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1 primary wife

1 old woman (at times contemptuous)

1 wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom)

2 the simple and good life

1 concubine

2 mistress

3 (dialect) woman

1 henpecked

2 to be under one's wife's thumb

1 (coll.) wife

1 husband's mother

2 mother-in-law

3 grandma

1 effeminate

2 old-womanish

3 garrulous

4 fainthearted

5 overly careful

6 overly sensitive

7 maudlin

1 tearful (idiom)

1 faded old woman

1 Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)

1 Brahmanism

2 Hinduism

1 Borneo island (of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei)

1 both sides claim they're right (idiom)

1 housewife (jocularly)

2 female housekeeper of a higher rank (old)

3 busybody

1 women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)

1 Brahmin

1 Mahābhārata, second great Indian epic after 羅摩衍那|罗摩衍那[Luó mó yǎn nà], possibly originally c. 4th century BC

1 tomboy

1 lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom)

2 fig. it's not something you can avoid forever