► 名詞
女房 [(1)にょうぼう] [coll] [男] meaning: wife rank: 2
☆ うちの女房 ⇨ My wife (☛ Colloquially usually only used to refer to your own wife, and a little too casual toward someone else’s wife. In literature used more broadly yet still casually)
More examples:
- 女房を喜ばせるために花を買った ⇨ I bought some flowers to please my wife
- 捕手は投手の女房役と呼ばれる ⇨ Baseball catchers are often said to play the role of wives for pitchers
- また飲んで帰ろうものなら女房にどやされる ⇨ My wife would yell at me if I came home drunk again
- 彼は女房以外の女には見向きもしない ⇨ He doesn’t look at, pay any attention to, other women than his wife
- 女房にちょっとした贈り物をした ⇨ I gave my wife a little gift
- 女房を驚かせるために贈り物を買った ⇨ I bought a gift to surprise my wife
- 女房にデパート中を引きずり回された ⇨ I got dragged around all over the department store by my wife
- 女房と温泉旅行と洒落込んだ ⇨ My wife and I made a rare trip to a hot spring resort
- 女房の買い物に付き合わされた ⇨ My wife made me go shopping with her
- うちの女房も年にしては満更捨てたものでもない ⇨ My wife should not be dismissed despite her age, she is still quite attractive for her age
- 昨晩女房とナニをした ⇨ I did the deed with my wife last night
- うちの母はいつも僕よりも僕の女房を庇う ⇨ My mother always sides with my wife rather than me
- 最近女房と御無沙汰だ ⇨ I haven’t had sex with my wife for a while
- 女房と子供は絶対に辛い目に遭わせない ⇨ I will never let my wife and children go through hard times
- 女房の機嫌が悪くなってきたのでそそくさと退散した ⇨ My wife’s mood was getting bad so I quickly ran away