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
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Examples
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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.
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It would be deeply unpopular with the German "hausfrau"
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It would be deeply unpopular with the German "hausfrau"
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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
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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
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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
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January 22nd, 2010 at 5: 17 am drunken hausfrau anyone see Tom Toles today? pretty much says it all …
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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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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
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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
frindley commented on the word hausfrau
I love the way the syllables rhyme. So much more satisfying than housewife.
April 2, 2008
bilby commented on the word hausfrau
Strifewife?
April 2, 2008
seanahan commented on the word hausfrau
Random tidbit, the word hussy is derived from housewife, which used to be something like houswif.
April 2, 2008
Logophile77 commented on the word hausfrau
Katie Luther was the best hausfrau.
December 10, 2017