housekeep
Americanverb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of housekeep
First recorded in 1835–45; back formation from housekeeping
Example Sentences
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May she continue to write her charming poetry, housekeep, and defend all other keepers of the home for many more years to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like the old woman who lived in a shoe, the medical scientists who housekeep for vitamins have an unmanageable lot of charges.
From Time Magazine Archive
There can’t be waste going on in the house—I won’t have it, not when I housekeep, at any rate.
From Polly A New-Fashioned Girl by Meade, L. T.
I won’t housekeep any more for the present, father.”
From Polly A New-Fashioned Girl by Meade, L. T.
I have to housekeep, to receive visitors, to write notes about nothing, and to think of the future.
From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Shaw, Bernard
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