ˈhousewifeship
Forms: see housewife; also Sc. hussyfskap, hussyskep, hissieskip, housewifeskep.
[f. as prec. + -ship: in north. dial. after ON. -skapr.]
= prec.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 414 Husewifschipe is Marthe dole; and Marie dole is stilnesse. c 1449 Pecock Repr. ii. xiv. 230 Sche schulde make badde husewijfschip. a 1568 Wife Auchtermuchty iv, Sin' that ye will hussyskep ken, First ye sall sift and syne sall knead. 17.. Barring o' the Door iii. in Ritson Sc. Songs (1794) I. 227 My hand is in my hussyfskap, Goodman, as ye may see. 1825–80 Jamieson s.v. Hissieskip, Mair by chance than guid hissieskip. 1854 Mrs. Oliphant Magd. Hepburn III. 78 ‘Naething less than my mantle and my housewifeskep..a' to change with your jack and bonnet.’ |