housewive

English edit

Alternative forms edit

housewife
huswife (obsolete)

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊswaɪv/

Verb edit

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

(transitive, especially of women) To manage with skill and economy.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
  Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well-housewived.
To act as a housewife

References edit

“housewive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.