goodwifen.

Brit.

/ˈɡʊdwʌɪf/, U.S.

/ˈɡʊdˌwaɪf/

Inflections: Plural goodwives.

Forms: see good adj., n., adv., and int. and wife n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: good adj., wife n.

Etymology: < good adj. + wife n. Compare earlier goodman n., and also goody n.¹Compare Old English gōd wīf in sense ‘noble lady’ (see good adj. 4a), and also the rare Old English female personal name Godwif (the first element of which may reflect either good adj. or god n.). Compare also the following early surnames: Note Godwyf (1311), Margaret Godewyf (1374).

a. The female head of a household; the mistress. Cf. goodman n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > head of household > woman

ladyeOE

house lady?c1225

housewifec1225

goodwifec1275

mistressa1375

hussy1530

madam1647

goodya1680

housemistress1689

the Mrs1821

housemother1822

miesiesa1931

c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 1585 Þe lauerd..Fareþ ut on þare beire nede An is þat gode wif un bliþe For hire lauerdes houd siþe.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 71 (MED) Þan was þe godwif glad.

c1475 Mankind (1969) l. 200 (MED) Wher þe goodewyff ys master, þe goodeman may be sory.

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Gvii^v Whiche be all vnder the rule and order of the good man, and the good wyfe of the house.

1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 99^v Loe the goodwife of the house..Came to the doore, and spake vnto poore Barrlet wofull wight.

1634 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 113 Desire the good wife of Barcapple to visit her.

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 56 Many a Good-wife..knows not any thing of the all-powerfulness of Aqua-fortis, how that it is such a Spot-removing Liquor.

1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace i. iii. 12 Help help he cry'd, when the Good-Wife he saw, And save my Life from cruel South'ron Law.

1728 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. (Exeter) 30 Aug. Last Sunday Afternoon was celebrated here a Gossipping, or held a jovial Meeting of Good Wives and Sweethearts, to solemnize the Baptism of a Child.

1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) v. 436 Good-man and good-wife were common appellations.

c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches II. 320 The ambidexterity of the goodwife.

1889 R. Brydall Art in Scotl. vii. 131 A good deal of interest was taken in him by the goodwives.

1947 W. de la Mare Coll. Stories for Children 106 Sometimes a goodwife would give them..a pocket-full of cookies.

1995 A. Duncan Hebridean Island 48 There was always a low chair for the guidwife, or mistress, at one end of the hearth.

2010 P. O'Grady Devil rides Out i. 17 The ladies of Tilling went about their public business seemingly uninterested in the private affairs of their good friends and neighbours, and the same applied to the good-wives of Holly Grove.

b. The female manager or proprietor of an establishment; esp. (a) the landlady of an inn; (b) a woman who owns and manages a farm. Cf. goodman n. 2b. Now rare (chiefly Scottish in later use). Sc. National Dict. (at Guidwife) records sense (b) as still in use in north-eastern Scotland, Angus, east central Scotland, and Ayrshire in 1955.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority > woman

ladyeOE

mistressa1375

goodwifea1533

forewoman1709

padrona1744

queen bee1790

bibi1816

the Mrs1821

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lvi. f. lxix^v/2 The good wife of the lodge [Fr. la dame de la loge].

1566 W. Wager Cruell Debtter sig. D^v Wyll it please you to go to the goodwife of the clinke?

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. lxxiv. 604 The mistress or goodwife of our countrey farme.

1661 J. Phillips Wit & Drollery (new ed.) 250 The good wife of the Swan hath a leg like a man.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Hostess The Landlady or good Wife of an Inn or Victualling-House.

1715 in E. Bain Merchant & Craft Guilds (1887) 173 The Master of Hospital was ordained to pay the ‘Goodwife’ of the Hospital weekly.

1792 R. Burns in Scots Musical Museum 4 323 Then guidwife count the lawin, and bring a coggie mair.

1851 Lintie o' Moray 52 The ‘White Horse’ is her sign... She's a jewel o' a good gude-wife.

a1866 W. Anderson Rhymes (1867) 69 My granny becam' The guidewife o' a seven-plough farm.

1936 D. Bruce Cried on Sunday 6 It's jist Weeda M'Robbie an' the gweedwife o' Cassyen!

a. As a title of courtesy or respect prefixed to the surname (or occasionally first name) of the female head of a household, inn or other establishment. Also in ironic or humorous extended use (cf. goodman n. 4c). historical after early 18th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > title > for a woman > for married woman

damec1300

mistress?c1450

Mrs1485

goodwife1497

goody1559

metreza1604

miss1770

ma1951

1497–8 Old City Acct. Bk. in Archæol. Jrnl. (1886) 43 169 William apprentice w^t the good wif Sweting.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 95 Goodwife Keech the butchers wife.

