huswifery

English

Etymology

From huswife +‎ -ery?

Noun

huswifery (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of housewifery (“the business of a housewife, female homemaking”).
   • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

     : Good huswifery loveth
     Her household to tend.
     Ill huswifery wanteth,
     With spending too fast

References

• “huswifery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.