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little woman

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noun

  1. old-fashioned a facetious term for wife

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war,” Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

She loved breaking taboos, especially the idea of the little woman at home, cooking, without much more to their lives, she recalls.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2023

“I’m not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette,” she said to the interviewer.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

This way, each little woman may be introduced properly and given adequate time for her own plots before the inevitable big team-up against The Civil War and Its Privations.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

She pointed to a stall where a wizened little woman was grill-ing meat and onions on a hot firestone.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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