hausfrau
/ˈhaʊsfraʊ
/noun
1A German housewife.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.
1.1 informal 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...
- 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.
Origin
Late 18th century: from German, from Haus 'house' + Frau 'woman, wife'.