| 单词 | housework |
| 释义 | > as lemmashousework housework n. regular work done in housekeeping, now esp. cleaning and tidying; domestic work.In quot. 1613: a type of work consisting of this; a domestic vocation or sphere. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > housework housework1787 rough worka1852 housemaiding1858 rough1933 1613 B. Rich Excellency Good Women 23 Solomon pointed her a house-worke it should seeme, shee must not be a gadder about the streetes but a Home huswife. 1787 World & Fashionable Advertiser 17 Mar. Wanted in a large Family, a Servant who can undertake getting up the Small Linen, and has no objection to some House Work. 1841 A. Bache Fire-screen 119 Mrs. Gibbs, a woman who sometimes came to assist in doing house-work, had followed Mrs. Brown into the parlour. 1872 Rep. Indian Affairs 1871 (U.S.) 378 While the boys are engaged in out-door work, the girls could be employed in sewing or house-work. 1930 D. H. Lawrence Assorted Articles 29 No woman does her housework with real joy unless she is in love. 2008 J. Burchill in J. Burchill & C. Newkey-Burden Not in my Name 135 Proletarian men are the only group who do considerably more childcare and housework than they did twenty years ago. < as lemmas |
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