goodwife
See also: Goodwife
English
Alternative forms
- (title): Goodwife
Etymology
From Middle English goodwyf, godwyf, godwif, equivalent to good + wife.
Noun
goodwife (plural goodwives)
- (obsolete) A female head of a household.
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- "O my lord the Sultan," said the other [the Wazir], "verily women be weakly of wits, and haply this goodwife cometh hither to complain before thee against her goodman or some of her people."
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- (obsolete) A title of respect for a woman.
- Goodwife Hopkins
Synonyms
- (title): Mrs
Derived terms
- (title): goody
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