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Servant
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Example Sentences
- It would be odd if a government did nothing about a civil servant blabbing damagingly to the media.
- Not the unpaid servant kind, but the flash-triggering kind.
- Permission was granted for our temporary shelter, and a servant led us to the nobleman's house.
Collins
World English Dictionary
| servant (ˈsɜːvənt) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person employed to work for another, esp one who performs household duties |
| 2. | See public servant |
| [C13: via Old French, from servant serving, from servir to | |
| 'servant-like | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
servant
early 13c., from O.Fr., noun use of servant "serving, waiting," prp. of servir "to attend, wait upon" (see serve). Meaning "professed lover, one devoted to the service of a lady" is from mid-14c. In N.American colonies and U.S., the usual designation for "slave" 17c.-18c.
EXPAND (in 14c.-15c. and later in Biblical translations the word often was used to render L. servus, Gk. doulos "slave"). Public servant is attested from 1670s.
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