seawife

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seawife

/ˈsiːˌwaɪf/ UK

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From sea + wife.

noun seawives

Synonym of wrasse.
Similar: wrasse
rare The wife of a fisherman or sailor. Moreover they are informed that the only Ward family living on the island is “Selkie” and his seawife, and “Selkie” was their great-great-grandfather, dead for a hundred years. / Eventually, after encounters with various people whose behaviour they cannot understand, they find “Selkie”, his seawife

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@misc{seawife_2026,
  title = {seawife},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/seawife},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}