HOUSEHOLD
ADJECTIVES
► ECONOMIC pert. to the management of a household, or to the ordering of private affairs → 1592 obs.
► ECONOMICAL pert. to a household or its management → 1579 arch.
► FAMILIAR pert. to one’s family or household → c1386
► FAMILISTIC pertaining to a family or household → 1660 obs.
► FAMILISTICAL pert. to a family or household → 1660 obs.
► HOUSAL relating to a house or household; domestic → 1611
► SUPELLECTICARIOUS of or pert. to household stuff → 1656 obs.
► SUPELLECTILE pert. to or of the nature of household furniture; ornamental → 1615 obs.
NOUNS
► COTS-WORK domestic work → 1795
► DOMICULTURE household management; the art of housekeeping, cookery, etc.; domestic economy → 1860
► ECONOMICS or science of managing a household; a treatise on the subject → 1586 obs.
► ECONOMY the art or science of managing a household, esp. with regard to household expenses → c1530 obs.
► FAMILIARITY the quality proper to the head of a household → a1483 obs.
► HARNESS household and personal equipment; furniture; apparel → 1340 obs.
► HOUSECRAFT the art of household management; skill in domestic duties → 1848
► HOUSEHOLDMENTS household furniture; household effects → 1676
► HOUSESHIP household, family → a1000 obs.
► INSETT STUFF household furniture → 1902 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► INSIGHTS the furniture of a house; household goods → 1792 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
► INSPRAITH furniture, household goods → 1660 Sc.
► INWORK indoor or domestic work → 1892 Sc.
► KETTLE HALYARDS domestic duties, esp. of a culinary nature or work in the kitchen → 1916 Amer. dial.
► KITCHEN HALYARDS domestic duties, esp. of a culinary nature or work in the kitchen → 1916 Amer. dial.
► MENAGE a domestic establishment; household management → 1865 Sc.
► MENYIE a family; household → 1703 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
► OFFICES the parts of a house, or buildings attached to a house, specially devoted to household work or service; the kitchen and rooms connected with it, as pantry, scullery, laundry, and the like; also, often including stables and other outhouses, the barns and cowhouses of a farm, etc. → a1548
► PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT a household ruled by the women of the house → 1865 Amer. dial.
► PLUNDER household furnishings and effects → 1858 Amer. dial.
► SETTING OUT a dowry; a trousseau; the equipment necessary for establishing a household, usually in the form of a gift to a bride or newly married couple → 1833 Amer. dial.
► STICKS AND STONES one’s household goods and possessions → M19 colloq.
► WARDROBE-STUFF household necessaries and supplies → 1537 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BALEBOOS the head of the household, master of the house → 1982 Jewish (Bk.)
► BALEBOS an orderly person; a householder, the head of a family → 1966 Yiddish sl. (Bk.)
► BALEBOSS the head of the house; a store owner; a manager; anyone in authority → 1998 Yiddish (Bk.)
► BESSY a man who meddles in woman’s affairs → 1868 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BESSY-CODDLE a man who meddles in woman’s affairs → 1839 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BETTY a term of contempt applied to a man who interferes with the domestic duties of women, or who busies himself with the affairs belonging to females → 1888 (Bk.)
► BETTY-MAN a man who does woman’s work → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BOND a householder; a husband → LOE obs.
► COT a man that does domestic or household work usually done by women → 1699 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► COT-BETTY a man that does domestic or household work usually done by women → 1860 US
► COTQUEAN a man who acts the housewife, who busies himself unduly or meddles with matters belonging to the housewife’s province → 1597 obs., contemptuous
► DAILY BREADER the head of the family; the working head of the house → L19 rhyming sl.
► DAILY BREADITE the head of the family → L19 rhyming sl.
► ECONOMIST one who manages a household; a housekeeper → 1586 arch.
► FAD man who busies himself with woman’s work → 1877 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FAMILIAR a member of a person’s family or household → 1460 obs.
► FAMILIST one of the same family or household → 1631 obs.
► GAF ► GAFF a master, the head of a house; a foreman or overseer → 1862 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GAFFER a husband; the head of the house → 1765 UK sl.
► GAMMER a grandmother; the mistress of the house, good-wife; also used as a term of address → 1777 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GATHA an effeminate fellow who concerns himself in women’s business → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► GENERAL anyone in authority, as a boss, school principal, head of a household, or the like → 1975 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GOODMAN the master of a house; the head of a family; a husband → 1737 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GOODWIFE the mistress of a house; a wife → 1804 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HAMELT a fisherman’s tabu-name for a wife, the mistress of a house → 1908 Sc.
► HEAD WOMAN a woman in charge of a household, department, institution, etc.; the most important woman in a group, business, or organization → 1799
► HEARTH-HOLDER a householder → 1834
► HEARTHSTONE WOMAN a domesticated women who runs a household → 1864
► HEIGH-HOW an occasional assistant in a house → 1886 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HELP a person employed to give assistance in household or other manual work; in the U.S., a hired labourer or servant, esp. a domestic servant → 1645
► HEMMALD a housewife; the mistress of a house → 1914 Sc. (Bk.)
