milkboy

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noun

A boy who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses; a young milkman.

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Meanings

nounmilkboy (plural milkboys)

plural milkboys

  1. A boy who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses; a young milkman.

    It was on a morning that the milkboy came singing to the door, shrilly to the door his tuneless song, and went singing away, having measured out the milk, from his can, to the jug, with all his usual liberality.

    1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Origin

From milk + boy.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

boymilk
Cite this entry
APA

milkboy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milkboy

MLA

“milkboy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milkboy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “milkboy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milkboy.

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