Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dairymaid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A dairymaid.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Definition of “modern day mother”: purchases donor egg after looking at photos and SAT scores of potential donees; hires suitable woman with gestational womb; picks up newborn baby from hospital; poses for photos; turns baby over to nanny and goes about her business of being a “modern daywoman.”
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hernesheir commented on the word daywoman
Hyphenated as day-woman, which see, by Shakespeare in Love's Labour's Lost.
November 14, 2012