单词 | maiden-child |
释义 | maiden-childn. Now chiefly archaic and poetic. A female child. Cf. maid-child n. (archaic in 19th-cent. use.) ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] maiden-childeOE maidenOE maidc1275 maid-childc1275 wenchc1290 thernec1300 lassc1325 maidenkinc1330 child-womana1382 girlc1400 pucelle1439 maidkin1440 mawther1440 mop1466 woman-child?1515 bonnea1529 urchina1535 kinchin-mort1567 dandiprat1582 prill1587 sluta1592 little girl1603 maggie1603 tendril1603 squall1607 childa1616 filly1616 vriester1652 miss1668 gilpie1720 lassie1725 laddess1768 jeune fillea1777 bitch1785 girly?1786 gal1795 ladyling1807 missikin1815 colleen1828 girleen1833 snowdrop1833 pinafore1836 chica1843 fillette1847 charity-girl1848 urchiness1852 Mädchen1854 gel1857 pusill1884 backfisch1888 girly-girly1888 cliner1895 tittie1918 weeny1929 bobby-soxer1944 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. x. 29 Eft þonne þa wif heora bearn cendon, þonne feddon hie þa mædencild. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7897 & maȝȝdenn child bitacneþþ uss Wac mahht i gode dedess. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2574 Ðe knapes to deade giuen, And leten ðe mayden childre liuen. a1500 (?c1450) Bone Florence (1976) 31 A feyre lady he had to wyfe, That..dyed of a maydyn chylde. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1644/1 Leauyng but one mayden childe and Princes[s]. 1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. ix. 42 There was a Maiden childe, of the age of two yeares. 1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) i. 31 Do not..the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society? 1887 A. C. Swinburne Locrine i. ii. 43 There hath she Borne him a maiden child more sweet than spring. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. V. xx. 249 Like snowdrop pale, (the innocent oppressed!) Their maiden child, she leads on by the hand. a1931 E. Tregear Forest Palace in Verse (1989) 28 'Neath the Steady cloud Of Summer leafage was a maiden child. 1988 Eighteenth-century Stud. 21 346 Consider..Mrs. Peachum's..discussion of her daughter's..social condition..: this mother's evaluation of her maiden child her..representation makes pretty clear. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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