man-child
noun
a male child; boy; son.
manchild
-
a variation of
man-child.
Example Sentences
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Roethlisberger arrived with more fanfare four years later when Dan Rooney insisted the Steelers grab the 6-foot-5 manchild from Ohio with the 11th choice.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Cena makes all of this click, transforming the muscular manchild from a two-dimensional buffoon into a lost soul figuring discovering his purpose.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2022
And I’m side-eyeing this “artist” and wondering about what motivated him to move himself and his manchild into his new mother-in-law’s home.
From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2020
J. is a semi-employed manchild who lives in Venice with a couple of cats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2018
There was only one future in that house, and it was Gabriel’s—to which, since Gabriel was a manchild, all else must be sacrificed.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
