单词 | housewifery |
释义 | housewiferyn. 1. a. The activity or occupation of being a housewife; household management; performance of domestic tasks; skill in this. Also: a domestic practice or task (now rare). ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration > domestic management housewifeship?c1225 cove and keyc1250 husbandryc1300 economica1393 ménagea1393 householda1398 householdinga1425 housewifery1440 economyc1454 economics1535 house rule1579 householdry1581 managery1586 housekeeping1652 household management1741 notability1756 homebuilding1757 domestic economy1778 Wirtschaft1841 homekeeping1846 housecraft1848 homemaking1863 home economics1872 home science1886 household science1896 domestic science1897 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 255 Huswyfery, yconomia. 1481 E. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 640 I deme here mynde hathe ben othere weys ocapyed þan as to huswyfery. 1550 R. Crowley Way to Wealth sig. Aviiiv Womanlike behauiour and motherlike housewifry. 1570 T. Tusser (title) A hundreth good pointes of husbandry, lately maried vnto a hundreth good poynts of huswifery. 1608 E. M. Wingfield Disc. Virginia in Trans. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. (1860) 4 99 I had by my owne huswiferie bred aboue 37 [chickens],..of all wch, at my comyng awaie, I did not see three liueing. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiii. 242 Skilled in housewiferies Of all kinds fitting. 1694 R. L'Estrange Fables (ed. 2) lxxxvii. 104 The very Point of Manage and Huswiv'ry. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 233 Women of great Figure look upon Huswifery as a City-Vertue. 1749 L. Pilkington Mem. (new ed.) I. 89 From the Cleanliness of the Garret and Kitchen he judged of the good housewifery of the Mistress of the House. 1807 R. Wilson Diary 25 Feb. in Life (1862) II. vii. 111 Thanks to her housewifery, my chilled frame was soon warmed by several cups of good tea. 1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. vii. 208 My mother..learned severely right principles of truth, charity, and housewifery. 1917 G. W. Gough Yeoman Adventurer xxvi. 325 Jack and Kate were in the house-place busy with all sorts of housewiferies. 1971 R. F. Stein Disturbed Youth & Ethnic Family Patterns iv. 66 The mothers were..divided between housewifery and gainful employment. 2008 Redditch Advertiser (Nexis) 13 Dec. My mother scolds me about my sluttish housewifery. b. The quality of managing resources with skill and economy to avoid undue waste; thrift, economy. Also in extended use. Now rare.Frequently with modifying word, as bad, good, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [noun] > thrift or economical management housewifeship?c1225 husbandryc1390 thriftiness1552 thrift?1553 housewifery1557 housewifeliness1561 husbanding1591 mesnagery1653 managery1658 mesnage1667 economy1670 scrimping1835 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. C.iv Of huswifry... For huswifes must husbande, as well as the man: or farewel thy husbandrie, do what you can. 1596 Bp. W. Barlow tr. L. Lavater Three Christian Serm. i. 27* There may be a readie way to penurie by ill huswiferie. 1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. G2v To cease your huswifry in spinning out The Play at length thus. 1733 S. Harrison House-keeper's Pocket-bk. Pref. p. x That Species of OE[c]onomy called Housewifry..teaches how to supply the deficiency of Wealth, by dresing and disposing all things Elegantly. 1775 F. Burney Jrnl. 28 Feb. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 70 Trying on a Coat she was altering, in a fit of Housewifery. 1820 J. Baillie Let. 27 Nov. in Sir Walter's Post-bag (1932) 145 My good housewifry was sorely taxed some ten days ago with paying sixteenpence for clay candlesticks to illuminate for the Queen. 1844 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 206/1 She felt she should degrade herself by attempting vindication from a charge so groundless as that of extravagance or bad housewifery. 1919 C. G. Smith Sc. Lit. v. 145 It is the wastrels of dialect and her own bad housewifery, which threaten to destroy her [sc. Scotland's] vernacular credit. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > of a house attirec1325 harness1340 gearc1380 household1420 stuff1438 household stuff1445 standard?1474 utensil1484 inspreith1488 utensilies1496 household goods1501 insight1522 wardrobe stuff?a1527 housewifery1552 plenishing1561 householdry1570 supellectile1584 household effects1762 sticks of furniture1777 house furnishing1827 houseware1827 ingear1835 supellex1849 household appliance1853 homeware1868 home1887 décor1926 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Huswiferye, lana et tela. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. A4 Amongst the cream-boles she did shine, As Pallace, mongst her Princely huswiferie. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. i. 204 Your hedge..which shall part your garden of huswifrie and pulse. 1673–4 N. Grew Vegetation Trunks vii. §12 Scotch-Cloath, is only the House~wifery of the same parts of the Barque of Nettle. 1822 L. Hunt Old Lady in Indicator 64 She..is a great..connoisseur in butcher's meat and all sorts of house-wifery. Compounds General attributive, as housewifery book, housewifery duty, housewifery school, etc. ΚΠ 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) facing f. 1 Mo lessons..Than huswiferie booke, doth vtter or tell. 1677 A. Behn Town-fopp i. i. 3 [To] have the consolation, of seeing your frugal Huswifery Miss, sit in the Pit, at a Play, in a long Scarf, and Night-gown, for want of Points, and Garniture. 1712 J. Norris Profitable Advice for Rich & Poor 17 These People are bought to Employ them in..what ever their Masters..have occasion to be done; the Townsman for his Business, and the Country Farmer..about their Husbandry, or Houswifery Business. 1766 W. Kenrick Falstaff's Wedding iii. vi. 40 I have a set of the courtliest phrases in my huswifry book! I'll con them by heart. 1843 Eclectic Museum Jan. 137/2 The English housewifery practice of combining sugar with salt in the meat-curing. 1858 E. C. Grey Cousin Harry I. xviii. 164 The housewifery duties..gave her as much exercise as she could very comfortably get through. 1891 Rev. of Reviews 4 584/1 Housewifery schools were established. 1906 Daily Chron. 16 Mar. 8/1 It is a fashion now for girls leaving school to finish with a housewifery course. 1988 E. J. Perkins Econ. Colonial Amer. (ed. 2) vi. 141 Housewifery duties were more varied and included..milking cows, feeding swine,..making butter and cheese, [etc.]. 2000 Jrnl. Women's Hist. (Nexis) 12 137 Nurses largely had become the experts to which the new housewifery schools referred, and whom they employed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440 |
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