different between vife vs fife

English

Noun

vife

1. (archaic) Pronunciation spelling of wife.
   • 1834, Young Hearts: A Novel by a Recluse. With a Preface by Miss Jane Porter (page 106)

     […] I said you didn't like them ere strong liquors, but if he warn't particular, I was sure you would pledge him in a glass of juniper, for I had always made you, since we had been man and vife^[sic], take a drop afore you went to market, to keep cold out.

Usage notes

Imitating Cockney speech, where /v/ often replaced /w/.

Anagrams

• Five, five

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?f

Etymology 1

From German Pfeife.

Noun

fife (plural fifes)

1. A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

Translations

Verb

fife (third-person singular simple present fifes, present participle fifing, simple past and past participle fifed)

1. To play this instrument.

Etymology 2

Numeral

fife

1. Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion with fire.

See also

• niner

Anagrams

• fief

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fife/, [?fife?]
• Rhymes: -ife
• Syllabification: fi?fe

Noun

fife

1. (music) fife

Declension

Synonyms

• fife-huilu
• sveitsinhuilu

Italian

Noun

fife f

1. plural of fifa