单词 | cook's knave |
释义 | > as lemmascook's knave a. In genitive compounds denoting a servant employed to assist a cook, as in cook's boy, cook's knave, cook's maid, etc. Now historical. [With the plural form cooks' boys in quot. 1935 compare the etymological note at cookshop n.] ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 278 Þe cokes cnaue þe weschedisch incuchene [c1230 Corpus Cambr. þe wescheð & wipeð disches i cuchene]. c1450 (a1375) Octavian (Calig.) (1979) l. 154 Sche segth a boy, loþly of face, A quysteroun..And seyde, ‘Hark, þou cokes knaue.’ 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies xxix. 55/1 It is nowe growne so common among them, that very Cookes boyes and others as meane as they, are made knightes. 1613 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Epist. lvi, in tr. Seneca Wks. (1614) 252 An infinite crie of Cake-sellers, of Saudsige-mongers, and crackling Merchants, and all the Cookes skullions, who sell their meate. 1745 Agreeable Compan. 18 True Consistence, such as Cooks-maids make At Shrovetide, when they toss the pliant Cake. 1858 W. W. Sanger Hist. Prostitution xvi. 190 The host was required to provide, at his own cost, a cook and a cook's maid. 1935 Sunday Times 22 Sept. 15/3 [French] hotels..used to employ anything from four to fifteen cooks' boys... These cooks' boys..were not merely performing minor duties in the kitchen—they were preparing to be the chefs of the next generation. 1994 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 93 517 The journey of the hero from cook's knave to king. < as lemmas |
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