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sculleryman

sculleryman noun: in a large house, a male domestic servant, of lowest status, whose job is to wash dishes and perform other menial chores.

Noun

sculleryman (plural scullerymen)

  1. (historical) In a large house, a male domestic servant, of lowest status, whose job is to wash dishes and perform other menial chores.
    • Where a cook gave a sculleryman employed in the same house some scraps of meat and dripping and some plates in which to carry the scraps, and the sculleryman was arrested at the instigation of the butler on leaving the house on suspicion of having stolen the things, and he explained that he had...1882, Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope During the Years 1880-2, volume I, page 178
    • A sculleryman may be employed at not less than £1; a scullerymaid may be employed at not less than 17s. 6d.1912, Awards, Recommendations, Agreements, Orders, Etc., New Zealand. Department of Labour, page 362

Examples of sculleryman in a sentence

  • […]Master Cook, Sculleryman and their assistants.1950, C[harles] G[raham] T[roughton] Dean, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, Hutchinson & Co., page 82:
  • Kitchenman, pantryman, sculleryman, yardman, handyman, general hand, and unspecified workers [“Male $”:] 4.90 [“Female $”:] —1968 July 10, The Western Australian Industrial Gazette, page 291:

Forms of sculleryman

pluralscullerymen

Origin of sculleryman

From scullery + -man.

Questions about sculleryman

What does sculleryman mean?
Sculleryman means in a large house, a male domestic servant, of lowest status, whose job is to wash dishes and perform other menial chores.
How do you use sculleryman in a sentence?
[…]Master Cook, Sculleryman and their assistants.
What part of speech is sculleryman?
Sculleryman is a noun.
What is the plural of sculleryman?
The plural of sculleryman is scullerymen.

Words near sculleryman in the dictionary

  1. scullery maids
  2. scullery-maid
  3. scullery-maids
  4. scullerymaid
  5. scullerymaids
  6. sculleryman
  7. scullerymen
  8. Sculley
  9. Sculleys
  10. scullies
  11. Scullin

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