¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Farmwife
1. a farmer's wife [n -WIVES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farmwife
Literary usage of Farmwife
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between by William Dean Howells (1906)
"The farmwife who let us go up-stairs and down and all through it was a friendly
soul, but apparently puzzled by our interest in it, and I fancied not many ..."
2. The Autobiography of a Journalist by William James Stillman (1901)
"... when I was on my search for a " bit," I found a dilapidated barn which tempted
me to sit down before it, when the farmwife, guessing my intentions, ..."
3. Rural Life by Charles Josiah Galpin (1918)
"... picks out her scholar from the brood and sends him into the world, so many an
American farmwife has set apart the minister, the banker, the educator. ..."
4. A History of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of by George Magruder Battey (1922)
"... he knew there were Confederate scouts or natives, and with the aid of a bit
of soap supplied by a farmwife, slipped off the manacles from his wrists. ..."
5. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1914)
"She was as cheery as a farmwife in a play. "Don't you trouble, miss—that'll be
all right. We get lots of visitors, and they never complain. ..."
6. Successful Canning and Preserving by Ola Powell (1917)
"... in fact, for we had to shoulder the reputation made by the usual carelessly
packed product which the farmwife brought to the grocer! ..."
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