paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
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(coll.) father's married sister / paternal aunt
for the time being / tentatively
excessively tolerant / to overindulge (sb) / overly conciliatory / to seek appeasement at any price
father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law
Buddhist nun
(coll.) husband's younger sister / sister-in-law
husband of paternal aunt
father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I / me / this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
to just talk for the sake of talking
mother's father's sister (coll.) / great aunt
night-scented lily (Alocasia odora)
husband's sister / (coll.) Buddhist nun
to tolerate is to abet
to tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom) / spare the rod and spoil the child
father's sister / paternal aunt
husband of father's sister / uncle
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
(idiom) to put (an issue) to one side for the moment
distant relatives
women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
female immortal / sorceress
father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law
dispute among womenfolk (idiom) / family squabbles
(polite) father's sisters
father's youngest sister / husband's younger sister / sister-in-law
(Tw) to doze off (from Taiwanese 盹龜, Tai-lo pr. [tuh-ku])
arrowhead (Sagittaria subulata, a water plant)
village girl / country bumpkin
(idiom) to make concessions for the sake of future gains
father's father's sister / great aunt
Chinese lantern plant / winter cherry / strawberry ground-cherry / Physalis alkekengi
husband's father and mother
father's female cousin via female line
Daoist nun
maiden / virgin girl
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27