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stepwife

noun

Etymology

From step- + wife.

  1. inherited from *wībą✻ — “woman; wife”
  2. inherited from *wīb✻
  3. inherited from wīf — “woman, wife”
  4. inherited from wyf
  5. prefixed as stepwife — “step + wife”

Definitions

  1. The ex-wife of one's spouse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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