grass widown.

Brit.

/ˌɡrɑːs ˈwɪdəʊ/,

/ˌɡras ˈwɪdəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈɡræs ˌwɪdoʊ/

Forms: see grass n.¹ and widow n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grass n.¹, widow n.

Etymology: < grass n.¹ + widow n.With sense 1 compare Middle Low German graswedewe discarded mistress, Swedish regional gräsänka promiscuous girl (after Middle Low German). With sense 2 compare Swedish gräsänka , Danish græsenke (both early 18th cent.), and their probable model German Strohwitwe , lit. ‘straw widow’ (beginning of the 18th cent. or earlier), all in sense ‘married woman living temporarily away from her husband’. Compare also grass widower n. Semantic motivation. In sense 1 probably with allusion to a typical place for illicit sexual intercourse (compare the etymology of bastard n.); there is no support for the suggestion that this sense reflects a folk-etymological alteration of a supposed compound *grace widow . With sense 2 compare phrases such as to put out to grass at grass n.¹ Phrases 2a; it may perhaps have arisen from etymologizing reinterpretation of the compound after its original semantic motivation had become opaque, although compare also the parallels in other Germanic languages.

†1. An unmarried woman who has cohabited with one or more men, or who has had an illegitimate child; (also) a discarded mistress. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman > other spec.

grass widow1529

leaguer-laundress1630

leaguer-lady1702

leaguer-lass1822

garrison-hack1876

sing-song girl1934

groupie1966

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. xiii. f. lxxxvii^v/2 Tyndall wolde by thys waye make saynt Poule to say thus. Take & chese in but such a wydow as hath had but one husbande at onys... I thynke saynt Powle ment not so. For then had wyuys ben in his time lytel better than grasse wydowes be now. For they be yet as seuerall as a barbours chayre & neuer take but one at onys.

1582 Reg. Bk. Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk Jan. The 31 day was buri'd Marie the daught^r of Elizabeth London graswidow.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Widows Weeds. A Grass-Widow, one that pretends to have been Married, but never was, yet has Children.

1760 O. Goldsmith Goddess of Silence in Misc. Wks. (1837) I. xxvi. 329 I have made more matches in my time than a grass widow.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Widow's Weeds, A grass widow, a discarded mistress.

2. A married woman living apart from her husband, either temporarily or (sometimes) permanently; esp. one whose husband is away often or for a prolonged period. Cf. grass widower n.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > wife whose husband is absent

widow1447

grass widow1822

wife-widow1875

golf-widow1898

1822 Rambler's Mag. 1 Mar. 114 Letter from a grass widow; or, a married woman separated from her husband.

1846 J. J. Hooper Taking Census in Some Adventures Simon Suggs ii. 183 John Green's sister, (the grass widder, as lives with 'em,) she goes to her battling bench.

1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 4 Grass widows in the hills are always writing to their husbands, when you drop in upon them.

1900 K. T. Marr Confessions of Grass Widow (1904) ix. 57 Men gathered about me; but how differently the ‘grass widow’ is regarded from the maiden or the really weedy widow!

1960 K. Amis Take Girl like You (1962) 165 What about coming round on Tuesday and cheering me up when I'm a grass widow.

2017 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 2 Dec. With their men migrating for better and skilled jobs in the cities, the grass widows, as they are called, are left to run farms.

Derivatives

grass ˈwidowhood n. the state or condition of being a grass widow.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > wife whose husband is absent > condition of

grass widowhood1849

1849 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 4 June Whether the reluctant groom will..consign her untimely to the penalties of grass-widowhood, remains to be seen.

1922 F. Dell Poor Harold! in King Arthur's Socks & Other Village Plays 236 When I go back to Evanston, and take up grass-widowhood and the burden of living down the family scandal.

2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 9 Nov. 10 Well, I can't pretend I am as enchantée as a proper Frenchwoman would be by such a prolonged stint of grass widowhood, but I am taking steps to make it tolerable.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

grass widowv.

Brit.

/ˌɡrɑːs ˈwɪdəʊ/,

/ˌɡras ˈwɪdəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈɡræs ˌwɪdoʊ/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: grass widow n.

Etymology: < grass widow n.

Now somewhat rare.

intransitive. To live as a grass widow (grass widow n. 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > be or become married woman [verb (intransitive)] > act as a wife > live alone in husband's absence

grass widow1892

1892 Critic (N.Y.) 12 Mar. 154/1 She and her husband lived charmingly—apart, ‘grass-widowing’ here and there.

1928 Daily Express 9 Apr. 8/4 If I were going out to take up land in Rhodesia or British Columbia I would not have you at a gift. You would be grass-widowing in Capetown or Montreal before I could say knife.

