scullerymen

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