Translation for "womanish" to spanish

Womanish

adjective

• mujeril
• afeminado

Translation examples

mujeril adjective

A womanish petulance tugged at his mouth, disrupting his false calm.
—Una impaciencia mujeril tiraba de su boca, desbaratando su falsa apariencia de serenidad—.

it smacked of midwifery, of witchery, of womanish cures and auguries, of stolen hairpins and menstrual napkins.
olía a comadres, a brujería, a curas y augurios mujeriles, a horquillas robadas, a compresas para la menstruación.

In an instant’s flash inside his head he saw himself pointing a gun at that wet womanish back, squeezing the trigger.
Como en un relámpago se imaginó a sí mismo apuntando un revólver contra esa espalda mujeril, apretando el gatillo.

he complained, waddling in front of her along the path from gate to house, looking round and womanish.
-rezongó, abriendo camino con andares de pato por el sendero que iba de la verja a la casa, con un aspecto orondo y mujeril.

In the end Priam came away, and what Laurel Hill had taken to be fear was probably annoyance at Hill’s womanish obduracy.
Al final sale Priam, y lo que Laurel Hill tomó por miedo es probablemente fastidio por la obcecación mujeril del otro socio.

afeminado adjective

Thy tears are womanish!
¡Tus lágrimas son afeminadas!

- Oh, you're not... - Really not womanish.
Oh, no eres... realmente afeminado.

I'm sorry for acting so womanish.
- Lamento haber actuado tan... afeminado.

A womanish husband is no use to anyone.
Un esposo afeminado no le sirve a nadie.

Remember the ‘womanish’ voice.
Recuerden la voz afeminada.

All this Joseph found more than a little reprehensible and trivial and womanish.
Todo esto Joseph lo encontraba más que reprensible, trivial y afeminado.

“So that was it,” and now the womanish voice had a vicious sting.
—Efectivamente —replicó la voz afeminada en la que ahora se percibía un matiz de mala intención—.

I have one sickly, womanish boy and four wretched girls.
Me ha dado un chico enfermizo y afeminado y cuatro malditas chicas.

Aabi said with a kid of womanish giggle. "New York? Peking?"
—dijo Aabi con una especie de risita afeminada —. ¿A Nueva York? ¿A Pekín?

To be thought weak and womanish by hearty young officers was unbearable to me.
El hecho de que robustos oficiales jóvenes me considerasen débil y afeminado me resultaba insoportable.

Who among the womanish men left in Fezana could have implemented this?
¿Quién entre los hombres afeminados que quedaban en Fezana podría haberlo llevado a cabo?

Ah, now, Kokchu, thou canst give these womanish youths some fortitude.
-Oh, Kokchu, tú quizá puedas dar un poco de fortaleza a estos afeminados jóvenes.

As it is on an island one feels crowded, and so do the inhabitants, and crowds are always hysterical and womanish.
Al estar en una isla uno se siente apretujado entre la multitud, al igual que los habitantes, y las multitudes son siempre histéricas y afeminadas.

He was a northerner, with black curls that verged on womanish, an effect he tempered with his carefully tended beard.
Era norteño, con rizos negros casi afeminados, un efecto que contrarrestaba con una barba primorosamente cuidada.