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单词 manty-maker
释义

manty-makern.

Brit. /ˈmantɪmeɪkə/, U.S. /ˈmæn(t)iˌmeɪkər/, Scottish English /ˈmantɪmekər/, Irish English /ˈmæntimeːkər/
Forms: see manty n. and maker n.; also English regional (Lincolnshire) 1900s– manty maãker, 1900s– manty mekker; Scottish 1800s manty-mecker, 1800s– manty-macker, 1900s– mantimakker.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: manty n., maker n.
Etymology: < manty n. + maker n. Compare earlier mantua-maker n., manteau-maker n.
Now chiefly Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English (northern).
A dressmaker.
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mantle-maker1552
tire-woman1615
mantua-maker1694
manteau-maker1699
manty-maker1771
sack-maker1780
dressmaker1793
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 84 She has gi'en me her yallow trollopea; which Mrs. Drab, the manty-maker, says will look very well when it is scowred and smoaked with silfur.
1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 55 Now she is grown a Manty-maker.
1858 J. Rayson Poems 45 She wad wi' Keate to Carel gang, And be a manty-mecker.
1891 H. Johnston Kilmallie I. xviii She's a sewer, I think—a manty-maker, or something like that, I would suppose, from the needle-marks on her fingers.
1892 Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. 69/2 The dandy manty-maker.
a1901 P. Landreth Joseph Spindle (1911) ii. 27 My faither..said tylers werena' men, but mantymakers wi' beards.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 185/2 Manty maãker/Manty mekker, dress-maker, seamstress.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 216/2 Mantymaker, a dressmaker.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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