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亭主

household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); innkeeper; owner (e.g. of a hotel)

N5Common wordNoun
Noun
household headmasterhost (e.g. of a tea gathering)innkeeperowner (e.g. of a hotel)
Noun
husband

Example Sentences

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(いえ)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(いえ)に帰ったかどで、(おこる)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.

女房の尻にしかれている亭主は、幸せな独り者に話してはじめて、自分の問題を認識することがたびたびだ。

Many times, a hen-pecked husband doesn't know his problems until he talks to a happy bachelor.