英语词汇“wife-hunting”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

wife-hunting n. the action of searching for a wife for oneself.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > seeking a wife

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1708 W. Taverner Maid the Mistress iv. 43 If I ever come to this Place a Wife hunting again, may my Skin be stripp'd over my Ears.

1750 Adventures Mr. Loveill II. 2 Between wife-hunting and fortune-hunting.

1862 F. W. Robinson Owen II. vii. 126 So you're off to forrin' parts..fortune-hunting and wife-hunting, p'r'aps, and such like things.

1907 E. V. Lucas Swan & Friends 90 Having loved in vain a lady whom he met at Shaftesbury while on a wife-hunting expedition.

2010 D. Morrissey Plantation ii. 41 There's not much opportunity for wife hunting in the colonies.

单词	wife-hunting
释义	> as lemmas wife-hunting wife-hunting n. the action of searching for a wife for oneself. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > seeking a wife wife-hunting1708 1708 W. Taverner Maid the Mistress iv. 43 If I ever come to this Place a Wife hunting again, may my Skin be stripp'd over my Ears. 1750 Adventures Mr. Loveill II. 2 Between wife-hunting and fortune-hunting. 1862 F. W. Robinson Owen II. vii. 126 So you're off to forrin' parts..fortune-hunting and wife-hunting, p'r'aps, and such like things. 1907 E. V. Lucas Swan & Friends 90 Having loved in vain a lady whom he met at Shaftesbury while on a wife-hunting expedition. 2010 D. Morrissey Plantation ii. 41 There's not much opportunity for wife hunting in the colonies. extracted from wifen. < as lemmas
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