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wood-wives

wood-wives is the plural of wood-wife.

Meaning of wood-wife

Noun

wood-wife (plural wood-wives)

  1. (Germanic) A type of female wood spirit.
    • Like the Wild Huntsman, the devil on Ash Wesdnesday hunts the wood-wives.1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume I, London: Edward Lumley, page 235

Questions about wood-wives

What is wood-wives the plural of?
Wood-wives is the plural of wood-wife.

Words near wood-wives in the dictionary

  1. wood-thistle
  2. wood-thistles
  3. wood-wide web
  4. wood-wide webs
  5. wood-wife
  6. wood-wives
  7. wood-wool
  8. wood-wroth
  9. Woodacre
  10. Woodale
  11. Woodall

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