husband:
A male spouse ; a married man ; a man joined in marriage to a woman . Humorously defined by Louis J. Safian in An Irreverent Dictionary of Love and Marriage (1966) as: ' A spousebroken individual .'SYNONYMS: appendage ; bedmate (bed-mate); better-half ; breadwinner ; consort ; foot-warmer ; head-of-the-house ; helpmate ; his-lordship (His Lordship); hub ; hubby (hubbie); hus-bond ; legalized-moment ; lifer ; lord-and-master ; man-of-the-house ; mate ; meal-ticket ; mister; old-man ; old-man spouse ; old-pot ; other-half ; pa; papa; partner ; pot-and-pan (rhyming slang); significant-other ; sleeping-partner ; spouse ; taters-and-tea ; worse half; worser half.
SEE ALSO: apron-husband ; catch-farts; chicken-thief ; common-law-husband ; common-law-spouse ; December and May; ex; ex-bach ; half-husband ; henpecked ; newly-weds ; spouse-and-strife .
QUOTES:
(1) Lou (Lou Costello) in One Night in the Tropics (1940). The same joke was repeated in The Noose Hangs High (1948): ' A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed .'
(2) Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn) who had five husbands in Clue (1986): ' Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable .'
(3) Ouiser Boudreaux (Shirley MacLaine) in Steel Magnolias (1989): ' You know , I used to think you were crazy for marrying that man . Then, for a few years, I thought you were butting for punishment. Now I realise you must be on a mission from God .'
(4) Mrs. Fisher (Joan Plowright) in Enchanted April (1991): ' In my day husbands and beds were never spoken of in the same breath. Husbands were taken seriously as the only real obstacle to sin .'
(5) Charlie Bewell (Louis Calhern) giving fatherly advice to his daughter Susan Dewell Vega (Lucille Ball) on her wedding day in Forever, Darling (1956): ' The thing to remember is that in marriage the husband and wife are one... and the husband is the one .'
Quotes Containing husband:
'Just remember, this is a mercy-fuck .' Ellen Stone (Dyan Cannon) consenting to have-sex-with her ex-husband Harry (Danny Aiello) to keep him from jumping out the window and as an alternative to re-marriage in The Pickle (1993)
'Gerry, if I were her I wouldn't fuck you with a rented vagina .' Angie Scacciapensieri (Geena Davis) to her best friend's husband in Angie (1994)
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