cabin boy

See also: cabinboy and cabin-boy

English

Alternative forms

• cabin-boy

Noun

cabin boy (plural cabin boys)

1. (dated) A boy or young man who is employed to serve as an attendant for passengers or crew members on a ship.

   Synonyms: ship's boy, shipboy

2. (dated) A male flight attendant.

Translations

a boy serving on a ship

• Czech: plavčík (cs) m
• Dutch: scheepsjongen (nl) m
• Estonian: junga, kajutiteenija
• Finnish: hyttipoika
• French: mousse (fr) m, moussaillon (fr) m
• German: Schiffsjunge (de) m
• Greek: καμαρότος (el) m (kamarótos)
• Hebrew: נַעַר תָּא (he) m (na'ar ta)
• Hungarian: hajósinas (hu)
• Italian: mozzo (it) m
• Norman: mousse m
• Polish: chłopiec okrętowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: grumete (pt) m
• Romanian: mus (ro) m
• Russian: ю́нга (ru) m (júnga)
• Spanish: grumete (es) m, galopín (es) m
• Swahili: uledi
• Swedish: skeppsgosse (sv) c
• Turkish: miço (tr)
• Ukrainian: ю́нга (uk) m (júnha)

References

• Noah Webster (1828) “cabin-boy”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
• “cabinboy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. / “cabin boy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cabin boy”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• babycino