housewive

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housewive (third-person singular simple present housewives, present participle housewiving, simple past and past participle housewived)

  1. (transitive, especially of women) To manage with skill and economy.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; [], London: [] Iohn Williams [], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
      Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well-housewived.
  2. To act as a housewife

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