1974 Soviet Lit. No. 9. 108 ‘Grass widowing a bit, eh?’ Tudose said, glancing at her with a faint smile.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	grass widow
释义	grass widown. Brit. /ˌɡrɑːs ˈwɪdəʊ/, /ˌɡras ˈwɪdəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɡræs ˌwɪdoʊ/ Forms: see grass n.¹ and widow n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grass n.¹, widow n. Etymology: < grass n.¹ + widow n.With sense 1 compare Middle Low German graswedewe discarded mistress, Swedish regional gräsänka promiscuous girl (after Middle Low German). With sense 2 compare Swedish gräsänka , Danish græsenke (both early 18th cent.), and their probable model German Strohwitwe , lit. ‘straw widow’ (beginning of the 18th cent. or earlier), all in sense ‘married woman living temporarily away from her husband’. Compare also grass widower n. Semantic motivation. In sense 1 probably with allusion to a typical place for illicit sexual intercourse (compare the etymology of bastard n.); there is no support for the suggestion that this sense reflects a folk-etymological alteration of a supposed compound grace widow . With sense 2 compare phrases such as to put out to grass* at grass n.¹ Phrases 2a; it may perhaps have arisen from etymologizing reinterpretation of the compound after its original semantic motivation had become opaque, although compare also the parallels in other Germanic languages. †1. An unmarried woman who has cohabited with one or more men, or who has had an illegitimate child; (also) a discarded mistress. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman > other spec. grass widow1529 leaguer-laundress1630 leaguer-lady1702 leaguer-lass1822 garrison-hack1876 sing-song girl1934 groupie1966 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. xiii. f. lxxxvii^v/2 Tyndall wolde by thys waye make saynt Poule to say thus. Take & chese in but such a wydow as hath had but one husbande at onys... I thynke saynt Powle ment not so. For then had wyuys ben in his time lytel better than grasse wydowes be now. For they be yet as seuerall as a barbours chayre & neuer take but one at onys. 1582 Reg. Bk. Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk Jan. The 31 day was buri'd Marie the daught^r of Elizabeth London graswidow. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Widows Weeds. A Grass-Widow, one that pretends to have been Married, but never was, yet has Children. 1760 O. Goldsmith Goddess of Silence in Misc. Wks. (1837) I. xxvi. 329 I have made more matches in my time than a grass widow. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Widow's Weeds, A grass widow, a discarded mistress. 2. A married woman living apart from her husband, either temporarily or (sometimes) permanently; esp. one whose husband is away often or for a prolonged period. Cf. grass widower n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > wife whose husband is absent widow1447 grass widow1822 wife-widow1875 golf-widow1898 1822 Rambler's Mag. 1 Mar. 114 Letter from a grass widow; or, a married woman separated from her husband. 1846 J. J. Hooper Taking Census in Some Adventures Simon Suggs ii. 183 John Green's sister, (the grass widder, as lives with 'em,) she goes to her battling bench. 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 4 Grass widows in the hills are always writing to their husbands, when you drop in upon them. 1900 K. T. Marr Confessions of Grass Widow (1904) ix. 57 Men gathered about me; but how differently the ‘grass widow’ is regarded from the maiden or the really weedy widow! 1960 K. Amis Take Girl like You (1962) 165 What about coming round on Tuesday and cheering me up when I'm a grass widow. 2017 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 2 Dec. With their men migrating for better and skilled jobs in the cities, the grass widows, as they are called, are left to run farms. Derivatives grass ˈwidowhood n. the state or condition of being a grass widow. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > wife whose husband is absent > condition of grass widowhood1849 1849 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 4 June Whether the reluctant groom will..consign her untimely to the penalties of grass-widowhood, remains to be seen. 1922 F. Dell Poor Harold! in King Arthur's Socks & Other Village Plays 236 When I go back to Evanston, and take up grass-widowhood and the burden of living down the family scandal. 2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 9 Nov. 10 Well, I can't pretend I am as enchantée as a proper Frenchwoman would be by such a prolonged stint of grass widowhood, but I am taking steps to make it tolerable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). grass widowv. Brit. /ˌɡrɑːs ˈwɪdəʊ/, /ˌɡras ˈwɪdəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɡræs ˌwɪdoʊ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: grass widow n. Etymology: < grass widow n. Now somewhat rare. intransitive. To live as a grass widow (grass widow n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > be or become married woman [verb (intransitive)] > act as a wife > live alone in husband's absence grass widow1892 1892 Critic (N.Y.) 12 Mar. 154/1 She and her husband lived charmingly—apart, ‘grass-widowing’ here and there. 1928 Daily Express 9 Apr. 8/4 If I were going out to take up land in Rhodesia or British Columbia I would not have you at a gift. You would be grass-widowing in Capetown or Montreal before I could say knife. 1974 Soviet Lit. No. 9. 108 ‘Grass widowing a bit, eh?’ Tudose said, glancing at her with a faint smile. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1529v.1892
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