3. trans. To address as ‘woman’ (see woman n. 5). Cf.good woman v. Now rare.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 269 She call'd her another time Fat-face, and woman'd her most violently.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 399 Whom call you woman? Dare to woman me!
1835 Fraser's Mag. July 18/1 ‘Woman! Dinna woman me, Miss McKimp,’ said the fish-lady.
1904 E. Jepson Admirable Tinker xiii. 234 ‘Woman, you're mad!’ said McNeill, rising with a scared face. ‘Don't you woman me, you low Scotchman!’
1947 K. M. Kingsbury Shanty Paradise vii. 75 The son, in his baby days, had taken it up like a lisping echo and had ‘womaned’ me this and ‘womaned’ me that all around the place.
