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Housewife

Housewife meaning

A woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid] employment is homemaking. | The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. | A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work.

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Social media has been filled with back and forth attacks from the women, most recently when the new housewife told the world a nasty tidbit about the veteran housewife.

That is why even in proverb 3 from verse 6, you will see that woman that have been predestine to be a good housewife end up becoming a good and productive housewife.

And amid claims she "looked like a battered housewife" after the incident, she felt unable to take her son out for his 9th birthday plans.

Born in Long Beach, California, to a housewife and movie projectionist dad, Monroe grew up falling in love with “Dirty Harry” movies at her dad’s theater; her first ambition was to become a police officer.

Brandi's latest appearance on The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip might just be her last time appearing as a housewife.

But Lena wants to be an artist, not a housewife!

Did you know there was space for a Real Housewife to be serious and be taken seriously?

Earlier this year Mikayla spoke about how she feels "fulfilled by being a housewife" – and she's celebrating how wonderful the lifestyle is to mark National Wife Appreciation Day.

His late father worked as an LIC agent and mother is a housewife.

If Jen moved in with Rishi's family, they would also expect her to take on the role of a traditional Indian housewife, which she has expressed that she has no interest in doing.

I'm the butch in this household, but when it's time to stick a snake down a drain to unclog it, I'm standing up on top of the table screaming, like a cartoon '50s housewife who saw a mouse.

In it, Plunket transforms Dorothy Rodgers into a clueless and cloying Bronxville housewife, Mimi Smithers.

In the piece titled “Valentine’s Day Mascara,” a 1950s housewife with a missing tooth and a swollen eye appears to be shutting her husband into a real freezer.

Irish salad sandwiches have been made by nearly every Irish housewife over the past five decades.

It’s just a housewife showing off her new garden and children’s pool, or a dad taking his kids fishing in a river.

Julianne Moore stars as housewife and baker, Gracie Atherton-Yoo, and though in present-day her biggest daily crisis is whether she has enough hot dogs for a cookout, her life used to be much more chaotic.

Julie Stevens is terrific as Marjorie Taub, an Upper West Side housewife recovering from a nervous breakdown—triggered after the death of her longtime therapist—in a Disney Store.

Kutch Express follows the story of housewife Monghi, who has been married to her husband for over 22 years, but later finds out that he has been having an affair with someone from his office.

Lyons is the first openly gay woman to be a Real Housewife, and she has become a role model for the LGBTQ+ community, sharing her journey and experiences with her fellow castmates.

Maia believes in the established order, yet as a budding young scientist, she wants more than the decreed roles of housewife to a stranger, egg donor, and mother.