Definition of "wyfe" []

• Obsolete spelling of wife. (noun)

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• "As his pretend wife, the princess took the treasurer to task for taking better care "of your goute ... than ye do of your wyfe.""
• "She further laments that she can hardly believe "that the goute myght with holde a good husbande hauyng some loue to his wyfe" and begs Egerton to teach her what "a good husbande ought to teche his wyfe," that is, the full definition of love (intellectually speaking, one hopes)."
• "It wuz hard 4 mii 2 knot cumes obber an brings him soops an stuffs awl teh thyme; gotz 2 let teh noo wyfe takes care ob him an knot B a payne mudder-N-lawr."