Scullerymaid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Scullerymaid is a noun meaning Alternative form of scullery maid.
Meaning
Alternative form of scullery maid.
Example Sentences
A sculleryman may be employed at not less than £1; a scullerymaid may be employed at not less than 17s. 6d.
Kitchenmaid, pantrymaid, scullerymaid, cleaner, general hand and unspecified workers [“Male $”:] — [“Female $”:] 5.85
At the end of the train of women and agas rode Azim Bey and his attendants, obliged to follow even the negresses who acted as cooks and scullerymaids, a humiliation which sorely tasked the boy’s proud spirit.
From the wives of peers and the daughters of lord-lieutenants down to Dublin tradeswomen with a taste for rhyming, and even scullerymaids with no tastes at all, a whole hierarchy of female slaves bowed to his rule, and were admitted into higher and lower degrees of favour.
Word Forms
- scullerymaids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cockylorum, cullender, dish-cloth, swabbie, cailliach, drudgey.
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