单词 | wife-hunt |
释义 | > as lemmaswife-hunt wife-hunt n. a search for a wife for oneself. ΚΠ 1849 Graham's Mag. Feb. 115/2 Jasper..met with some strange adventure during his wife-hunt. 1908 E. Oldmeadow Aunt Maud 94 Richard Camber, home for six months on a wife-hunt..had decided to pay me court. 2001 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 13 Jan. (Late ed.) 14 His wife-hunts began with pamphlets about himself, which he circulated among hairdressers in Sydney and Melbourne. wife-hunt wife-hunt v. intransitive to search for a wife for oneself. ΚΠ 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 62 Wife-hunting, as the rumour ran, was he. 1913 Continent 4 Sept. 1225/2 I don't want to wife hunt any farther. There ain't anybody like you for me, Cynthy. 2004 K. J. Fowler Jane Austen Bk. Club 257 Wentworth appears to wife-hunt among the Musgrove daughters, favoring Louisa. < as lemmas |
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