Meanings
plural manbodies
- ScotlandarchaicA man.
I'm a lone woman, and have not a manbody about the house.
1857, William Love, The Autobiography of William Love, P.C., page 351 more example
You will lock the doors at sundown, Ann; and you will let neither manbody nor womanbody o'er the threshold till I win hame again.
1894, Amelia E. Barr, The Lone House, page 16
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