shopboy

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noun

A boy employed in a shop.

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Meanings

nounshopboy (plural shopboys)

plural shopboys

  1. A boy employed in a shop.

    One figure after another emerged from the room behind, and at each step Walter Maynard felt a cold shudder steal over him; and then he started and coloured, lest his agitation should have been observed; but the shopboy was too used to such scenes to heed them.

    1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 10–11

Origin

From shop + boy.

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APA

shopboy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shopboy

MLA

“shopboy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shopboy. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shopboy,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shopboy.

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