womenfolk

or wom·en·folks

[ wim-in-fohk ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. women in general; all women.
2. a particular group of women.

womenfolk

/ ˈwɪmɪnˌfəʊk /

plural noun

1. women collectively
2. a group of women, esp the female members of one's family

Word History and Origins

Origin of womenfolk¹

First recorded in 1825–35; women + folk

Example Sentences

The womenfolk are depressed but Big Daddy Trump is going to fix all that and they'll be so happy they won't even think about abortion.

From Salon

But the womenfolk in town were way ahead of them.

From Salon

There’s a trope about “deceit” in the national conversation around transgender people — that we are somehow not what we appear to be, that we are going through the turmoil of transition not to find a sense of hard-won authenticity but instead as part of some kind of imaginary plot to harm the womenfolk.

From Washington Post

We’d celebrated the holiday in the manly way: dad in his jacket and tie and me in an itchy sweater, accompanying the womenfolk to church.

From Washington Post

“But womenfolk mostly trust what they feel more than menfolk. It’s called intuition. Think hard now, Jezebel. Did you feel, somewhere deep inside, that it was going to hurt you?”

From Literature