| 单词 | pot-wrestler |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspot-wrestler pot-wrestler n. (also pot-rassler, pot rastler, pot-wrassler) slang (chiefly U.S.) (a) a person employed to wash dishes, etc.; a kitchen-maid; (b) a chef, a cook. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] cookOE trenchermana1586 kitchenist?1617 magirist1716 cooky1759 magirologist1814 pot-wrestler1831 cuisinier1859 home economist1891 poisoner1905 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > [noun] > one who pot-wrestler1831 washer-up1907 washer-upper1961 1831 W. C. Bryant Let. 21 Nov. (1975) I. 308 I hope you will..marry a person..who, along with a proper degree of industry and economy, possesses a love of reading and a desire of knowledge. A mere pot-wrestler will not do for you. 1879 Bucks County (Pa.) Gaz. 26 June 1/4 A Cleveland lady..always refers to her kitchen girl as her ‘fille de cuisine’. Her son will insist on referring to the worthy domestic as our ‘pot rassler’. 1902 J. S. Farmer Slang Pot-walloper..2. (common). A scullion; a kitchen-maid; and (nautical) a cook, esp. on board a whaler: also pot-wrestler. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §460/15 Pot rassler or rastler, a dishwasher. 1947 N.Y. Jrnl. Amer. 18 Mar. 17/4 The off-center meatball has been endorsed by the chefs of the old world. No less a pot-wrassler than the King's own glorified the chuckwagon croquette as the ambrosia of the parked gulp. 1952 H. Ellson Golden Spike 83 He was nothing but a pot wrestler in a downtown restaurant. 1986 P. Matthiessen Men's Lives (1988) ii. ix. 121 There was..strong prejudice against Irish..‘pot-rasslers’. < as lemmas |
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