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kitchen-boys

kitchen-boys is the plural of kitchen-boy.

Meaning of kitchen-boy

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

Questions about kitchen-boys

What is kitchen-boys the plural of?
Kitchen-boys is the plural of kitchen-boy.

Words near kitchen-boys in the dictionary

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

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