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goodwife
English
Alternative forms
- (title): Goodwife
Etymology
From Middle English goodwyf, godwyf, godwif, equivalent to good +? wife.
Noun
goodwife (plural goodwives)
- (obsolete) A female head of a household.
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- "O my lord the Sultan," said the other [the Wazir], "verily women be weakly of wits, and haply this goodwife cometh hither to complain before thee against her goodman or some of her people."
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- (obsolete) A title of respect for a woman.
- Goodwife Hopkins
Synonyms
- (title): Mrs
Derived terms
- (title): goody
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housewife
English
Etymology
From Middle English housewif, houswyf, huswijf, equivalent to house +? wife. Replaced earlier Middle English hussif (Modern English hussy), which is a doublet. Cognate literally with rare German Hausweib.
Pronunciation
- Person
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?ha?s.wa?f/
- Bag
- IPA(key): /?h?z?f/
Noun
housewife (plural housewives or housewifes) (see notes below about plurals)
- (plural "housewives") A woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid] employment is homemaking.
- Synonym: (archaic) henhussy
- Hypernym: homemaker
- Coordinate term: househusband
- 2000, Uli Kusch, "Mr. Torture", Helloween, The Dark Ride
- (plural "housewives") The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
- (plural "housewifes") A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work.
- Synonym: hussy
- 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 246:
- It was a housewife, containing needles, a bodkin, and thread; ‘and, do you know,’ added he, ‘it was the most useful thing she could have given me, for it lasted all the time I was at Rome to mend my clothes with […] .’
- 1852, Tom Taylor and Charles Reade, Masks and Faces Act II:
- Woffington's housewife, made by herself, homely to the eye, but holds everything in the world
- 1997, David L. Phillips, A Soldier's Story, MetroBooks, ?ISBN, page 61.
Derived terms
- housewifedom
- housewifeish
- housewifelike
- housewifely
- housewifery
- housewifeship
- housewifization
Translations
Verb
housewife (third-person singular simple present housewifes, present participle housewifing, simple past and past participle housewifed)
- Alternative form of housewive
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