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单词 barmaid
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barmaidn.

Brit. /ˈbɑːmeɪd/, U.S. /ˈbɑrˌmeɪd/
Etymology: < bar n.1 28 + maid n.1
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 lemmas

bar-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.
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