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Quotation dates: 1867
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BECKIE, n. A wife who dominates her husband and contrives to get her own way.Abd. 1867 W. Anderson Rhymes 25:
But Benjie, although but a scutter through life, Never thought for a moment o' takin' a wife, Wha, he said, was a beckie, an' this was her plan— An' unco short halter she gaed her guidman.
[Pet form of Rebecca, with allusion to Genesis xxvii.]
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