Short for "traditional wife" (that is to say, a female homemaker).

The word has nothing to do with neo-nazism as some definitions here have suggested, it's just stands for "traditional wife". Some women choose to do that, and some women don't. Each person has a right to pursue happiness as they see fit, right?

Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy

Short for "traditional wife." Used in alt-right circles to refer to women that embody traditionally feminine and wifely qualities (submissiveness, chastity, willingness to do household chores, etc).

Short for "traditional wife." Used in alt-right circles to refer to transsexual women or "traps" that embody traditionally feminine and wifely qualities (submissiveness, chastity, willingness to do household chores, etc).

Not the same as housewife. A tradwife is a homemaker, and thinks all women should be homemakers too. She exists in usually two ways:

1) She will be extremely attractive, and put an excessive amount of effort into her appearance for a significant other that looks like a frog, and probably treats her poorly. Usually religious but not necessarily.

2) Extremely not attractive and religious, but parades being a virgin as a huge source of pride even when no one wanted to have sex with her.

In both situations, the tradwife expects pretty much nothing of men and has low standards, so she's pretty much bound to be in a miserable relationship.