milkboy

noun

milkboy

noun

Etymology From milk + boy.

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:

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