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- adjective informal Resembling or characteristic of a
housewife .
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Examples
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It looks a little "housewifey" to be but in today's political climate, you'll be right in style!
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Right now it's by my sink looking all sweet and housewifey with the Mrs. Meyers basil dish soap on it.
Archive 2009-08-01 The Curious Holts 2009
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This instills guilt - how can I be sitting here writing when I have housewifey things I ought to be doing?
Odin's Day ellyssian 2009
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Right now it's by my sink looking all sweet and housewifey with the Mrs. Meyers basil dish soap on it.
And Goodwill To All The Curious Holts 2009
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So I have to do housewifey things (the reorganization of my office) in order to not feel like I should be dong housewifey things (because I can't see the house's Problem Areas from my office).
Odin's Day ellyssian 2009
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The other one is my familiarity with a bunch of other languages (and having lived in France and Hong Kong) ... beneath this housewifey exterior lurks a polyglot.
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They look very 70s conserative country club housewifey.
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Now, San Antonio, what is so dreadful about "housewifey?"
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I think it's just that they see it as a threat to their housewifey ways, in much the same way as gay marriage is supposed to be a threat to the institution of marriage.
Archive 2007-04-01 Sinfonian 2007
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I think it's just that they see it as a threat to their housewifey ways, in much the same way as gay marriage is supposed to be a threat to the institution of marriage.
Today's Daily Schadenfreude Sinfonian 2007
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