meidn.

Brit.

/meɪd/, U.S.

/meɪd/, South African English

/meɪd/,

/meɪt/

Inflections: Plural meide Brit.

/ˈmeɪdə/, U.S.

/ˈmeɪdə/, South African English

/ˈmeɪdə/.

Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans meid.

Etymology: < Afrikaans meid < Dutch meid servant girl (now archaic), maiden, girl (Middle Dutch meit , a northern variant of māghet maid n.¹; compare Middle Low German meyt, Middle High German meit (German (archaic) Maid)).

South African. offensive.

Among Afrikaans-speakers: an insulting form of address or reference to a (young) black woman. Cf. meidjie n., meisie n.

ΚΠ

a1858 J. Goldswain Chron. (1949) II. 4 When I was a bout two yards off her I ordered he to stop but she told me to ‘fung the underMaid’ (catch the other woman).]

1908 I. W. Wauchope Natives & their Missionaries 4 A female Native was called ‘Meid,’ i.e. girl, or as a term of endearment ‘Ou-ma,’ i.e. grandmother or ‘Ayah.’

1955 A. Delius Young Traveller in S. Afr. 100 Outa and Aia were general names for more elderly coloured men and women respectively, Jong and Meid for younger people.

1974 A. Brink Looking on Darkness 54 So they take me en' one of them show me a stick en' he say: Meid where's de money?

1980 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 4 May 6 Senior white medical and nursing staff treated them with contempt, often referring to them as ‘meide’.

1982 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 3 May 10 It didn't matter that she was of royal descent and the well-educated daughter of an ambassador. She was a meid even if her family had been wearing shoes long before our forebears stopped wearing skins.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	meid
释义	meidn. Brit. /meɪd/, U.S. /meɪd/, South African English /meɪd/, /meɪt/ Inflections: Plural meide Brit. /ˈmeɪdə/, U.S. /ˈmeɪdə/, South African English /ˈmeɪdə/. Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans meid. Etymology: < Afrikaans meid < Dutch meid servant girl (now archaic), maiden, girl (Middle Dutch meit , a northern variant of māghet maid n.¹; compare Middle Low German meyt, Middle High German meit (German (archaic) Maid)). South African. offensive. Among Afrikaans-speakers: an insulting form of address or reference to a (young) black woman. Cf. meidjie n., meisie n. ΚΠ a1858 J. Goldswain Chron. (1949) II. 4 When I was a bout two yards off her I ordered he to stop but she told me to ‘fung the underMaid’ (catch the other woman).] 1908 I. W. Wauchope Natives & their Missionaries 4 A female Native was called ‘Meid,’ i.e. girl, or as a term of endearment ‘Ou-ma,’ i.e. grandmother or ‘Ayah.’ 1955 A. Delius Young Traveller in S. Afr. 100 Outa and Aia were general names for more elderly coloured men and women respectively, Jong and Meid for younger people. 1974 A. Brink Looking on Darkness 54 So they take me en' one of them show me a stick en' he say: Meid where's de money? 1980 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 4 May 6 Senior white medical and nursing staff treated them with contempt, often referring to them as ‘meide’. 1982 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 3 May 10 It didn't matter that she was of royal descent and the well-educated daughter of an ambassador. She was a meid even if her family had been wearing shoes long before our forebears stopped wearing skins. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1908
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