Dame Partlet:name for a hen in the medieval Europe-an story-book “Renard the Fox” and in Chaucer’s“Tale of the Cock and the Fox” of ”The CanterburyTales”，and hence for a fussy and scolding woman帕特來特太太，中世紀(jì)歐洲故事書《列那狐》中一個母雞之名，（比喻）愛大驚小怪和責(zé)罵人的女人。
△1H.IV.3.3.60 (52):“Hownow. Dame Partlet the hen?”怎么樣，老母雞太太？ |