Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A housewife.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative capitalization of Hausfrau
Etymologies
- German : Haus, house (from Middle High German hūs, from Old High German) + Frau, wife; see Frau. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“It would be deeply unpopular with the German "hausfrau”
“Specifically, the ads she recently shot for Dolce & Gabbana, in which she does her best impression of a miserable, yet beautiful, hausfrau.”
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“January 22nd, 2010 at 5: 17 am drunken hausfrau anyone see Tom Toles today? pretty much says it all …”
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: Falling Into Wagner's Burning Ring of Fire
“Or people who are horrified that now that you can get Thai green chillies in the supermarket, every hausfrau can cook up a curry.”
The Wall Street Journal: All in a Day's Work, Polygamy Included
“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.”
“Best actress: Thrilled to see Martha Plimpton, as Raising Hope's sardonic too-young-to-be-a-grandma, get a nomination, though sorry that The Middle's harried hausfrau Patricia Heaton was snubbed.”
“Byrd's Zette dazzled as the giddy hausfrau, ebullient and extroverted, attentive to her appearance, more so when Dora splashed into the apartment.”
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“- Why not take your hausfrau sonya for a little light lunch in a curry house and there you can explain your problems and probably find some answers - have a nice weekend Wilhelm you have given me a good start.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hausfrau’.
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Wives
alewife, fishwife, midwife, kalewife, goodwife, housewife, oldwife, old wives' tale, wife, wives, husband and wife, man and wife and 16 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1459 more...
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misterspee's Words
prolepsis, cumin, nacreous, lucre, obstreperous, nibble, nubbin, kenosis, frangible, aposiopesis, synecdoche, persiflage and 144 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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Double diphthongs, etc.
Words with repeated diphthongs or other pairs of vowels, with no other vowels.
aeae, aiai, aoao, auau, ayay, eaea, eiei, eoeo, eueu, eyey, iaia, ieie, ioio, iuiu, oaoa, oeoe, oioi, ouo...chaetae, airmail, gainsaid, hairbrain, hairtail, jailbait, maimai, mainsail, maintain, zaikai, chainmail, braindrain and 201 more...
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words in foreign languages
weltanschauung, saudade, bokeh, caoutchouc, pamplemousse, citrouille, nocturne, kaddish, matryoshka, tournesol, weltschmerz, duende and 56 more...
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speaking in tongues
schadenfreude, naïve, gnosis, sangfroid, capisce, flagrante delicto, lux, veritas, gravitas, coquette, panache, nom de plume and 73 more...
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german-isch
German, Yiddish & pseudo-German words...
frech, schweinerei, schnibble, wutz, ferkel, kvetch, kibitz, nosh, ditzelfritz, verboten, achtung, neibling and 28 more...
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the feminine mystique
I love being a woman.
pink-collar, vagina dentata, écriture féminine, primigravida, cunt, yoni, lingam, fangast, chattel, moppet, lolita, philogynist and 52 more...
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Satan's Gramophone
dank, blouse, poetess, squab, moist, sphincter, roughage, purse, blab, sepulchral, flesh, thigh and 58 more...
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dkuo's Words
fuzzy, retrograde, abscond, deciduous, portmanteau, bellicose, couverture, poof, squelch, amalgam, hippopotamus, legume and 7 more...
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herotuesday's Words
butyraceous, thrasonical, turgid, ululate, irenic, punctilio, discombobulate, ecdysiast, formicate, favonian, agnate, erubescence and 614 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hausfrau.
seanahan Random tidbit, the word hussy is derived from housewife, which used to be something like houswif. Apr 2, 2008
bilby Strifewife? Apr 2, 2008
frindley I love the way the syllables rhyme. So much more satisfying than housewife. Apr 2, 2008