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单词 hausfrau
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Definition of hausfrau in English:

hausfrau

noun ˈhaʊsfraʊˈhaʊsˌfraʊ
  • 1A German housewife.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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. 1.1informal 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
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Instead, she leaves the flirting and drunken karaoke to her hausfrau pals, Maureen and Carol, who of course have domestic problems of their own.
      • 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.
      • Wouldn't you rather stay here with me than go home to that… hausfrau?

Origin

Late 18th century: from German, from Haus 'house' + Frau 'woman, wife'.

 
 

Definition of hausfrau in US English:

hausfrau

nounˈhousˌfrouˈhaʊsˌfraʊ
  • 1A German housewife.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
    • 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.
    1. 1.1informal A woman regarded as overly domesticated or efficient.
      a hausfrau from upstate New York
      it's not that she's much of a hausfrau or hoover-wielder
      Example sentencesExamples
      • 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.
      • Wouldn't you rather stay here with me than go home to that… hausfrau?
      • Over on the saner side of town, Richard has had it up to here with his henpecking hausfrau.
      • Regardless, we witness the former queen of Naboo become little more than a fretful hausfrau.
      • Instead, she leaves the flirting and drunken karaoke to her hausfrau pals, Maureen and Carol, who of course have domestic problems of their own.

Origin

Late 18th century: from German, from Haus ‘house’ + Frau ‘woman, wife’.

 
 
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