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scullery en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈskʌləɹi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English squylerie, from Anglo-Norman squillerie (“office of the servant in charge of plates”), from escuele (“bowl, dish”), from Latin scutella.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.
   • Opposite the signal the line on one side is shut in by a high blank wall; on the other side are houses, but coming below the butt-end of a scullery the signal does not happen to be visible from any road or from any window. 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
   • With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring. 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

scullery girl · scullery maid · sculleryman

Relateds

washery · washhouse · backhouse · scour

Translations (17)

fi kodinhoitohuone (room, next to a kitchen) · bg черна кухня (room, next to a kitchen) · es trascocina (room, next to a kitchen) · nl waskeuken (room, next to a kitchen) · de Spülküche (room, next to a kitchen) · ru судомо́йня (room, next to a kitchen) · nl bijkeuken (room, next to a kitchen) · fr arrière-cuisine (room, next to a kitchen) · da grovkøkken (room, next to a kitchen) · tr bulaşıkhâne (room, next to a kitchen) · de Spülkammer (room, next to a kitchen) · da bryggers (room, next to a kitchen) · de Sudelküche (room, next to a kitchen) · de Scheuerbank (room, next to a kitchen) · fr souillarde (room, next to a kitchen) · nl spoelkeuken (room, next to a kitchen) · fi apukeittiö (room, next to a kitchen)