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单词 slavey
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slaveyn.

Brit. /ˈsleɪvi/, U.S. /ˈsleɪvi/
Etymology: < slave n.1 + -y suffix6.
colloquial.
1. A male servant or attendant.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun]
thanea700
yeoman1345
squirec1380
foot followera1382
handservanta1382
servitora1382
ministera1384
servera1425
squire of (or for) the body (or household)1450
attender1461
waitera1483
awaiter1495
tender?a1505
waiting-man1518
satellite?1520
attendant1555
sitter-byc1555
pediseque1606
asseclist?1607
tendant1614
assecle1616
fewterera1625
escudero1631
peon1638
wait1652
under spur-leather1685
body servant1689
slavey1819
tindal1859
maid-attendant1896
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 206 Slavey, a servant of either sex.
1852 F. E. Smedley Lewis Arundel xii. 91 The slaveys [= waiters] will swallow that or anything else for Persian.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xi. 120 The slavey has Mr. Frederick's hot water, and a bottle of soda water on the same tray. He has been instructed [etc.].
1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xvii. 141 Harold Beecham kept a snivelling little Queensland black boy as a sort of black-your-boots, odd-jobs slavey or factotum.
1967 Atlanticy Apr. 103/2 All his years a loyal slavey he had worked his heart out for peanuts.
2. A female domestic servant, esp. one who is hard-worked; a maid of all work.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > maid or housemaid > maid-of-all-work
general servant1725
servant of all work1754
maid-of-all-work1801
slavey1821
universal maid1840
marchioness1883
skivvy1902
1821 P. Egan Life in London 174 ‘He is only fond of the Slaveys!’ (Note. A slang term for servant maids.)
1837 T. Hook Jack Brag I. i. 8 Four guineas per annum, and a tip to the slavey.
1893 H. Vizetelly Glances Back I. xiii. 249 A young lodging-house slavey..bade me follow her upstairs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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