better half:

Or: better-fraction :

1. One's spouse , mate , boyfriend, girlfriend . See wife and husband for synonyms. See also: bitter-half .

2. One's good or best-friend ; an intimate friend.

3. Humorously defined by Louis J. Safian in An Irreverent Dictionary of Love and Marriage (1966) as: ' So called because if the wife wants something, her husband better have it .'

See Also: acne vulgaris, better fraction, better half, bitter half, bunter, erotica, half and half, half-mast, ilium

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