| 单词 | butter wife |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter wife butter wife n. now historical a woman who makes or sells butter; cf. butter-woman n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > churning butter > butter-maker butterman1296 butter wife?1542 butter-woman1612 churner1888 butter maker2016 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of butter > woman butter wife?1542 butter-woman1612 ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors vi. sig. B8 Not so moch as the poore butter wife, but she is spoyled. 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 275 To scould like butter-wives. 1891 J. M. Barrie Little Minister (1900) v. 38 The stones on which the butter wives sat have disappeared, and with them the clay walls and the outside stairs. 2014 W. T. Vollmann Last Stories 405 Butterwives who'd sold their fat sweet cows for next to nothing. < as lemmas |
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