ext_6760 ([identity profile] cheshire23.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] tisiphone 2011-06-11 07:23 pm (UTC)

In my experience:

Man-child: Usually pejorative for very adolescent-acting young adult who lives in mommy's basement. Sometimes, instead, a loving reference to a boy who is acting more maturely than his age would imply. (The latter context is the one I usually see "woman-child" used in, oddly enough.)

Man: male-identified legally adult human.

Grown-ass man: implication is usually the same as the pejorative version of man-child. Basic context of "you're a grown-ass man, WTF is wrong with you?"

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