Stepford wife
nounEtymology
From the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (adapted into a 1975 film of the same name), in which a woman moves to the fictional town of Stepford, Connecticut and discovers its eerily docile housewives are android replacements.
Definitions
A woman who unquestioningly submits to and serves her male partner, and/or does not seem…
A woman who unquestioningly submits to and serves her male partner, and/or does not seem to have interests, wishes, or pursuits of her own.
- "You can't just sit there and tell me you want Lili to become a 'Stepford wife' at your beck and call. […]
- So that prompted me to ask the question: isn’t the ideal Muslim wife in actual fact a Stepford Wife?
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA