Manscape
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A view of a group of people.
"I soon turned to contemplate the more animated manscape at my feet. Seeing a crowd of beggars standing together in dejected attitudes, I cast a handful of cash into the air, in such wise that the coins would fall plump among them, and then dropped behind the parapet of the pagoda."
- 2 A landscape that has been shaped by the human race.
"At last the manscape gags itself, and a queer, worn, torn, cracked, corncrake voice begins to vibrate in the vast bowl."
- 3 An image, normally artistic, of the male form.
"Pierrot is lying in an open loll on bedface, twitching me with bigtoe ... immense beckoner as my captive eye swallows it whole and am unawares into his manscape still at ten feet distance yet touched in a way that nobody has even touched me in my own community d'Angluche."
- 1 To impose a shape on the landscape to suit humans. rare
"On the valley floor, wide enough to admit the more pleasing features of manscaping, the Little River meanders."
- 2 To trim or shave a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs. neologism
"Is it that hard to manscape? You know, get an electric razor, trim up your shrubbery, blow out your front yard a bit?"
Example
More examples"I soon turned to contemplate the more animated manscape at my feet. Seeing a crowd of beggars standing together in dejected attitudes, I cast a handful of cash into the air, in such wise that the coins would fall plump among them, and then dropped behind the parapet of the pagoda."
Etymology
From man + -scape.
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