Plural noun : The menfolk are all working in the fields. From Dictionary.com.
Now fishermen -- or "menfolk" -- from Hartley Bay sped towards the ferry in small speedboats, drenched by pouring rain and chopping waves. From Wordnik.com. [All Today's News - Sightline Daily] Reference
Time to call the menfolk indoors to dish up, then the women and girls to follow soon after. From Wordnik.com. [Covenant]
There are no decent you tubes of this, the "menfolk" probably didn't care for it much, so you will have to listen to it. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderland or Not] Reference
Brought thither for thanks, that of thirty of menfolk. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
For a mischief to menfolk; now nothing that quick was. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
This was a woman who had always leaned on her menfolk. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
"Whose menfolk are dazzled into volunteering," Pia said. From Wordnik.com. [Xone of Contention]
Clearing the table and doing dishes as we menfolk talked. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Perhaps none of the menfolk at the wedding were surprised. From Wordnik.com. [Isle of View]
Women cannot be blamed for the perfidies of their menfolk. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
Their menfolk were coming up; he was right in fearing trouble. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
These he promised to set alight, if the menfolk gave any trouble. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
The militia members separated the menfolk from the women and children. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Abrahams: Small Fish, Big Fish in Serbia] Reference
It was just the marriage a family needed, so shorn of menfolk by death. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
And they'd serve them precisely as the Sarkian women serve their menfolk. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
Emma was plucking anxiously at his sleeve, troubled for both her menfolk. From Wordnik.com. [The Confession of Brother Haluin]
Their menfolk went into the marshes to hunt late-season wildfowl and venison. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
African women want to be with their menfolk and not be left permanently widowed in the. From Wordnik.com. [I am Prepared to Die] Reference
As the womenfolk cleaned up after dinner in the kitchen, the menfolk gathered on the porch. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
I was in Tangiers when my Bosnian Serb cousins overran Srebrenica and slaughtered its menfolk. From Wordnik.com. [What It's Like Being A Serb] Reference
African women want to be with their menfolk and not be left permanently widowed in the Reserves. From Wordnik.com. [Editorial] Reference
Textually speaking, it's tolerable menfolk Lizzy finds in short supply — not loyal girlfriends. From Wordnik.com. [Not-So-Plain Jane] Reference
Like every human family in TunFaire, great or small, the Tales have menfolk buried in the Cantard. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Lead Skies]
The womenfolk, who paid much more attention to such things than menfolk did, were getting frantic. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie Lover]
Even they, those female chambermaids and launderers, see more or less of working menfolk during the day. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Almost all her menfolk have been killed off by their blood enemies, the Filippeschi, and she has had many. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Crampville that the Sunday dinner should be sufficiently heavy to drive the menfolk to a long digestive nap. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
I've figured a few things out and am now ready to direct the menfolk while they lug furniture all over the house. From Wordnik.com. [blabbedy blah blah] Reference
In the Iraqi countryside, menfolk are the breadwinners for extended families that can range up to dozens of people. From Wordnik.com. ['We Just Want to Live'] Reference
The country that traditionally sent its menfolk overseas to build roads or dig ditches must now re-import its labor. From Wordnik.com. [The Perils Of Prosperity] Reference
"Actually the children aren't all that bad, and the dazzle ability of the menfolk make them more readily handle able". From Wordnik.com. [Xone of Contention]
Most of the menfolk were inside the store buying supplies, though some were repairing wagon wheels or shoeing horses. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
After street protests by women in southern Serbia, their menfolk were allowed to come home from reserve duty in Kosovo. From Wordnik.com. [Sending In The Troops] Reference
Basically, the menfolk are saying, We can't afford to keep our wives and children here, there's nothing for them to eat. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2002] Reference
They had six snow machines to sell outside, so while most the menfolk headed outside, I perused the rest of the unsold items. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Those black-veiled women, carrying burdens beside the donkeys their menfolk rode, if they knew her purpose would think her mad. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
After all, as Mrs. Trevellas commented to Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Finley-Evans, one could get little satisfaction from one's menfolk. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
Slender Japanese girls clad in kimonos were tripping around their now loutish-looking menfolk and waving their decorated paper fans. From Wordnik.com. [The Japanese Corpse]
These women, whose menfolk often leave to seek work or to join in armed conflicts, have been hit by soaring fuel and fertiliser costs. From Wordnik.com. [Of course we must fight for women around the world] Reference
Onto the menfolk, Marc at No Recipes shows us how to make a spice-crusted roast lamb with mint sauce in forty minutes, start to finish. From Wordnik.com. [What Else Is Cooking This Week of Eating In?] Reference
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