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housewiving

housewiving is the present participle and gerund 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 housewiving

What is housewiving the present participle and gerund of?
Housewiving is the present participle and gerund of housewive.

Words near housewiving in the dictionary

  1. housewive
  2. housewived
  3. housewively
  4. housewivery
  5. housewives
  6. housewiving
  7. housewivish
  8. housewoman
  9. housework
  10. houseworker
  11. houseworkers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: housewiving (page history and authors); housewive (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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