BARMAID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barmaid mean? 

• BARMAID (noun)
  The noun BARMAID has 1 sense:

1. a female bartender

  Familiarity information: BARMAID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARMAID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A female bartender

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("barmaid" is a kind of...):

barkeep; barkeeper; barman; bartender; mixologist (an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar)

 Context examples 

It was with his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in Bristol, and his father did not know where he was.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It was but the gentleman which died here before yourself,” said Mrs. Crupp, “that fell in love—with a barmaid—and had his waistcoats took in directly, though much swelled by drinking.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Mrs. Crupp,” said I, “I must beg you not to connect the young lady in my case with a barmaid, or anything of that sort, if you please.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Good has come out of evil, however, for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This fellow is madly, insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a registry office?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)