| 单词 | tea-boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmastea-boy tea-boy n. (a) a man-servant; (b) a youth (occasionally a man) employed to serve tea to workers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > server of tea tea-boy1847 tea man1857 tea-girl1889 tea master1914 tea-lady1964 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > man or boy knightc950 knapec1000 shalkOE knaveOE sergeantc1200 swainc1275 groom1297 garcion13.. ladc1300 harlota1350 serving-mana1400 manservant1409 varlet1483 handman1496 custrelinga1556 Sim Shakebuckler?1560 lackey-boy1575 vadelect1586 muchacho1591 round robin1591 varlettoa1616 vadelet1661 gossoon1684 skip1699 mozo1811 Jack1836 tea-boy1847 John1848 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxvii. 234 Major O'Dowd..was..as obedient to his wife as if he had been her tay-boy. 1852 Ld. Granville Let. 19 Jan. in E. Fitzmaurice Life Ld. Granville (1905) I. iii. 68 The teaboys of our own and our neighbour's establishments. 1954 Atlantic Aug. 35/1 The auction porters ate their dinners off thick white plates brought over by a cross-eyed teaboy from a café down the road. 1963 Times 31 May 12/6 Brutus..said that because of the banning order he was no longer able to work as a teacher and had had to take a job as a ‘tea boy’ with a research worker at the University of the Witwatersrand, for which he got £10 a month. 1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 3/2 He certainly writes with all the flowing panache of a trainee teaboy. < as lemmas |
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