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kitchen-boy

kitchen-boy noun: a boy who does menial tasks in the kitchen of a large establishment.

Noun

kitchen-boy (plural kitchen-boys)

  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.1880, Charlotte Adams, “The Boy who Took a Boarder”, in The Growing World, page 347
    • 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

Forms of kitchen-boy

pluralkitchen-boys

Origin of kitchen-boy

From kitchen + boy.

Questions about kitchen-boy

What does kitchen-boy mean?
Kitchen-boy means a boy who does menial tasks in the kitchen of a large establishment.
What part of speech is kitchen-boy?
Kitchen-boy is a noun.
What is the plural of kitchen-boy?
The plural of kitchen-boy is kitchen-boys.

Words near kitchen-boy in the dictionary

  1. kitchen tunks
  2. kitchen turner
  3. kitchen turners
  4. kitchen witch
  5. kitchen witches
  6. kitchen-boy
  7. kitchen-boys
  8. kitchen-fee
  9. kitchen-garden
  10. kitchen-gardens
  11. kitchen-hand

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