menkind

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noun

menfolk

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounmenkind pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlymenfolk

    "To think that here you live, all the menkind belongin' to me, and I never to have seen it!

    1895, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Wandering Heath
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    She had anticipated passionate reproaches, tears even, for an attractive women who has been consistently spoiled by her menkind is, of all her sex, the least prepared to bow to the force of circumstances.

    1920, Margaret Pedler, The Hermit of Far End

    In the wildcat's eyes, however, as in the eyes of all the wild kindreds, he seemed a treasured possession of the menkind, and an especially objectionable expression of all their most objectionable characteristics.

    1904, Charles G. D. Roberts, The Watchers of the Trails

    If "all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical," presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well for the luckless Arab who is to live beneath their sway.

    1924, Nesta H. Webster, Secret Societies And Subversive Movements

Origin

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