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  • noun A farmer's wife.

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Examples

  • It consist of 60 years of recipes and reminiscences from the life of a Nebraska farmwife, Alice Mickish Hendrickson.

    Homemaking Is Easier Now 2009

  • Even though she was a farmwife and did tons of outdoor work like feeding the animals and gardening.

    What Women Are Saying About Clothing Today 2009

  • Gigi Adam has been a farmwife for fifty wonderful years.

    Devotional Stories for Mothers Susan M. Heim 2010

  • As he staggered back against the wall of the house, he had just wit enough left to notice that the farmwife—now sticking out of her window and shrieking like the Glasgow Express—had knocked one of the pasties to the ground, where it was being devoured by the dog, who wore an expression of piety and rewarded virtue that Jerry found really offensive.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • As he staggered back against the wall of the house, he had just wit enough left to notice that the farmwife—now sticking out of her window and shrieking like the Glasgow Express—had knocked one of the pasties to the ground, where it was being devoured by the dog, who wore an expression of piety and rewarded virtue that Jerry found really offensive.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Gigi Adam has been a farmwife for fifty wonderful years.

    Devotional Stories for Mothers Susan M. Heim 2010

  • I am no milksop farmwife to be cast aside: I am the sovereign Duchess of Aquitaine, and I will be deferred to as such!

    Alison Weir's "Captive Queen," a novel about Eleanor of Aquitaine 2010

  • As he staggered back against the wall of the house, he had just wit enough left to notice that the farmwife—now sticking out of her window and shrieking like the Glasgow Express—had knocked one of the pasties to the ground, where it was being devoured by the dog, who wore an expression of piety and rewarded virtue that Jerry found really offensive.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Sire Guasca, in a shirt so well bleached it served as a beacon, scolded the men for flailing about like chickens after the farmwife has wrung their necks.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Sire Guasca, in a shirt so well bleached it served as a beacon, scolded the men for flailing about like chickens after the farmwife has wrung their necks.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

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