Dictionary

wombly en · ADJ

Etymology

From womb + -ly.

Meanings

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of having a womb.
   • Or is it that foetuses, and they alone, require wombly residence in order to survive? 1978, John Hayden Woods, Engineered Death:
   • In practicing couvade, the male makes himself wombly. An initiated aboriginal man made womanly by sub-incision can imitate the womb's ability to open. 1929, Nor Hall, Warren Royal Dawson, Brood Males:
2. (broadly, figuratively) motherly; womanly.
   • This image extends to the divine person through the use of […] in Jeremiah 31.20 to signify God's motherly (or 'wombly') compassion for the beloved child, Ephraim. 2005, Deborah Sawyer, David Gunn, Gary. A Philips, God, Gender and the Bible:
   • He remembers Milly's childhood fear of being deserted and the terror she experienced at the first bloody sign of womanly/wombly maturation: "Her growing pains at night […] 1990, Suzette A. Henke, James Joyce and the Politics of Desire:

Forms

Translations (14)

ru утробный (of or pertaining to the womb) · it uterino (of or pertaining to the womb) · ca uterí (of or pertaining to the womb) · fr utérin (of or pertaining to the womb) · pt uterino (of or pertaining to the womb) · gl uterino (of or pertaining to the womb) · es uterino (of or pertaining to the womb) · ru маточный (of or pertaining to the womb) · zh 子宮 /子宫 (of or pertaining to the womb) · zh 子宫 (of or pertaining to the womb) · hy արգանդային (of or pertaining to the womb) · nl baarmoeder- (of or pertaining to the womb) · ast uterín (of or pertaining to the womb) · el μητρικός (of or pertaining to the womb)