酔っ払っておそく家に帰ったかどで、怒った女房は亭主に食ってかかり、箒で亭主をひっぱたいた。

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English Translation

The angry wife was on the warpath; she hit her husband with a broom for coming home late and drunk.

Furigana

酔(よぱら)っ払()っておそく家(いえ)に帰(かえ)ったかどで、怒(おこ)った女房(にょうぼう)は亭主(ていしゅ)に食(く)ってかかり、箒(ほうき)で亭主(ていしゅ)をひっぱたいた。

Romanji

Yopparatte osoku ie ni kaetta ka do de, okotta nyōbō wa teishu ni kuttekakari, hōki de teishu o hippataita.

Words

酔っ払う (よっぱらう)

to get drunk

遅い (おそい)

slow; late (e.g. "late at night"); too late; dull; stupid

家 (いえ)

house; residence; dwelling; family; household; lineage; family name

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

帰る (かえる)

to return; to come home; to go home; to go back; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way

ど (ど、どう、ド)

precisely; exactly; plumb; totally; very much; damn; stupid; cursed

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative

怒る (おこる、いかる)

to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square

女房 (にょうぼう、にょうぼ、にゅうぼう)

wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; woman who served at the imperial palace; woman (esp. as a love interest)

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

亭主 (ていしゅ)

household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); innkeeper; owner (e.g. of an hotel); husband

食う (くう)

to eat; to live; to make a living; to survive; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of; to encroach on; to eat into; to consume; to defeat a superior; to threaten a position; to consume time and-or resources; to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event); to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time

箒 (ほうき)

broom

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

引っ叩く (ひっぱたく)

to slap; to strike; to spank