wombly
adjEtymology From womb + -ly.
1
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of having a womb.
- In practicing couvade, the male makes himself wombly. An initiated aboriginal man made womanly by sub-incision can imitate the womb's ability to open.1929, Nor Hall, Warren Royal Dawson, Brood Males:
- Or is it that foetuses, and they alone, require wombly residence in order to survive?1978, John Hayden Woods, Engineered Death:
2
Broadly, Figuratively motherly; womanly.
- He remembers Milly's childhood fear of being deserted and the terror she experienced at the first bloody sign of womanly/wombly maturation: "Her growing pains at night […]1990, Suzette A. Henke, James Joyce and the Politics of Desire:
- This image extends to the divine person through the use of […] in Jeremiah 31.20 to signify God's motherly (or 'wombly') compassion for the beloved child, Ephraim.2005, Deborah Sawyer, David Gunn, Gary. A Philips, God, Gender and the Bible: