单词 | under-servant |
释义 | under-servantn. (under- prefix1 3a(a).) ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > subordinate under-servant1548 subservant1652 tag1857 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Subministrator, an vnder seruaunt. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iv. 132 One of the ordinary sort of men,..hauing beene..an vnder-seruant in the Queenes stable. 1679 H. Croft Short Narr. Discov. College of Jesuits 3 The remaining Dwellers in the House..were but Under-Servants. 1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 10 An under-servant in a gentleman's kitchen. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. iii. iii. 345 The steward..loves to see the under-servants creeping and crawling at his feet. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xlv. 314 I ken my place better nor be fore-spoken by ony oon'er-servan'. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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