womanchild

See also: woman-child and woman child

English

Etymology

From woman +‎ child

Noun

womanchild (plural womanchildren)

1. An adult woman who has not become mature
   • 1988 February 12, Anthony Adler, “Send in the Hicks”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Where the Henley heroine comes across as an awkward, desperate, emotionally battered womanchild, the knockoff's simply dumb, needy, and infantile.

Related terms

• manchild