Meaning of wifish | Babel Free

Definitions

Like a wife.

Examples

“Lastly, by all means keep⟳ the body warm, and remember⟳ that the more careful you are of yourself, even at the risk⟳ of being thought "old wifish," you will, humanly speaking, be enabled to enjoy⟳ the sport to a greater age than you might otherwise do.”

“But when I press⟳ anything, it is always with a true wifish submission to your judgment and inclination.”

“And we were wedded: for she, too, bowed the knee with me under the jovial blue sky; and under her eyes were the little moist semicircles of dreamy pensive fatigue, so dear and wifish: and God was there, and saw⟳ her kneel⟳: for He loves the girl.”

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