spousy
/ˈspaʊ̯zi/
spousy noun: spouse.
Noun
spousy (plural spousies)
- Spouse.
- He was still on honeymoon with his spousy.
- But soon my new spousy found courage and breath, – And in less than a week almost talk’d me to death […]1818, Thomas Hudson, “The Pitch Plaister”, in Comic Songs, page 28
Examples of spousy in a sentence
- Once a week or so you will emerge from the elegant cares of a counting-room, to take the benefit of the dust with spousy, to your rural cot on the high road […]1918, Perley Isaac Reed, The Realistic Presentation of American Characters in Native American Plays Prior to Eighteen Seventy, page 77:
- One stays to finish grad school, to wrap up a job or to take the time to find the right post in the promised land that spousy has jetted off to.1999, Glen Justice, “We’re Happily Married And Living Apart”, in Newsweek:
Forms of spousy
| plural | spousies |
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Origin of spousy
Diminutive of spouse + -y.
Questions about spousy
- What does spousy mean?
- Spousy means spouse.
- How do you use spousy in a sentence?
- Once a week or so you will emerge from the elegant cares of a counting-room, to take the benefit of the dust with spousy, to your rural cot on the high road […]
- What part of speech is spousy?
- Spousy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce spousy?
- Spousy is pronounced /ˈspaʊ̯zi/.
- What is the plural of spousy?
- The plural of spousy is spousies.
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