kitchenmaid

«kitchenmaid» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: kitchen assistant — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

kitchen assistant

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A girl or woman who helps in the kitchen with rough work. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "kitchen assistant" or "kitchen helper". The word is old, and the sentences use it in the same sense as its old meaning.

examples

• ‘Little Nightingale,’ called out the little kitchenmaid, ‘our Gracious Emperor wants you to sing before him!’ (The Yellow Fairy Book) tree →
• ‘No; that is a cow mooing!’ said the little kitchenmaid. ‘We are still a long way off!’ (The Yellow Fairy Book) tree →
• ‘No, no; those are frogs!’ said the little kitchenmaid. ‘But I think we shall soon hear her now!’ (The Yellow Fairy Book) tree →

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 5 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «kitchenmaid» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.