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单词 woman-bred
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woman-bred
woman-bred adj. depreciative (now rare) brought up by a woman (implying a lack of masculine influence or qualities); mollycoddled, weak.
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1846 W. Cross Disruption xii. 122 Your mode of dressing does not altogether please me... I object to it less for itself, than as an indication that you are woman-bred.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxviii. 351 The boy grew up delicate, sensitive, imperious, woman-bred.
1901 K. M. Caffyn Happenings of Jill xxx. 328 Lord Kendrick, woman-bred, sensitive, nervous, vain, could endure many things, but ridicule was death to him.
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