milkmaidn.

Brit.

/ˈmɪlkmeɪd/, U.S.

/ˈmɪlkˌmeɪd/

Forms: see milk n.¹ and maid n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: milk n.¹, maid n.¹

Etymology: < milk n.¹ + maid n.¹

1. A girl or woman who milks cows, etc., or is employed in a dairy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > dairy staff > dairymaid

deya1000

dey-wife1495

milkmaid1552

cream-pot1580

milkmadge1582

dey-woman1598

whowball1598

dairymaid1616

milk-girl1789

dey-girl1828

milkeress1839

gopi1880

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > dairy-farmer > milkmaid

deya1000

dey-wife1495

milkmaid1552

cream-pot1580

milkmadge1582

dey-woman1598

whowball1598

dairymaid1616

milk-girl1789

dey-girl1828

milkeress1839

gopi1880

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Mylker or mylke mayde.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2294/2 Elizabeth..hearyng..a certeine milkemayde singing pleasauntly, wished her self to be a milkemayde as she was.

1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 1186 Some, Sulli-bibs among the Milk-maids, making.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 16 In vain the Milk-maid tugs an empty Teat.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Milk Neither should the Milk-maid..affright the Cow or maze her.

1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xli. 21 Crown'd with her pail the tripping milkmaid sings.

1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. ii. 21 Barons' heirs would be marrying milkmaids.

1887 W. J. Wilkins Mod. Hinduism iv. iii. 233 Rāsa Jātra. This festival is held to commemorate the sports of Krishna with the milkmaids of Vrindāvana.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xcii. 480 I shan't be happy till you're as pink and white as a milkmaid.

1996 Spy (N.Y.) Holiday Issue 51/2 The villagers below get into fights about..whose farmhand sexed up whose milkmaid.

a. Any of several varieties of holly with variegated leaves. Also milkmaid holly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > holly bush > types of

French oak1597

free holly1610

gallberry1709

gall-bush1728

milkmaid1731

winterberry1752

mountain holly1805

mountain holly1818

toyon1847

Minorca holly1853

mountain holly1901

inkberry weed-

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Aquifolium Aquifolium; foliis oblongis, ex luteo & aureo elegantissimê variegato. Milk Maid Holly; vulgô.

1853 Naturalist 3 225 Ilex aquifolium albo-pictum, White-spotted-leaved Common Holly; known also by the name of Milkmaid.

1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) II. 1044/2 Ilex aquifolium..aurea picta latifolia, Golden Milkmaid.

1989 Gardener's Encycl. Plants & Flowers (Royal Hort. Soc.) 491/1 ‘Silver Milkmaid’..is a dense female shrub.

b. Usually in plural. Chiefly British and North American. A plant of the genus Cardamine with pale or white flowers; esp. lady's smock, C. pratensis, or (U.S.) either of the toothworts C. californica and C. integrifolia. Formerly also (British regional): †any of various other plants with pale or white flowers (see quot. 1886), esp. greater stitchwort, Stellaria holostea (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white flowers

sweet alyssum1790

milkmaid1876

snow-on-the-mountain1882

sweet Alice1886

1876 J. H. Ewing Jan of Windmill xviii The meadows where the milkmaids stand thick and pale.

1880 T. R. A. Briggs Flora of Plymouth 50 S[tellaria] Holostea L. Greater Stitchwort; ‘Milkmaids’.

1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 335 Milk Maid, or Milk Maids (1) Cardamine pratensis,..(2) Stellaria Holostea,..(3) Lotus corniculatus,..(4) The flowers of Convolvulus sepium,..(5) Primula vulgaris, L. var. (the ‘oxlip’).

1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 88 Myriads of daisies and ‘milkmaids’ powder it [sc. the grass] with snowy flakes.

1888 F. A. Lees Flora W. Yorks. 783 Stellaria media L. Its commonest vulgar name is Stitchwort, but Cuckow-wort, May-flower, and Milkmaid are also occasionally heard on..rustic lips within the Riding.

