单词 | woman palaver |
释义 | > as lemmaswoman palaver woman palaver n. Brit. , U.S. , West African English West African trouble or difficulties caused, typically to a man, by romantic or sexual involvement with a woman or women, esp. a married one; see palaver n. 1.ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > womanizing or associating with loose women whore-playa1325 whoring1530 whore-huntinga1533 whoremonging1549 palliardy1568 queanry1568 queaning1569 harloting1575 wenching1590 whorism1598 coney-catching1616 whoremastery1618 woman palaver1803 molrowing1860 whorehopping1916 1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone I. viii. 127 Those cases in which life or liberty of the accused are endangered, may be referred to three principal heads; which, to use the African mode of expressing them, are termed, sauce palaver,..witch palaver; and woman palaver, or adultery. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. xii. 281 This passing down of the rubber and ivory gives rise between the various towns to a series of commercial complications which rank with woman palaver for the production of rows. 1970 Drum (Johannesburg) Feb. (E. Afr. ed.) 39/2 I am a boy of 21... I want a girl friend, someone to pet me. But I feel I should get a job before getting involved with woman palava. 2008 Africa News (Nexis) 13 June He wasted no time again in re-enlisting into the Force... He got booted out the second time for what he described as ‘woman palaver’. < as lemmas |
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