he-man

See also: heman

English

Etymology

he- +‎ man

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhiː.mæn/

Noun

he-man (plural he-men)

1. A strong or virile man.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 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^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• macho man; see also Thesaurus:hypermasculine man

Translations

strong or virile man — See also translations at macho#Noun,‎ macho man

• Danish: rigtigt mandfolk
• Finnish: machomies (fi), miehinen mies
• German: echter Mann m (colloquial), ganzer Kerl m (colloquial)
• Greenlandic: angutivik
• Italian: fusto (it) m
• Russian: настоя́щий мужчи́на m (nastojáščij mužčína)
• Swedish: karlakarl (sv) c

Anagrams

• Ehman, Mehan, maneh