| 释义 |
workwoman|ˈwɜːkˌwʊmən|
[f. work n., after workman.]
A woman who works; a female worker or operative; † a woman who does needlework.
1530Palsgr. 290/1 Workewoman, ouueriere. 1581A. Hall Iliad vi. 119 That they good workewomen may bin. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xiii. iv. 291 Wherein..nature sheweth hir selfe a proper workwoman. 1591Spenser Muiopotmos 260 The most fine-fingred workwoman on ground. 1626T. H[awkins] Caussin's Holy Crt. 5 Vertue is a merueylous worke-woman, who can make Mercury of any wood. 1675Hobbes Odyssey (1677) 188 One of these merchants sooth'd her into sin: For good work-women may be made do that. 1755Johnson, Workwoman..2. A woman that works for hire. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 180/1 While the work-woman produces a kind of chain-work on the surface of the muslin. 1865Esquiros Cornwall 74 The work⁓women of the mines. 1882Besant All Sorts xxxix. (1898) 263 To live here as a workwoman among other workwomen.
Hence ˈworkˌwomanlike a. or adv., -ˌwomanly a.
1641C. van Pas Les abus du Mariage Pl. 4, I now am Mistris of my crafte, and can Worke-womanlike deale in it. 1894Westm. Gaz. 14 Nov. 6/2 The silver spade, to which she put her foot in true workwomanly fashion. |