| 单词 | potato-woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato-woman potato-woman n. a woman employed in gathering potatoes in the field, or in selling potatoes. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things soaper?c1225 oilman1275 smear-monger1297 upholder1333 basket-seller?1518 broom-seller?1518 upholster1554 rod-woman1602 starchwoman1604 pin manc1680 colour seller1685 potato-woman1697 printseller1700 rag-seller1700 Greenwich barber1785 sandboy1821 iceman1834 umbrella man1851 fly-boy1861 snuff-boxera1871 pedlar1872 snake-boy1873 bric-a-brac man1876 tinwoman1884 resurrectionist1888 butch1891 paanwallah1955 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > picker or gatherer gathererc1384 picker1611 puller1653 potato-woman1697 food-gatherer1865 ingatherer1878 1697 T. D'Urfey Intrigues at Versailles iv. i 41 Gadzooks I like her better than my former Punck the Potato-woman, a thousand times. 1770 in B. Franklin Life (1874) 56 We hear that the lady chamberlain of the household went to market this morning,..and had no dispute with the potato woman. 1844 F. O. Ward in Hood's Mag. Oct. 402 When she had disappeared in the crowd I inquired her history of an old potato-woman. 1899 W. C. Morrow Bohemian Paris 30 The fruit- and potato-women came after, and then the chair-menders. 1961 V. W. Von Hagen Incas 75 The potato woman gave the buyer two small potatoes in addition. This was the yapa; after a trade or sale, the seller gave something extra. 2010 Y. S. Lee Body at Tower 188 Cheapest of all were the street vendors, like Mary's potato woman, with her tumbledown stall and hoarse cry of ‘'Ot-pitaaaaaaytoes, nice 'n' 'ot!’ < as lemmas |
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