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- Scots · derived fromcauldrife
- English todaycoldrife
From Scots cauldrife, from Old Scots "cauldrife", a compound of "cauld" and the (Scots) suffix "-rife" (compare "auldrife", "warkrife", "spendrife" etc.), from the adjective rife.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.