hausfrau

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noun

A traditional housewife.

OriginGerman Hausfrau →
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Meanings

hausfrau1

nounhausfrau (plural hausfraus or hausfrauen)

plural hausfraus · plural hausfrauen

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Hausfrau.

    "I wouldn't have thought that Camille, of all people, who's so sort of peasant-earthy, like a hausfrau in Brueghel, would be such a fantasist, would you?" - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 303)

    1 more example

    JoEllen is a dumpy small-town hausfrau trying to be good and stick to her bowl of dry salad, but unable to resist the call of the chocolate cake she keeps moving around from the icebox to the cupboard to the stove.

    1988 February 5, Albert Williams, “Hungry Hearts”, in Chicago Reader

Hausfrau2

nounHausfrau (plural Hausfraus or Hausfrauen)

plural Hausfraus · plural Hausfrauen · alternative house frau

  1. informalA traditional housewife.

Origin

  1. GermanHausfrau
  2. GermanHausfrau
  3. EnglishHausfrau

Unadapted borrowing from German Hausfrau.

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APA

hausfrau. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hausfrau

MLA

“hausfrau.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hausfrau. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hausfrau,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hausfrau.

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