Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A sexually immoral woman. · A cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behavior. · A housewife or housekeeper. · A case or bag for needles, thread, etc.
From earlier hussive, hussif, the regular evolution of Middle English houswyf (“housewife”), equivalent to house + wife. Modern housewife is a restoration of the compound (and thus is a doublet), after its component parts had become unrecognisable through regular phonetic change, as well as gradual negative senses and historical factors. The traditional pronunciation of the word is /ˈhʌzi/; the pronunciation with /s/ is a spelling pronunciation.
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