HOUSEWIFELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does housewifely mean? 

• HOUSEWIFELY (adjective)
  The adjective HOUSEWIFELY has 1 sense:

1. related or suited to a housewife

  Familiarity information: HOUSEWIFELY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSEWIFELY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Related or suited to a housewife

Context example:

housewifely virtues

Similar:

domestic (of or involving the home or family)

Derivation:

housewife (a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income)

 Context examples 

And she produced from her pocket a most housewifely bunch of keys, and delivered them to the servant.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Meg had spent the time in working as well as waiting, growing womanly in character, wise in housewifely arts, and prettier than ever, for love is a great beautifier.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I bustled about in quite housewifely fashion, procuring soothing lotions for her sunburn, raiding Wolf Larsen’s private stores for a bottle of port I knew to be there, and directing Thomas Mugridge in the preparation of the spare state-room.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

That's a housewifely taste which I am glad to see.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was a housewifely little creature, and helped Hannah keep home neat and comfortable for the workers, never thinking of any reward but to be loved.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Fired with a housewifely wish to see her storeroom stocked with homemade preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Brooms and dishcloths never could be as distasteful as they once had been, for Beth had presided over both, and something of her housewifely spirit seemed to linger around the little mop and the old brush, never thrown away.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)