seawife
UK/ˈsiːˌwaɪf/
seawife noun: synonym of wrasse.
Noun
seawife (plural seawives)
- Synonym of wrasse.
- Synonyms:
- wrasse
- The wife of a fisherman or sailor.
- Moreover they are informed that the only Ward family living on the island is “Selkie” and his seawife, and “Selkie” was their great-great-grandfather, dead for a hundred years. / Eventually, after encounters with various people whose behaviour they cannot understand, they find “Selkie”, his seawife...1972, W[illiam] Towrie Cutt, Seven for the Sea, London: André Deutsch, →ISBN, front flap
- As each contraction built, swelled, broke, and subsided, I had begun to feel like an old seawife on the shore listening to the boom and smack of waves rolling in from an offshore storm, knowing (from the tales of survivors) what was happening out there to the old man on the boat, but unable to do a...1978, George Sibley, Part of a Winter: A Memory More Like a Dream, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 212
Examples of seawife in a sentence
- Out of the total of fifty boats surveyed on practical aspects of seamanship and long distance cruising, forty had a seawife on board.1983, Jimmy Cornell, “The Seawives Have Their Say”, in Modern Ocean Cruising: Boats, Gear and Crews Surveyed, London: Adlard Coles Limited...
- She was not the model New England seawife who walked the widow's walk atop her house waiting for the return of her sailor.1991, Joyce G. Knibb, Patricia A. Mehrtens, The Elusive Booths of Burrillville: An Investigation of John Wilkes Booth’s Alleged Wife and...
- From the middle of the insistent fisherfolk, Maudlin Trowker, a seawife who had arrayed Nelda for the Briding, stepped up to her and put a tender hand upon her shoulder.1994, Robin Jarvis, “The Horngarth”, in The Whitby Child (Whitby; 3), Hemel Hempstead, Herts.: Macdonald Young Books, published 1995...
- The old seawife, Ran, sits in her kitchen at the bottom of the sea, brewing up storms in her big black pot.2011, Katherine Langrish, West of the Moon, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 182:
Synonyms of seawife
Forms of seawife
| plural | seawives |
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Origin of seawife
From sea + wife.
Questions about seawife
- What does seawife mean?
- Seawife means synonym of wrasse.
- How do you use seawife in a sentence?
- Out of the total of fifty boats surveyed on practical aspects of seamanship and long distance cruising, forty had a seawife on board.
- What part of speech is seawife?
- Seawife is a noun.
- How do you pronounce seawife?
- Seawife is pronounced /ˈsiːˌwaɪf/ (UK).
- What is the plural of seawife?
- The plural of seawife is seawives.
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