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apple-wives

apple-wives is the plural of apple-wife.

Meaning of apple-wife

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...

Questions about apple-wives

What is apple-wives the plural of?
Apple-wives is the plural of apple-wife.

Words near apple-wives in the dictionary

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

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