| 单词 | sairey gamp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSairey Gamp 1. A woman resembling Mrs. Gamp; spec. an unqualified or amateur nurse of a kind formerly engaged to visit the sick or to attend mothers after childbirth, or a type of comic, grotesque, or drunken nurse. Also more fully Sairey Gamp, Sarah Gamp. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > other types man-nurse1530 probationer nurse1584 parish nurse1716 day nurse1759 school nurse1836 Gamp1846 hospital nurse1848 pupil nurse1861 male nurse1874 district nurse1883 relief nurse1884 casualty nurse1885 bayman1888 maid nurse1895 charge-nurse1896 ward nurse1899 health visitor1901 practice nurse1912 community nurse1922 scrub nurse1927 theatre nurse1934 para-nurse1942 nurse practitioner1967 rehab nurse1977 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [noun] > woman cotquean1593 rouncival1596 city wire1616 rouncy1647 Gamp1846 1846 Bentley's Misc. 19 515 Those magging crones who always assemble on the occasions of a mortal coming into the world, or going out of it—amateur Mrs. Gamps, if we may be permitted to term them so. 1848 T. H. Yeoman Consumption of Lungs 71 Dear old grandmammas and pertinacious Sarah Gamps adhere too closely to the unhealthy custom of their childhood. 1856 F. Nightingale Let. 22 Apr. in Lett. from Crimea (1997) 259 I could give instances of a composition of Extras which a trusty old Nurse (not a ‘Gamp’) would not incur the risk of administering. 1885 Med. Age 25 Aug. 368/2 The nurse's propensity to give it sugar-and-butter, brandy-and-water, and the other mixtures for which the Sairey Gamps have a weakness. 1907 Trained Nurse & Hosp. Rev. Dec. 359/1 There were left in a two-room shack a woman with a temperature of 103 degrees and a ten-day-old baby,..by a ‘Gamp’, who evidently did not believe in the cleansing properties of water. 1983 Hist. Workshop No. 16. 35 Replacing drunken Sarah Gamps with a more respectable class of women who could be trusted to cook, clean and attend to the patients' physical requirements. 1996 A. M. Rafferty Politics Nursing Knowl. i. 21 The new hospital-trained nurse's reliability, sobriety, skill, diligence, discipline and efficiency contrasted with the Gamps she supplanted. < as lemmas |
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