man-child

American  

[man-chahyld] / ˈmænˌtʃaɪld /

Or manchild

noun

plural

men-children

1. a male child; boy; son.

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Etymology

Origin of man-child

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

Gannon-Doak is Scotland's flying machine, the man-child who was supposed to scare the wits out of the Greeks with his speed and his daring, and electrify Hampden with his personality.

From BBC

“I think we saw that as a challenge,” Baker says, noting that he started to play with tones on his previous movie, 2021’s man-child character study “Red Rocket.”

From Los Angeles Times

Whether in the interview scenes or in the flashbacks, his hushed intensity suggests a fractured man-child who was never properly socialized.

From Los Angeles Times

So many fit the man-child: “light of brain,” “clod of wayward marl,” “bolting-hutch of beastliness,” but specifically to his inability to speak the truth there’s the perfect “infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker.”

From Salon

Playing the disconnected man-child still married to a woman who preyed upon him as a seventh-grader, Melton tinged his character’s agony with a heartbreaking sadness that lingered long after the film ended.

From Los Angeles Times