| 单词 | kitchen drudge | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaskitchen drudge  b.   As a modifier, designating kitchen servants (esp. women) as the type of a person of low rank or class, or of degraded morals, as in  kitchen drudge,  kitchen slut,  kitchen trull, etc. See also kitchen wench n.   and cf. kitchen-bred adj.Recorded earliest in kitchen knave n. ΚΠ   Promptorium Parvulorum 		(Harl. 221)	 274  				Kechyne knave, lixa. ?1548    J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature  ii. sig. Bijv  				Where are these vyllen knaues? The deuyls owne kychyn slaues. 1615    J. Stephens Ess. & Characters 		(new ed.)	 sig. A7v  				Make him iudge, Betwixt rare beauties and a kitchin-drudge. a1616    W. Shakespeare Coriolanus 		(1623)	  ii. i. 205  				The Kitchin Malkin pinnes Her richest Lockram 'bout her reechie  necke.       View more context for this quotation a1616    W. Shakespeare Cymbeline 		(1623)	  v. vi. 177  				Our bragges Were crak'd of Kitchen-Trulles .       View more context for this quotation a1687    C. Cotton Poems 		(1689)	 247  				The Fire's new rak't, and Hearth swept clean By Madg, the dirty Kitchin Quean. 1830    F. Glasse Joe Oxford I.  iv. 52  				Ere we quitted the house, a dirty kitchen trull teazed us, in vain, to remember the chamber-maid. 1947    L. Short High Vermillion in  Sat. Evening Post July 5 52/3  				Her lips were crooked, jeering, and she said then, in the same derisive way, ‘That little kitchen drab!’. 1966    D. Wasserman Man of La Mancha 66  				Look at the kitchen slut reeking of sweat! < as lemmas | 
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