trophy wife

== English == === Etymology === Popularized by Julie Connelly in a Fortune magazine cover story in 1989, by analogy with a real estate trophy building. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “An editor of the Wikipedia trophy wife page thinks it is older, possibly 1950 or 1965”) === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -aɪf === Noun === trophy wife (plural trophy wives) (informal, idiomatic, derogatory) A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for her husband, usually older and affluent. Coordinate term: trophy husband ==== Translations ==== === See also === === References === === Further reading === trophy wife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia