单词 | cook woman |
释义 | > as lemmascook woman b. As a modifier, designating a person employed in cooking, or as an assistant to a cook, as in cook boy, cook man, cook woman. See also cook wench n., cookmaid n. ΚΠ a1569 A. Kingsmill Godly Aduise touching Mariage in Viewe Mans Estate (1574) sig. I.ijv The fine cooke men dight the rude morsell with some conceyte of their cunning, but I haue no other Sugar to grace my dishe withall. 1571 in Bannatyne Misc. (1855) III. 121 I was careit to the Bischope of Ely's howse in Holburne; quhair I remanit, and two serwandis … , with my cooke boy. 1664 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1840) II. 511 To Williame Scharpis stewart his cooklass, Alexander Miller at my Lordis directione [five pounds eleven shillings]. 1682 G. Hartman True Preserver & Restorer of Health xiii. 153 Sir Kenelm Digby's Cook-woman..once surfeited her self, by eating of those..dangerous fish called Mussels. 1796 Before Lords Commissioners of Appeals Prize Causes: The Lion, App. Appellant's Case 6 The Crew of the said Brig consisted of the..Master., Four Seamen, and a Black Boy, Cook Slave to the said Master, and also the Second Mate. 1800 Narr. Sketches Conquest of Mysore 24 There is allowed to each regiment, an establishment of one hundred and sixty boys..; they are the sons of deserving officers and Sepoys, or the cook lads and others attached to the Europeans. 1876 L. Coffin Reminiscences ix. 304 I did not know whether she was a cook girl, chambermaid, nurse girl or field hand. 1915 R. Humphreys Trav. East of Suez 195 It was the cook wallah who came up and announced dinner would be ready in a few minutes. 2008 Dominion Post (New Zealand) (Nexis) 24 Jan. 7 Pasang..worked as a cook-boy on many of Sir Ed's expeditions, making porridge and doing dishes. < as lemmas |
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