(n.) The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
(n.) A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; -- called also hussy.
(n.) A hussy.
(v. t.) Alt. of Housewive
Example Sentences:
(1) A housewife, 42 years old, died from a chronic progressive neuro-psychiatric illness of 15 years duration characterized by memory disturbance, moria-syndrome, euphoria, social disorder and extrapyramidal symptoms combined with a severe bone disease.
(2) For example, an agricultural worker or housewife were 3.6 times more likely to have a 2nd birth than nonagricultural workers.
(3) A 38 year-old housewife had developed a growth-hormone secreting pituitary adenoma, and received a total of 50 Gy at the pituitary region.
(4) The authors report a rare combination of aneurysm and acoustic schwannoma in a 66-year-old housewife, who developed subarachnoid hemorrhage from a ruptured aneurysm arising from an arterial branch of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery on the tumor capsule.
(5) NWR may be celebrating its ruby anniversary but will an organisation born to alleviate the lot of the housewife survive to drink to its golden when, politically and personally, she is apparently dead and buried?
(6) The patient was a twenty-six year old housewife with a history of two repeated episodic headaches followed by gait disturbance, vomiting and cold sweating.
(7) A 72-year-old housewife was diagnosed to have glycosuria at the age of 67, but no medical treatment was done.
(8) A semi-structured questionnaire was designed, tested and applied to the housewife or whoever performed this role within the family.
(9) A 35-year-old housewife living in Seoul complained of a recurrent palpable abdominal mass.
(10) We circumcise all our children, they say it’s good for our girls,” said Naga Shawky, a 40-year-old housewife, as she walked along streets near Sohair’s home.
(11) A radical reworking of Douglas Sirk with Julianne Moore's 1950s housewife married to repressed homosexual Dennis Quaid, the film earned Haynes an Oscar nomination and confirmed him as a major talent, and one who'd outgrown the role of poster boy for New Queer Cinema.
(12) The Swabian Housewife : "One should simply have asked the Swabian housewife," said German chancellor Angela Merkel after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
(13) A 30-year-old previously healthy housewife presented with bilateral pulmonary infiltrates.
(14) She was a typical Mexican housewife who made sure dinner was on the table at 5.30pm.
(15) The eleven cases of sensitization to Allium sativum L (garlic) corresponded to women whose primary or secondary profession was that of a housewife.
(16) The authors report a case of two aneurysms at the bifurcation of the basilar artery in a 47-year old housewife.
(17) Trierweiler’s mother, Jeannie, had six children in less than five years and was a full-time housewife.
(18) A 26-year-old housewife was admitted to our hospital with a history of high fever after previous cesarean delivery.
(19) A 61-year-old housewife had complained of unilateral facial pain and had been treated as prolonged trigeminal neuralgia by a dentist.
(20) For the women with favorable attitudes toward employment, it appears that being a housewife had more detrimental effects on health than being employed.
Hussy
Definition:
(n.) A housewife or housekeeper.
(n.) A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach.
(n.) A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely.
(n.) A case or bag. See Housewife, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morrissey's first female crush was … a man "Jerry Nolan on the cover of the [New York] Dolls' debut album is the first woman I ever fell in love with; the hussy-slut positioning of the legs is playmate call-girl, and the pink drum kit might be a rock'n'roll first."
(2) During the trial, the court heard how police raided Langham's home in November 2005 as part of Operation Ore, seizing three computers with files called 'Lolita', 'incest', 'rape', 'whore' and 'hussy'.