wiff

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Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

wiff (uncountable) (hapax)

A bundle of harvested plants, a bound sheaf?
A band for binding sheaves?

Descendants[edit]

Yola: wuf, wof (figurative)

References[edit]

“wif, n.¹”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

wiff

Alternative form of wyf

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