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wife
English
Etymology
From Middle English wif, wiif, wyf, from Old English w?f (“woman, female, lady, wife”), from Proto-Germanic *w?b? (“woman, wife”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g?wíb?- (“shame, pudenda”) (compare Tocharian A/B kip/kw?pe (“shame, genitals, female pudenda”)). Cognate with Scots wife (“wife”), West Frisian wiif (“wife, woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuw (“woman, lady, female”), North Frisian wüf (“wife, woman”), Dutch wijf (“woman, female”), Low German Wief (“woman, female”), German Weib (“woman, wife, female”), Danish viv (“woman”), Norwegian viv (“wife, woman, girl”), Swedish viv (“woman”), Faroese vív (“wife, woman”), Icelandic víf (“woman”).
See also woman.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wa?f/
- Rhymes: -a?f
Noun
wife (plural wives)
- A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
- 1952, P. G. Wodehouse, Big Business, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 127-8.
- All through Reginald's deeply moving performance she had sat breathless, her mind in a whirl and her soul stirred to her very depths. With each low note that he pulled up from the soles of his shoes she could feel the old affection and esteem surging back into her with a whoosh, and long before he had taken his sixth bow she knew ... that it would be madness to try to seek happiness elsewhere, particularly as the wife of a man with large ears and no chin, who looked as if he were about to start in the two-thirty race at Kempton Park.
- 1952, P. G. Wodehouse, Big Business, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 127-8.
- The female of a pair of mated animals.
- (Scotland) Synonym of woman.
Usage notes
Although mostly used only humorously, wife can be used with the to indicate one's own wife, as in "I'd like to go, but the wife wants me home".
Synonyms
- (married woman): little woman (slang)
- See also Thesaurus:wife
Antonyms
- (married woman): husband, were (noun) (obsolete)
Hypernyms
- better half, life partner, partner, significant other, spouse, wedder
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (waifu)
- ? English: waifu
- ? Korean: ??? (waipeu)
Translations
See also
- uxorial
Verb
wife
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, said of men) to marry
Synonyms
- wive
See also
- wife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Pages starting with “wife”.
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
Anagrams
- fiew
Middle English
Noun
wife
- Alternative form of wif
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English wif (“woman, wife”), from Old English w?f (“woman”).
Noun
wife (plural wifes)
- woman
- wife
Derived terms
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