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Thread #166926 Message #4019610
Posted By: keberoxu
16-Nov-19 - 02:51 PM
Thread Name: Trans Req: The Dutch Housewife
Subject: RE: Trans Req: The Dutch Housewife
Okay:
Pronckmadam or Pronkmadam
is something like
a trophy wife,
or a lady of the latest fashion,
who shudders to think of doing any cleaning herself.
The dutch Pronk is something like the german Pracht,
showy, showing off, glorious.
I say 'something like' because, as usual,
I am out of my depth here ...
My apologies, I made a typo in the second modernized version.
It ought to read at the end:
"... ik beef niet vor den tob Gelijk de pronkmadam."
Which I would roughly translate:
"I do not tremble [at the thought] of a washtub ['de tob']
Like the showy Madame."