wifish

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wifish

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From wife + -ish.

adjective more wifish · most wifish · wivish

Like a wife. Lastly, by all means keep the body warm, and remember that the more careful you are of yourself, even at the risk of being thought "old wifish," you will, humanly speaking, be enabled to enjoy the sport to a greater age than you might otherwise do.
Similar: wifely, wifey, uxorial

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@misc{wifish_2026,
  title = {wifish},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wifish},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}