Shopboy
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A boy employed in a shop.
"One figure after another emerged from the room behind, and at each step Walter Maynard felt a cold shudder steal over him; and then he started and coloured, lest his agitation should have been observed; but the shopboy was too used to such scenes to heed them."
Example
More examples"One figure after another emerged from the room behind, and at each step Walter Maynard felt a cold shudder steal over him; and then he started and coloured, lest his agitation should have been observed; but the shopboy was too used to such scenes to heed them."
Etymology
From shop + boy.
More for "shopboy"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.