英语词汇“the memsahib”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

In South Asia (esp. India): a married European or upper-class woman; often used as a respectful form of address (as the memsahib, or vocatively) by non-Europeans. Now also in allusive use, chiefly (historical) with reference to expatriate life or manners, as in British India. Abbreviated mem.

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1832 B. B. Edwards Missionary Gazetteer 92/2 The natives greatly admire the arts of sewing and marking, and mention, in a tone of exultation, that such a girl can do like mem sahib, (an English lady).

1857 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 204/2 Some of them, hailed by old Buxsoo, the bearer, came alongside with, as he said, fish for the ‘Mem Sahib’, his mistress.

1857 Househ. Words 19 Dec. 16/1 An Affghan..inquired if the Sahib or Mem-sahib was in want of any of these commodities.

1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Aug. 11/1 As to the poor boxwallah, the memsahib is a good deal to blame.

1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House III. xxxii. 205 She..heard that ‘it was but a few steps, and the Mem Sahib was waiting’.

1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson Mem-Sahib. This singular example of a hybrid term is the usual respectful designation of a European married lady in the Bengal Presidency; the first portion representing ma'am. Madam Sahib is used at Bombay.

1888 R. Kipling Gate of Hundred Sorrows in Plain Tales from Hills 236 There is only..the half-caste woman that we call the Mem Sahib... The Mem Sahib looks very old now.

1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days xxv. 371 The position for which Nature had designed her from the first, that of a burra memsahib.

1936 M. R. Anand Coolie v. 316 ‘Memsahib, what will huzoor desire for dinner,’ said Ala Dad.

1971 Femina (Bombay) 30 Apr. 23/1 The shopkeeper is all smiles at having produced something exactly that the mem-sahib wanted.

1998 Y.-M. Ooi Flame Tree (1999) ii. 26 They stared at her where she stood in the shade of the verandah—like the memsahib his mother used to be.

单词	the memsahib
释义	> as lemmas the memsahib In South Asia (esp. India): a married European or upper-class woman; often used as a respectful form of address (as the memsahib, or vocatively) by non-Europeans. Now also in allusive use, chiefly (historical) with reference to expatriate life or manners, as in British India. Abbreviated mem. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > white woman squaw1642 memsahib1832 inkosikazi1835 pink toe1930 gringa1956 1832 B. B. Edwards Missionary Gazetteer 92/2 The natives greatly admire the arts of sewing and marking, and mention, in a tone of exultation, that such a girl can do like mem sahib, (an English lady). 1857 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 204/2 Some of them, hailed by old Buxsoo, the bearer, came alongside with, as he said, fish for the ‘Mem Sahib’, his mistress. 1857 Househ. Words 19 Dec. 16/1 An Affghan..inquired if the Sahib or Mem-sahib was in want of any of these commodities. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Aug. 11/1 As to the poor boxwallah, the memsahib is a good deal to blame. 1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House III. xxxii. 205 She..heard that ‘it was but a few steps, and the Mem Sahib was waiting’. 1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson Mem-Sahib. This singular example of a hybrid term is the usual respectful designation of a European married lady in the Bengal Presidency; the first portion representing ma'am. Madam Sahib is used at Bombay. 1888 R. Kipling Gate of Hundred Sorrows in Plain Tales from Hills 236 There is only..the half-caste woman that we call the Mem Sahib... The Mem Sahib looks very old now. 1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days xxv. 371 The position for which Nature had designed her from the first, that of a burra memsahib. 1936 M. R. Anand Coolie v. 316 ‘Memsahib, what will huzoor desire for dinner,’ said Ala Dad. 1971 Femina (Bombay) 30 Apr. 23/1 The shopkeeper is all smiles at having produced something exactly that the mem-sahib wanted. 1998 Y.-M. Ooi Flame Tree (1999) ii. 26 They stared at her where she stood in the shade of the verandah—like the memsahib his mother used to be. extracted from memsahibn. < as lemmas
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