单词 | cookmaid |
释义 | cookmaidn. Now historical. A maid or other female domestic servant employed in preparing and cooking food, or as an assistant to a cook; a servant who does the duties of both a cook and a maid. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > woman cook cookessc1460 cook wench1632 cookmaid1633 1633 Match at Mid-night v. sig. Iv They haue Rose the Cooke-mayd without, but they say you haue Mistris Mary within. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. ii. 179. Thou shalt lie upon thy pallat, and call to thy cook-maid, and say, dresse me that Squeeker for my breakfast. 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 210 Pastery women, 277. cook maids 29. White meat-makers, 13. makers of drinking cups, 17. wine-cellar men, 70. 1720 T. Gordon Humourist I. 76 She goes to Silly the Cook-maid for a Dish of Broth, or the Heel of a Loaf. 1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 167 Those who think that the development of society can be arrested because a farmer's wife finds it hard to get a cookmaid. 1891 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 16 Aug. 15/2 I have known..an Irish cookmaid of 37 to die speedily of acute disorder brought on..by disappointment in love affairs. 1918 Pittsburgh Gaz. Times 16 Feb. 14/3 (advt.) Married couple wanted to take complete charge, as butler and cook-maid, of house with very small family. 2001 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Dec. 4/3 Fielding himself later married his cookmaid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1633 |
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