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knife-boys

knife-boys is the plural of knife-boy.

Meaning of knife-boy

Noun

knife-boy (plural knife-boys)

  1. (historical) A boy employed to clean knives.

Questions about knife-boys

What is knife-boys the plural of?
Knife-boys is the plural of knife-boy.

Words near knife-boys in the dictionary

  1. knife wands
  2. knife's edge
  3. knife's edges
  4. knife-and-fork
  5. knife-boy
  6. knife-boys
  7. knife-colored
  8. knife-coloured
  9. knife-ear
  10. knife-edge
  11. knife-edge effect

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