ménagen.

Brit.

/meɪˈnɑːʒ/,

/mɛˈnɑːʒ/,

/məˈnɑːʒ/, U.S.

/meɪˈnɑʒ/,

/məˈnɑʒ/ (in sense 3 also)Brit.

/məˈnadʒ/,

/məˈnɒdʒ/, U.S.

/məˈnɑdʒ/, Scottish English

/məˈnadʒ/,

/məˈnɔdʒ/

Forms: Middle English manage, Middle English manyage, Middle English maynage, Middle English mayngnage, Middle English menaige, Middle English meynage, Middle English 1600s– menage, 1700s– ménage; Scottish 1700s– menage, 1800s– ménage; also British regional (in sense 3) 1800s manaudge, 1800s– manadge, 1800s manege, 1800s– manawdge, 1900s– menauge, 1900s– menodge, 1900s– menoj.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French meinage.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman meinage, menage, mesnage, meynage, meynnage, Old French maisnage, mainage, manage, menage, mesnage household (c1150 in sense ‘dwelling’, c1210 in sense ‘housekeeping’, 13th cent. in sense ‘household’; French ménage ) < mainer stay, dwell (compare Old French manoir s.v. manor n.) + -age -age suffix, although the Anglo-Norman and Old French words are influenced in form also by variants of mesnee meinie n. Compare post-classical Latin managium house, dwelling (frequently from a1139 in British sources), household (from 1185 in British sources), management (1296 in a British source). Compare mesnage n.17th-cent. and later examples at sense 2 probably represent a secondary borrowing < French. N.E.D. (1906) gives only the pronunciation (menā·ʒ) /meɪˈnɑːʒ/.

†1. The members of a household (= meinie n. 1); a group of retainers (= meinie n. 2). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household

hirdc888

houseeOE

hewenc1000

houseshipOE

hinehedea1300

meiniec1300

ménagec1325

householda1382

family1452

fam1579

private family1598

fireside1686

family circle1768

family unit1860

mainpast1865

familia1869

home1876

aiga1895

ohana1926

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > household

hirdc888

houseeOE

houseshipOE

hinehedea1300

meiniec1300

ménagec1325

householda1382

family1452

fireside1686

mainpast1865

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 3799 Al þe bachelerie Þat aȝt was in þe lond he nom in is compaynie & of is mayngnage [v.rr. maynage, manyage].

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 2087 Darrie..Wiþ his children and his wyue, And wiþ his syster and his meynage.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 29 Jubyter..wyth his wyf and meynage, wente anone wyth theym.

2. A domestic establishment, or its members collectively; a household, a home. In later use also: the parties involved in a romantic or sexual relationship regarded as forming a domestic establishment; the relationship itself. Also figurative.In quot. 1746 used of the staff or company of a theatre.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual relationship > [noun]

ménagea1393

sex relation1871

sex relationship1873

the tender trap1954

the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun]

ménagea1393

amour1567

concern1691

affair1700

gallantry1707

arrangement1750

affaire de cœur1781

romance1844

affaire1845

love affair1867

walkout1934

relationship1944

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual partner > [noun] > people involved in sexual relationship

ménagea1393

the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > pair of lovers

yleofa1000

ménagea1393

couple1393

twosomec1480

fleck and his make1529

coupling1961

society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration > domestic management

housewifeship?c1225

cove and keyc1250

husbandryc1300

economica1393

ménagea1393

householda1398

householdinga1425

housewifery1440

economyc1454

economics1535

house rule1579

householdry1581

managery1586

housekeeping1652

household management1741

notability1756

homebuilding1757

domestic economy1778

Wirtschaft1841

homekeeping1846

housecraft1848

homemaking1863

home economics1872

home science1886

household science1896

domestic science1897

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 4809 (MED) Babio..hadde a love at his menage..hihte Viola be name.

c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 68 (MED) The saide countre, cite, towne, village, or menage so provided..shalle mow withe gret ease endure the..derthe.

1698 W. King Journey to London 3 In Paris, there are from Four to Five, and to Ten menages or distinct Families in many Houses.

1744 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) I. 299 I am impatient to see the whole ménage.

1746 H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann 12 Aug. in Corr. (1955) XIX. 293 Lord Middlesex took the opportunity of a rivalship between his own mistress the Nardi, and the Violetta,..to involve the whole ménage of the Opera in the quarrel, and has paid nobody.

1790 S. Romilly in Life Sir S. Romilly (1842) I. 297 I long to..see you in your ménage, which I cannot express in English, because we have no word for it.

1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife I. iii. 32 Nothing tended to make ladies so..inefficient in the menage as the study of the dead languages.

1842 T. De Quincey Mod. Greece in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 123/1 No single Greek nuisance can be placed on the same scale with the dogs attached to every ménage, whether household or pastoral.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiv. 583 She tried keeping house with a female friend; then the double ménage began to quarrel and get into debt.

1887 E. Dowden Life Shelley II. iv. 115 An annual sufficiency to support a little ménage would be desirable.

1949 P. Hastings Cases in Court v. 264 He was a good-looking young man and she was said to be very fond of him although the menage was punctuated by repeated altercations.

