LingakuFrequency rank: 24,165. – 24,319.
- wife (esp. one's own wife)
- court lady; female court attache; woman who served at the imperial palaceonly applies to にょうぼう and にゅうぼう
- woman (esp. as a love interest)only applies to にょうぼう and にゅうぼうarchaism
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
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He was given ten years and his wife three.
The angry wife was on the warpath; she hit her husband with a broom for coming home late and drunk.
My wife's hands are slightly smaller than the shop assistant's.
Many times, a hen-pecked husband doesn't know his problems until he talks to a happy bachelor.
10. にょうぼう女房がえいが映画にいきたがっている行きたがっていることがよくわかったので、いじわるなていしゅ亭主はいっけいをあんじ一計を案じ、くるあてもないらいきゃく来客をいえ家でまつ待つことにした。
Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.
A man who asks his wife's permission before taking any action except breathing is a henpecked husband.
15. あのふうふ夫婦はともかせぎ共かせぎしている。だがていしゅ亭主のきゅうりょう給料のほうがにょうぼう女房のきゅうりょう給料よりもひくい低い。ていしゅ亭主がにょうぼう女房のしりにしかれる尻にしかれるのもとうぜん当然だ。
He and his wife both work and his salary is lower than hers, so no wonder he is a hen-pecked husband.
One day, I came back and my wife and one of my friends were inside the kotatsu.