词组 | SWAMBO; swambo |
释义 | SWAMBO; swambo a man’s wife or girlfriend; any woman in power US A vocalized initialism for “She Who Must Be Obeyed.” The heroine of Henry Rider Haggard’s 1887 She: A History of Adventure is Queen Ayesha, who is referred to as “She Who Must Be Obeyed” or simply “She.” John Mortimer’s short stories, novels, and British television series Rumpole of the Bailey popularized the term in the 1980s, although SWAMBO seems to have emerged without a visible link to past usages of the full term.
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