manhood

manhood (ˈmænhʊd)

—n
1.	the state or quality of being a man or being manly
2.	men collectively
3.	archaic the state of being human
4.	informal, jocular a euphemism for a man's genitalia

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

manhood

early 13c., "state of being human," from man (n.) + -hood. Meanings "state of being an adult male," also "manliness," are from late 14c.

Slang Dictionary

manhood definition

n.
penis. : His reflexes automatically protect his manhood.

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Example sentences

The energy of manhood has to be spent in someway or somewhere.

Until their puissance they did prove, their manhood and their might.

In his manhood, he earned another name from his enemies.

For some sound junkies, the size of the stereo and the girth of the speakers

are the measures of manhood.

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Matching Quote

"The American ideal ... of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden—as an unpatriotic act—that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood."

-James Baldwin