kitchen-boy

noun

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

    He shall serve his time as my kitchen-boy, and learn no more than I choose.

    2013, Eleanor Farjeon, Martin Pippin in the Daisy-Field
    2 more examples

    Perhaps he was watching for the butcher or the milkman, for he was a kitchen-boy in the household of a rich and mighty cardinal.

    1880, Charlotte Adams, “The Boy who Took a Boarder”, in The Growing World, page 347

    The king's cook engaged him as kitchen-boy, and he now had to turn the joints on the spit every day.

    1894, W. F. Kirby, The Hero of Esthonia

Origin

From kitchen + boy.

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