1959 M. Renault Charioteer (new ed.) ix. 220 You might just be feeling you'd seen enough of my domestic ménage.

1980 Daily Tel. 6 June 15/1 He turns up on what appears to be a regular visit from Milan with his ‘friend’, Picchio, the two being accepted as a ménage.

1988 M. M. R. Khan When Spring Comes iv. 102 It was their first parting since they had set up a ménage in Spain, some ten months ago.

3. British regional (now Scottish).

a. A benefit society or savings club of which every member contributes a fixed sum weekly. Now frequently in colloquial phrase he (also she) couldn't run a menage, indicating lack of organizational ability.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance association or friendly society

Rechabite1637

friendly society1684

provident society1771

provident club1797

benefit-society1801

benefit-club1812

burial-society1812

ménage1815

burial club1848

forestry1861

tontine1871

shepherdry1900

approved society1911

1815 G. Tait in Farmer's Mag. May 146 The disadvantages of Friendly Societies have given rise..to institutions known by the name of Menages.

1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Manadge, a box or club instituted by inferior shop-keepers—generally linen-drapers—for supplying goods to poor or improvident people, who agree to pay for them by instalments.

1866 D. Mitchell Hist. Montrose ix. 85 They would have got their clothing by joining a menage to which they paid 1/- in the week.

1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's xviii. 208 Your Mammy couldnae run a menauge!

b. An arrangement for paying for goods by instalments.

ΚΠ

1959 Edinb. Evening News 23 Sept. in Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) Girls wanted to take up menages.

Compounds

British regional (now Scottish).

C1. General attributive in sense 3, as menage circle, menage shop, etc.

ΚΠ

1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 22/2 In the preceding account, no notice is taken of truck system, tommy shops, menage shops, or subsist money.

1895 A. G. Murdoch Sc. Readings I. 69 Mrs. Gruppy was a manawdge wife who had considerable experience in the business.

1895 A. G. Murdoch Sc. Readings I. 72 Washerwife for Mrs. Gruppy's manawdge-circle.

1924 J. H. Bone Crystal Set 22 Here! that's ma menauge caird.

C2.

menage man n. an itinerant vendor of goods which are to be paid for by instalments.

ΚΠ

?1890 Wilson's Tyneside Songs & Drolleries (new ed.) 18 The manadge man not paid.

1893 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) 11 Dec. 2/4 He gave his wife to understand that she had to contract no debts with the menage-man.

