DAIRYMAID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dairymaid mean? 

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

1. a woman who works in a dairy

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAIRYMAID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who works in a dairy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dairymaid; milkmaid

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

farm worker; farmhand; field hand; fieldhand (a hired hand on a farm)

 Context examples 

I am sure I do not know how it was to have been done better, cried Mrs. Norris, unable to be longer deaf; unless I had gone myself, indeed; but I cannot be in two places at once; and I was talking to Mr. Green at that very time about your mother's dairymaid, by her desire, and had promised John Groom to write to Mrs. Jefferies about his son, and the poor fellow was waiting for me half an hour.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I shall get the dairymaid to set them under the first spare hen, and if they come to good I can have them moved to my own house and borrow a coop; and it will be a great delight to me in my lonely hours to attend to them.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)