wifelets

Noun

wifelet (plural wifelets)

1. (colloquial, endearing) A wife.
   • Annie, wifelet, let me tell you of one of my foreign flirtations—one that I have never yet even hinted to you.1857 June, “Miss Caley”, in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art, volume IX, number LIV, New York, N.Y.: Miller & Company, […]; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   wifekin, wifeling, wifelkin, wifie

2. (broadly, informal) A wife who is of small stature.
   • In stature the Manlet was dwarfish— / No burly big Blunderbore he: / And he wearily gazed on the crawfish / His Wifelet had dressed for his tea.1893, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “To the Rescue!”, in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 265
3. (broadly, informal) A long-term girlfriend; a mistress (the “other woman” in an extramarital relationship).
   • The Marquess [Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath], now 74, who is best known for his remarkably unorthodox dress sense, his pornographic murals and his series of wifelets, is fixing me with a priapic eye while slurping wine from a beer glass. "I need some more," he declares loudly. "Wine?" I...2007 March 30, Petronella Wyatt, “The Marquess of Bath – on the prowl for ‘wifelet 76’”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2016

   Synonyms:

   bit on the side, concubine, doxy, dulcinea, goomah, leman, loon, minx, mistress, number two