kitchen boy

A form of kitchen-boy — A boy who does menial tasks in the kitchen of a large establishment.

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Meanings

nounkitchen boy (plural kitchen boys)

plural kitchen boys

  1. alternativeAlternative form of kitchen-boy.

    Two ladies rarely meet together 'in chat' without in some manner or other Tom or Jim, the kitchen boy, cropping up in conversation.

    1903, Alexander Davis, W. R. Stewart, The Native Problem in South Africa, page 172
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    The only way to replace him is to tell all the boys employed by the neighbours that a kitchen boy is wanted, and they are to look out and catch the new comer from the country as he arrives.

    1916, Maurice Smethurst Evans, Black and White in South East Africa, page 157
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