keep house

to manage a household. I hate to keep house. I'd rather live in a tent than keep house. My grandmother kept house for nearly sixty years.

to clean, wash clothes, cook, and do other similar jobs in a home His cousin Ella lived there and kept house for both of them.

Manage a household, especially do the housework. For example, It's difficult to find time to keep house when you work full-time. [c. 1600]

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tryggve	-	Swedish
Novak	-	Serbian
Friedhold	FREET-hawlt	German
Raijin	ṙah-ee-jeen (Japanese)	Far Eastern Mythology
ĐỨC	-	Vietnamese
Manjula	-	Indian, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam