houseslave

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See also: house slave

English

Etymology

From house +‎ slave.

Noun

houseslave (plural houseslaves)

  1. Alternative spelling of house slave
    • 1957, John Albert Schindler, Woman's Guide to Better Living 52 Weeks a Year, page 47:
      A Sense of Humor Is the Houseslave's Salvation (section title)
    • 1991, Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Slave's Narrative, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205:
      As a houseslave, he was exposed to (or could overhear) prodigious sermons...
    • 2012, Fred R. Berger, edited by Bruce Russell, Freedom, Rights And Pornography: A Collection of Papers, →ISBN, page 118
      The usual laundry soap commercial portrays only the idiotic houseslave, not how she got that way, or how uninteresting and unchallenging her life ultimately is.
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