| 单词 | kitchen stuff wench |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskitchen stuff wench a. Designating a woman who sells kitchen stuff, typically as tallow for candles (see sense 2a), as kitchen stuff wench, kitchen stuff wife. Frequently used to address or describe someone in a contemptuous or depreciative way. Now historical. ΚΠ 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G4v For you Chandler, I like not of your tricks; you are to conuersant with the kitchen stuffe wiues. 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. F2 All the way hee went, was more greazie than a kitchin-stuffe-wifes basket. 1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one iii. sig. E4 Thou kitchin-stuffe drab of Beggery, Roguery & cockscombre. 1645 M. Parker Figure of Fiue sig. B There be five greasie Companions: a Butcher, a Cooke, a tallow Chaundler, a sope boyler, and a Kitchin stuffe wench. 1672 T. Shadwell Miser i. 4 Has he taken account what Dripping has been sold this week to the Kitchen-stuff Women? 1742 ‘C. Johnson’ Gen. Hist. Lives Highwaymen 34/1 An Oyster-Wench suing a Kitchen Stuff-Woman, for calling her Draggle-tail. 1996 Huntington Libr. Q. 59 409 To warm her extremities (chilled by touching clammy grease in winter), the kitchen stuff buyer..shelters her hands beneath her apron. 2003 G. Mars & V. Mars in H. Walker Fat of Land 228 Some kitchen stuff women also worked as outside charwomen. < as lemmas |
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