Meaning of cavemanny | Babel Free
Definitions
Resembling or characteristic of a caveman.
Examples
“It doesn’t seem reasonable that they should have⟳ thus comported themselves when they believed the lady was a poor, addle-pated, inferior, little creature, who wasn’t allowed to be educated, was understood to have⟳ no political significance, was weak and yielding and gratefully ready to throw⟳ herself upon the mercy of any good man’s protection—and then go and get⟳ bossy and brazen and cave-manny and crude in an age when he may at least seriously doubt⟳ her complete⟳ inferiority and significance.”
“Kenneth Preuss returned home from a hunting trip⟳ with a ten-day beard last⟳ Sunday, very cave-mannny, but it will take⟳ more than that to subdue Edith’s literary exaltation these days.”
“Thank⟳ goodness for sweat⟳ and the glands that produce⟳ it. Without them, we’d still be running around all furry and cavemanny.”
“I’d just read⟳ a news story about how women are getting more and more beautiful while men remain⟳ as pathetically cavemanny as ever.”
“I get⟳ the impression that there were a lot of volcanoes in those olden times, although I might be thinking all the way back to cavemanny times.”
“That dark voice tugged at her. Connor, her bodyguard. Her big, strong, cavemanny bodyguard.”
“He was beginning to sound⟳ a little cavemanny and it made her stomach tickle⟳.”
““I guess⟳ I remember⟳ there was something very physical, very masculine, about a group of 100 dudes going into the woods to train⟳,” he [Russell Harbaugh] says. “(Coach) Creighton would take⟳ us to these camps to start⟳ the year. Wouldn’t use⟳ a ball. It was a week of obstacle courses, up to your knees in mud. Like⟳, it got kind of cave-mannny, and I liked that feeling, but I think⟳ that’s different from what you’re talking about.[…]””
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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