| 单词 | aunt-in-law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaunt-in-law aunt-in-law n. the wife or female partner of one's uncle. ΚΠ a1556 T. Cranmer Let. 7 Sept. in J. Strype Mem. Cranmer (1694) i. xii. 46 Aunt & Aunt-in-Law, Niece and Niece-in-Law. 1678 A. Walker Ἕυρηκα 93 Those three excellent Ladies to whom she was an own Mother, though but an Aunt-in-law. 1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress 15 The Fifth, an Ancient Gentlewoman, Aunt-in-Law to my Husband, a Widow, and the least able also of any of the rest, did, indeed, ask me to sit down. 1836 C. G. F. Gore Mrs. Armytage III. iv. 61 Ha'vn't [sic] I explained to you..that I am your son's aunt-in-law, Mrs. Dyke Robsey, of Portland Place? 1924 Legal Aid Rev. Oct. 5/1 Friction arose between the alien and her uncle's family, her aunt-in-law..becoming jealous and making things so uncomfortable for her that she was compelled to withdraw from her uncle's home. 2007 C. Riggs Shooting Star xiv. 111 What an injustice. His own uncle and goddamned aunt-in-law locking him out. < as lemmas |
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