| 单词 | canny wife |
| 释义 | > as lemmascanny wife canny wife n. now historical and rare a midwife; cf. wise woman n. 2. [Compare French sage-femme , in the same sense (13th cent. in Old French), and earlier sage woman n. at sage adj. and n.2 Compounds 2.] ΚΠ 1751 W. Forbes Dominie Deposed (ed. 10) ii. 12 The canny Wives came there conveen'd, All in a Whirl. 1824 A. Crawford Tales of my Grandmother (1825) I. 180 Yonder's the canny wife's bield! 1939 Scotsman 16 June 16/6 The moment of birth used to be known in Scotland as the ‘canny moment’, and one of the many names of the midwife was the ‘canny-wife’. < as lemmas |
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