milkmaid 擠奶女工（舊時；故事裡常見）｜字脈

1擠奶女工（舊時；故事裡常見）
A milkmaid was a woman whose job, on a farm, was to sit by the cow and take the milk by hand. The word belongs to the past. You meet it in old stories, paintings, and fairy tales, not on a modern farm, where machines do that work and the worker is just a dairy farmer or farm worker. It has a soft, country, storybook feel. Nobody puts milkmaid on a job today. It is always a woman; the old male counterpart in stories is not a milkmaid.

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組成milk + maid (a young woman, or a female servant).

milkthe first half — the thing she takes from the cow
maidthe second half — a young woman or female servant
milkmansame milk, but the person who delivers it, not the woman who takes it from the cow

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

milkmaidnoun/ˈmɪlkmeɪd/

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