kitchen-boy
nounEtymology From kitchen + boy.
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A boy who does menial tasks in the kitchen of a large establishment.
- 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:
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- 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: