amah
名词 n.
英 /ˈɑː.mə/
美 /ˈɑː.mə/
英文释义
名词 n.
- A woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
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A female domestic helper; a maid.
— Then one day he disappeared and when Luke called apprehensively at his apartment the old amah told him that ‘Whisky Papa runrun London fastee.’
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From Portuguese ama (“female nurse”), from Medieval Latin amma (“wet nurse, amma”), perhaps an alteration of Latin mamma, of imitative origin, or from Ancient Greek.
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