1607 in C. Kerry Hist. Church St. Lawrence, Reading (1883) 81 Mrs. Bowden..Goodwife Pynke, Mrs. Newport.

1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iii. sig. F4 Some Curate..in the praise of goodwife honesty, Had read an homely.

1657 Ipswich (Mass.) Court Rec. in Essex (Mass.) Antiquarian (1907) July 129/1 Goodwife Margaret Prince, wife of Thomas Prince of Gloucester, testified that Goodman Browne came into my house.

1691 Case of Exeter-Coll. 18 One Goodwife Buckland.

1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant ii. 17 Go thy way, Goodwife Bias.

1712 J. Hempstead Diary 1 June (1901) 11 Goodwife Morgan Died Suddenly.

1881 ‘M. Twain’ Prince & Pauper 113 A sounding blow..sent him staggering into goodwife Canty's arms.

1896 C. M. Yonge Wardship of Steepcoombe vii. 97 Goodwife Kate presently became certain that he had had some kind of stroke in the sad solitude in which he had been left all day.

2002 R. J. Tannenbaum Healer's Calling i. iii. 56 Goodwife Kelly gave her daughter a dose of angelica root.

b. Used as a polite or respectful form of address to the female head of a household, inn or other establishment. Later also (Scottish) used as a familiar form of address from a husband to a wife. Now chiefly in historical contexts.Apparently only in Scottish use in 18th and 19th centuries.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > for woman

mistress?a1425

your (also occasionally thy) mistress-ship?1461

sir1578

goodwife1593

metresse1600

metreza1604

sirrah1604

mistershipa1616

Mrsa1637

ma'am1671

citess1793

Mis'1835

mem1890

1593 B. Rich Greenes Newes sig. F2 I pray thee goodwife (saide I) what wares should they be, that thou art carrying to hell?

1623 J. Wodroephe Spared Houres Souldier 211/2 Yeamanesse, good wife, haue you no fresh egges?

1724 A. Ramsay Health 73 Goodwife, gae ben, Bring frae yon Boal a roasted Hen.

1766 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs II. 172 Our goodman came hame at e'en... ‘What's this now, goodwife?’

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess iii. 122 Goodwife, I reed your tale is true.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. x. 217 ‘Ay, ye might have said in braid Scotland, gudewife’.

1898 T. Murray Frae Heather 116 Get up, gudewife, and clean my shoon.

1907 D. Tasker Readings 79 Gudewife, bring the greybeard and ‘nappy’, An' rax doon the kebbuck an' cake.

1983 ‘S. Kells’ Crowning Mercy xx. 303 It must have been terrible for you, Goodwife, quite terrible.

3. Scottish. A man's wife. Chiefly with possessive pronoun. Cf. goodman n. 5.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife

wifeeOE

womanc1275

peerc1330

spousessc1384

ladyc1390

good lady1502

girl?a1513

spousage1513

little lady1523

the weaker vessel1526

companion1535

wedlock1566

Mrs1572

dame1574

rib?1590

feme1595

fathom1602

feme covert1602

shrew1606

wife of one's bosom1611

kickie-wickiea1616

heifer1616

sposa1624

bosom-partner1633

goodwife1654

little woman1715

squaw1767

the Mrs1821

missus1823

maw1826

lady wife1840

tart1864

mistress1873

mama1916

ball and chain1921

trouble and strife1929

old boot1958

1654 in W. Fraser Stirlings of Keir (1858) 494 Our goodwyf presentts hir reall serwice to you.

1751 Charmer: Choice Coll. Songs II. 58 Down in yon meadow a couple did tarie, The goodwife she drank naithing but sack and canary.

1856 J. Ballantine Poems 113 John Thamson's gudewife cam her liege lord to seek.

1926 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Penny Wheep 22 But oot my gudewife cam' an' straucht To rate the slut begood.

a1978 A. S. Borrowman Buik o Ruth & Ither Wark in Lallans (1979) (Ruth i. 1) 13 A man frae Bethlehem o Juda gaed awa tae bide in Moab, wi his guidwife and twa sons.

