Bridget

Definitions

1. A female given name from Irish.
2. An Irish housemaid.
   US, dated

Equivalents

Examples

“And when Miſtreſſe Briget loſt the handle⟳ of her Fan, I took't vpon mine honour thou hadſt it not.”

“Of all the beautiful Christian names of women which were in use⟳ a century or two ago Brighid (Breed⟳), under the ugly form⟳ of Bridget, or still worse, Biddy, and Eiblin under the form⟳ of Eveleen, and perhaps Norah, seem to be the only survivals, and they are becoming rarer.”

“So long as any Bridget just landed (even before she has learned to walk⟳ comfortably in American shoes) can be sure of four dollars a week and her board⟳ and prequisites, it is the Bridgets who are really mistress of the situation.”

“My nurse, my Bridget, has gone back North. She said she wouldn’t stay⟳ another day down here among the ‘naygurs’ as she calls them.”

“Beggar lads, emigrants, mowers, slaves, rustics, Malays, Bridgets, and porters peopled her work⟳ […]”

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