1897 M. E. Parsons Wild Flowers Calif. 4 Dentaria Californica... Various other names have been applied to these flowers, such as..‘milkmaids’.

1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants xxiv. 314 In the Oak-woods of Kent the Milkmaid often covers large areas.

1943 F. Thompson Candleford Green ix. 148 There were kingcups..and cowslips and pale purple milkmaids in the water-meadows.

1954 Point Lobos Wild Flowers (Calif. Div. Beaches & Parks) 29 Nearly all of the Milk-maids [sc. Dentaria californica]..are by the roadside at the Big Mound Meadow.

1990 N. Hill Death grows on You (1992) iv. 49 In late spring the hillside below would be full of meadowsweet, milkmaids, buttercups.

c. In plural. Australian. The plant Burchardia umbellata (family Liliaceae), which has umbels of fragrant white flowers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > of Australia

honey flower1799

rengarenga1835

tongue-flower1884

flannel-flower1895

kangaroo paw1902

milkmaids1930

mountain devil1949

1930 A. J. Ewart Flora of Victoria 287 B[urchardia] umbellata..Milkmaids..Flowers white, often tinged with red on the outside.

1941 C. Barrett Australia 29 Between post-and-rail fence and the water channel, is a wide untamed strip, where..milkmaids and Early Nancies grow.

1965 Austral. Encycl. II. 186 The name ‘milkmaids’ is popularly applied in allusion to the cluster of white flowers.

1994 N. G. Walsh & T. J. Entwhistle Flora of Victoria II. 684/1 Burchardia umbellata... Milkmaids.

Derivatives

ˈmilkmaid-like adj.

ΚΠ

c1860 C. Patmore in B. Champneys Mem. (1900) I. x. §5. 141 So splendid a beauty with so milkmaid-like an absence of pretension.

