petticoat government

English

Noun

petticoat government (countable and uncountable, plural petticoat governments)

1. (dated, derogatory) Government by women, whether in politics or domestic affairs.

Translations

government by women

• Finnish: akkavalta (fi)
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “petticoat government”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)