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housekeeper
English
Etymology
From house +? keeper.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ha?skip?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ha?ski?p?/
- Hyphenation: house?keep?er
Noun
housekeeper (plural housekeepers)
- (now rare) Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder. [from 15th c.]
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.1:
- He was often heard to express his fears of coming upon the parish; and to bless God, that, on account of his having been so long a housekeeper, he was intitled to that provision.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.1:
- Someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc. [from 16th c.]
- She was their third housekeeper, but after a month or so she also gave up.
- Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household. [from 17th c.]
- (colloquial, now rare) Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody. [from 18th c.]
- 1915, John Buchan, Salute to Adventurers:
- I do assure you he is no house-keeper. I have seen him in desperate conflict with savage men, and even with His Majesty's redcoats.
- 1915, John Buchan, Salute to Adventurers:
Coordinate terms
- housemaid
Translations
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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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