wifeable en · ADJ
Etymology
From wife + -able. Compare boyfriendable.
Meanings
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(informal) nubile, worthy of being taken as a wife
No one paid her any mind. The kids in student council were like shadows in the halls. They were around us but mostly behind and under our feet. She didn't even have a perm in her hair. She couldn't compete with the wifeable girls in school like Sade Fulton.
2014, Marcus Burke, Team Seven: A Novel, →ISBN:But I told you that you're not a wifeable woman, and I told him so, and he wanted to wife you anyway.
2016, Gayl Jones, The Healing, →ISBN: