housewive

English

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhaʊswaɪv/

Verb

housewive (third-person singular simple present housewives, present participle housewiving, simple past and past participle housewived)

  1. (transitive, especially of women) To manage with skill and economy.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
      Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well-housewived.
      The spelling has been modernized.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “housewive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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