| 单词 | female bachelor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfemale bachelor (b) Modifying a properly or traditionally male designation (with reference to women in these roles), as female bachelor, female husband, female misogynist, etc., or conditions, as female bachelorhood, etc. ΚΠ 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 243. 1/2 I left the Apartment of this Female Rake, and went into her Neighbours, where there lay a Male-Coquet. 1746 H. Fielding (title) The female husband; or, the surprizing history of Mrs Mary, alias Mr George Hamilton, convicted for marrying a young woman. 1815 J. Corry Satirical View of London 187 The system of our male and female misogynists is daily obtaining new proselytes! 1853 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 12 Mar. 168/1 A real bona-fide offer of marriage,..seldom visiting even the dreams of these ‘female bachelors’, as they call themselves. 1890 Lit. World 3 Oct. 264/1 To-day young ladies of twenty-eight are still..enjoying the liberties of ‘female bachelorhood’. 1904 E. Demidoff Shooting Trip to Kamchatka iii. 75 The family, consisting of a female husband,..her wife and children from the ‘spare husband’, lived together in perfect harmony! 1989 Toronto Star (Nexis) 1 Apr. f1 [She] has been described by one critic as ‘a female misogynist masquerading as a political crusader’. 2006 E. Liggins G. Gissing, Working Woman, & Urban Culture v. 141 The female bachelors of the 1890s, with their full and independent lives, were both threatening and threatened. < as lemmas |
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