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Meaning of he-man | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
/ˈhiː.mæn/

Definitions

A strong or virile man.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”
“1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure A lotta draggy party-type people there...girls all decked out & guys with he-man cologne on.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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