dairywoman

American  

[dair-ee-woom-uhn] / ˈdɛər iˌwʊm ən /

noun

• dairywomen
  plural

1. a woman who owns, manages, or works in a dairy.

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Gender

Is it dairywoman or dairyperson? See -woman.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dairywomen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of dairywoman

First recorded in 1600–10; dairy + -woman

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

dairywoman dairywomen

Self-sacrificing as her mood might be, Tess could not well go further and cry, "Marry one of them, if you really do want a dairywoman and not a lady; and don't think of marrying me!"

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Poor Dame Kenton, as was took last spring, was the best dairywoman in the parish, and this little maid takes after her.

From Under the Storm by Charlotte Mary Yonge

She was a model housekeeper and dairywoman in the days when they worked the farm, and is now an oracle on many questions.

From Choice Readings for the Home Circle by Anonymous

"But you used to be as good a dairywoman as I."

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

How the sub-prioress, Dorothea Stettin, visits Sidonia and extols her virtue—Item, of Sidonia's quarrel with the dairywoman, and how she beats the sheriff himself, Eggert Sparling, with a broom-stick.

From Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Wilhelm Meinhold

The "green-seed" or short-staple variety is far inferior to the black for this purpose, and produces white, sticky, cottony-looking butter; indeed, most dairywomen insist that "you can pick the lint out of it."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various

She was tired of hoaxing that blockhead of a Tatan Nene with a story to the effect that the Parisian dairywomen were wont to fabricate eggs with a mixture of paste and saffron.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola