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menfolks noun Men collectively, the male contingent of a family or group. [DARE labels this term “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1867 Harris Sut Lovingood 53 This wer the way they wer tu sarve men folks. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 120 They know thar’s a president, 'cause the men-folks’s voted for him, and the women-folks’s seed his pictur. 1931 Goodrich Mt Homespun 45 “It takes a heap of wool to do us,” said Mrs. Fox, “what with all the men-folks goes through in a year, and for blankets, and for us a coat apiece.” 1939 Hall Coll (Cosby Creek TN) The menfolks wore linsey britches [and] cotton shirts. 1963 Hooper Unwanted Boy 208 Ran called to his assistance the men-folks of the mountain family who had been living on the place, and with new axes and cross-cut saws they soon had the chopping under good headway.