- goodwife (n.)
[goodwife 词源字典]
- "a matron, mistress of a household," early 14c., from good (adj.) + wife (n.). As a term of civility applied to a married woman in humble life, it is a correlative of goodman. "Used like auntie, and mother, and gammer, in addressing or describing an inferior" [Farmer].[goodwife etymology, goodwife origin, 英语词源]