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helpmate

noun

Etymology

A folk-etymological alteration of helpmeet, by reanalysis as help + mate.

Definitions

  1. A person who supplies help or companionship.

  2. A wife or spouse.

    • The host himself was one of those very quiet men whom we usually see linked to the most active helpmates.

  3. A recreational problem in chess in which both sides cooperate to achieve a specific goal.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for helpmate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA