housewifeとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English houswyf, housewif, huswijf, equivalent to house +‎ wife; a doublet. Cognate literally with rare German Hausweib.

発音

Person

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊs.waɪf/
• (廃れた用法) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌzwaɪf/, /ˈhʌz(w)ɪf/

Bag

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌzɪf/

名詞

housewife (複数形 housewives または housewifes) (see notes below about plurals)

1. (複数形 "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.

   Synonym: (古風な用法) henhussy

   Hypernym: homemaker

   Coordinate term: househusband

   • 2000, Uli Kusch, "Mr. Torture", Helloween, The Dark Ride

     Mr Torture sells pain / To the housewives in Spain / He knows just what they crave / Mr Torture

2. (複数形 "housewives") The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
3. (複数形 "housewifes") A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work.

   Synonym: hussy

   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 246:

     It was a housewife, containing needles, a bodkin, and thread; ‘and, do you know,’ added he, ‘it was the most useful thing she could have given me, for it lasted all the time I was at Rome to mend my clothes with […] .’

   • 1852, Tom Taylor and Charles Reade, Masks and Faces Act II:

     Woffington's housewife, made by herself, homely to the eye, but holds everything in the world

   • 1997, David L. Phillips, A Soldier's Story, MetroBooks, →ISBN, page 61.

     The "soldier's housewife" was a small sewing kit that was carried to make timely repairs to clothing and equipment.

4. (複数形 "housewives", obsolete) A worthless woman; a hussy.

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