Word · 単語
亭主
Reading ていしゅ
household head
- 1 household head, master, host (e.g. of a tea gathering), innkeeper, owner (e.g. of a hotel)
- 2 husband
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例文 · examples
うちの亭主は甲斐性がない。
My husband isn't quite the provider he should be.
亭主が女房の尻にしかれるのも当然だ。
No wonder he is a henpecked husband.
あの家は女房が亭主をしりに敷いている。
She wears the trousers in that house.
酔っ払っておそく家に帰ったかどで、怒った女房は亭主に食ってかかり、箒で亭主をひっぱたいた。
The angry wife was on the warpath; she hit her husband with a broom for coming home late and drunk.
あの夫婦は共かせぎしている。だが亭主の給料のほうが女房の給料よりも低い。亭主が女房の尻にしかれるのも当然だ。
He and his wife both work and his salary is lower than hers, so no wonder he is a hen-pecked husband.