Word Finder - housewife

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(plural "housewives") 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.

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• henhussy

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(plural "housewives") The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.

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(plural "housewifes") A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work.

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• hussy

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To manage with skill and economy.

She'd make some man a nice housewife one day.

Most women took on the role of housewife.

Dad stayed on the farm most of the time, and Mom was the traditional housewife.

You can have ' desperate housewife ' or choose your own slogan or name.

Giudice earned a degree in Fashion Marketing from Berkeley College and worked briefly as an assistant buyer at Macys, but she decided early on that what she really wanted was to be a housewife.

The launch of night time soap operas continued the push of soaps out of the 'niche' of a housewife's show.

Karen was a typical housewife, married to a doctor and she was bored.

This housewife knows how to party and is not shy about revealing her troubled past with her previous husband.

It quickly becomes obvious to viewers that this housewife is probably going to stir up some trouble.

But it wasn't as an ordinary housewife that my mother primarily wished to be remembered in the leavings of the brown suitcase.

At present our houses are cluttered and defiled with it, and a good housewife would sweep out the greater part into the dust hole, and not leave her morning's work undone.

What was a typical day for a suburban Victorian housewife of 1890?

Weight Watchers was founded in 1963 by a housewife in New York.

Per the couple who graciously opened their home to these two domestic ne'er do wells, Paris Hilton made a mockery of the role of housewife, while Nicole made a mockery of their marriage.

Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith made it big as stars of Charlie's Angels, Eva Longoria found fame as a Desperate Housewife, and Sandy Duncan and Mary Martin's most famous roles were as Peter Pan.

A college-educated housewife named Ruth Handler bought a German fashion doll and was inspired to change the face of toys forever.

Hillbilly Housewife may have a slightly offbeat name, but this site is a great place to find low-cost kid-friendly recipes.

The soap fan of today is just as often the smart, savvy corporate executive as she is the housewife, the project manager or teacher.

Martha Huber blackmailed this desperate housewife because Mary Alice stole her baby from a hospital.

Eva may be a desperate housewife these days in the roll of Gabrielle Solis, but she appeared on General Hospital as a Brenda lookalike.

This slang term surprised famous Orange County housewife Tamra Barney.

It can be daunting for the average housewife and mother to see a celebrity give birth and then, two months later, appear primed and ready for a bikini shoot.

Jo was never technically a Coto housewife.

The two split briefly, and Slade began seeing Jo's fellow "housewife" Lori Warning.

Danielle Staub is actually not a housewife at all but a newly single mother of two.

Future Real Housewife of New Jersey got her first taste of reality TV with this episode featuring her million dollar wedding to Tommy.

From table flipping to best selling cookbooks to bankruptcy, Giudice is the housewife you either love or love to hate.

Like the other seasons of Housewives, not all of the women featured in this show actually qualify for the title of a "housewife."

On the show, one housewife, Danielle, takes the opposite approach and drops heavy-handed hints about her dangerous connections.

Another housewife with ties to the NBA, Larsa is married to NBA Hall-of-Famer Scottie Pippen.

Her feud with fellow OC Housewife Gretchen Rossi has been a multi-season storyline on the show.

From proclaiming herself the "hottest housewife in Orange County" to trying to poach real estate business from established Housewife Jeana Keough, Barney struggled at first to fit in with her cast mates.

Although her cast mates might have taken some time to warm up to her, Barney quickly became the housewife viewers loved - or loved to hate.

Being a housewife was a career.

It contains incomparable studies of the Florentine housewife and her husband, a grave business-like citizen, who falls into the senile folly of a base intrigue.

The housewife long persisted in deceiving herself by purchasing filled calicoes, and the movement in favour of purer goods owes a good deal, strangely enough, to the increase in the making-up trade and the consequent inconveniences to workers of sewing machines, whose needles were constantly broken by hard filled calicoes.

Almost everything connected with bee-craft has been revolutionized, and apiculture, instead of being classed with such homely rural occupations as that of the country housewife who carries a few eggs weekly to the market-town in her basket, is to-day regarded in many countries as a pursuit of considerable import ance.

She could see the amazement on their faces, the total disbelief at seeing a suburban housewife charging toward them.

She's a fairly normal housewife, tho she can be quite assertive when needed.

A housewife has inherited a rare Shakespeare book from a long-lost cousin which could fetch millions at auction.

Whether you are a single mom, divorced dad or just a bored housewife, you will find a date.

A quirky drama about a thief who cons her way to becoming a housewife to avoid arrest.

I say this simply because she is entitled to express herself as a woman by playing the housewife completely.

They want to bring the Arabs to their knees, " said 50-year-old Egyptian housewife Samia.

Susan Henshaw is a suburban housewife heavily involved in the local PTA.

To me she looks like a desperate housewife in need of a decent meal.

He could have been any ordinary laborer, she any ordinary housewife.

For example, a middle class housewife whose husband uses the car during the day would probably need to be included 7.12.

But it was n't as an ordinary housewife that my mother primarily wished to be remembered in the leavings of the brown suitcase.

The cheating housewife phenomenon has much less to do with being alone than not feeling appreciated, understood, and emotionally connected to her husband.