Meanings
nounhousehelp (plural househelps)
plural househelps
- A servant employed to perform household tasks.
If the husband (male) has wanted the househelp to cook for him, he would have married that girl. Secondly, when the househelp cooks for the man (husband), he begins to doubt the capability of the wife to cook.
2003, Akua Kuenyehia, Women and Law in West Africa, page 18
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