单词 | butcheress |
释义 | butcheressn.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). < n.a1475 |
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