frow

n. 荷兰女人, 家庭主妇, 妻子

发音

UK /fɹəʊ/
其它 /fɹaʊ/
其它 /fɹaʊ/
US /fɹoʊ/

词形变化

frows 复数 more frow 比较级 most frow 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one.

    1846, Captain Butler, A Glimpse of the Frontier, and a Gallop through the Cape Colony, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 1846, Part 2, page 466, […] on our way we stopped at several houses, our companions having numerous acquaintances among the young frows, to flirt with after their ungainly fashion. Cape Dutch is not the language for love.

  2. 2.

    A slovenly woman; a wench; a lusty woman.

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  3. 3.

    A big, fat woman; a slovenly, coarse, or untidy woman; a woman of low character.

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  4. 1.

    Alternative spelling of froe (“cleaving tool”).

adj.
  1. 1.

    Brittle; tender; crisp

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词源

From Middle Dutch vrouwe (“lady”), from Old Dutch *frōwa, from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ (“lady, mistress”), from Proto-Indo-European *prōw- (“right; judge, master”). Cognate with Dutch vrouw (“woman, wife, lady, mistress”), Low German frouw, frauw (“woman, wife, lady”), German Frau (“woman, wife, lady”), Swedish fru, Icelandic freyja (“lady, mistress”, in compounds), Old English frōwe (“woman”), Old English frēa (“lord, master, husband”). Doublet of frau, vrou, and vrouw.

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