1999 OC Weekly (Nexis) 12 Nov. 118 Perhaps if she'd had a pillow on which to rest, or some kind of low, milkmaid-like stool, we would have felt different.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	milkmaid
释义	milkmaidn. Brit. /ˈmɪlkmeɪd/, U.S. /ˈmɪlkˌmeɪd/ Forms: see milk n.¹ and maid n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: milk n.¹, maid n.¹ Etymology: < milk n.¹ + maid n.¹ 1. A girl or woman who milks cows, etc., or is employed in a dairy. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > dairy staff > dairymaid deya1000 dey-wife1495 milkmaid1552 cream-pot1580 milkmadge1582 dey-woman1598 whowball1598 dairymaid1616 milk-girl1789 dey-girl1828 milkeress1839 gopi1880 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > dairy-farmer > milkmaid deya1000 dey-wife1495 milkmaid1552 cream-pot1580 milkmadge1582 dey-woman1598 whowball1598 dairymaid1616 milk-girl1789 dey-girl1828 milkeress1839 gopi1880 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Mylker or mylke mayde. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2294/2 Elizabeth..hearyng..a certeine milkemayde singing pleasauntly, wished her self to be a milkemayde as she was. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 1186 Some, Sulli-bibs among the Milk-maids, making. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 16 In vain the Milk-maid tugs an empty Teat. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Milk Neither should the Milk-maid..affright the Cow or maze her. 1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xli. 21 Crown'd with her pail the tripping milkmaid sings. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. ii. 21 Barons' heirs would be marrying milkmaids. 1887 W. J. Wilkins Mod. Hinduism iv. iii. 233 Rāsa Jātra. This festival is held to commemorate the sports of Krishna with the milkmaids of Vrindāvana. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xcii. 480 I shan't be happy till you're as pink and white as a milkmaid. 1996 Spy (N.Y.) Holiday Issue 51/2 The villagers below get into fights about..whose farmhand sexed up whose milkmaid. 2. a. Any of several varieties of holly with variegated leaves. Also milkmaid holly. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > holly bush > types of French oak1597 free holly1610 gallberry1709 gall-bush1728 milkmaid1731 winterberry1752 mountain holly1805 mountain holly1818 toyon1847 Minorca holly1853 mountain holly1901 inkberry weed- 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Aquifolium Aquifolium; foliis oblongis, ex luteo & aureo elegantissimê variegato. Milk Maid Holly; vulgô. 1853 Naturalist 3 225 Ilex aquifolium albo-pictum, White-spotted-leaved Common Holly; known also by the name of Milkmaid. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) II. 1044/2 Ilex aquifolium..aurea picta latifolia, Golden Milkmaid. 1989 Gardener's Encycl. Plants & Flowers (Royal Hort. Soc.) 491/1 ‘Silver Milkmaid’..is a dense female shrub. b. Usually in plural. Chiefly British and North American. A plant of the genus Cardamine with pale or white flowers; esp. lady's smock, C. pratensis, or (U.S.) either of the toothworts C. californica and C. integrifolia. Formerly also (British regional): †any of various other plants with pale or white flowers (see quot. 1886), esp. greater stitchwort, Stellaria holostea (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white flowers sweet alyssum1790 milkmaid1876 snow-on-the-mountain1882 sweet Alice1886 1876 J. H. Ewing Jan of Windmill xviii The meadows where the milkmaids stand thick and pale. 1880 T. R. A. Briggs Flora of Plymouth 50 S[tellaria] Holostea L. Greater Stitchwort; ‘Milkmaids’. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 335 Milk Maid, or Milk Maids (1) Cardamine pratensis,..(2) Stellaria Holostea,..(3) Lotus corniculatus,..(4) The flowers of Convolvulus sepium,..(5) Primula vulgaris, L. var. (the ‘oxlip’). 1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 88 Myriads of daisies and ‘milkmaids’ powder it [sc. the grass] with snowy flakes. 1888 F. A. Lees Flora W. Yorks. 783 Stellaria media L. Its commonest vulgar name is Stitchwort, but Cuckow-wort, May-flower, and Milkmaid are also occasionally heard on..rustic lips within the Riding. 1897 M. E. Parsons Wild Flowers Calif. 4 Dentaria Californica... Various other names have been applied to these flowers, such as..‘milkmaids’. 1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants xxiv. 314 In the Oak-woods of Kent the Milkmaid often covers large areas. 1943 F. Thompson Candleford Green ix. 148 There were kingcups..and cowslips and pale purple milkmaids in the water-meadows. 1954 Point Lobos Wild Flowers (Calif. Div. Beaches & Parks) 29 Nearly all of the Milk-maids [sc. Dentaria californica]..are by the roadside at the Big Mound Meadow. 1990 N. Hill Death grows on You (1992) iv. 49 In late spring the hillside below would be full of meadowsweet, milkmaids, buttercups. c. In plural. Australian. The plant Burchardia umbellata (family Liliaceae), which has umbels of fragrant white flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > of Australia honey flower1799 rengarenga1835 tongue-flower1884 flannel-flower1895 kangaroo paw1902 milkmaids1930 mountain devil1949 1930 A. J. Ewart Flora of Victoria 287 B[urchardia] umbellata..Milkmaids..Flowers white, often tinged with red on the outside. 1941 C. Barrett Australia 29 Between post-and-rail fence and the water channel, is a wide untamed strip, where..milkmaids and Early Nancies grow. 1965 Austral. Encycl. II. 186 The name ‘milkmaids’ is popularly applied in allusion to the cluster of white flowers. 1994 N. G. Walsh & T. J. Entwhistle Flora of Victoria II. 684/1 Burchardia umbellata... Milkmaids. Derivatives ˈmilkmaid-like adj. ΚΠ c1860 C. Patmore in B. Champneys Mem. (1900) I. x. §5. 141 So splendid a beauty with so milkmaid-like an absence of pretension. 1999 OC Weekly (Nexis) 12 Nov. 118 Perhaps if she'd had a pillow on which to rest, or some kind of low, milkmaid-like stool, we would have felt different. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1552
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