单词 | telephone girl |
释义 | > as lemmastelephone girl telephone girl n. now historical a girl or woman employed at a switchboard to connect telephone calls; a female telephone operator; cf. hello girl n. at hello int. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > operator telephone operator1877 telephonist1879 telephone girl1881 hello girl1883 switch-clerk1889 teleoperator1945 trunk1947 operator1972 1881 Daily Herald (Columbus, Indiana) 8 Aug. 3/3 Should the telephone girl wear ‘yaller’ shoes in summer? 1935 G. Greene in Spectator 9 Aug. 222/2 With the help of a telephone girl,..he sets out to solve the mystery. 2014 V. Mayer in C. Carter et al. Routledge Compan. to Media & Gender iv. 54 The social construction of the ‘telephone girl’ was born. < as lemmas |
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