Goodwife
91partner — n 1. associate, consociate, colleague, coworker, co partner, co aid, Sl. pard, U.S. Dial pard ner; counterpart, special or limited or general partner, silent or secret partner, Obs. copemate or copesmate, Scot, and North Eng. marrow, Australian.… …
92spouse — n husband or wife, common law husband or wife, Inf. better half, consort, companion, marital partner, partner, (former) ex, yokefellow, yokemate; married man, benedict, bridegroom, groom, Inf. hub bie, Sl. old man, Archaic. goodman; married woman …
93-wife — aff. a combining form of wife, now unproductive, occurring in words that designate traditional roles or occupations of women: fishwife; goodwife; housewife; midwife[/ex] …
94goody — I. /ˈgʊdi/ (say goodee) Colloquial –interjection Also, goody goody, goody (goody) gumdrops. 1. (an exclamation of delighted satisfaction.) –noun 2. → goodie. {good (adjective) + y1} II. /ˈg …
95good — Formerly a very frequently used vocative element. Almost everyone in the Shakespearean plays is addressed sooner or later as ‘good my lord’, ‘good uncle’, ‘good brother’, ‘good father’, ‘good cousin’, etc. The word originally referred to good… …
96goodman — This was used as a social title from the fourteenth century, surviving in some rural areas, and especially in Scotland, until at least the nineteenth century. It was used to yeomen farmers, who did not quite attain the rank of gentlemen, but… …
97goody — A short form of ‘goodwife’. At one time ‘Goody’ + last name was the usual way of referring to the female keepers of taverns in Edinburgh and other Scottish towns …
98gossip — This is no longer used as a term of address, though in Shakespeare’s time it would have been quite normal, especially when linked with a surname. Married women who were friends seem to have been the main users of the term: ‘What hoa, gossip… …
99gudewife — See goodwife …
100guidwife — See goodwife …
