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old-wivish

old-wivish is the alternative form of old-wifish.

Meaning of old-wifish

Adjective

old-wifish (comparative more old-wifish, superlative most old-wifish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an old wife.
    • As for vngooſtly and olde wyueſh fables, caſt them awaye, but exercyſe thy ſelfe vnto godlynes.1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, I. Timothy...

Forms of old-wivish

comparativemore old-wivish
superlativemost old-wivish

Questions about old-wivish

What is old-wivish the alternative form of?
Old-wivish is the alternative form of old-wifish.

Words near old-wivish in the dictionary

  1. old-timeyness
  2. old-timier
  3. old-timiest
  4. old-timy
  5. old-wifish
  6. old-wivish
  7. old-womanish
  8. old-womanishly
  9. old-world
  10. old-worldly
  11. Oldaker

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