Meaning

2 senses
  1. The wife in a married couple engaged in farming; a wife who shares in the duties of farming, such as farm management, homemaking on the farm, fieldwork, sales and marketing, or other work.

  2. A farmer's wife.

Origin

From farm + wife.

From farm + wife.

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Forms

plural: farmwives
Singularfarmwife
Pluralfarmwives

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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