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Discover LudwigThe word 'man-child' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a common expression used to refer to a grown male who still behaves like a child. For example, "My brother is a 30 year old man-child; he still likes to play video games and watch cartoons on the weekends."
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man-child
noun
Alternative spelling of man child
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I'm still a man-child.
Would he always be a scruffy man-child?
But now Limbaugh calls Obama the "man-child president".
They could all be touchstones for this man-child.
Mr. Broderick's Ben is a bloated, inarticulate man-child.
DiCaprio bristles at being characterized as a man-child.
Being something of a man-child can carry a player only so far.
In the months that followed, we understood the man-child better.
To take an admittedly trivial example, I always thought John McEnroe was an insufferable man-child.
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License, registration, cultural exploration of the Man Child in 'The Sound and the Fury.'...".
But anybody in the world, man, child, goat, would think Marlon Brando was beautiful.
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