1904 A. Griffiths Fifty Years Public Service xix. 283 (note) The number of debtors was always large at York on account of the widespread practices of the ‘menage men’ as they were called.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ménage
释义	ménagen. Brit. /meɪˈnɑːʒ/, /mɛˈnɑːʒ/, /məˈnɑːʒ/, U.S. /meɪˈnɑʒ/, /məˈnɑʒ/ (in sense 3 also)Brit. /məˈnadʒ/, /məˈnɒdʒ/, U.S. /məˈnɑdʒ/, Scottish English /məˈnadʒ/, /məˈnɔdʒ/ Forms: Middle English manage, Middle English manyage, Middle English maynage, Middle English mayngnage, Middle English menaige, Middle English meynage, Middle English 1600s– menage, 1700s– ménage; Scottish 1700s– menage, 1800s– ménage; also British regional (in sense 3) 1800s manaudge, 1800s– manadge, 1800s manege, 1800s– manawdge, 1900s– menauge, 1900s– menodge, 1900s– menoj. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French meinage. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman meinage, menage, mesnage, meynage, meynnage, Old French maisnage, mainage, manage, menage, mesnage household (c1150 in sense ‘dwelling’, c1210 in sense ‘housekeeping’, 13th cent. in sense ‘household’; French ménage ) < mainer stay, dwell (compare Old French manoir s.v. manor n.) + -age -age suffix, although the Anglo-Norman and Old French words are influenced in form also by variants of mesnee meinie n. Compare post-classical Latin managium house, dwelling (frequently from a1139 in British sources), household (from 1185 in British sources), management (1296 in a British source). Compare mesnage n.17th-cent. and later examples at sense 2 probably represent a secondary borrowing < French. N.E.D. (1906) gives only the pronunciation (menā·ʒ) /meɪˈnɑːʒ/. †1. The members of a household (= meinie n. 1); a group of retainers (= meinie n. 2). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household hirdc888 houseeOE hewenc1000 houseshipOE hinehedea1300 meiniec1300 ménagec1325 householda1382 family1452 fam1579 private family1598 fireside1686 family circle1768 family unit1860 mainpast1865 familia1869 home1876 aiga1895 ohana1926 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > household hirdc888 houseeOE houseshipOE hinehedea1300 meiniec1300 ménagec1325 householda1382 family1452 fireside1686 mainpast1865 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 3799 Al þe bachelerie Þat aȝt was in þe lond he nom in is compaynie & of is mayngnage [v.rr. maynage, manyage]. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 2087 Darrie..Wiþ his children and his wyue, And wiþ his syster and his meynage. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 29 Jubyter..wyth his wyf and meynage, wente anone wyth theym. 2. A domestic establishment, or its members collectively; a household, a home. In later use also: the parties involved in a romantic or sexual relationship regarded as forming a domestic establishment; the relationship itself. Also figurative.In quot. 1746 used of the staff or company of a theatre. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual relationship > [noun] ménagea1393 sex relation1871 sex relationship1873 the tender trap1954 the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] ménagea1393 amour1567 concern1691 affair1700 gallantry1707 arrangement1750 affaire de cœur1781 romance1844 affaire1845 love affair1867 walkout1934 relationship1944 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual partner > [noun] > people involved in sexual relationship ménagea1393 the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > pair of lovers yleofa1000 ménagea1393 couple1393 twosomec1480 fleck and his make1529 coupling1961 society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration > domestic management housewifeship?c1225 cove and keyc1250 husbandryc1300 economica1393 ménagea1393 householda1398 householdinga1425 housewifery1440 economyc1454 economics1535 house rule1579 householdry1581 managery1586 housekeeping1652 household management1741 notability1756 homebuilding1757 domestic economy1778 Wirtschaft1841 homekeeping1846 housecraft1848 homemaking1863 home economics1872 home science1886 household science1896 domestic science1897 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 4809 (MED) Babio..hadde a love at his menage..hihte Viola be name. c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 68 (MED) The saide countre, cite, towne, village, or menage so provided..shalle mow withe gret ease endure the..derthe. 1698 W. King Journey to London 3 In Paris, there are from Four to Five, and to Ten menages or distinct Families in many Houses. 1744 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) I. 299 I am impatient to see the whole ménage. 1746 H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann 12 Aug. in Corr. (1955) XIX. 293 Lord Middlesex took the opportunity of a rivalship between his own mistress the Nardi, and the Violetta,..to involve the whole ménage of the Opera in the quarrel, and has paid nobody. 1790 S. Romilly in Life Sir S. Romilly (1842) I. 297 I long to..see you in your ménage, which I cannot express in English, because we have no word for it. 1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife I. iii. 32 Nothing tended to make ladies so..inefficient in the menage as the study of the dead languages. 1842 T. De Quincey Mod. Greece in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 123/1 No single Greek nuisance can be placed on the same scale with the dogs attached to every ménage, whether household or pastoral. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiv. 583 She tried keeping house with a female friend; then the double ménage began to quarrel and get into debt. 1887 E. Dowden Life Shelley II. iv. 115 An annual sufficiency to support a little ménage would be desirable. 1949 P. Hastings Cases in Court v. 264 He was a good-looking young man and she was said to be very fond of him although the menage was punctuated by repeated altercations. 1959 M. Renault Charioteer (new ed.) ix. 220 You might just be feeling you'd seen enough of my domestic ménage. 1980 Daily Tel. 6 June 15/1 He turns up on what appears to be a regular visit from Milan with his ‘friend’, Picchio, the two being accepted as a ménage. 1988 M. M. R. Khan When Spring Comes iv. 102 It was their first parting since they had set up a ménage in Spain, some ten months ago. 3. British regional (now Scottish). a. A benefit society or savings club of which every member contributes a fixed sum weekly. Now frequently in colloquial phrase he (also she) couldn't run a menage, indicating lack of organizational ability. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance association or friendly society Rechabite1637 friendly society1684 provident society1771 provident club1797 benefit-society1801 benefit-club1812 burial-society1812 ménage1815 burial club1848 forestry1861 tontine1871 shepherdry1900 approved society1911 1815 G. Tait in Farmer's Mag. May 146 The disadvantages of Friendly Societies have given rise..to institutions known by the name of Menages. 1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Manadge, a box or club instituted by inferior shop-keepers—generally linen-drapers—for supplying goods to poor or improvident people, who agree to pay for them by instalments. 1866 D. Mitchell Hist. Montrose ix. 85 They would have got their clothing by joining a menage to which they paid 1/- in the week. 1991 A. Blair More Tea at Miss Cranston's xviii. 208 Your Mammy couldnae run a menauge! b. An arrangement for paying for goods by instalments. ΚΠ 1959 Edinb. Evening News 23 Sept. in Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) Girls wanted to take up menages. Compounds British regional (now Scottish). C1. General attributive in sense 3, as menage circle, menage shop, etc. ΚΠ 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 22/2 In the preceding account, no notice is taken of truck system, tommy shops, menage shops, or subsist money. 1895 A. G. Murdoch Sc. Readings I. 69 Mrs. Gruppy was a manawdge wife who had considerable experience in the business. 1895 A. G. Murdoch Sc. Readings I. 72 Washerwife for Mrs. Gruppy's manawdge-circle. 1924 J. H. Bone Crystal Set 22 Here! that's ma menauge caird. C2. menage man n. an itinerant vendor of goods which are to be paid for by instalments. ΚΠ ?1890 Wilson's Tyneside Songs & Drolleries (new ed.) 18 The manadge man not paid. 1893 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) 11 Dec. 2/4 He gave his wife to understand that she had to contract no debts with the menage-man. 1904 A. Griffiths Fifty Years Public Service xix. 283 (note) The number of debtors was always large at York on account of the widespread practices of the ‘menage men’ as they were called. 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