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huswifery

huswifery is the obsolete spelling 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

Origin of huswifery

From huswife + -ery?

Questions about huswifery

What is huswifery the obsolete spelling of?
Huswifery is the obsolete spelling of housewifery.

Words near huswifery in the dictionary

  1. Husts
  2. Husvær
  3. huswife
  4. huswifed
  5. huswifely
  6. huswifery
  7. huswifes
  8. huswifing
  9. huswives
  10. huszar
  11. huszars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: huswifery (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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