单词 | waiting-man |
释义 | waiting-mann. A male servant who waits or attends upon his employer or on an official. Obsolete exc. U.S. 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 1518 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 155 Concernyng the waytyngmen, it is thought that the same fees cannot be mynysshid. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Waytyng man, assecla. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 518/2 Anteambulo,..a waiting man, or he that goeth before his maister and mistresse, or conducteth them. 1776 Pennsylvania Evening Post 15 Feb. 82/2 An active young man..wants employment. He has served in the capacities of a waitingman, gardener, and groom. 1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 752/1 The door of the bachelor's hall was assaulted by a repetition of raps, which quickened the steps of Mr. Singlesides' sedate waiting~man. 1884 G. W. Cable Dr. Sevier I. x. 73 The speaker ceased as the mulatto waiting-man appeared. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1518 |
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