What's the difference between uxorial and wifey?

Uxorial


Definition:

  • (a.) Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "First, my love," said Mr Darcy, who had become increasingly uxorious over time, "it behoves us to run through the back story for those who are not up to speed with the original.
  • (2) These studies, which focus on the sexual distribution of skeletal traits, assume that the degree of intragroup or intergroup biologic diversity is higher in one sex with regard to unilocality (uxori- or virilocality).
  • (3) Such is his uxoriousness that, as he struggles to remember Louisa Musgrove's frothy name, he frankly wishes that all women were called Sophy.

Wifey


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Music video director Carly Cussen worked at the station in its early days from the age of 16, shooting videos such as Tinie Tempah’s Wifey and Lethal B’s Pow!
  • (2) It wasn’t always good – but it was almost always fun, sometimes featuring crowds of kids jumping in shot in their school uniforms, while texts sent in from BlackBerrys, scrolled past on the bottom of the screen, dedicating Wifey Riddim to a girlfriend or saying “hi” to schoolmates.

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