单词 | farmerette |
释义 | farmerette in British English (ˌfɑːmərˈɛt) noun US dialect a woman or girl who works on a farm farmerette in American English (ˌfɑːrməˈret) noun old-fashioned a girl or woman working on a farm Word origin [1915–20, Amer.; farmer + -ette]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: conditioning, decoder, neorealism, soviet, supernationalism-ette is a noun suffix occurring originally in loanwords from French, where it has beenused in a variety of diminutive and hypocoristic formations (brunette; cigarette; coquette; etiquette; rosette). As an English suffix, -ette forms diminutives (kitchenette; novelette; sermonette), distinctively feminine nouns (majorette; usherette), and names of imitation products (leatherette) |
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