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kitchen-boy en · NOUN

Etymology

From kitchen + boy.

Meanings

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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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