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单词 butcheress
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butcheressn.

Brit. /bʊtʃəˈrɛs/, /ˈbʊtʃərᵻs/, U.S. /ˈbʊtʃərəs/
Forms: see butcher n. and -ess suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: butcher n., -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < butcher n. + -ess suffix1.
1. A woman who procures prostitutes or illicit sexual partners for others. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > procuress
butcheressa1475
stew1552
bawdress1569
brokeress1582
pander1585
abbess1594
aunt1604
panderess1604
hackney womanc1616
bronstrops1617
procuress1638
provincialc1640
fruit-woman1673
flesh-broker1699
broker-woman1723
commode1725
coupleress1864
hack1864
procureuse1930
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 13494 (MED) Thow mayst me calle a bocheresse Or a bawde..That selleth fflessh by bauderye.
2. A female butcher; (occasionally also) a butcher's wife or daughter.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > butchery > butcher
fleshmongerc1000
butchera1325
flesh-hewer1335
flesher1369
macegreffa1450
butcher man1481
kill-crow1593
pennyman1610
bovicide1678
pork butcher1763
carcass-butcher1773
butcheress1802
ox-feller1856
butchy1867
legger1876
charcutier1894
eviscerator1961
kill-cow-
1802 R. R. Livingston Let. 24 Nov. in Trans. Soc. Promotion of Useful Arts (1807) 8 Butchers, or rather butcheresses,..their husbands after having killed the cattle assigning to them the care of disposing of it, being in a different quarter from the rest of the market.
1833 Fraser's Mag. 7 500 Why need these fair butcheresses torment themselves? More than one butcher's daughter is to be found in the aristocratic leaves of the peerage.
1885 E. J. Worboise Esther Wynne viii. 83 If I were on the top of an omnibus I should not be afraid of being taken for a butcher's wife... You had better stay at home, Joanna, yourself, and so avoid the insult of being set down as a butcheress.
1920 R. Hughes Momma x. 261 Her frock was as simple and fashionable a garment as would be expected of a butcheress.
1950 Prairie Schooner 24 200 He made certain foolish advances toward a butcheress named Ursula, who was in his employ.
2012 Progress Leader (Austral.) (Nexis) 14 Feb. 7 Newly crowned sausage king, Paddy Maginn is in need of a sausage queen and hopes to meet any potential ‘butcheresses’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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