helpmate
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helpmate
A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife. "In Minorca the ass and the hog are common helpmates, and are yoked together in order to turn up the land." (Pennant) "A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson." (Macaulay)
Origin: A corruption of the "help meet for him" of.
helpmate
[Date: 1700-1800; Origin: helpmate from helpmeet (17-20 centuries), from help + meet 'suitable'; influenced by mate
literary a helpful partner, usually a wife
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helpmate
A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife. "In Minorca the ass and the hog are common helpmates, and are yoked together in order to turn up the land." (Pennant) "A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson." (Macaulay)
Origin: A corruption of the "help meet for him" of.
helpmate
[Date: 1700-1800; Origin: helpmate from helpmeet (17-20 centuries), from help + meet 'suitable'; influenced by mate
literary a helpful partner, usually a wife
stenotypy bursa intermuscularis musculorum gluteorum episode ostia Poynings, Sir Edward dermatitis, occupational CHARRE OF LEAD, Eng Dictate Terms - Horse Racing Full Double Full Tuck - Freestyle Skating Seashore test otalgic Napoleonic Wars CESSET EXECUTIO cytohyaloplasm Albright's disease Mesalamine preternatural mesomelic dwarfism dead-eye Atlanta Campaign mime 2, verb L'Enfant, Pierre-Charles crunch 2, verb ectomesenchyme doddypoll axonal polyneuropathy fructose permease Tegucigalpa car rental atwain logic (as used in expressions) Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott Informational efficiency donor splice junction undue Hoffa, Albert camp fever cleoid cerebral part of dura mater Marsipobranchia Elami double-point threshold Hotel Marginal Oral and maxillofacial surgery Christian IV ultraviolet rays plicae tunicae mucosae vesicae felleae BEACON MUTUAL metastatic mumps paries superior orbitae age set postparturient haemoglobinuria Las Pinas travel agency Glamis Gold London (as used in expressions) Fakhr El Dine chromatophilia Hamamatsu travel agent Queens Torch Aomori Bank Cost benefit ratio initiation codon Age-related deafness Eurocypria Airlines marsebanker ductus parotideus Toulon car rental Safi car rental South Bend hotels list EDICT PERPETUAL diamond anniversary limb lead ambient behaviour fluidounce quarry 2, verb ophthalmotrope calends dipso Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad agal intrad coach(2) Lianyuan Demoivre's formula Sears, Roebuck and Company uridine diphosphoxylose retinaldehyde Fuyang travel agency Pott's gangrene Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Patau, Klaus The Fauquier Hospital desist analytic geometry Jarvis Grill and Wok firecrest glutamate-1-saemialdehyde 2,1-aminomutase myositis, inclusion body orbicular muscle of mouth shock lung