"wife-beating" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more wife-beating [comparative], most wife-beating [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} wife-beating (comparative more wife-beating, superlative most wife-beating)
  1. Prone to physically assaulting one's wife. Derived forms: wife-beating question
    Sense id: en-wife-beating-en-adj-UxF7AVDS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9

Noun

Forms: wife-beatings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} wife-beating (countable and uncountable, plural wife-beatings)
  1. Alternative form of wifebeating Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: wifebeating
    Sense id: en-wife-beating-en-noun-gk1pljLF

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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