Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Housewifery.

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Examples

  • But I wadna affront your housewifeskep, gudewife; and, with your permission, I'se e'en pit them in my napkin, and eat them to my supper at e'en, for I am wearied of Mysie's pastry and nonsense; ye ken landward dainties aye pleased me best, Marion, and landward lasses too (looking at the cooper's wife).

    The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

  • But I wadna affront your housewifeskep, gudewife; and, with your permission, I’se e’en pit them in my napkin, and eat them to my supper at e’en, for I am wearied of

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

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