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kitchen boy

kitchen boy is the alternative form 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

Forms of kitchen boy

pluralkitchen boys

Questions about kitchen boy

What is kitchen boy the alternative form of?
Kitchen boy is the alternative form of kitchen-boy.

Words near kitchen boy in the dictionary

  1. Kitchells
  2. kitchen
  3. kitchen bitch
  4. kitchen bitches
  5. kitchen bouquet
  6. kitchen boy
  7. kitchen boys
  8. kitchen brigade
  9. kitchen cabinet
  10. kitchen cabinets
  11. kitchen cake

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