washerwoman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman who washes people's laundry.
    — ‘I wish it would rain,’ continued she; ‘only we are going to have a six-week’s wash to-morrow, and that’s a heavy job for the poor creatures. La! don’t you pity washerwomen in hot weather; it’s the hardest work that’s done.’
  2. A double drummer, large cicada of Australia, of species Thopha saccata. colloquial
  3. A weedy plant of the Americas (Alternanthera caracasana).

词形变化

washerwomen plural

词汇关系

衍生词
washerwomanly washerwoman's itch

词源

Etymology tree
English washer
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English woman
Middle English -woman
English -woman
English washerwoman
From washer + -woman.
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