housework
[hous-wurk]
- the work of cleaning, cooking, etc., to be done in housekeeping.
Origin of housework
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Examples from the Web for housework
Contemporary Examples
So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim PresidentPierre Assouline
January 9, 2015
Coming to the center gives her a measure of relief from long days filled with childcare and housework.
Allah, Mom, and Baklava: Turkish President Uses Mothers and Kids as Political PawnsXanthe Ackerman
November 27, 2014
What my daughters see me doing most of the time—the part they can wrap their heads around—is child care and housework.
At an early stage of their family life, she learned her husband believed that “a woman should do all housework herself.”
Jeff Ely, a game theorist at Northwestern, has traded massages for housework and writes his wife romantic anniversary blog posts.
Historical Examples
He has all his housework there, a broom and a duster, and I dare say he has a cooking-stove and a gridiron.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
"But I can't let a stranger come in and do my housework," he objected.
The Village Watch-Tower(AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin
For they knew that it was Mike who now did housework at General Brady's.
The Widow O'Callaghan's BoysGulielma Zollinger
So they finished their housework, deep in their own thoughts.
Hidden WaterDane Coolidge
The Barney chap lived there with a Chinaman who did his housework.
The Spoilers of the ValleyRobert Watson
housework
- the work of running a home, such as cleaning, cooking, etc
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