| 单词 | granny woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgranny woman 2. Chiefly U.S. regional and Newfoundland. A midwife (in later use, one without formal training who serves a rural community). Also in appositive use, as granny woman, granny midwife. Cf. granny v. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > one skilled in obstetrics or midwifery > [noun] midwifec1300 childwifea1387 midwomana1400 Lucinac1405 matron?a1425 grace-wifec1600 Mother Midnight1602 headswoman1615 handwoman1637 sage woman1672 howdie1725 accoucheur1727 granny1738 obstetrix1773 accoucheuse1795 dukun1817 fingersmith1819 wise woman1821 obstetrician1826 obstetrist1873 tocologist1902 birth attendant1910 S.C.M.1935 monitrice1969 1738 T. Lediard German Spy xxx. 286 People of Fashion are, however, generally so cautious, to have their Milk, as well as their Persons, examin'd by a Physician, or, at least, by the Granny of the Family. 1775 G. Washington Cash Accts. 18 Mar. in Papers (1995) Colonial Ser. X. 279 Contra... By my Mother of the Granny at her Quarters 0.10.0. 1794 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1892) XIII. 18 An application was made to me by Kate at Muddy hole..to serve the negro women (as a Grany) on my estate. 1857 New Orleans Med. News & Hosp. Gaz. 3 329 The worse than inefficiency of the ‘midwife’, or, in common parlance, the ‘granny’. 1888 A. C. Waghorne Wild Berries Newfoundland & Labrador 10 They [sc. juniper berries] are much in request by our ‘grannies’ for their ‘sick’ women. 1933 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 46 5 Some of the old granny-women still administer gunpowder and water to women in labor. 1964 R. D. Abrahams Deep down in Jungle i. i. 24 The Negro grandmother's importance is due to..her position as ‘granny’ or midwife among a simple peasant folk. 1981 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. lxviii. 64 The following words were used by older informants [in Carbonear, Newfoundland] only:..granny (midwife). 1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 8 Nov. 3/3 The various arrangements for midwifery..the traditional black ‘grannies’ of the American South. 1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind x. 273 Within polite circles first in England and then in North America, the traditional ‘granny midwife’ was now widely displaced by a male operator. < as lemmas |
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