dairymaid

[ dair-ee-meyd ]

noun

1. a girl or woman employed in a dairy.

dairymaid

/ ˈdɛərɪˌmeɪd /

noun

1. (esp formerly) a girl or woman who works in a dairy, esp one who milks cows and makes butter and cheese on a farm

Word History and Origins

Origin of dairymaid¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; dairy + maid

Example Sentences

The turning point came — or at least ought to have come — when Jenner discovered that dairymaids were often protected from smallpox because of their exposure to the less-dangerous cowpox.

From Seattle Times

Jesty himself had two dairymaids, who failed to contract the disease even when they had taken care of stricken relatives.

From Salon

Perhaps most famously, Edward Jenner in 1796 inoculated a healthy 8-year-old boy with cowpox derived from a lesion on the hand of a dairymaid.

From New York Times

Tess Durbeyfield earns her living as a dairymaid before agricultural mechanization, but she channels early strains of what Hardy presciently calls “the ache of modernism.”

From New York Times

The virus he used came from a dairymaid, Sarah Nelmes, who got it from a cow named Blossom.

From New York Times