Kitchen-boy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

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"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."

Etymology

From kitchen + boy.

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