abigail
英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
源自人名Abigail，17世纪初的剧作《The Scornful Lady》中一位女侍者的名字。
发音[编辑]
名词[编辑]
abigail (复数 abigails)
- (弃用) 女仆，侍女，丫头 （17世纪中期－19世纪）[1]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones，页号 415:
- It was therefore concluded that the Abigails should, by turns, relieve each other on one of his lordship’s horses, which was presently equipped with a side-saddle for that purpose.
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- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
- In the servants’ hall two coachmen and three gentlemen’s gentlemen stood or sat round the fire; the abigails, I suppose, were upstairs with their mistresses; the new servants, that had been hired from Millcote, were bustling about everywhere.
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参考资料[编辑]
- ↑ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abigail”, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th版, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, 页4
- “abigail”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
- “abigail”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- Template:R:Barrere
- Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues[1], 卷1, 页5–6