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goodwife

[good-wahyf]

good·wife

[good-wahyf]
noun, plural -wives [-wahyvz] .
1.
Chiefly Scot. the mistress of a household.
2.
(initial capital letter) Archaic. a title of respect for a woman.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English; see good, wife
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Goodwife is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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goodwife (ˈɡʊdˌwaɪf)
 
n , pl -wives
1.  the mistress of a household
2.  a woman not of gentle birth: used as a title

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