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- adjective Like a
wife ;wifely .
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Examples
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Lastly, _by all means keep the body warm_, and remember that the more careful you are of yourself, even at the risk of being thought "old wifish," you will, humanly speaking, be enabled to enjoy the sport to a greater age than you might otherwise do.
Scotch Loch-Fishing William Senior
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And we were wedded: for she, too, bowed the knee with me under the jovial blue sky; and under her eyes were the little moist semicircles of dreamy pensive fatigue, so dear and wifish: and God was there, and saw her kneel: for He loves the girl.
The Purple Cloud 1906
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But when I press anything, it is always with a true wifish submission to your judgment and inclination.
Mary Wollstonecraft Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895
chained_bear commented on the word wifish
Belonging to or characteristic of a woman; womanly; in depreciatory sense, womanish.
October 9, 2007
seanahan commented on the word wifish
And now for a pun...
When the man who spent much of his time on the lake was walking down the street with his pole, he was asked, "Why Fish"? He pointed back towards his wife and nodded.
October 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the word wifish
*groan* ;-)
October 9, 2007