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单词 wife-carl
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wife-carl
wife-carl n. Scottish Obsolete a man who occupies himself with work of a domestic nature, or work traditionally done by women; cf. cotquean n. 3.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > man who does domestic or household work
wife-carl?1507
cotquean1597
cot1699
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 50 I maid that wif carll to werk all womenis werkis.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xiv. 311 An ye will be a wife-carle, and buy fish at your ain hands.
1871 J. A. H. Murray in D. Lindsay Minor Poems 589 (margin) A niggardly curmudgeon, a wife-carl.
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