单词 | home help |
释义 | home helpn. Chiefly British. A person who helps with household work, spec. one employed by a local authority to assist a sick, elderly, or disabled person in his or her home. Also as a mass noun: assistance of this kind. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] hirdmanc993 hirdcnihtc1000 hirdcnavec1275 hirdswainc1275 hewea1350 officerc1375 homely mana1382 meniala1387 household servant1427 homely womana1500 domestical?c1550 comprador1615 domestic1623 spider-brusher1833 house help1837 domiciliary1844 hoghenhine1848 kitchen mechanic1861 home helper1864 home help1883 1883 Times 27 Sept. 11/2 (advt.) Office for home helps, 366, Oxford-street... Mrs. Crawshay has a vacancy for a lady as governess-housekeeper in a widower's family. 1900 Daily News 13 June 8/6 The West Central Jewish Girls' Club... Its objects are educational, recreational, and religious. There are 221 members..home-helps, 17. 1939 M. Spring Rice Working-class Wives 14 While women..go into hospital..trained home helps can be provided to look after the father and children. 1958 P. Townsend in N. Mackenzie Conviction 117 There is the nucleus of a home help service. 1984 V. George & P. Wilding Impact Social Policy ii. 58 Large numbers of elderly in need of home help do not receive it. 2003 S. Mackay Heligoland (2004) vi. 86 Rowena had been his home help, visiting twice daily, getting his breakfast and settling him down for the night. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1883 |
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