Mane
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion.
"Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints."
- 2 Eye dialect spelling of man. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, slang
"Ayy, make this right, mane, stop at the light, mane"
- 3 long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck wordnet
- 4 Long or thick hair of a person's head.
- 5 growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being wordnet
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- 6 Part of a naval sword between the tang button and the quillon.
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"In the leaden backdrop of the dawn, the horseman stands in silence, the long mane of his horse, disheveled by the wind."
Etymology
From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Danish man (“horse's mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).
Dialectal rendering of man, as used in African-American Vernacular English.
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