Phifie

• wife → wyfie → phifie
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• wifey, wifie: pet names for one's wife → addle liddle phifie = had a little wifey

• addle liddle phifie: ALP, a recurring initialism for Anna Livia Plurabelle

• Fifi: petname for Josephine → Napoleon Bonaparte's Joséphine?
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• fife: a small, high-pitched flute used to accompany drums in a military marching band → particularly associated with Protestant marching bands in Ulster

• phi: the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet, commonly used to denote the phase of a wave in physics; the diameter of a circle in geometry

• fie: an expression of distaste or disapproval
• Pfeife (german) pipe

• Piffle: nonsense or jibberish, hence, addle (confuse) little (no consequnece) and pifle (nonsense). No doubt the characterising the three occupants of The Tub: the Catholic, the Anglican and the Presbyterian