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单词 meidjie
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meidjien.

Brit. /ˈmeɪki/, /ˈmeɪtʃi/, U.S. /ˈmeɪki/, /ˈmeɪtʃi/, South African English /ˈmeɪki/
Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans meidjie.
Etymology: < Afrikaans meidjie < meid (see meid n.) + -jie, form used after d or t of -ie, diminutive suffix.
South African.
= meid n.
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1960 M. Muller Art Past & Present 121 His sensitivity..is seen in his carving of a Coloured girl, Meidjie.]
1975 S. Roberts Outside Life's Feast 85 Sometimes you feel sorry like the time we kruisvra a meidjie I was convince she was innocen't she was maybe eighteen an' very light skin.
1987 L. Nkosi Mating Birds 80 The meidjie says she was as naked as the day she was born.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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