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housekeep
[ hous-keep ]
verb (used without object)
, house·kept, house·keep·ing.
- to keep or maintain a house.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of housekeep1
First recorded in 1835–45; back formation from housekeeping
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Example Sentences
You know you said it was not worth while for me to learn to housekeep.
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Yes; reckon she'll housekeep for your uncle till you get back; won't ye, Nellie?
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Judge Dickinson wants me to go to Alfred and housekeep for him, and I'd named twelve dollars a month.
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Twelve years before she had come here to "housekeep," as the old phrase went.
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We will still be husband and wife; we will take a small lodging, and you shall housekeep and live in-doors.
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