释义 |
wifing rare.|ˈwaɪfɪŋ| [f. wife n. + -ing1.] The activity or condition of being a wife or housewife.
1905G. B. Shaw Let. 3 Jan. (1972) II. 499 As to ordinary domestic mothering and wifing she [sc. Shaw's mother] was utterly unfitted for the sentiment of it. 1952S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) ii. 28 If there was one kind of wife he didn't want..it was one who made a career of ‘wifing’. |