2013 in A. J. Taudevin Some Other Mother 6 Billy Mack..is an actor living in Stirling..with his guidwife Calln and their two daughters Mirren and Molly.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	goodwife
释义	goodwifen. Brit. /ˈɡʊdwʌɪf/, U.S. /ˈɡʊdˌwaɪf/ Inflections: Plural goodwives. Forms: see good adj., n., adv., and int. and wife n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: good adj., wife n. Etymology: < good adj. + wife n. Compare earlier goodman n., and also goody n.¹Compare Old English gōd wīf in sense ‘noble lady’ (see good adj. 4a), and also the rare Old English female personal name Godwif (the first element of which may reflect either good adj. or god n.). Compare also the following early surnames: Note Godwyf (1311), Margaret Godewyf (1374). 1. a. The female head of a household; the mistress. Cf. goodman n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > head of household > woman ladyeOE house lady?c1225 housewifec1225 goodwifec1275 mistressa1375 hussy1530 madam1647 goodya1680 housemistress1689 the Mrs1821 housemother1822 miesiesa1931 c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 1585 Þe lauerd..Fareþ ut on þare beire nede An is þat gode wif un bliþe For hire lauerdes houd siþe. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 71 (MED) Þan was þe godwif glad. c1475 Mankind (1969) l. 200 (MED) Wher þe goodewyff ys master, þe goodeman may be sory. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Gvii^v Whiche be all vnder the rule and order of the good man, and the good wyfe of the house. 1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 99^v Loe the goodwife of the house..Came to the doore, and spake vnto poore Barrlet wofull wight. 1634 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 113 Desire the good wife of Barcapple to visit her. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 56 Many a Good-wife..knows not any thing of the all-powerfulness of Aqua-fortis, how that it is such a Spot-removing Liquor. 1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace i. iii. 12 Help help he cry'd, when the Good-Wife he saw, And save my Life from cruel South'ron Law. 1728 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. (Exeter) 30 Aug. Last Sunday Afternoon was celebrated here a Gossipping, or held a jovial Meeting of Good Wives and Sweethearts, to solemnize the Baptism of a Child. 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) v. 436 Good-man and good-wife were common appellations. c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches II. 320 The ambidexterity of the goodwife. 1889 R. Brydall Art in Scotl. vii. 131 A good deal of interest was taken in him by the goodwives. 1947 W. de la Mare Coll. Stories for Children 106 Sometimes a goodwife would give them..a pocket-full of cookies. 1995 A. Duncan Hebridean Island 48 There was always a low chair for the guidwife, or mistress, at one end of the hearth. 2010 P. O'Grady Devil rides Out i. 17 The ladies of Tilling went about their public business seemingly uninterested in the private affairs of their good friends and neighbours, and the same applied to the good-wives of Holly Grove. b. The female manager or proprietor of an establishment; esp. (a) the landlady of an inn; (b) a woman who owns and manages a farm. Cf. goodman n. 2b. Now rare (chiefly Scottish in later use). Sc. National Dict. (at Guidwife) records sense (b) as still in use in north-eastern Scotland, Angus, east central Scotland, and Ayrshire in 1955. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority > woman ladyeOE mistressa1375 goodwifea1533 forewoman1709 padrona1744 queen bee1790 bibi1816 the Mrs1821 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lvi. f. lxix^v/2 The good wife of the lodge [Fr. la dame de la loge]. 1566 W. Wager Cruell Debtter sig. D^v Wyll it please you to go to the goodwife of the clinke? 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. lxxiv. 604 The mistress or goodwife of our countrey farme. 1661 J. Phillips Wit & Drollery (new ed.) 250 The good wife of the Swan hath a leg like a man. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Hostess The Landlady or good Wife of an Inn or Victualling-House. 1715 in E. Bain Merchant & Craft Guilds (1887) 173 The Master of Hospital was ordained to pay the ‘Goodwife’ of the Hospital weekly. 1792 R. Burns in Scots Musical Museum 4 323 Then guidwife count the lawin, and bring a coggie mair. 1851 Lintie o' Moray 52 The ‘White Horse’ is her sign... She's a jewel o' a good gude-wife. a1866 W. Anderson Rhymes (1867) 69 My granny becam' The guidewife o' a seven-plough farm. 1936 D. Bruce Cried on Sunday 6 It's jist Weeda M'Robbie an' the gweedwife o' Cassyen! 