menfolk

Examples

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• During the family reunion, the menfolk gathered around the grill to cook burgers and share stories.

• The menfolk stood in a smoke-wreathed cluster at the opposite end of the living room, surrounding Karl Johan's chair.

  Fiction book (1992)

• As bitter as life is for the menfolk, it's worse for the women.

  Blog text (4)

• HINT to the menfolk: Girls want to be asked out by a guy!

  Blog text (6)

• But none of us felt like we had a chance unless we could distinguish ourselves from among the other menfolk.

  Fiction book (2001)

• That's why the menfolk in my family love them so much.

  Blog text (22)

• There is enough evidence of that in the number of women maltreated by their menfolk who stay on for more.

  Blog text (25)

• But it was Margie who finally came to some of us menfolks and said it had to be stopped.

  Pet Sematary (1989)

• We are neither ashamed, nor afraid, of thus aiding our menfolk, and we are actuated by no motives of petty vanity.

  Peterloo (2018)

• As the storm approached, the menfolk worked together to secure the house and protect their families.

Synonyms

M

men

vsmenfolk

286 1.0

People available to do a job, often soldiers or workers

is about males as a family or community group rather than as workers

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology