manscape
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
English man
English landscapebf.
English -scape
English manscape
From man + -scape.
Inflected forms:
form: manscapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: man-scape
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: manscapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: manscaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: manscaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: manscaped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: man-scape
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A view of a group of people.
pos: noun
examples: I soon turned to contemplate the more animated manscape at my feet. Seeing a crowd of beggars standing together in dejected attitudes, I cast a handful of cash into the air, in such wise that the coins would fall plump among them, and then dropped behind the parapet of the pagoda.
The crowd melts, but melts only to flow again next morning into the same gigantic mould of passion. The men are different, but the manscape is the same.
It is to be hoped that their [the Meridian Gay Theatre's] next effort — the New York premiere of Something More, a "manscape" of gay life in the past 10 years — will match the previous success of Stray Dog Story and Street Theater.
gloss: A landscape that has been shaped by the human race.
pos: noun
examples: At last the manscape gags itself, and a queer, worn, torn, cracked, corncrake voice begins to vibrate in the vast bowl.
And the manscape is our realm, our spatial destiny where we must act and respond, where for our lifetime we must be who we will be.
In 114 pages, he deals with slavery and its effect on the manscape of what he describes as "the most English of the West Indian islands, but at the same time the nearest as the slaves fly, to Africa."
Nearly everywhere is a Manscape now, and we need not mourn the fact. There is still plenty which is beautiful and a solace[…]
As cities grow they try to claim landscapes for themselves, changing them gradually into "manscapes".
For example, he compares the monumental conquest of Mount Rushmore by Europeans, in which landscape became manscape, with the indigenous Lakota people's desire to honor the Great Spirit, Wakonda […]
gloss: An image, normally artistic, of the male form.
pos: noun
examples: Pierrot is lying in an open loll on bedface, twitching me with bigtoe ... immense beckoner as my captive eye swallows it whole and am unawares into his manscape still at ten feet distance yet touched in a way that nobody has even touched me in my own community d'Angluche.
no contemplative staring at the marble-statue manscape I'd downloaded from one of the porno websites I'd found.
gloss: To impose a shape on the landscape to suit humans.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: On the valley floor, wide enough to admit the more pleasing features of manscaping, the Little River meanders.
gloss: To trim or shave a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.
pos: verb
tags: neologism
examples: Is it that hard to manscape? You know, get an electric razor, trim up your shrubbery, blow out your front yard a bit?
College News presents a working guide of the dos and don’ts of manscaping, taken from suggestions of college students themselves: Dos: […] / – Facial shaving/beard trimming / – […] – Controlling pubic hair / […] Embrace leg hair / Donts: – Excessive chest hair / – Long nose hairs / – Ear hair / – Adventurous shoulder and back hair / – Unibrows / – Wild beards […] / Follow these directions, and you’ll be making sure that the man in your life is properly manscaped.
Manscaping, otherwise known as the art of shaving, waxing and cleaning up the superfluous fur on a man […], is a must in this day and age.
“I'm Jamie,” he said, reaching out to shake Ophelia's hand. “Nice to meet you. And I don't manscape. But Gabriel does.”
Many tools can be used to “manscape” including a razor and shaving cream, cordless body trimmers, and even scissors.
He manscapes, gets manicures, and I'm pretty sure he mansplains with the best of them, but when we're in the same room, the hairs on my arms rise.
Certainly since she manscaped him and couples-dressed him and told him that that boring vanilla thing he did drove her wild.
Derived words: manscaper
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