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spousy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈspaʊ̯zi/

Etymology

Diminutive of spouse + -y.

Meanings

1. (endearing, informal) Spouse.
   • He was still on honeymoon with his spousy.
   • Once a week or so you will emerge from the elegant cares of a counting-room, to take the benefit of the dust with spousy, to your rural cot on the high road […] 1918, Perley Isaac Reed, The Realistic Presentation of American Characters in Native American Plays Prior to Eighteen Seventy, page 77:
   • One stays to finish grad school, to wrap up a job or to take the time to find the right post in the promised land that spousy has jetted off to. 1999, Glen Justice, “We’re Happily Married And Living Apart”, in Newsweek:
   • But soon my new spousy found courage and breath, – And in less than a week almost talk’d me to death […] 1818, Thomas Hudson, “The Pitch Plaister”, in Comic Songs, page 28:

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