houseslave

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A form of house slave — A slave who works in a home, performing domestic duties rather than fieldwork or other hard labor.

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Meanings

nounhouseslave (plural houseslaves)

plural houseslaves

  1. alternativeAlternative form of house slave.

    A Sense of Humor Is the Houseslave's Salvation (section title)

    1957, John Albert Schindler, Woman's Guide to Better Living 52 Weeks a Year, page 47
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    As a houseslave, he was exposed to (or could overhear) prodigious sermons...

    1991, Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Slave's Narrative, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205

    The usual laundry soap commercial portrays only the idiotic houseslave, not how she got that way, or how uninteresting and unchallenging her life ultimately is.

    2012, Fred R. Berger, edited by Bruce Russell, Freedom, Rights And Pornography: A Collection of Papers, page 118

Origin

From house + slave.

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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