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Meaning of "scullery maid" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SCULLERY MAID

scullery maid  [ˈskʌlərɪ meɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCULLERY MAID

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preposition
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determiner
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Scullery maid is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SCULLERY MAID MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Scullery maid

In great houses, scullery maids were the lowest-ranked and often the youngest of the female servants and acted as assistant to a kitchen maid. The scullery maid reported to the cook or chef. Along with the junior kitchen-maid, the scullery maid did not eat at the communal servants' dining hall table, but in the kitchen in order to keep an eye on the food that was still cooking. Duties included the most physical and demanding tasks in the kitchen, such as cleaning and scouring the floor, stoves, sinks, pots and dishes. After scouring the plates in the scullery, she would leave them on racks to dry. The scullery maid also assisted in cleaning vegetables, plucking fowl, and scaling fish.

Definition of scullery maid in the English dictionary

The definition of scullery maid in the dictionary is a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SCULLERY MAID


barmaid
ˈbɑːˌmeɪd
bridemaid
ˈbraɪdˌmeɪd
bridesmaid
ˈbraɪdzˌmeɪd
chambermaid
ˈtʃeɪmbəˌmeɪd
dismayed
ˌdɪsˈmeɪd
handmade
ˌhændˈmeɪd
handmaid
ˈhændˌmeɪd
housemaid
ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd
machine-made
məˈʃiːnˌmeɪd
made
meɪd
maid
meɪd
mermaid
ˈmɜːˌmeɪd
milkmaid
ˈmɪlkˌmeɪd
nursemaid
ˈnɜːsˌmeɪd
parlourmaid
ˈpɑːləmeɪd
precision-made
prɪˈsɪʒənˌmeɪd
premade
priːˈmeɪd
remade
riːˈmeɪd
seamaid
ˈsiːˌmeɪd
unmade
ʌnˈmeɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SCULLERY MAID

sculduddery
sculduddry
sculduggery
sculk
sculker
scull
sculle
sculler
sculleries
scullery
Scullin
scullion
sculls
sculp
sculpin
sculpsit
sculpt
sculptor
Sculptoris
sculptress

WORDS THAT END LIKE SCULLERY MAID

afraid
aid
bondmaid
cookmaid
dairymaid
first aid
kitchenmaid
lady´s maid
laid
meter maid
nurserymaid
old maid
paid
pantrymaid
plaid
prepaid
raid
said
schoolmaid
unpaid

Synonyms and antonyms of scullery maid in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «scullery maid» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SCULLERY MAID

Find out the translation of scullery maid to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of scullery maid from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «scullery maid» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

洗碗女佣
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lavadero limpieza
570 millions of speakers

English

scullery maid
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बरतन माँजने की जगह नौकरानी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خادمة حجرة غسل الاطباق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

помещение для мытья посуды горничной
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

copa empregada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ক্যালারী দাসী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

arrière cuisine domestique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pembantu skullery
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Küchenmädchen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スカラリーメイド
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

scullery 메이드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Scullery maid
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rửa bát giúp việc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துளையிட்ட வேலைக்காரி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्कुलरी मोलकरीण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bulaşıkçı kadın
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sguattera
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pomieszczenie kuchenne pokojówka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

приміщення для миття посуду покоївки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spălător servitoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λαντζέρισσα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opwaskamer diensmeisie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

grovkök piga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

grovkjøkken hushjelp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of scullery maid

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SCULLERY MAID»

The term «scullery maid» is normally little used and occupies the 137.815 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SCULLERY MAID» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about scullery maid

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCULLERY MAID»

