Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The tasks, such as cleaning and cooking, that are performed in housekeeping.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Domestic work; the work of housekeeping.
- n. Domestic work; the work of housekeeping.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the work of cleaning and running a house
Etymologies
- From house + work. Cognate with Dutch huiswerk ("homework, chore, task"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We don't really know which way the current recession is going to affect relationships between men and women — whether men are going to step up to the plate and become much more involved in housework and parenting or whether they're going to do what other studies have shown them to do — which is try to express their masculinity by doing even less," says California psychologist and therapist Joshua Coleman, conference co-chairman.”
“As others have said, this assumes that housework is an undefined lump of a good.”
Feminism and Just Price Theory, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“I finished the galleys for Siege on Friday, spent the weekend up to my eyeballs in housework and SW interviews and stuff, and shortly I run round to the post office to pick up the galleys for Reluctant Mage.”
“I juggle the husband and kids, too – and my housework is ALWAYS the last thing I worry about.”
“Christmas comes once a year, but housework is forever.”
“Although child rearing, unlike housework, is important and can be difficult, it does not take well-developed political skills to rule over creatures smaller than you are, weaker than you are, and completely dependent upon you for survival or thriving.”
“I have found that there is romance in housework: and charm in it; and whimsy and humor without end.”
“When we are young mothers babies are our focus and it is very usual, normal and proper not necessarily have time to be very creative in housework, cooking, decorating or crafting.”
“My main role in housework is hoovering up the rubbish (and anyone complaining about my British English will be summarily banned) every Sunday morning, so this recent survey conducted by DIMSDRIVE Research into vacuum cleaners is right up my street.”
“In under a week he was up and limping, recovering from scurvy, doing cabin housework for five men at the creek, genuine sourdoughs.”
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