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shopboys

shopboys is the plural of shopboy.

Meaning of shopboy

Noun

shopboy (plural shopboys)

  1. A boy employed in a shop.
    • One figure after another emerged from the room behind, and at each step Walter Maynard felt a cold shudder steal over him; and then he started and coloured, lest his agitation should have been observed; but the shopboy was too used to such scenes to heed them.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 10–11

Questions about shopboys

What is shopboys the plural of?
Shopboys is the plural of shopboy.

Words near shopboys in the dictionary

  1. shopbooks
  2. shopbot
  3. shopbots
  4. shopbought
  5. shopboy
  6. shopboys
  7. shopbreaker
  8. shopbreakers
  9. shopbreaking
  10. shopbreakings
  11. shopdropper

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