Old-wivish

Quick meaning: Old-wivish is an adjective meaning Alternative form of old-wifish.

Meaning

Alternative form of old-wifish.

Example Sentences

“Tak’ a drappy mair, sir,” he whispered in a coaxing, old-wivish tone; “it’s a lang road to the kirkyard.”

There is also her sadly beautiful but rambling old-wivish account of the last hours of Falstaff (H V, II, iii, 9-28).

SOMEBODY ELSE said that moles will leave the yard of anybody who plants castor beans. Mary thinks this suggestion is a little old-wivish. She wants more direct action. Any ideas?

So long as he raved through the mouth of a fabulous Hebrew and reveled in old-wivish misconstructions of the book of nature, these ruling-class academies were prepared to tolerate his assaults upon the ethos of that class.

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