he-man en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈhiː.mæn/
Etymology
From he- + man.
Meanings
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A strong or virile man.
1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure A lotta draggy party-type people there...girls all decked out & guys with he-man cologne on.
What's the matter with his talking so polite? Hell's bells, Harry, no harm in being polite. There's some regular he-men that are just as polite as women, prett' near.
1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXIX, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section V, page 352:One of the better jokes arrives late into the movie, when Guy is forced to take on a brawny he-man doppelgänger—a planned addition to the game’s sequel—who the programmers haven’t finished scripting, and his unfinished dialogue is all placeholders.
2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| he-men | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| heman | alternative, misspelling | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (11)
fi machomies (strong or virile man) · sv karlakarl (strong or virile man) · ru настоя́щий мужчи́на (strong or virile man) · de ganzer Kerl (strong or virile man) · fi tosi mies (strong or virile man) · de echter Mann (strong or virile man) · it fusto (strong or virile man) · fi miesten mies (strong or virile man) · kl angutivik (strong or virile man) · da rigtigt mandfolk (strong or virile man) · fi miehinen mies (strong or virile man)