Definition:
- "One who manages (well or ill, thriftily or otherwise)"
- "One who manages a household, steward" (Onions and Eagleson 1986); "houskeeper, steward, domestic manager" (Crystal and Crystal 2008)
Category:
General
Who speaks: King Henry.
To whom: Wolsley.
Observation:
"ill": (adj.) unskilful, inexpert, unskilled (Crystal and Crystal 2008)