dairymaid

American  

[dair-ee-meyd] / ˈdɛər iˌmeɪd /

noun

1. a girl or woman employed in a dairy.

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dairymaid British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of dairymaid

First recorded in 1590–1600; dairy + maid

Example Sentences

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 • Oct. 14, 2021

What could be more picturesque than a duchess impersonating a dairymaid in straw hat and copious ribbons?

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2011

Ellen was a dairymaid employed by the Rathmore Creamery in County Kerry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although production methods have become more sanitary, the vaccine itself has changed little since Edward Jenner scraped it from sores on the hand of a cowpox-infected dairymaid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Velutha curtsied as he had been taught to, his mundu spread like a skirt, like the English dairymaid in “The King’s Breakfast.”

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy