单词 | she-woman |
释义 | she-womann. 1. A woman, a female. Now rare (colloquial and somewhat derogatory in later use).With quot. 1703 cf. she-man n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] wifeeOE womaneOE womanOE queanOE brideOE viragoc1000 to wifeOE burdc1225 ladyc1225 carlinec1375 stotc1386 marec1387 pigsneyc1390 fellowa1393 piecec1400 femalea1425 goddessa1450 fairc1450 womankindc1450 fellowessa1500 femininea1513 tega1529 sister?1532 minikinc1540 wyec1540 placket1547 pig's eye1553 hen?1555 ware1558 pussy?a1560 jade1560 feme1566 gentlewoman1567 mort1567 pinnacea1568 jug1569 rowen1575 tarleather1575 mumps1576 skirt1578 piga1586 rib?1590 puppy1592 smock1592 maness1594 sloy1596 Madonna1602 moll1604 periwinkle1604 Partlet1607 rib of man1609 womanship?1609 modicum1611 Gypsy1612 petticoata1616 runniona1616 birda1627 lucky1629 she-man1640 her1646 lost rib1647 uptails1671 cow1696 tittup1696 cummer17.. wife1702 she-woman1703 person1704 molly1706 fusby1707 goody1708 riding hood1718 birdie1720 faggot1722 piece of goods1727 woman body1771 she-male1776 biddy1785 bitch1785 covess1789 gin1790 pintail1792 buer1807 femme1814 bibi1816 Judy1819 a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823 wifie1823 craft1829 shickster?1834 heifer1835 mot1837 tit1837 Sitt1838 strap1842 hay-bag1851 bint1855 popsy1855 tart1864 woman's woman1868 to deliver the goods1870 chapess1871 Dona1874 girl1878 ladykind1878 mivvy1881 dudess1883 dudette1883 dudine1883 tid1888 totty1890 tootsy1895 floozy1899 dame1902 jane1906 Tom1906 frail1908 bit of stuff1909 quim1909 babe1911 broad1914 muff1914 manhole1916 number1919 rossie1922 bit1923 man's woman1928 scupper1935 split1935 rye mort1936 totsy1938 leg1939 skinny1941 Richard1950 potato1957 scow1960 wimmin1975 womyn1975 womxn1991 1703 Athenian Oracle I. 445/1 Eve, a Mother, as the Scripture tells us, lssa, which Adam first call'd his Wife when he saw her, Vira, or a She-woman. 1836 ‘Pedestres’ & ‘C. Woodenpeg’ Pedestrian Tour through Wales & Eng. I. xx. 276 A she-woman-sort-of-thing presided behind the counter, and served out bread, cheese, and butter. 1864 Lt.-Col. Hazeltine Prisoner of Mill xi. 87/1 If you don't own up every thing, I'll put you in this pile of logs and roast you, as sure as you are a she woman. 1913 R. Norton Mediator vi. 97 Well, there's some sort of a she-woman up there cookin'. 2. A woman who has conventional feminine attributes, esp. to a high degree (cf. he-man n. 2). ΚΠ 1835 Meerut Universal Mag. 3 335 The ridiculous absurdity of great he men and she women united in marriage openly avowing that they cannot bear to be a moment apart from one another. a1851 L. Stuart Some Acct. John Duke Argyll (1863) 96 A voice I once dearly loved to listen to used to assert that there were in the world almost as many he-women as she-women. 1888 J. C. Byrne De Omnibus Rebus v. 139 The sex itself is combining to diminish its own numbers by trying to turn the superfluous ones into men: by this means the number of she-women left may be found to bring the sexes to a fair proportion. 1919 Mod. Hosp. Feb. 130/1 The program is to be worked out and is being worked out, in so far as is possible, as a he-man and a she-woman program. No long-haired men and short-haired women fanatics are to be in this fight. 1931 Sunday Disp. 31 May 12/4 I am one hundred per cent. SHE-woman. 2011 J. Diamond Baby Dilemma xi. 119 He-men take out the trash and bonk the burglars, and she-women wear frilly aprons and knead the bread dough? 3. A woman of exceptional power and strength (esp. of physique). ΚΠ 1925 Amer. Mercury Oct. 212/2 Two thousand red-blooded, Nordic he-men, and their even more enthusiastic she-women, who had been taught all their lives that they were ‘as good as you are’. 1997 S. Cienfuegos tr. Z. Valdés Yocandra in Paradise of Nada ix. 151 This band of militant she-women, who look..like socialist-realist statues. 2006 T. Horvath Thinking about Faith 235 The strength of a woman is more powerful than the muscles of a she-woman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1703 |
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