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applewife

applewife is the alternative form 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...

Forms of applewife

pluralapplewives

Questions about applewife

What is applewife the alternative form of?
Applewife is the alternative form of apple-wife.

Words near applewife in the dictionary

  1. Appletree Flat
  2. appletrees
  3. applets
  4. Applewhite
  5. Applewhites
  6. applewife
  7. applewives
  8. applewoman
  9. applewomen
  10. applewood
  11. appleworm

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