valet英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
A person employed to clean or park cars. US

— A HEROIC dad who helped deliver his new-born baby in the back of his car had to explain to his car valet that he wasn't involved in illegal crime.
A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.

动词 v.

To serve (someone) as a valet. transitive

— You can valet me, can you? Bother valeting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when they are on; and if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George I should like to do it!
To clean and service (a car), as a valet does. Ireland,UK,transitive

— He revealed: “We had been through a lot and I decided the car needed to be cleaned out after Georgina had to deliver the baby in the car. “You can imagine the scene when I left the car in for valeting. I got some funny looks and I had to explain to the guy that I wasn’t up to anything illegal because it did look a bit like a crime scene.”
To leave (a car) with a valet to park it. US,transitive

— I asked Giacomo if he ever valeted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it. Nervous time.”

词形变化

valets plural valets present,singular,third-person valeting participle,present valeted participle,past valeted past

词汇关系

衍生词

clothes valet valet-de-chambre valet-de-place valet parking

词源

词源 1

Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.

词源 2

Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.