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单词 slavey
释义

slavey

See also: Slavey

English

Etymology

From slave + -y.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsleɪvi/
  • Rhymes: -eɪvi

Noun

slavey (plural slaveys or slavies)

  1. (colloquial, historical) A male servant.
  2. (colloquial, historical) A female domestic servant; a maid or maidservant.
    • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 81:
      I told a man on the links yesterday that I'd been a slavey for nine months. I was trying to explain why I was a suffragette []
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 82:
      "Doing? Not a Dam' thing. I mean, I was sitting on the bed lighting a cigarette. We'd just come upstairs. Everything was all right; old Peabody in Sydney and the slavey given a night off to go to the pictures."

Anagrams

  • Alveys, Laveys, Leavys, Leyvas
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