Dictionary

cavemanny en · ADJ

Etymology

From caveman + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a caveman.
   • Thank goodness for sweat and the glands that produce it. Without them, we’d still be running around all furry and cavemanny. 2007 August 18, “Now sweat? Not even”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, page D1:
   • “I guess I remember there was something very physical, very masculine, about a group of 100 dudes going into the woods to train,” he [Russell Harbaugh] says. “(Coach) Creighton would take us to these camps to start the year. Wouldn’t use a ball. It was a week of obstacle courses, up to your knees in mud. Like, it got kind of cave-mannny, and I liked that feeling, but I think that’s different from what you’re talking about.[…]” 2018 April 8, Gregg Doyel, “QB or movie director? Harbaugh defies labels: Ex-Wabash star earns praise for his debut film”, in The Sunday Star, volume 115, number 273, page 7C:
   • I get the impression that there were a lot of volcanoes in those olden times, although I might be thinking all the way back to cavemanny times. 2015, Jim Benton, Live Each Day to the Dumbest (Dear Dumb Diary: Year Two), Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:
   • That dark voice tugged at her. Connor, her bodyguard. Her big, strong, cavemanny bodyguard. 2016 January, Shayla Black, Lexi Blake, Seduction in Session, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 38:
   • I’d just read a news story about how women are getting more and more beautiful while men remain as pathetically cavemanny as ever. 2011, Stuart Jeffries, “Don’t stray from that towpath”, in James Randerson, Peter Walker, editors, Cycle Babble: Bloggers on Biking, Guardian Books, →ISBN, chapter 3 (My daily ride), page 70:
   • Kenneth Preuss returned home from a hunting trip with a ten-day beard last Sunday, very cave-mannny, but it will take more than that to subdue Edith’s literary exaltation these days. 1929 August 18, Alma Whitaker, “Sugar and Spice”, in Los Angeles Times, volume XLVIII, part III, page 23:
   • It doesn’t seem reasonable that they should have thus comported themselves when they believed the lady was a poor, addle-pated, inferior, little creature, who wasn’t allowed to be educated, was understood to have no political significance, was weak and yielding and gratefully ready to throw herself upon the mercy of any good man’s protection—and then go and get bossy and brazen and cave-manny and crude in an age when he may at least seriously doubt her complete inferiority and significance. 1923 October 8, Alma Whitaker, “The Last Word: Nice Old-Fashioned Men”, in Los Angeles Times, volume XLII, part II, page 20:
   • He was beginning to sound a little cavemanny and it made her stomach tickle. 2018, E.M. Gayle, Gabe’s Reckoning (Purgatory Masters Book 5), Gypsy Ink Books, →ISBN:

Forms

Synonyms

cavemanly · cavemannish · cavemanlike