wifey

comparative wifier · comparative more wifey · superlative wifiest · superlative most wifey

1. informalOf, befitting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a wife.

   But it meant more wifey duties for me: weekly visits, care packages, high-ass phone bills, and making sure he got everything he needed in there.

   2012, Meesha Mink, Real Wifeys: Get Money, Touchstone, published 2012, →ISBN, page 82

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   She even admits herself that she lives a dual life — one where she's always acting, trying to impress people; the other when she's around me which is more settled, the more wifey sort of thing.

   1955, Robert O. Blood, Anticipating Your Marriage, Free Press, published 1955, page 65

   There was talk of having her wear a wedding ring to look more "wifey" and to have her wear an apron and adopt a stage name so she would become something of a company mascot.

   1997, Cary O'Dell, Women Pioneers in Television: Biographies of Fifteen Industry Leaders, McFarland & Company, published 1997, →ISBN, page 122

   Perhaps you should be a bit more "wifey" by getting out the sewing machine and knocking something up yourself, using some sequins, M&S "hi-cut" knickers and that nice "satin effect" fabric you are so keen on - and which is very reasonably priced at John Lewis.

   1998, New Statesman, volume 127, numbers 4379-4391, page 25

   Synonyms: wifely, wifish, uxorial

plural wifeys

1. diminutiveendearinginformalDiminutive of wife.

   Wifey likes it when I cook her dinner.

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   Four students from Yarra Valley grammar in Ringwood, in Melbourne’s east, were suspended last week after it came to light they had made the list. It included photos of female students ranking them as “wifeys”, “cuties”, “mid”, “object”, “get out” and “unrapable”.

   2024 May 7, Cait Kelly, “Melbourne private school students expelled over ‘cruel’ spreadsheet rating female classmates”, in The Guardian

   A woman in a cowboy hat is “often described as wifey material.” This is not, in fact, a glitch in the time-space continuum, the 20th century folding in on the 21st.

   2026 September 22, Faith Hill, “America’s Biggest Dating Company Is Betting on Trad Values”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Synonyms: wifie