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kitchen-boy

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English

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Alternative forms

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kitchen boy, kitchenboy

Etymology

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From kitchen +‎ boy.

Noun

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kitchen-boy (plural kitchen-boys)

  1. A boy who does menial tasks in the kitchen of a large establishment.
    • 1880, Charlotte Adams, “The Boy who Took a Boarder”, in The Growing World, page 347:
      Perhaps he was watching for the butcher or the milkman, for he was a kitchen-boy in the household of a rich and mighty cardinal.
    • 1894, W. F. Kirby, The Hero of Esthonia:
      The king's cook engaged him as kitchen-boy, and he now had to turn the joints on the spit every day.
    • 2013, Eleanor Farjeon, Martin Pippin in the Daisy-Field:
      He shall serve his time as my kitchen-boy, and learn no more than I choose.