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homemaker    音标拼音: [h'omm,ekɚ]

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  • Housewife vs. homemaker - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    Homemaker is a more modern word — OED attests it from 1861 rather than the thirteenth century for housewife — and it focuses on creating a home rather than simply being in a house And it's sex-agnostic However, which is used is entirely a matter of style and choice, perhaps with a regional bias
  • grammatical gender - Is it correct to apply Housewife term for an . . .
    Maybe twenty years ago it would have been a fairly neutral term, but now it is considered too freighted On the one hand, some consider housewife too passive; people in that role may prefer the more active and gender-neutral homemaker, or stay-at-home mom dad parent if they are caregivers for children
  • single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    Homemaker just sounds a bit archaic, and per O L D 's definition not necessarily implies skills in the specific areas mentioned Just concerned that today's youth wouldn't necessarily relate to or fully understand that term as many of these skills are becoming lost arts
  • A possibly modern derogatory term for housewife
    A term with precisely that meaning that will be readily understood in the United States (at least by those who are middle-aged or older), but probably not elsewhere, is Suzy Homemaker The term was originally a brand name for a line of toys intended for girls, that enabled them to pretend to be homemakers, but as the Wikipedia article on these toys puts it, the term eventually became an insult
  • Gender neutral version of housewife - English Language Usage Stack . . .
    Outside of American English, what gender neutral terms are there for "housewife"? There aren't any children involved, so "stay at home parent" isn't applicable For example (when addressing an opp
  • What is the correct abbreviation for the word numbers?
    What is the correct abbreviation for the words numbers and number? Nos No Nos No Possible example usage: "Number of guests" where the word number is abbreviated "Numbers 10–15 are located in the
  • etymology - Origin of Australian slang exclamation struth meaning . . .
    What is the origin of the Australian slang exclamation quot;struth quot; meaning greatly surprised?
  • What is the wife of a henpecked husband called?
    1 : a habitual complainer I’ve heard Jews of an older generation use ballbuster to mean a henpecking wife specifically, I think as a pun on balabusta, Yiddish for a good homemaker Merriam-Webster defines it as: a person who is relentlessly aggressive, intimidating, or domineering In practice, I’ve always heard it used to refer to women
  • nouns - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    The Associated Press Stylebook has this entry for federal: Use a capital letter for the architectural style and for corporate or governmental bodies that use the word as part of their formal names: Federal Express, the Federal Trade Commission Lowercase when used as an adjective to distinguish something from state, county, city, town or private entities: federal assistance, federal court, the
  • What is the British English equivalent for homebody?
    Thanks, post corrected I'm not sure how stay-at-home is used in the UK, but in the US, it most commonly refers to someone who does not work outside the home; a stay-at-home mom is a homemaker in other parlance, or housewife in more dated terminology It makes no implications about one's adventurousness or likeability





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