| 单词 | widow man |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswidow man widow man n. now chiefly Irish English a male widow; = widower n.1 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widower widowOE widowerc1390 widow man?1555 ?1555 T. Paynell tr. J. L. Vives Office of Husband sig. G.viv It is to be considered and wayed, who it is that wyll be maryed, and whether he be..a wydowe man [L. sit..viduus], or whether he hath ben maryed or no. 1643 in G. R. Kinloch Select. Minutes Synod of Fife (1837) 13 A widow man..quho hes a woman living in the house with him. 1720 C. Morris Diary 15 Dec. (1934) 83 Brown, & Foxwell, the Widow Man & 3 or 4 more affirm'd their Commons were too small. 1841 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland I. 30 Her father came here soon after she was born, a widow-man with only her. 1946 C. McCullers Member of Wedding ii. 43 He was a widowman, for her mother had died the very day that she was born—and, as a widowman, set in his ways. 1999 F. McCourt 'Tis li. 463 I'm a rich widow man with a farm o' land. < as lemmas |
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