Thesaurus:wife
English
Synonyms
- ball and chain (slang)
- better half (idiomatic)
- dutch (UK, slang)
- 'er indoors (UK, colloquial)
- geezer (archaic, UK, slang)
- her indoors (UK, colloquial)
- lady (historical)
- little woman (colloquial)
- little lady (colloquial)
- memsahib (historical)
- missus (colloquial)
- old lady (colloquial)
- trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang)
- wifey (informal)
Hyponyms
- grey mare
Further reading
- “903. marraige” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “wife” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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