kitchen boy

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English

Noun

kitchen boy (plural kitchen boys)

  1. Alternative form of kitchen-boy
    • 1903, Alexander Davis, W. R. Stewart, The Native Problem in South Africa, page 172:
      Two ladies rarely meet together 'in chat' without in some manner or other Tom or Jim, the kitchen boy, cropping up in conversation.
    • 1916, Maurice Smethurst Evans, Black and White in South East Africa, page 157:
      The only way to replace him is to tell all the boys employed by the neighbours that a kitchen boy is wanted, and they are to look out and catch the new comer from the country as he arrives.