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ˈfarm-wife
Also farmwife.
[f. farm n.2 + wife n.]
A farmer's wife.
1880W. D. Howells Undiscovered Country 261 The growth of the bargaining passion in the wary farm-wives. 1907Daily Chron. 21 Oct. 8/1 The farm-wife from the Ghyll stepped softly in. 1954W. Faulkner Fable (1955) 331 Above them stood the farmwife. |