Phifie

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  • wifey, wifie: pet names for one's wife → addle liddle phifie = had a little wifey
  • addle liddle phifie: ALP, a recurring initialism for Anna Livia Plurabelle
  • fife: a small, high-pitched flute used to accompany drums in a military marching band → particularly associated with Protestant marching bands in Ulster
  • phi: the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet, commonly used to denote the phase of a wave in physics; the diameter of a circle in geometry
  • fie: an expression of distaste or disapproval
  • Pfeife (german) pipe
  • Piffle: nonsense or jibberish, hence, addle (confuse) little (no consequnece) and pifle (nonsense). No doubt the characterising the three occupants of The Tub: the Catholic, the Anglican and the Presbyterian