| 单词 | mother midnight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMother Midnight Mother Midnight n. slang (now historical) (a name for) a midwife; (also, occasionally) a bawd. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > one skilled in obstetrics or midwifery > [noun] midwifec1300 childwifea1387 midwomana1400 Lucinac1405 matron?a1425 grace-wifec1600 Mother Midnight1602 headswoman1615 handwoman1637 sage woman1672 howdie1725 accoucheur1727 granny1738 obstetrix1773 accoucheuse1795 dukun1817 fingersmith1819 wise woman1821 obstetrician1826 obstetrist1873 tocologist1902 birth attendant1910 S.C.M.1935 monitrice1969 1602 F. Herring tr. J. Oberndorf Anatomyes True Physition 11 One while hee playeth the Apothecarie, other whiles serueth in stead of Mother Midnight. 1636 W. Sampson Vow Breaker sig. H2 Well drunck Mother mid-night. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Mother Midnight, a Midwife (often a Bawd). 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 196 I really did not understand her, but my Mother Midnight began very seriously to explain what she meant. 1752 W. Kenrick Parodi-tragi-comical Satire i. 5 Here a poor Birth-strangled Babe, Ditch-deliver'd by a Drab; Child of Poverty and Spleen, Mother Midnight's Magazine. 1786 ‘A. Pasquin’ Royal Academicians 14 Mother Midnight, have you washed the large table-cloth? 1988 18th-cent. Stud. 22 265 A fully realized Mother Midnight, this bawd..personifies the fate that attends the reproductive body. < as lemmas |
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