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menfolk

Noun

Meaning

Male people in general.
The old woman was surprised when the soldiers stopped to look at her camouflage quilts, since menfolk are rarely interested in needlework.

The male members of a group.
At our family reunion, the menfolk generally have a ball game, while the womenfolk gossip and trade snapshots.

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The Chinese women were undefended, their menfolk powerless or absent. Source: Internet

Families began sending to the newspapers letters they had received before Adwa in which their menfolk described their poor living conditions and their fears at the size of the army they were going to face. Source: Internet

Daniel took Austin and sat with the menfolk on the right side of the building while Julia went me with me to the left where the ladies were being seated. Source: Internet

For a country that isn’t this one, Pakistan’s gun laws are actually pretty lax, its menfolk harboring their own pistol-packing fantasies of living in some kind of 21st-century Wild West. Source: Internet

Naomie acts like she is just trying to protect all the menfolk from Peyton, but threatening to push Peyton off a pier tends to dull Naomie's nobility. Source: Internet

In the past when the men of the villages would go to war, the Queen Mothers would lead prayer ceremonies in which all the women attended every morning to ensure the safe return of their menfolk. Source: Internet

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