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Definition of hausfrau in English: hausfraunoun ˈhaʊsfraʊˈhaʊsˌfraʊ 1A German housewife. Example sentencesExamples - One, Felice, is active in the Jewish resistance; another is a German hausfrau (Juliane Köhler); and the third is effectively the catalyst, who inadvertently brings them together.
- The production won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards - Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance for Marianne Copithorne's portrayal of Fritzi, the hausfrau driven to dance the tarantella.
- 1.1informal A woman regarded as overly domesticated.
a hausfrau from upstate New York it's not that she's much of a hausfrau or hoover-wielder Example sentencesExamples - Instead, she leaves the flirting and drunken karaoke to her hausfrau pals, Maureen and Carol, who of course have domestic problems of their own.
- Over on the saner side of town, Richard has had it up to here with his henpecking hausfrau.
- She packs on another 60 pounds, dresses like a hausfrau, and now silently resents the love of her life for not sharing her passion for light radio hits.
- Regardless, we witness the former queen of Naboo become little more than a fretful hausfrau.
- Wouldn't you rather stay here with me than go home to that… hausfrau?
Origin Late 18th century: from German, from Haus 'house' + Frau 'woman, wife'. Definition of hausfrau in US English: hausfraunounˈhousˌfrouˈhaʊsˌfraʊ 1A German housewife. Example sentencesExamples - The production won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards - Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance for Marianne Copithorne's portrayal of Fritzi, the hausfrau driven to dance the tarantella.
- One, Felice, is active in the Jewish resistance; another is a German hausfrau (Juliane Köhler); and the third is effectively the catalyst, who inadvertently brings them together.
- 1.1informal A woman regarded as overly domesticated or efficient.
a hausfrau from upstate New York it's not that she's much of a hausfrau or hoover-wielder Example sentencesExamples - She packs on another 60 pounds, dresses like a hausfrau, and now silently resents the love of her life for not sharing her passion for light radio hits.
- Wouldn't you rather stay here with me than go home to that… hausfrau?
- Over on the saner side of town, Richard has had it up to here with his henpecking hausfrau.
- Regardless, we witness the former queen of Naboo become little more than a fretful hausfrau.
- Instead, she leaves the flirting and drunken karaoke to her hausfrau pals, Maureen and Carol, who of course have domestic problems of their own.
Origin Late 18th century: from German, from Haus ‘house’ + Frau ‘woman, wife’. |