| 释义 |
wifish, a.|ˈwaɪfɪʃ|
Forms: 6 wyuysh, -ish, 7 wiuish, wivish, 8– wifish, (9 erron. wifeish).
[f. wife n. + -ish1. Earlier wivish; cf. thievish from thief.]
†1. Belonging to or characteristic of a woman; womanly; in depreciatory sense, womanish. Obs.
1535Coverdale 2 Macc. vii. 21 She exorted..them..boldly and stedfastly,..wakynge vp hir wyuysh thought with a manly stomacke. 1560― Treat. Death iii. v. 264 To wayte stil till heauinesse forget itselfe, is a wyuish thinge:..to brydle it by times, beseemeth the..sobernesse of a man.
2. Belonging to or characteristic of, or having the character of, a wife. (Usually in more or less depreciatory sense: see -ish1 2.) † In quot. 1616, Too devoted or submissive to one's wife.
1616T. Scott Christs Pol. 17 The Prophet would not haue any wise man to be so wiuish, and so wedded to the loue of his wife. 1664N. B. St. Athanasius 213 [She] by her wivish and womanish solicitations..hampered Valentinian. 1773in Early Diary Fr. Burney (1889) I. 192 We used to wonder at Hetty's being so wifish. 1797in C. K. Paul W. Godwin (1876) I. 245 With a true wifish submission to your judgment. 1895Meredith Amazing Marr. xxvii, The mother's wifeish lines would, perhaps, have been tested in a furnace. |