 , Asher Roth, I Love College ,
*:“When it comes to condoms, put two on, and tomorrow night, find a new jawn .”
As nouns the difference between woman and jawn
is that woman is an adult female human while jawn is (slang|chiefly philadelphia) something; any object, place or thing.As verbs the difference between woman and jawn
is that woman is to staff with female labor while jawn is (yawn).woman
English
(wikipedia woman)Alternative forms
* womon, womyn, wymyn * wimmen, wimmenNoun
(women)- And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman .
- I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men
- But this woman' is a nice German ' woman that fell on the ice and sprained her ankle last winter, and we saw to her well as we could till she got better.
- For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?
- Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.
- And then, when he lies with his woman , the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.
- Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman . I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.
- By her woman I sent your message.
Synonyms
* see * female * ladyAntonyms
* (age ): girl * (gender ): manDerived terms
* cleaning woman * firewoman * gentlewoman * kept woman * little woman * medicine woman * old woman * other woman * policewoman * womanish * womanly * womanhood * woman suffrage * woman's work * womenfolk * womenhood * women’s libVerb
(en verb)- Apparently the Sixty-ninth Street office of Bagby Answers, Inc., was being womaned for the day from other offices.
- Gus Dinsmore, the public beach parking lot attendent, said he guessed that so many cars must be just stopped dead along the road that even those manned (or womaned ) by able drivers would be unable to move.
- The information desk is now manned (womaned ) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”
- I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief / That the first face of neither on the start / Can woman me unto't.
- And think it no addition, nor my wish, / To have him see me woman'd .
See also
* fair sex * female * feminine * femme * gal * girl * goddess * lady * weaker vessel *jawn
English
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Noun
(en noun)- I had a few chicks that I messed around with but this one main jawn stuck out in particular.