spaewife
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I feel ashamed of myself for ever daring to think I'm ill-used when I think of my spaewife grandmother!
From Captivity by M. Leonora Eyles
Now Thorveig the spaewife went to see Holmgang Bersi and told him her trouble.
From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
Ye hinna the toon mirk rubbed out your een yet, Hamish, or ye would ken the bonny spaewife.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
But she was no common spaewife, this Mother Nicneven, like Jean Jopp that lived in the Bricrie-baulk.
From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott
Jim called me witch: and the old spaewife and I Should be the doose bedfellows, after all.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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