wife-carl
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English
Noun
wife-carl (plural wife-carls)
- (obsolete) A cot-quean.
- 1865 [1863], David Lyndsay, “Ane discriptioun of Peder Coffeis”, in John Small, editor, The Monarche and Other Poems of Sir David Lyndesay, 2nd edition, volume I, London: N. Trübner & Co., page 589:
- A niggardly curmudgeon, a wife-carl, counts the cakes as they are baking, keeps the keys of the pantry, eats out of his pocket,
Further reading
- “wife-carl, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
