单词 | wife hunter |
释义 | > as lemmaswife hunter wife hunter n. a person in search of a wife. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > seeking a wife > one who wife hunter1752 wife-seeker1788 1752 B. Thornton Have at you All 26 Mar. 244 (heading) Adventures of a Wife-hunter. 1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 14 Oct. 146 Young wife-hunters in search of rich and ugly and old women. 1957 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 8 Feb. 24 Petz described himself as a 29-year old single wife-hunter, never married. 2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Nov. a1 They have apprehended dozens of Arab wife hunters and matchmakers who infiltrated the Jordanian camp posing as relief workers. < as lemmas |
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