单词 | busboy |
释义 | busboy From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Foodbusboybus‧boy /ˈbʌsbɔɪ/ noun [countable]American EnglishDLDF a young man whose job is to take away dirty dishes from the tables in a restaurantExamples from the Corpusbusboy• A woman in a Chanel suit squeezes past a busboy and peers into the kitchen.• Each section is staffed by waiters and busboys who serve the plated meals to the passengers.• For upstairs they hired the smallest, lightest busboy they could find.• One of my busboys commutes from a rented house in Fairfield.• The new busboy, Morton, boxed in his spare time.Origin busboy (1900-2000) omnibus “helper in a restaurant” ((19-20 centuries)) (from Latin; → OMNIBUS1) + boy |
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