0 If you describe a woman as mannish, you mean that her appearance or behaviour are too much like a man's:
1 (of a woman) having characteristics typical of a man
We learn that some attributes are mannish, manly or male and others are feminine, womanish or female.
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying.
Her clothes are rather mannish.
Leslie visits an old-fashioned barber, who unbeknownst to her only gives men's haircuts; she is given a very short, mannish hairstyle, which she is very proud of.
