| 单词 | good lady |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgood lady good lady n. (with possessive pronoun) one's wife or partner; cf. lady n. 7.Cf. earlier use of good to refer to a female patron: see sense A. 4b (e.g. quot. a1616). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife wifeeOE womanc1275 peerc1330 spousessc1384 ladyc1390 good lady1502 girl?a1513 spousage1513 little lady1523 the weaker vessel1526 companion1535 wedlock1566 Mrs1572 dame1574 rib?1590 feme1595 fathom1602 feme covert1602 shrew1606 wife of one's bosom1611 kickie-wickiea1616 heifer1616 sposa1624 bosom-partner1633 goodwife1654 little woman1715 squaw1767 the Mrs1821 missus1823 maw1826 lady wife1840 tart1864 mistress1873 mama1916 ball and chain1921 trouble and strife1929 old boot1958 1502 Higden's Polycronycon (new ed.) vii. sig. ziiiv/2 He come home ayen in to Englonde and his goode lady his wyfe also. 1552 R. King Funerall Serm. sig. A.viv I am comen hether this daye..to preche at the buriall of this honoralbe Lady, my good Lady and Maistres. 1645 C. Darcy Let. 18 Apr. in S. D'Ewes Autobiogr. & Corr. (1845) II. 309 I pray you doe me the favour to present my service to Sir Richard Winn and his good lady, my cosen. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 247 Don Manuel cast many a Sheep's Eye at my Wife, and his good Lady at me. 1860 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner (1861) vii. 71 ‘How's your health, Colonel Sprowle’. ‘Very well, much obleeged to you. Hope you and your good lady are well’. 1923 Humorist 22 Dec. 548/3 Her hubby, nearly dropping, Carries his good lady's shopping. 2010 Daily Tel. 23 Aug. 17/5 Yesterday morning my good lady and I had picked plums, cherries, apples and damsons. What summer bounty! < as lemmas |
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