"marchioness" Definition

  1. a little, dirty, old-fashioned maid-of-all-work; a title now in regular use, but derived from the remarkable character in the _Old Curiosity Shop_.

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Position in the dictionary: 2127 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: mare’s nest, marine, mark, market-horse, marketeer, marplot, marriage lines, marrow, marrow-bones, marrowskying.
Previous words in the dictionary: marbles, mang, mandozy, manablins, man-handle, man in the moon, man a-hanging, malley, malapropism, makings

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