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housewived

housewived is the simple past and past participle of housewive.

Meaning of housewive

Verb

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

  1. (especially, transitive) To manage with skill and economy.
    • Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well-housewived.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
  2. To act as a housewife

Questions about housewived

What is housewived the simple past and past participle of?
Housewived is the simple past and past participle of housewive.

Words near housewived in the dictionary

  1. housewifization
  2. housewifry
  3. housewindow
  4. housewindows
  5. housewive
  6. housewived
  7. housewively
  8. housewivery
  9. housewives
  10. housewiving
  11. housewivish

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