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| 单词 | old-wifery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasold-ˈwifery old-ˈwifery n. the habits or beliefs associated with old wives; an instance of these. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] > state of being anility1623 beldamship1633 anileness1727 tabbyhood1797 old-wifery1827 old womanism1828 old-womanry1828 old-womanliness1877 old-ladyhood1888 old-womanishness1914 1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 177 This notion he named stuff and old-wifery. 1842 T. P. Thompson Exercises III. 55 It is manifestly an old-wifery, a noodleism, and all the world for fifty years has held it so. 1999 L. Watson Jacobson's Organ 101 Getting anything that smacks of folklore and old-wifery accepted as science is not easy. < as lemmas |
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