husband-in-law

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A husband in law only, such as one who has abandoned his wife
  2. A husband who provides legally required support, but not love or affection
  3. Another husband of one's wife. Typically used in cases of divorce and subsequent remarriage. colloquial
    — the collection of people who would gather in either of the two houses for Christmas and Thanksgiving, and sometimes again in summer. This collection involved former mothers-in-law, former husbands, ex-wives of former husbands, and doddering uncles from distant marriages, as well as, of course, the various and sundry children and dogs (dogs-in-law as one family member calls them) of the now recombined families. In the process, I believe, we were responsible for the creation of a new American family relative—the wife-in-law, or the husband-in-law.

词形变化

husbands-in-law plural

词源

From husband + -in-law.
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