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ˈhorse-boy
A boy employed to attend to horses; a stable-boy. (Often contemptuous.)
1563Winȝet Four scoir thre Quest. lxxiii. Wks. 1888 I. 122 Except ȝe will euiry lady in the land to be subdeuit to hir awin cuik or horsboy. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 127 Though thereby their state bee no better then horseboyes. 1808Scott Marm. ii. xxvii, For three long years I bowed my pride, A horse-boy in his train to ride. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Napoleon Wks. (Bohn) I. 375 Every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army. |