grass-widowedadj.

Brit.

/ˌɡrɑːsˈwɪdəʊd/,

/ˌɡrasˈwɪdəʊd/, U.S.

/ˈɡræsˌwɪdoʊd/

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

Etymology: < grass n.¹ + widowed adj., after grass widow n. With sense 1 compare later grass widow v.

1. Of a married woman: living, or caused to live, as a grass widow (grass widow n. 2).

ΚΠ

1873 Daily Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 9 July The hotel parlors are..as silent as though the landlord had just buried his second wife and had stopped on his way back from the funeral to bespeak a grass-widowed third.

1886 C. King Marion's Faith viii. 115 Several ladies of the —th, ‘grass-widowed’ for the summer, were speedily induced to join in these modulated gayeties.

1919 National Drug Clerk May 369/1 The same artistic purpose as that achieved by the wedding cake decorations carefully preserved under a glass dome on the mantel shelf of the grass widowed lady.

1921 W. D. Pelley Fog i. viii. 64 She returned to a grass-widowed mother who lived in a small manufacturing city out in York State.

2018 J. Carver in D. Salwak Writers & their Mothers vi. 54 To support their grass-widowed daughter, her parents William and Mary Husband purchased a boarding house in Newquay.

2. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a grass widow (grass widow n. 2). Now somewhat rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of wife > whose husband is absent

grass-widowed1884

1884 Sat. Evening Mail (Terre Haute, Indiana) 26 Jan. 5/3 A volatile and vivacious young woman who is constantly vibrating between conjugal joys and widowed (or grass-widowed) woes.

1900 A. Cambridge Path & Goal xxiii. 307 She is more beautiful than ever now, I am told. And that's rather a pity, in her grass-widowed condition.

1917 Argonaut (San Francisco) 23 June 398/2 A mistress of the art of married—or grass-widowed—coquetry.

1957 Aeroplane 13 Sept. 397/2 There is no doubt at all that the wife's lament..was, and is, echoed in thousands of grass-widowed homes in the aircraft industry.

1960 Birmingham Post 7 May (Midland ed.) 11/8 The big night of grass-widowed freedom.

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

单词	grass-widowed
释义	grass-widowedadj. Brit. /ˌɡrɑːsˈwɪdəʊd/, /ˌɡrasˈwɪdəʊd/, U.S. /ˈɡræsˌwɪdoʊd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grass n.¹, widowed adj. Etymology: < grass n.¹ + widowed adj., after grass widow n. With sense 1 compare later grass widow v. 1. Of a married woman: living, or caused to live, as a grass widow (grass widow n. 2). ΚΠ 1873 Daily Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 9 July The hotel parlors are..as silent as though the landlord had just buried his second wife and had stopped on his way back from the funeral to bespeak a grass-widowed third. 1886 C. King Marion's Faith viii. 115 Several ladies of the —th, ‘grass-widowed’ for the summer, were speedily induced to join in these modulated gayeties. 1919 National Drug Clerk May 369/1 The same artistic purpose as that achieved by the wedding cake decorations carefully preserved under a glass dome on the mantel shelf of the grass widowed lady. 1921 W. D. Pelley Fog i. viii. 64 She returned to a grass-widowed mother who lived in a small manufacturing city out in York State. 2018 J. Carver in D. Salwak Writers & their Mothers vi. 54 To support their grass-widowed daughter, her parents William and Mary Husband purchased a boarding house in Newquay. 2. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a grass widow (grass widow n. 2). Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of wife > whose husband is absent grass-widowed1884 1884 Sat. Evening Mail (Terre Haute, Indiana) 26 Jan. 5/3 A volatile and vivacious young woman who is constantly vibrating between conjugal joys and widowed (or grass-widowed) woes. 1900 A. Cambridge Path & Goal xxiii. 307 She is more beautiful than ever now, I am told. And that's rather a pity, in her grass-widowed condition. 1917 Argonaut (San Francisco) 23 June 398/2 A mistress of the art of married—or grass-widowed—coquetry. 1957 Aeroplane 13 Sept. 397/2 There is no doubt at all that the wife's lament..was, and is, echoed in thousands of grass-widowed homes in the aircraft industry. 1960 Birmingham Post 7 May (Midland ed.) 11/8 The big night of grass-widowed freedom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1873
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