English Explanatory Dictionary

SWMBO

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Initialism of she who must be obeyed: one's wife or female partner.

Word forms

SWMBO SWMBOs

Etymology

Originated in the novel She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard, where it refers to the imperious queen of a lost kingdom in Africa. Later used by John Mortimer in his Rumpole of the Bailey series of books.

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