| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.[Websters] 2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: housewiving, housewived, housewives, housewiver, housewivers, housewivingly and housewivedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HOUSEWIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
