wif

Alternative forms

• wid, wiv (both informal)

Etymology

Alteration of with.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĭf, IPA^(key): /wɪf/
• Rhymes: -ɪf

Preposition

wif

1. (informal, dialectal, nonstandard) with
   • 1998, Ted Shine, Contributions, →ISBN, page 31:

     That's what I mo' wear wif my shoes.

   • 2000, Jan King, It'a A Girl Thing: The Hilarious Truth About Women, →ISBN, page 161:

     I been at the gym gettin' down wif my peeps.

   • 2002, Stan Hayes, The Rough English Equivalent, →ISBN, page 324:

     If I don' have no problem wif my high school test?

Anagrams

• IWF

Adjective

wif (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. long
2. straight

Adverb

wif (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. directly

Noun

wif (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. irrigation ditch

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Alternative forms

• wife, wive, wiffe, wyf, wyfe, wijf, wiff

Etymology

From Old English wīf, from Proto-Germanic *wībą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiːf/
• Rhymes: -iːf

Noun

wif (plural wifes or wives or wive)

1. woman, female human
2. wife, female spouse
   • ca. 1380: It cam in cuppemele — this craft my wif used! — William Langland, Piers Plowman
   • ca. 1380, — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Merchant's Tale

     That in a morwe unto this May saith he

     Rys up, my wif, my love, my lady fre
     

3. The leading woman of a household; a matriarch.
4. A female animal, especially one mating.
5. A concubine.

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wībą, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wīf, Old Saxon wīf, Dutch wijf, Old High German vīp (German Weib (“woman”)), Old Norse víf (Danish viv). Tocharian B kwīpe, Tocharian A kip (“vagina”) and Albanian cipë (“sense of shame, membrane”) may be cognates, suggesting a Proto-Indo-European *gʰwih₂bʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiːf/

Noun

wīf n

1. woman
2. a married woman, a wife

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wībą, of uncertain origin.

Noun

wīf n

1. woman

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪf/

Adjective

wif (comp. wiffer, sup. wiffest)

1. shaky
2. impermanent
3. fickle, indecisive