handmaiden

Significado (Inglés)

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of handmaid.
2. (derogatory) A cisgender woman who supports transgender rights.

Conceptos

criada

criado

sirviente

Sinónimos

handmaid

servant

maidservant

servant girl

maid

attendant

domestic animal

manservant

domestic

housemaid

Traducciones

bonne

servante

serva

domestique

ancella

criada

dienstmaagd

dienares

dienstmeisje

ancilla

Dienstbote

Magd

dienstbode

criada

ancula

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: hande mayden

In summary

From Middle English hande mayden, handmaiden, hand mayden, hand-mayden, handmayden, hondemaiden, hond maydyn, hoondmaydyn. By surface analysis, hand + maiden.
Sense 2 is an allusion to Canadian poet Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985), in which "handmaids" are women who serve the male commanders in a patriarchal dystopia.