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adjectivehousewifey (comparative more housewifey, superlative most housewifey)
comparative more housewifey · superlative most housewifey
- informalResembling or characteristic of a housewife.
It's Laura's idea to put a housewifey kind of woman in the Primm ads.
1991, Alexandra Lyle, Keepsakes1 more example
As part of our antirock stance, Julie and I wore matching housewife-y shifts and Pro Keds and sweated it out in the ninety-plus-degree heat.
2015, Kim Gordon, chapter 37, in Carrie Thornton, editor, Girl in a Band, New York: Dey st., →ISBN, page 207Synonyms: housewifely, housewifish
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adjectiveResembling or characteristic of a housewife.
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