dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/wif_MW.json
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{
"wifty":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": eccentrically silly or scatterbrained : ditzy":[
"She portrays a wealthy but wifty widow who wants her family home for the holidays.",
"\u2014 Ed Weiner"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8wif-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lloyd\u2019s career has been as wifty and out there as his characters. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Aug. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1918, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-125518"
},
"wifish":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": wifely":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-fish",
"-f\u0113sh"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-134651"
},
"wife":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": woman":[],
": a woman acting in a specified capacity":[
"\u2014 used in combination fish wife"
],
": a female partner in a marriage":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8w\u012bf"
],
"synonyms":[
"helpmate",
"helpmeet",
"lady",
"madam",
"missus",
"missis",
"Mrs.",
"old lady",
"wifey",
"woman"
],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"We met him and his wife .",
"a husband and wife who treat each other as equals in their marriage",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Sixty-four letters were submitted to Blumenfeld on behalf of Fortenberry, including from his wife Celeste and his five daughters, Nebraska Lt. Gov. Mike Foley and U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif. \u2014 Katherine Swartz, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022",
"James Corden kept his wife and kids in mind when making the difficult decision to depart The Late Late Show. \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022",
"Matt Crane, the executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association, said threats sent to him in the past year included voicemails and online chatter urging that he, his wife , and his children be shot in the head. \u2014 Michael Wines, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2022",
"When Miller is not growing her beauty brand, this wife and mother find ways to mentor the next generation of entrepreneurs. \u2014 Brittney Oliver, Essence , 27 June 2022",
"Lichtenstein and his wife and Pierce had been waiting for a bus at the stop when White began to yell at them, and made fun of the two men for being elderly, Hermann wrote in the affidavit. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 June 2022",
"A few weeks ago, on the way to a vacation, my wife and I stopped to visit my 101-and-a-half-year-old father. \u2014 Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 June 2022",
"Ferguson grew up in Anchorage and lives in Chugach with his wife and two children. \u2014 Crude Conversations, Anchorage Daily News , 27 June 2022",
"My therapy is being able to talk to my wife and kid. \u2014 New York Times , 24 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English wif , from Old English w\u012bf ; akin to Old High German w\u012bb wife and probably to Tocharian B kw\u012bpe female pudenda":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-193635"
},
"wifey":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": wife":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8w\u012b-f\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"helpmate",
"helpmeet",
"lady",
"madam",
"missus",
"missis",
"Mrs.",
"old lady",
"wife",
"woman"
],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"she sternly informed her husband that she did not appreciate being introduced as \u201cthe wifey \u201d at gatherings",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In an Instagram carousel post, the wifey -to-be took a few mirror selfies in a two-piece lilac set, complete with a cutout bandage top and tailored trousers. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Stopped at this spot called LOCAL WEST for some lunchtime munchies with the wifey . \u2014 cleveland , 6 July 2021",
"My wifey my best friend and the mother of my beautiful daughter. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe And Kendall Trammell, CNN , 15 Sep. 2019",
"My wifey my best friend and the mother of my beautiful daughter. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe And Kendall Trammell, CNN , 15 Sep. 2019",
"The rapper first noticed his future wifey in a magazine while he was incarcerated. \u2014 Jasmine Grant, Essence , 17 Oct. 2019",
"My wifey my best friend and the mother of my beautiful daughter. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe And Kendall Trammell, CNN , 15 Sep. 2019",
"My wifey my best friend and the mother of my beautiful daughter. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe And Kendall Trammell, CNN , 15 Sep. 2019",
"My wifey my best friend and the mother of my beautiful daughter. \u2014 Madeline Holcombe And Kendall Trammell, CNN , 15 Sep. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1786, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-223753"
},
"Wiffle":{
"type":[
"trademark"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8wi-f\u1d4al"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-044959"
},
"wifely":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": of, relating to, or befitting a wife":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8w\u012b-fl\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Behold all of his wifely love, and then behold him, loving her. \u2014 Monica Hesse, Washington Post , 20 June 2019",
"An even more incendiary interview surfaced online in March, in which Patterson can be heard boasting about having counseled an abused woman, who showed up to church with two black eyes, to submit to domestic violence as her wifely duty. \u2014 Virginia Heffernan, WIRED , 21 June 2018",
"To play Midge, Brosnahan consulted a stack of vintage Good Housekeeping magazines, clipping articles about wifely deportment. \u2014 Alexis Soloski, idahostatesman , 7 Jan. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-183432"
},
"wifelike":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":{
": in a wifely manner":[],
": wifely":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8w\u012bf-\u02ccl\u012bk"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1598, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
"1587, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-040809"
},
"wife's equity":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the equitable right or claim of a married woman prior to the married women's separate property acts as against her husband or his assignees or creditors to a reasonable provision (as by way of settlement) out of her choses in action or out of any property of hers under the jurisdiction of the court of chancery for the support of herself and her children":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8w\u012bfs- sometimes -\u012bvz-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-052808"
},
"wifebeater":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a ribbed tank top that is sometimes worn as an undershirt":[
"She is barefoot and casually dressed, smoking Newports, in red capri-length Dickies with a red and white belt, a white wifebeater that says HURLEY and a black hoodie that says HARLEY-DAVIDSON \u2026",
"\u2014 Jesse Sheidlower",
"Ripped young men in wifebeaters and equally buff young women in bikinis \u2026",
"\u2014 William Finnegan"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8w\u012bf-\u02ccb\u0113-t\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"from the stereotypical association of such shirts with men who abuse their wives":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1994, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-121202"
}
}