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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Is there a difference between a maker and a builder?
    I used the word "bricklayer" to emphasise the sense in which "housebuilder" was being used, and to emphasise the "parts assembly" connotations of "builder", which is a very different sense than homemaker
  • Where does the phrase, Costs an arm and a leg come from?
    The Long Beach Independent reported, "Food editor Beulah Karney has … ideas for the homemaker who wants to say 'Merry Christmas' and not have it cost an arm and a leg "
  • Are effectually and effectively completely interchangable?
    When applied to people, efficient means capable or competent ("an efficient homemaker") and places less emphasis on the achievement of results and more on the skills involved
  • meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    If someone’s past profession is teaching for example then what do we say for them in a grammatically correct way? The confusion is that if we say “ he was a teacher” it could also mean he is now d





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