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apple-wife

apple-wife noun: a female apple-seller.

Noun

apple-wife (plural apple-wives)

  1. (archaic) A female apple-seller.
    • Last night ye haggled and argle-bargled like an apple-wife; and then passed me your word, and gave me your hand to back it; and ye ken very well what was the upshot. Be damned to your word!1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Captain Knuckles Under”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company...

Forms of apple-wife

pluralapple-wives

Questions about apple-wife

What does apple-wife mean?
Apple-wife means a female apple-seller.
What part of speech is apple-wife?
Apple-wife is a noun.
What is the plural of apple-wife?
The plural of apple-wife is apple-wives.

Words near apple-wife in the dictionary

  1. apple-shaped
  2. apple-squire
  3. apple-squires
  4. apple-tree
  5. apple-trees
  6. apple-wife
  7. apple-wives
  8. appleade
  9. appleades
  10. Applebaum
  11. Applebaums

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