► HEN-HUSBAND a man who busies himself with women’s household affairs; an effeminate man → 1960 Amer. dial.
► HEN-HUSSY ► HEN-HUZZY a man who is seen to be over involved in household affairs and similar ‘women’s concerns’; hence, an effeminate man → 1887 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► HENNESSY a man who busies himself with women’s household affairs; an effeminate man → 1890 Amer. dial.
► HEN-WIFE a man who busies himself about matters usually left to women → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► HIRDMAN a member of a household; a domestic, a household servant; a retainer → c993 obs.
► HIRED CHILD a child of the house → c1275 obs.
► HIREDMAN a member of a household; a domestic, a household servant; a retainer → c993 obs.
► HIZZIE-FELLOW a man who interferes with domestic management, a man who undertakes women’s work → 1811 Sc.
► HOUSE BIRD a person who stays in or about the house; a cowardly or unadventurous person; later, a woman who devotes herself to domestic duties → 1601
► HOUSE-FATHER the father of a family or household → 1552
► HOUSE HEAD the principal member of a family or household → 1864
► HOUSELING a person usually stays in the house or near to home; a cautious or unadventurous person → 1598
► HOUSELORD the lord or master of the house → a1000 arch.
► HOUSEMAN the head of a household or family → 1537 obs.
► HOUSEMASTER the male head of a family, household, or clan → 1593
► HOUSEMISTRESS the female head of a family or household; the mistress of the house → 1689
► HUSBANDMAN the male head of a household → c1330 obs.
► HUSSY the mistress of a household; a thrifty woman → 1530 obs.
► JENNY a man who concerns himself with purely feminine matters → 1901 (Bk.)
► JINNY-WOMAN a man who meddles or assists in a housewife’s work; a man with effeminate habits → 1917 Amer. dial.
► LADY OF THE HOUSE the mistress of a household → c1330
► MADAM a mistress of servants, the lady of the house, a fine lady → a1779 Sc.
► MADAME the mistress of a household; one’s wife → 1863 Amer. dial.
► MADDIE the White mistress of a house; the employer of domestic servants → 1980s S. Afr. sl.
► MALLY a man who interferes with woman’s work → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MASTER the male head of a house or household → 1536
► MASTER-HOUSEHOLD master of the household → 1536 obs.
► MASTER-MAN the head of a household or family; a husband → 1885 Eng. dial.
► MISSIS the mistress of the household → M19 colloq.
► MISTER a husband or head of a household → 1929 Amer. dial.
► MOLL-CODDLE a person, usually a male, who is mollycoddled or pampered in an overindulgent or excessively protective way; an effeminate man or boy; a milksop; also a man who performs work typically associated with women, or who concerns himself with domestic affairs (Eng. dial.) → 1853 obs.
► MOLL-CODLIN a mollycoddle; a man who does a woman’s work; an effeminate boy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOLL-COT an effeminate man; one who will potter about and do women’s work → 1905 Eng. dial.
► MOLLICOT a soft, effeminate man; one who will potter about and do women’s work → 1886 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOLL-KIT a man who does household work; one who interferes with women’s business → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOLLY a man who fusses and busies himself about the house, or with women’s work → 1886 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOLLY-CAUDLE an effeminate man; a man who intrudes into women’s household affairs; a mollycoddle → 1880 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOLLYCODDLE a person, usually male, who is mollycoddled; a pampered, overprotected weakling; an effeminate man or boy; a milksop; a man who does a woman’s work → 1833 colloq.
► MOLLY-COT a man who is always interfering in domestic arrangements, particularly in the concerns of the kitchen; one who is commonly said to be tied to his wife’s apron-strings → 1826 Eng. dial.
► MOLLY-COTTER a man who does women’s work; one who interferes with domestic arrangements → 1882 Eng. dial.
► MOLLY MOP an effeminate man or boy; a homosexual man; also, a man who performs work typically associated with women, or who concerns himself with women’s affairs → 1829 sl. obs.
► MOP MARY a charwoman; a woman hired by the day to do odd jobs of household work; a ‘scrub’ woman → 1931 US tramps’ sl.
► PADRONA the mistress of a household; a woman who keeps a hotel, inn, or brothel → 1744 chiefly in Italian-speaking communities
► POLLYDODDLE an effeminate man; one who busies himself with woman’s or household work → 1894 Eng. dial.
► QUOT a man who meddles in ‘women’s work’ around the house → L17
► TAME CAT a too domesticated man → 1933 sl. (Bk.)
► WADDLER a poor householder → 1737 Sc. obs.
► WALDER a poor householder → 1721 Sc. obs.
► WIFE-CARLE a man who occupies himself with women’s affairs or duties → 1816 Sc. obs.
► YAMSTER a household provider; one of domestic habits → 1873 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► COT of a man: to interfere in women’s household matters → 1736 Eng. dial.
► ECONOMIZE to act as the governor of a household → 1648 obs.
► KEEP A REEKING HOUSE to maintain a household → 1883 Sc.
► KEEP OLD MAID’S HALL to live or keep house without the presence of a man → 1858 US sl.
► WEAR THE TROUSERS to be the dominant member of a household → 1931
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