单词 | women's troubles |
释义 | > as lemmaswomen's troubles women's troubles n. euphemistic ailments suffered by women; spec. gynaecological ailments (also in singular). ΚΠ 1884 Med. Age 10 Nov. 324/2 Neither have for years come specially under the writer's notice (except so far as disturbances with their sex are inseparable from women's troubles). 1910 Amer. Anthropologist 12 655/1 The shrine being reputed helpful for women's troubles and diseases. 1978 D. A. Stanwood Memory of Eva Ryker xxi. 198 ‘She told the boss..that she had to go home. Menstrual cramps was the standard excuse’... ‘Men are so terrified of women's trouble. He always let her go, like she was carrying the plague.’ 2006 F. Kiernan & G. Hemphill Still Game: Scripts I. iii. 95 I wis at the doctor's this morning—women's troubles. < as lemmas |
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