单词 | office wife |
释义 | > as lemmasoffice wife office wife n. U.S. slang (now depreciative) a man's female secretary. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > [noun] > clerical > secretarial > woman notaress1622 office wife1930 1930 F. Baldwin (title) The office wife. 1952 G. W. Brace Spire (1953) xxvii. 268 I've been a pretty faithful office wife to him, and though he has never invited me to share a bed..he does hate to part with me. 1999 Feminist Stud. (Nexis) 25 55 No longer were they [sc. working women] willing to fulfill the expectation among men that a secretary would serve as an ‘office wife’. < as lemmas |
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