housewifely
- adjective
- /ˈhaʊsˌwaɪfli/
:
doméstico
- She found joy in her housewifely role, organizing family events and keeping the home welcoming.
Examples
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Every morning, she meticulously tended to her housewifely chores, ensuring the home was spotless.
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Lorena Olafsson, who had been a Martha for decades, was no housewifely sort, while Ellen McGrath, president of the Sarah group, had seven kids and was just past thirty.
Fiction book (1996) -
All has been scrubbed away in the desperate upkeep of housewifely standards.
Fiction book (1994) -
We may say this procedure was only the housewifely economy of the studio, the conserving and reusing of every scrap in the kitchen.
Academic text (1995) -
Jane employs the housewifely image of a broom: "I must sweep my head clean with a queer little broom, and that broom is my sonnet, an imperium, as I have already announced, about a woman who is growing old during a time of war."
Academic text (2013) -
She was fairly certain that Pandora would not give a damn if every light was left burning, but, brought up by a thrifty Scottish mother, such small housewifely economies were ingrained in Lucilla, as though her subconscious were a programmed computer.
Fiction book (1990) -
Eliza had cooked a roast and Linda had baked a cake (both advertising their housewifely skills), while Delia, the baby, still two months short of her eighteenth birthday and supposedly not even in the running, sat across from Sam and her father in the living room and sipped a grown-up glass of sherry.
Fiction book (1995) -
His mother always praised housewifely skills, passing down recipes and household tips to her daughters.
Synonyms
405
2.8
About the home, household tasks, or family life
6
7.1
Actions a married woman usually does to care for her family
Showing care and duty often expected of a wife
How Domestic
405
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Housewifely comes from house ('home') and wife ('woman who often runs the home') with the ending -ly ('in the manner of'). So housewifely means 'like the skills and care used to run a home', for example cooking, cleaning, and keeping things tidy.