Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A housewife.

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  • noun Alternative capitalization of Hausfrau

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German : Haus, house (from Middle High German hūs, from Old High German) + Frau, wife; see Frau.]

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Examples

  • He found the German woman not the mild and simple 'hausfrau' of folk lore, but a virile woman with a creed that the production of children was her first duty, not only to her husband and herself, but to her country.

    The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia 1900

  • It would be deeply unpopular with the German "hausfrau"

    Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • It would be deeply unpopular with the German "hausfrau"

    Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • Or people who are horrified that now that you can get Thai green chillies in the supermarket, every hausfrau can cook up a curry.

    All in a Day's Work, Polygamy Included Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

  • In this final chapter, he leaves contented hausfrau Brünnhilde at home as he pursues a knightly quest that takes him to the castle of the Gibich: Gunther, his sister, Gutrune, and their villainous half-brother Hagen, who concocts a plot to marry Gutrune to Siegfried by giving him a magic potion that will make him forget Brünnhilde and fall helplessly in love with her.

    Falling Into Wagner's Burning Ring of Fire Judy Fayard 2011

  • Specifically, the ads she recently shot for Dolce & Gabbana, in which she does her best impression of a miserable, yet beautiful, hausfrau.

    Madonna ads manipulated?; 'Jersey Shore's' Snooki pens boardwalk romance Liz Kelly 2010

  • January 22nd, 2010 at 5: 17 am drunken hausfrau anyone see Tom Toles today? pretty much says it all …

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Just do it 2010

  • Lena liked to give the pious hausfrau eyes, but, really, not so long ago she had been the family lark; it was a shame, Jesse felt, to witness the change.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • In this final chapter, he leaves contented hausfrau Brünnhilde at home as he pursues a knightly quest that takes him to the castle of the Gibich: Gunther, his sister, Gutrune, and their villainous half-brother Hagen, who concocts a plot to marry Gutrune to Siegfried by giving him a magic potion that will make him forget Brünnhilde and fall helplessly in love with her.

    Falling Into Wagner's Burning Ring of Fire Judy Fayard 2011

  • Lena liked to give the pious hausfrau eyes, but, really, not so long ago she had been the family lark; it was a shame, Jesse felt, to witness the change.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

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  • I love the way the syllables rhyme. So much more satisfying than housewife.

    April 2, 2008

  • Strifewife?

    April 2, 2008

  • Random tidbit, the word hussy is derived from housewife, which used to be something like houswif.

    April 2, 2008

  • Katie Luther was the best hausfrau.

    December 10, 2017