女房

にょうぼう にょうぼ にゅうぼう

wife (esp. one's own wife)

側女

がわおんな

mistress; kept woman; concubine

恋女房

こいにょうぼう

one's dear wife

古女房

good old wife; one's wife of many years

女房役

にょうぼうやく

assistant, right-hand man, subordinate, wifely role

女房詞

にょうぼうことば

secret language of court ladies (Muromachi period)

世話女房

せわにょうぼう

perfectly dedicated wife

女房学校

にょうぼうがっこう

The School For Wives

女房持ち

にょうぼうもち

married man

女房装束

にょうぼうしょうぞく

costume for women serving in the inner palace (Heian period)

女房孝行

にょうぼうこうこう

being devoted to one's wife, uxorious

女房天下

にょうぼうてんか

husband being henpecked, house where the wife is the boss, petticoat government

姉さん女房

あねさんにょうぼう

wife who is older than her husband

女性化乳房

じょせいかにゅうぼう

gyneco-mastia

房房

ふさふさ フサフサ

in tufts, tufty, bushy, thick, luxuriant

押しかけ女房

おしかけにょうぼう

woman who forced her husband into marriage

房

ぼう ふさ

tuft, tassel

鬼の女房に鬼神

おにのにょうぼうにきじん

a horrible man will find a horrible wife

房房した

ふさふさした

tufty, fringy, flocculent, fleecy, abundant, flowing (hair)