| 单词 | kitchen hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskitchen hand a. As a modifier, designating people who work in a kitchen, as in e.g. kitchen boy, kitchen girl, kitchen hand, kitchen staff, etc. See also kitchen maid n.Recorded earliest in kitchen clerk n. at Compounds 3c. ΚΠ ?c1430 (?1383) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 277 Many bischopis and religiouse and seculer lordis..halden hem in balies office, or stiwardis, or kechene clerkis. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. l. 990 He wolde..calle..A kichen boy..And hym comaundid to brynge hym his dyneer! 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) vii. v. sig. mv Torne ageyn bawdy kechyn page [a1470 Winch. kychyn knave]. 1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. lv The kechen page turninge the spitt. 1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. C2v He tooke me vp as if I had bin but a kitchin boye. 1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. ii. 67 They were so dusty, they looked out like Kitchin-servants, with their uncleanely Rags. 1700 W. King Transactioneer i. 8 Every Kitchen Girl about the Town knows Jamaica Pepper. 1826 J. Galt Last of Lairds i. 6 Jenny Clatterpans, the kitchen-lass,..answers to the summons. 1847 London Pioneer 1 Apr. 792/3 The other individuals of the kitchen-staff I can only mention from memory. 1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine viii. 49 There came to the house where she lived a gentleman and lady, who saw the ‘little kitchen girl’. 1861 J. W. Carlyle Let. 16 July in Lett. & Memorials (1883) III. 77 The Welsh housemaid, whom I have decided to make kitchen-woman. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career iii. 13 The dashing snake yarns told by our kitchen-folk at Bruggabrong. 1910 Granta 11 June 10 His door was sported, but on a covered dish left outside by a kitchen-man I observed three slices of cold beef. 1957 M. Spark Comforters ii. 33 The kitchen girls grumble about the work. 1960 Daily Mail 17 Nov. 11/3 (headline) Kitchen hand set hotel on fire. 2019 New Yorker 27 May 33/1 When we arrived, the kitchen staff were slicing baguettes. < as lemmas |
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