Pocked wife

• pocket wife: a woman who is much smaller than her husband → cf. the image of Gerty MacDowell (Nausicaa) as a "pocket wife" in Ulysses

• pocketknife

• pocked: with a face disfigured by smallpox

• a pig in a poke: a blind bargain that turns out to be not what one paid for

• pock: (slang) syphilis