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womanese en · NOUN

Etymology

From woman + -ese.

Meanings

  1. (humorous, uncountable) Women's way of speaking.
    • He'd known ahead of time that walking into the house with three Sinclair women would be a test of his sanity, because they all talked at the same time, not just in double questions but in womanese. 2002, Jennifer Greene, The Woman Most Likely To—, page 155:
    • We agree with Mr. Stengel that it is because the Ladies' Home Journal understands women — and talks to them in womanese — that more women buy and read the Journal than any other magazine on earth. 1957, Advertising Agency Magazine, volume 50, numbers 14-26, page 1: