Pocked wife

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  • 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