单词 | barmaid |
释义 | barmaidn. A female who sells food and drink at the bar of a tavern or hotel. Also attributive and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > tapster or barmaid tapsterc1000 drawer1379 wine-drawer1415 birlerc1440 shenkerc1440 trayer1473 tranter1500 skinker1575 lick-spigot1599 shot-shark1600 runner1601 skink1603 Hebe1606 Ganymede1608 squire of the gimlet1611 skinkard1615 bombard-man1616 bar-boy1631 faucet1631 tapstress1631 potman1652 barmaida1658 pot-boyc1662 tavern-drawer1709 tavern-boy1796 pot-girl1797 tap-boy1801 knight of the spigot1821 pewter-carrier1834 bartender1836 tap-waiter1836 barman1837 beer-boy1841 mixologist1856 bar-girl1857 mixer1858 gin slinger1871 swamper1907 tap-man1907 pot-woman1918 bar-staff1965 bar-person1976 a1658 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659) 83 No wonder if a Drawer Verses Rack,..Whilst the Fair Bar-maid stroaks the Muses teat, For milk to make the Posset up compleat. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer Epil. Th' unblushing Bar-maid of a country inn. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 11 The bar-maid had positively refused to draw him any more liquor. 1880 Lady Jebb Let. 3 June (1960) 159 She is lovelier than ever, in an exquisite highbred way, which throws such a barmaid beauty as Mrs. Fred. Myers completely in the shade. 1911 J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 24 And then men ask, Are Barmaids chaste? Derivatives barmaidenly adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [adjective] > barmaid barmaidenly1881 1881 Daily News 8 June 5 Bar-maidenly in their conception of polished badinage. 1905 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 11 Feb. 170/2 The merry lady with her barmaidenly repartees. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Oct. 776/4 She was what some one once styled a ‘barmaidenly maiden’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmasbar-maid a. A female servant or attendant; a maidservant; often with defining word prefixed as bar-maid, chamber-maid, farm-maid, house-maid, nurse-maid, servant-maid, etc.; lady's maid (see lady's maid n.). Cf. maiden n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > woman or girl maidenOE schelchenec1000 womanOE maidc1300 ancillec1366 wench1380 child-womana1382 maidservanta1382 serving-womana1398 servantessa1425 servant maid?a1450 woman servant1450 servitrice1477 administress1483 ministressa1500 serving maid?1529 maiden-servant1533 servitrix1566 miskin-fro1585 servant girl1658 girl1668 necessary womanc1689 scout1708 servitress1827 ancilla1871 c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) 492 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 476 Heo haueȝ i-beon min hou[s]wif, mi mayde, and mi norice. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 2573 Sche..goth to chambre and hath compleigned Unto a Maide which sche triste. 1461 in F. B. Bickley Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 127 No person..sett..his seid wyfe, daughter, or maide to no suche occupacion of weuyng. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 59/1 Yt it was not princely to mary hys owne subiect,..onely as it were a rich man that would mary his mayde. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (rev. ed.) f. 6 Thy nychtbouris wyfe..Thow couet not, to the..his oxe, his maide nor page. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1658 (1955) III. 208 He [sc. a child] would..select the most pathetical Psalmes,..to reade to his Mayde, during his sicknesse. 1698 H. Wanley in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 258 The maid told me that Dr. Smith had been there since I went. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. xii. 466 You must dismiss your maid, lady. 1835 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 491 We kept no maid:—and I had much to do. 1860 Queen Victoria Jrnl. (1868) 138 The two maids had driven over by another road in the waggonette. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 39 My maid must run up something for you to wear by to-morrow. 1927 Travel Nov. 48/1 (advt.) Steward, maid, waiters, porters and barber, attending your needs. 1960 S. Unwin Truth about Publisher i. i. 20 To wait on ourselves at supper..to give the maids a Sunday evening's rest. 1991 San Francisco Chron. 26 July b5/4 She not only left her husband..but she left her cook, and her chauffeur and her maid. < n.a1658 as lemmas |
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