huswifery

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A form of housewifery — The state or activity of being a housewife; household management, domestic skills.

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Meanings

nounhuswifery (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of housewifery (“the business of a housewife, female homemaking”).

    : Good huswifery loveth Her household to tend. Ill huswifery wanteth, With spending too fast

    1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC

Origin

From huswife + -ery?

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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