vife

English

Noun

vife

1. (archaic) Pronunciation spelling of wife.
   • 1834, Young Hearts: A Novel by a Recluse. With a Preface by Miss Jane Porter, page 106:

     […] I said you didn't like them ere strong liquors, but if he warn't particular, I was sure you would pledge him in a glass of juniper, for I had always made you, since we had been man and vife^[sic], take a drop afore you went to market, to keep cold out.

Usage notes

Imitating Cockney speech, where /v/ often replaced /w/.

Anagrams

• Five, five