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131man — man1 Pron. std. (8. Jh.), mhd. man, ahd. man, as. man Stammwort. Wie in ae. man, afr. ma, me Abschwächung des Wortes Mann Mann, Mensch zum unpersönlichen Pronomen. Entsprechend frz. on aus l. homo. ✎ Gray, L. H. Word 1 (1945), 19 32; Röhrich 2… …
132man — 1. a woman s male sexual partner Sometimes her husband; sometimes as different from her husband: He is not my man, he is my husband. (Evesham Journal, 1899, quoted in EDD) Man friend is explicit in this sense of someone other than… …
