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kitchenboy

kitchenboy 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 kitchenboy

pluralkitchenboys

Questions about kitchenboy

What is kitchenboy the alternative form of?
Kitchenboy is the alternative form of kitchen-boy.

Words near kitchenboy in the dictionary

  1. kitchen-sinky
  2. kitchen-table software
  3. kitchenable
  4. kitchenalia
  5. kitchenary
  6. kitchenboy
  7. kitchenboys
  8. kitchendom
  9. kitchened
  10. kitchener
  11. Kitchener bun

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