farmwife
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- noun
- /ˈfɑrmˌwaɪf/
:
mujer de granjero
- Although the switchboard operator is only temporary help, and although she doesn't for a moment believe that a priest has drowned in anyone's pool, and thinks it is the prank of a lonely farmwife, she does take down the message.
Examples
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The first few times, she’d nearly retched, but now she could swing an ax, clean a carcass, and pluck feathers as ably as any farmwife in the territory.
Fiction book (1999) -
As the sun rose, the farmwife began her day by milking the cows and collecting fresh eggs from the henhouse.
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He wished the Farmwife were older, tougher, and that she loved her farmer less.
Fiction book (1995) -
As he had expected, the Farmwife, dressed and shod, was sitting close beside the bed, her hand lying lightly on her husband's hand.
Fiction book (1995) -
As the stretcher was borne into the courtyard, the farmwife came hurrying out, wrapped in a green cloak that hid her nightdress, her hair loose, her feet bare on the stones.
Fiction book (1995) -
Mrs. Walker herself always bought local free-range chickens from a farmwife co-op in the next county, so when she accessed some data about potential links between growth hormones in factory chickens and the early onset of menarche in selected populations of American girls, her interest was fairly abstract.
Fiction book (1995) -
The farmwife wakes up early every morning to tend to the animals and prepare breakfast for her family.
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During harvest season, the farmwife works alongside her husband, planting seeds and picking vegetables.
Synonyms
A woman who helps run a farm and home in the countryside
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word farmwife is simply farm + wife, where wife here means 'woman' as in familiar words like housewife or midwife. So, a farmwife is a 'woman' married to a farmer who helps work on the farm and care for the home.