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UK
/hˈaʊshʌsbənd/
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NOUN
- a husband who keeps house while his wife earns the family income
How To Use househusband In A Sentence
- Househusband, like housewife the household as main occupation.
- I thought you admired him for becoming a househusband when Yoko... FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
- The "herbivores" - a trend in Japan of men who live abstinently and take women as friends instead of lovers - is often trotted out in articles about the fall of masculinity, the subtext being that once guys start to be emotionally nuanced part-time househusbands, they will no longer possess a primal drive for sex. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- As she earns shiploads more than I did, when redundancy reared its ugly head I volunteered to stay at home and be a househusband. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
- When the husband stays home to cook meals, clean, do the laundry and so forth, he is called a househusband.
- His various titles include chief designer, company director, marketing manager, and harassed househusband when his stylist wife is working abroad on location.