Discover the use of scullery maid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to scullery maid and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Aprons and Silver Spoons: The heartwarming memoirs of a ...
If you liked Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, it's time to discover the reality in Mollie Moran's Sunday Times bestselling memoir, Aprons and Silver Spoons. 'If you love Downton, this is right up your street!
Mollie Moran, 2013
2
The Diary of a Scullery Maid
Although the story opens and closes in present-day Spain, the real beginnings are set in the early 1900s when, in Africa, the well-equipped army of the British Empire was being humbled by a few Boer farmers whose only uniform was a slouch ...
Joe Rogers, 2004
3
Children Living in Victorian Britain
The butler or housekeeper was usually at the top of the pecking order and the scullery maid at the bottom. Where there was only one cook, usually female, she would take orders from or liaise with the housekeeper and be responsible for the  ...
Mary Green, 2003
4
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the ...
Jean Rennie scullery-maid, kitchen-maid and cook- housekeeper* Jean Rennie was horn in 1906 in Greenock, Scotland, in a 'single-end' tenement, the daughter of a Clydeside rivetter. At thirteen she passed the qualifying examination for ...
John Burnett, 1994
5
Domestic Work: Butler, Au Pair, Nanny, Valet, Governess, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, LLC Books, 2010
6
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
priest, to toy with a church which was the scullery- maid of christendom. Rude brutal anger routed the last lingering instant of ecstasy from his soul. It broke up violently her fair image and flung the fragments on all sides. On all sides distorted  ...
James Joyce, 2005
7
Hats: A History of Fashion in Headwear
Girls who went "into service" in Edwardian England wore caps suited to their rank in the domestic hierarchy, from the scullery maid to the personal maid serving the lady of the house. But the parlour maid, who was so essential to the formal ...
Hilda Amphlett, 2003
8
Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction
She is a scullery maid. As she scours dishes and mops stone floors, she imagines she is a princess floating through the upper corridors, gliding to the dais in the Duke's hall. The Cursed Duke. She is sorry for him. If he had been her father, she ...
Leonard Wolf, 1999
9
The Book of Household Management
These she puts into their appropriate dishes, whilst the scullery-maid waits on and assists the cook. Everything must be timed so as to prevent its getting cold, whilst great care should be taken, that, between the first and second courses, ...
Mrs. Beeton (Isabella Mary), 1861
10
The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of ...
In dealing with Arthur's roommates, for example, she learned, "One could not, apparently, be both a respected female savant and a scullery maid" (p. 190), and fearing that her "costume Gothics" made her intellectually unrespectable in Arthur's ...
Molly Hite, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCULLERY MAID»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term scullery maid is used in the context of the following news items.
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Give your wooden wares some loving care
Avid watchers of period dramas like Downton Abbey will inevitably see a young scullery maid scrubbing a vast kitchen table on which all food is prepared. Likely ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
2
Irish rhubarb variety is like the hard working scullery maid
... is beautiful, blushing and delicate like an English Rose, the Northern Irish variation is robust, green tinged and ruddy – more like a hard working scullery maid. «Farming Life, Mar 15»
3
'Downton Abbey' 5×8 Recap: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
The most delightful of these is Daisy, the scullery maid whose ongoing education has spurred a one-woman revolution of the mind. “I feel as if I've been down a ... «New York Observer, Feb 15»
4
I Survived a Terrible Green Card Interview to Tell You This
... I went into overdrive with the “Yes, sirs,” “Thank you, sirs,” and “No, sirs” and, to my horror, semi-curtseyed as though auditioning to be a scullery maid. «thebolditalic, Feb 15»
5
'Downton Abbey' 5×7 Recap: Dog Days
No, not the part where Daisy the scullery maid almost loses hope for the future of the working class as the first-ever Labour government fails. Nor the part where ... «New York Observer, Feb 15»
6
'Downton Abbey' 5×6 Recap: Cool to Be Kind
Downton's harried head cook says this to Daisy, the scullery maid who's become a voracious reader but was briefly too lost in herself to graciously accept her ... «New York Observer, Feb 15»
7
BAFTA Nominees Party: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo …
Rosanna Arquette said she “felt like Cinderella, like the scullery maid who came to the palace.” And Mark Ruffalo said, “The obvious thing to say is: It must cost a ... «Hollywood Reporter, Feb 15»
8
'Priscilla & Babe' tells the story of Gilded Age madams
After emancipation, she made her way north to St. Louis, where she found work as a scullery maid at the famed Lindell Hotel. When it burned down in March ... «STLtoday.com, Jan 15»
9
Shirley Hughes: 'learning to look at pictures is a skill' – video
Twelve-year-old Daisy wants to do well as a scullery maid, but finds the work so very hard. Shirley Hughes did loads of historical research into what children ... «The Guardian, Sep 14»
10
'Ladies of London'"To The Manner Born": Caroline, Caprice …
Caroline said Juliet Angus looked like a “scullery maid” and that she wanted “to give her a feather duster. Caroline told Juliet her dress was very My Fair Lady. «Bustle, Jul 14»

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