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English

Etymology

From Japanese ??? (meido, “maid, maidservant”), from English maid.

Noun

meido (plural meido or meidos)

1. (chiefly Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who is employed as a maid, typically wearing a stylized French maid outfit.
   • 2008, Kitty Sensei, "Playing pirate", Malaysia Star, 12 October 2008:

     And then there’s Roberta, who seems like a typical meido (maid) character until she pulls out machine guns from her lacy uniform!

   • 2008, Memedi, "Loyal helper", Malaysia Star, 9 November 2008:

     Although this is a manga about maids, don’t expect to see the submissive and fawning maids of the meido category. The protagonist here is a faithful, skilled and courteous maid from the old English society.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:meido.
2. A waitress at a maid café.
   • 2009, John Graham-Cumming, The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive, O'Reilly Media (2009), ?ISBN, page 104:

     These meido attract customers by role-playing the part of a maid, complete with French maid-inspired outfits that are long on fantasy elements and typically short on skirt length.

   • 2012, Dave Tacon, "Dusting off a geek fetish for all things maid in Japan", Sydney Morning Herald, 1 April 2012:

     "I like having conversations with different meidos," he explains, "but Haruki is my favourite because she's friendliest to me."

     […]

     Utena, a meido with pink hair and red plastic horns, recently celebrated her fourth year at Maidolce.

Anagrams

• Modie, demoi, medio-

Japanese

Romanization

meido

1. R?maji transcription of ???
2. R?maji transcription of ???

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans meid, from Dutch meid. Doublet of maid.

Pronunciation

• (S Africa, UK) IPA^(key): /me?t/

Noun

meid (plural meide)

1. (South Africa, offensive) A young black woman. [from 20th c.]
   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, p. 113:

     The last time she heard Capt Stolz saying: ‘Come on, meid, speak up. Or do you want to die like Gordon Ngubene?’

Anagrams

• Demi, Diem, Dime, demi, demi-, dime, idem

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch meid (“girl”).

Noun

meid (plural meide)

1. (now offensive) A young Black woman.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch meit, variant of meget, from Old Dutch *megith, *magath, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Doublet of maagd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?i?t/
• Hyphenation: meid
• Rhymes: -?i?t
• Homophones: mijd, mijdt, mijt

Noun

meid f (plural meiden, diminutive meisje n or meiske n or meidje n)

1. girl, lass

2. maid

   Synonyms: bode, deerne, dienstbode, dienstmaagd

3. Commonly used as an address for female pets, especially female dogs.

Usage notes

• Use in the singular may connote fortitude, bravery or acting like a grown-up, but it may also connote vulgarity or subservience due to the meaning “maid”. These connotations are much weaker in the plural, which can be used neutrally with little regard for context.
• Use for adult women (and to a lesser degree for older adolescent girls) is often considered patronising, which is especially true of the diminutives.
• The diminutive meidje is uncommon; the regular diminutive is meisje along with its variants meiske and meisie.

Derived terms

• dienstmeid
• huismeid
• keukenmeid
• meis
• meisje

Anagrams

• idem

Middle English

Noun

meid

1. Alternative form of mede (“reward”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

meid m (definite singular meiden, indefinite plural meidar, definite plural meidane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1901; superseded by mei

Veps

Pronoun

meid

1. partitive of mö