womanchild

noun

womanchild

noun

Etymology From woman + child.

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.1988 February 12, Anthony Adler, “Send in the Hicks”, in Chicago Reader:

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