abigail
英語
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]源自人名Abigail，17世紀初的劇作《The Scornful Lady》中一位女侍者的名字。
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[编辑]名詞
[编辑]abigail (複數 abigails)
- (棄用) 女僕，侍女，丫頭 （17世紀中期－19世紀）[1]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones，第 415 頁:
- 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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參考資料
[编辑]- ↑ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002年)，“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，第 4 頁
- “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年，OCLC 800618302
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- Farmer, John Stephen (1890年) Slang and Its Analogues[1]，第 1 卷，第 5–6 頁