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housewifry

housewifry is the obsolete form of housewifery.

Meaning of housewifery

Noun

housewifery (usually uncountable, plural housewiferies)

  1. (dated, usually) The state or activity of being a housewife; household management, domestic skills.
    • Meronym: housework
    Synonyms:
    housewifeship
  2. (obsolete, usually) Synonym of household goods.
    • Holonym: householdry

Questions about housewifry

What is housewifry the obsolete form of?
Housewifry is the obsolete form of housewifery.

Words near housewifry in the dictionary

  1. housewifeship
  2. housewifey
  3. housewifing
  4. housewifish
  5. housewifization
  6. housewifry
  7. housewindow
  8. housewindows
  9. housewive
  10. housewived
  11. housewively

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Adapted from Wiktionary: housewifry (page history and authors); housewifery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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