2. a. As a title of courtesy or respect prefixed to the surname (or occasionally first name) of the female head of a household, inn or other establishment. Also in ironic or humorous extended use (cf. goodman n. 4c). historical after early 18th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > title > for a woman > for married woman damec1300 mistress?c1450 Mrs1485 goodwife1497 goody1559 metreza1604 miss1770 ma1951 1497–8 Old City Acct. Bk. in Archæol. Jrnl. (1886) 43 169 William apprentice w^t the good wif Sweting. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 95 Goodwife Keech the butchers wife. View more context for this quotation 1607 in C. Kerry Hist. Church St. Lawrence, Reading (1883) 81 Mrs. Bowden..Goodwife Pynke, Mrs. Newport. 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iii. sig. F4 Some Curate..in the praise of goodwife honesty, Had read an homely. 1657 Ipswich (Mass.) Court Rec. in Essex (Mass.) Antiquarian (1907) July 129/1 Goodwife Margaret Prince, wife of Thomas Prince of Gloucester, testified that Goodman Browne came into my house. 1691 Case of Exeter-Coll. 18 One Goodwife Buckland. 1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant ii. 17 Go thy way, Goodwife Bias. 1712 J. Hempstead Diary 1 June (1901) 11 Goodwife Morgan Died Suddenly. 1881 ‘M. Twain’ Prince & Pauper 113 A sounding blow..sent him staggering into goodwife Canty's arms. 1896 C. M. Yonge Wardship of Steepcoombe vii. 97 Goodwife Kate presently became certain that he had had some kind of stroke in the sad solitude in which he had been left all day. 2002 R. J. Tannenbaum Healer's Calling i. iii. 56 Goodwife Kelly gave her daughter a dose of angelica root. b. Used as a polite or respectful form of address to the female head of a household, inn or other establishment. Later also (Scottish) used as a familiar form of address from a husband to a wife. Now chiefly in historical contexts.Apparently only in Scottish use in 18th and 19th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > for woman mistress?a1425 your (also occasionally thy) mistress-ship?1461 sir1578 goodwife1593 metresse1600 metreza1604 sirrah1604 mistershipa1616 Mrsa1637 ma'am1671 citess1793 Mis'1835 mem1890 1593 B. Rich Greenes Newes sig. F2 I pray thee goodwife (saide I) what wares should they be, that thou art carrying to hell? 1623 J. Wodroephe Spared Houres Souldier 211/2 Yeamanesse, good wife, haue you no fresh egges? 1724 A. Ramsay Health 73 Goodwife, gae ben, Bring frae yon Boal a roasted Hen. 1766 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs II. 172 Our goodman came hame at e'en... ‘What's this now, goodwife?’ 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess iii. 122 Goodwife, I reed your tale is true. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. x. 217 ‘Ay, ye might have said in braid Scotland, gudewife’. 1898 T. Murray Frae Heather 116 Get up, gudewife, and clean my shoon. 1907 D. Tasker Readings 79 Gudewife, bring the greybeard and ‘nappy’, An' rax doon the kebbuck an' cake. 1983 ‘S. Kells’ Crowning Mercy xx. 303 It must have been terrible for you, Goodwife, quite terrible. 3. Scottish. A man's wife. Chiefly with possessive pronoun. Cf. goodman n. 5. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife wifeeOE womanc1275 peerc1330 spousessc1384 ladyc1390 good lady1502 girl?a1513 spousage1513 little lady1523 the weaker vessel1526 companion1535 wedlock1566 Mrs1572 dame1574 rib?1590 feme1595 fathom1602 feme covert1602 shrew1606 wife of one's bosom1611 kickie-wickiea1616 heifer1616 sposa1624 bosom-partner1633 goodwife1654 little woman1715 squaw1767 the Mrs1821 missus1823 maw1826 lady wife1840 tart1864 mistress1873 mama1916 ball and chain1921 trouble and strife1929 old boot1958 1654 in W. Fraser Stirlings of Keir (1858) 494 Our goodwyf presentts hir reall serwice to you. 1751 Charmer: Choice Coll. Songs II. 58 Down in yon meadow a couple did tarie, The goodwife she drank naithing but sack and canary. 1856 J. Ballantine Poems 113 John Thamson's gudewife cam her liege lord to seek. 1926 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Penny Wheep 22 But oot my gudewife cam' an' straucht To rate the slut begood. a1978 A. S. Borrowman Buik o Ruth & Ither Wark in Lallans (1979) (Ruth i. 1) 13 A man frae Bethlehem o Juda gaed awa tae bide in Moab, wi his guidwife and twa sons. 2013 in A. J. Taudevin Some Other Mother 6 Billy Mack..is an actor living in Stirling..with his guidwife Calln and their two daughters Mirren and Molly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1275
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