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9 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income
originFrom Middle English houswyf, housewif, huswijf, equivalent to house + wife; a doublet of hussy, which it was long distinguished from and displaced due to gradual negative connotation (see Online Etymology Dictionary entry). Cognate with West Frisian húswiif, Dutch huiswijf, German Low German Huuswief, German Hausweib.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- huswife 16
- howfs 14
- howf 13
- houfs 11
- howes 11
- whose 11
- wifes 11
- fehs 10
- fish 10
- fohs 10
- hews 10
- houf 10