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名詞

1

A daughter; a girl

用例

• 娘をかたづける
  to dispose of a daughter in marriage

• 彼は娘を富豪へかたづけた
  He has given his daughter to a millionaire.
• 娘に婿を取る
  to find a husband for one's daughter
• 娘一人に婿八人
  （直訳すれば）There are eight suitors for one daughter―（意訳すれば）She has many suitors―She is much run after.
• 娘を三人持てば身代を潰す
  Three daughters will ruin a man.
• 蝶よ花よと育てた娘
  She was brought up with the tenderest care.
• あの娘に虫がついている
  The girl has a lover.
• 箱入り娘に虫がつく
  A pet daughter should be kept under strict guard.
• 十六娘は油断がならぬ
  There is no trusting a girl of fifteen
  Fifteen is a dangerous age for maidens.
• 家付きの娘
  an heiress
• 娘盛りだ
  She is in the bloom of her youth.
• 娘時代にはなかなか売れっ子だった
  She was much run after in her girlhood.
• 娘心に惚れ込んだ
  She fell in love, with him in her girlish innocence―with a girlish confidence.
• 娘を食う
  to live on one's daughter

2

［泥棒の符牒］（＝倉）a godown