huswife
huswife is the obsolete form of housewife.
huswife is the obsolete form of housewive.
Meaning of housewife
Noun
housewife (plural housewives or housewifes)
- 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.
- Mr Torture sells pain / To the housewives in Spain / He knows just what they crave / Mr Torture2000, Uli Kusch, "Mr. Torture", Helloween, The Dark Ride
- Synonyms:
- henhussy
- The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
- A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work.
- 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 […].’1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 246
- Synonyms:
- hussy
- A worthless woman; a hussy.
Meaning of housewive
Verb
housewive (third-person singular simple present housewives, present participle housewiving, simple past and past participle housewived)
Forms of huswife
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | huswifes |
| plural | huswives |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | huswifes |
| present participle | huswifing |
| past participle | huswifed |
| past | huswifed |
Words formed from huswife
Questions about huswife
- What is huswife the obsolete form of?
- Huswife is the obsolete form of housewife.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: huswife (page history and authors); housewife (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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