单词 | slavey |
释义 | slaveyn. colloquial. 1. A male servant or attendant. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1819 |
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