Womanchild

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An immature woman.

    "Where the Henley heroine comes across as an awkward, desperate, emotionally battered womanchild, the knockoff's simply dumb, needy, and infantile."

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adultescent

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"Where the Henley heroine comes across as an awkward, desperate, emotionally battered womanchild, the knockoff's simply dumb, needy, and infantile."

Etymology

From woman + child.

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