subs. (old).—A female servant. Grose [1785] says the term was ‘Custom House wit,’ but gives no particulars.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS. Marchioness; slavey; cinder-grabber; Cinderella; can (Scots’); piss-kitchen; Julia.
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Un extrait de garni (popular); un chambrillon; une bobonne (for bonne); une larbine; une cambrouse; une jeanneton; une groule or groulasse.
GERMAN SYNONYMS. Schifche or Schifches; Schammesch or Schammes (from the Hebrew).
SPANISH SYNONYM. Famula (f).
