| 单词 | house boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse boy house boy n. a young male domestic servant or employee, esp. in some former British dependencies.Sometimes used of any non-white male domestic servant, irrespective of age (now considered offensive; cf. boy n.1 1a(b)). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > boy house boy1793 umfaan1852 1793 S. A. Mathews Lying Hero 113 The house boy [in the West Indies] has his eye upon every stranger that enters, and if he dirts the floor with his feet..he employs himself to repair the injury the house has sustained. 1832 Graham's Town Jrnl. (S. Afr.) 13 Jan. 9 Wanted, a Servant as House Boy, preference will be given to a Member of the Temperance Society. 1899 Daily News 8 June 5/7 Odd jobs as boot and knife cleaning, or where the boys are described as ‘house-boys’. 1955 B. Manvers Shadow of Happiness i. 19 That's my houseboy; he has an unpronounceable name, so I call him John. 1994 B. Gilroy Sunlight on Sweet Water 11 She said he had seen slave-days and worked in the big house as a house boy. 2008 Caribbean Rev. Bks. May 35/2 He worked at Monteath's Kep estate,..first as a ‘house boy’ in the great house, then, as he approached adulthood, as a field labourer. < as lemmas |
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