Difference between revisions of "Pocked wife"
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* '''a pig in a poke:''' a blind bargain that turns out to be not what one paid for | * '''a pig in a poke:''' a blind bargain that turns out to be not what one paid for | ||
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Latest revision as of 00:59, 24 June 2020
- 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
